About me

Hideki Saito resides in Issaquah, WA.

• Past and Current Projects

• I work in a video game industry.

  • I am a Localization Engineer at Nintendo of America since May 2016.

  • I have been a level designer, a game logic programmer/scripter, and a producer at various companies.

• I am an Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator (WU7J) (Licensed since 2003, first as KD7TCI)

  • I am a Volunteer Examiner as well

• Information about my computing has its own page

• Information about my music preference has its own page

• I am a Japanese⇔English interpreter.

  • Consecutive and Whispered.

  • Technical, business and escort interpreting.

  • Done some stage interpreting as well.

• Hold somewhat liberal view

  • According to some random agenda evaluator, looks like I'm more of Green Party person. Which doesn't surprise me, from my view, both Democrats and Republican suck.

    • In any case, I hate Donald Trump.

• Supports LGBT social movements (I consider myself to be a heterosexual ally)

  • I don't judge them by their sexual orientations. Heck, some of the nicest people I know are from the LGBT community.

  • I also identify myself demisexual (and demiromantic).

• I am an atheist and not religious, and identify myself secular humanist.

  • By the way, if you choose to be religious, at least you should know how to not suck at it.

  • I'm criticizing a monotheism and all the baggage it comes with it, including attacking others' belief (including lack thereof) and scientific approaches. Thus, I somewhat aligns with the view of Buddism, Shinto and Unitarian Universalist although I am not a member of any churches. (I've been to n UUA gathering before and in fact, I enjoyed it.)

• I respect international differences and don't judge (at least I will try my best!) based on where they are from.

  • It's actually very saddens me some of international conflicts motivated by governments' political agendas, are heavily influenced.¹ I would say, forget all those political stuff, let's get together and have fun together!

  • I do not however, condone nonsense. If you are acting crazy based on the history, for instance, that's plain wrong.

Avoid imitations!

There are so many Hideki Saito out there. It is a fairly common name. Some I actually got questioned. I have listed few tips of correctly identifying me.

Things that are definitely not me

• I do not work for...

  • Intel

    • Likewise, I do not work on their compilers...

  • Google

  • Microsoft

  • Internet Initiative Japan Inc.

• I am not an maintainer of WS4J. Please inquire Mr. Hideki Shima for inquiry about this project. (It sounds like very interesting project, too.)

• I do not own a Japanese/French fusion restaurant

  • I'm not a good chef, either...

• I do not own an electronics company

• I do not do wooden artworks

• I do not have an airplane pilot license (although that could be fun!)

• I do not live in Tokyo

• I do not live in California

• I am not a singer⁵; maybe you are thinking of Hideki Saijo.

• I did not write a research paper "A computerized method for detection of acute cerebral infarction on CT images"

• I do not specialize in forestry or forest products.

• I did not create or work on Okami -- Somehow I am starting to see emerging misunderstanding. I won't be even pointing to the right person for this as I got a reason to believe he has some problems.

Things that can be me

• It looks like there is at least one more Hideki Saito in the gaming industry, and thus, some credit listing sites have wrong information. I tried to correct them but eventually got tired of doing it.

• Most of Hideki Saito in association with amateur radio is by me.

• It looks like there is another Hideki Saito doing music.

• If it's something to do with DigiPen, that's probably me.

  • Although if anything mentions it, that's probably from me.

• If it's something to do with GnuPG, that's probably me.

  • Sometimes I participate in their mailing list.

  • I do maintain some Japanese documentations.

  • There is at least one commit that mentions my name.

• If it's something to do with Emacs, that's probably me.

  • Like "Hideki Saito" mentioned in one of commit log -- 118305

• If it's something to do with Snort, that's probably me.

  • As seen in their changelog

• If it's something to do with Krita, that's probably me.

  • There's a commit mentioning my name.

• If it's something to do with Tor, that's probably me.

  • I've participated in some discussion during early days of Mac installer.

• If it's something to do with SoftEther that's probably me.

  • I have contributed some code.

• If it's something to do with Sone that's probably me.

  • I'm a Japanese loc guy.

• Battle Programmer Shirase (BPS バトルプログラマーシラセ) -- this one's long story...