Most Haiku fans must already know about Learning to Program with Haiku, a book written by Haiku developer Jon Yoder (aka DarkWyrm) and recently published by the author through Lulu.com. This book, the first one about the Haiku operating system to hit the shelves, introduces aspiring developers to the wonders of application programming in Haiku using C++, and does so in an easy to follow, step by step format.
Jon and a group of Haiku community members from Japan have reached a basic agreement to to produce and publish a Japanese version of this book to target (you guessed) Japanese readers. To that end, a translation and editing team has been formed that will work to make this project come to fruition. The team is comprised by long time BeOS and Haiku developer from Japan known as SHINTA, the developer of the Canna Japanese input method used in Haiku Takashi Murai, the current Japanese Translation Manager for Haiku Satoshi Eguchi, and former Haiku marketing guru Jorge G. Mare (ehem, that's me).
