In this edition of US Market Entry we continue our special series of podcasts covering the 2008 US - Japan IT Venture Summit. This event was recently put on by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the US Market Access Center, the San Jose Software Business Cluster and the Environmental Business Cluster at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose. For this series, Chieze Okoye will be standing in for our regular host, Richard Vaughn.

In part three, we'll hear a panel discussing the issues relevant to Silicon Valley companies interested in entering the Japanese market. along the executives from our last podcast, this panel includes:

• Takashi Baba, VP at Fujitsu America
  
• Hiroshi Honjo, Managing Director at NTT Data AgileNet, LLC
  
• Yoshifumi Nakata, President and CEO of Mitsui Comtek Corp.
  
• moderated by Makoto Abe, Principal of Japan Business Solutions