Core services
Wagaya Co. builds powerful, feature-packed websites that clients control. Rather than play the role of a traditional webmaster, extracting a fee for every update and tweak, Wagaya offers the initial setup and instruction, letting clients master their own sites from there.
Wagaya's sites are based on Drupal, a highly-acclaimed open source content management system and web publishing platform.
Other services
Wagaya Co. offers the following in addition to website services, with a special focus on Japanese-language solutions:
- Text: Translation, Technical writing
- Design: Print design
- IT support: Open source solutions, OS X solutions
Partner businesses
Iroha Translations
Specialists in Japanese / English translation
Paccess
Bringing businesses together around the Pacific Rim
Founder
Wagaya Co. founder Timm Tuttle is a Tokyo-based native of the US with 20 years' experience living and working in Japan. He spent 10 years as the senior trade expert for the Japan office of the Washington State economic development agency, assisting hundreds of exporters in building business in Japan.
He began developing interactive, multilingual CMS-based websites as a business-building tool in that position, and from 2006 set up Wagaya to offer those same tools to clients.
What's a "Wagaya"?
Wagaya is a Japanese word for home – my home, our home, or one's home, as context dictates – with the same connotations of comfort and warmth found in the English word. For a business born in Tokyo that builds online homes for clients to move into and make their own, Wagaya is an ideal name.