Hiroko Yoda is a Japanese entrepreneur, translator, writer, folklorist, and president of the localization company AltJapan Co., Ltd.[1] She was also a Tokyo city editor for the CNN travel website CNNGo.
[2] She is a translator of video games[3] and the author of numerous books about Japanese history and culture.
[4][5] Born in Tokyo, she studied at the University of Maryland, then earned a Master's degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington, D.C.[6][7] In 2005, she played the role of a yokai frog in the Takashi Miike film The Great Yokai War.
She was told that "Facebook blocks the registration of a number of names that are frequently abused on the site.
"[11] The company only relented after her plight gained international mass media attention alongside other cases of banned names.