On the 26th of October, I went to Liberty Alliance Day 2007 in Tokyo. I was invited to the event as a panelar to speak about OpenID at the cocktail reception, but I attended all the other sessions as well as some of the demos.

Panel Discussion in Japan oftern ends up just as a series of presentation, but this time, it was a real panel discussion, which was good.

At the end of the Panel discussion, Mr. Takahashi asked the panelers

Hatena, one of the major Japanese blog provider, started the support of the OpenID. See http://www.hatena.ne.jp/info/openid for the further details.