*This article was originally written in Japanese and has been translated by a machine translation tool for your convenience. Please forgive any errors in translation. You can find the original Japanese article [here].

Our news app SmartNews is used by many people around the world. However, we feel that SmartNews, Inc. is still relatively unknown to many.

“Delivering the world's quality information to the people who need it.”

This is the mission that SmartNews has held since its founding. Ambitious, and very challenging to achieve—but every day, we approach our work with seriousness and integrity toward realizing it.

What you are viewing now — Inside SmartNews — is a blog where you can see and learn about the “inside” of SmartNews: the people, the culture, and how things really are. We want to share what kind of place SmartNews is, who the people are, what kind of culture we have, and how we work.

You’ll find things like interviews with employees talking about what makes their work fulfilling, our unique office environments that stimulate creativity, reports on passionate events, and company policies that are particular to SmartNews. By reading these posts, you may deepen your understanding of SmartNews as a company—and maybe feel more drawn to it.

*You can also see interviews that were previously published on our careers site, now available in Inside SmartNews.

We hope you enjoy MICHIKUSA on Inside SmartNews!