CakePHP in Japan
Cakephp Bakers are increasing rapidly in Japan. I think there are some reasons as follow.
1. Books
There are over 7 japanese books for CakePHP! Japanese Book is very important factor to get many developers in Japan.
Some books for beginner(XAMP install, bake, create small applications), some books for intermediate or higher level( component, behavior, helper, test cases, mobile site, Routing, callbacks, create practical applications).
You can see book covers followin link (Japanese web site).
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/CakePHP
2. Community Site
Japanese cakephp community ( http://cakephp.jp ). There is a good forum on its web site. Many bakers ask questions and argue many topics in japanese , very usefull for not only beginners but also higher level users. Sometimes find some bugs in that discussion, then post tickets for trac.cakephp.org.
3. Events
Now in japan, it is boom of meet-up for study( Programming, Design, Server Operation, etc ). In these meet-up, many different company people come together after working or in a holiday, and discuss some topics, often talking with drinking beer 
There were some CakePHP meet-up in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka. This is a report of CakePHP meet-up at Tokyo. http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/report-cakephp-meet-up-at-tokyo-4th
In these meet-up, 50 or 100 japanese bakers come together, so nice events.
4. Blogs
There are many japanese baker’s blogs. Some bakers post good articles ( how to solve a problem, find bug, explain or make compoent, behavior, plugins,etc). If we have problems, we can find japanese articles of that resolutions easily with the google.
It is very important to get many japanese information and resolutions easily.
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