About Us

History

• October 2016

  Established JaQool Co.,Ltd. (currently Kotozna Co.,Ltd.)

• February 2017

  Released "Kotozna Camera", a menu multilingualization service

• July 2017

  Selected by Oita IoT Project

• September 2018

  Transferred Kotozna QR dissemination project from Tagfit, a non-profit organization
  Changed company name to Kotozna Co., Ltd.
  Released "Kotozna Chat", a multilingual chat tool
  Adopted by Oita Prefecture for the Oita tourism business (introduced Kotozna Camera to 1,600 restaurants in the prefecture)

• March 2019

  Introduced multilingual maps for exhibitions at Fukuoka Art Museum
  Fukuoka City Museum introduces multilingual audio guide for exhibitions
  "Kotozna Chat" is used for the disaster prevention information transmission experiment in Usuki City, Oita Prefecture

• June 2019

  Selected for "J-Startup," a program promoted by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to support the development of startup companies

• July 2019

  Conducted disaster drills using simultaneous disaster notifications as part of the "Fukuoka Smart East" initiative

• August 2019

  Selected by the Agency of Cultural Affairs for a single region project to digitalize and translate cultural property information

• February 2020

  Business alliance with JTB

• August 2020

  Selected by the Agency of Cultural Affairs for a 7 region project to digitalize and translate cultural property information

• October 2020

  Kotozna In-room market launch

• March 2021

  Selected as a participant in the fourth phase of the Singapore Tourism Accelerator

• August 2021

  Selected by the Agency of Cultural Affairs for a 19 region project to digitalize and translate cultural property information

• December 2021

  Kotozna Live Chat (now Kotozna laMondo) PoC begins as part of Singapore Tourism Board program

• May 2022

  Established Kotozna Singapore Pte.ltd.

• September 2022

  Kotozna laMondo market launch