{"id":24,"date":"2025-07-14T02:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2025-07-14T03:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:38:16","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MattAwashima-1-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MattAwashima-1-1.webp 1024w, https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MattAwashima-1-1-300x157.webp 300w, https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/MattAwashima-1-1-768x403.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a Japanese game industry veteran with over 10 years of experience being the Western face of prominent Japanese game companies including INTI CREATES and SUNSOFT. I did this while also working as an English Localization director on well over 20 console game releases, and creating and executing marketing strategies for the very games I localized.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under my supervision, the titles I worked sold as high as 9 to 1 compared to the Japanese domestic releases. Whether online media social media platforms like Twitter, livestreams via Twitch, or major in-person events like PAX, Anime Expo and Tokyo Game Show, I have been working tirelessly to spread the word of the incredible Japanese media projects I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now as a freelancer, I aim to bring my skills, experience, connections, and drive to clients around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a Japanese game industry veteran with over 10 years of experience being the Western face of prominent Japanese game companies including INTI CREATES and SUNSOFT. I did this while also working as an English Localization director on well over 20 console game releases, and creating and executing marketing strategies for the very games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattpapa.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}