Pacific Software Publishing Revenue and Competitors

Founded in 1987 on Mercer Island, Washington by Ken Uchikura, the vision for PSPinc was to help the Japanese market grow by popularizing the PC in Japan using already established U.S. software technology. At the time, the use of personal computers was minimal in Japan, in part because software solutions built in the U.S. were limited to domestic machines – unfit for Japanese hardware and language requirements. Ken sought to fix this disconnect and close the technology gap between the two countries. For the next 10 years, PSPinc licensed, exported and published U.S. software for Japan from our home office in the States. We provided translation and adaptation services to American software companies that wanted to enter the Japanese PC market. At the same time, we published KanjiWORD, a Japanese-language word processing software, enabling Japanese language capabilities for users of non-Japanese versions of Windows. Following that success, we published KanjiKIT, which became the standard software for using Japanese tools on non-Japanese versions of Windows.