Kerstin Weber: From German Sports Cars in Japan to Japanese Games in Germany
With a passion for all things Japanese, Kerstin Weber first worked for a German car company in Tokyo, then returned to the German branch of a Japanese games company.
Kerstin Weber, Senior Marketing Manager at Square Enix.Weber
Kerstin Weber didn't take the direct route into the games industry. It was "more like a detour," she said. "I was a bit of an Otaku in my youth, inhaling and loving all things Japanese, starting with Anime and Manga, JRPGs, then Japanese music and TV shows. I started learning Japanese in my free time and then confronted my parents with my crazy idea of studying Japanese in university, which predictably they answered with 'no way, you won't find a job and earn any money with that. Study something...
Kerstin Weber didn't take the direct route into the games industry. It was "more like a detour," she said. "I was a bit of an Otaku in my youth, inhaling and loving all things Japanese, starting with Anime and Manga, JRPGs, then Japanese music and TV shows. I started learning Japanese in my free time and then confronted my parents with my crazy idea of studying Japanese in university, which predictably they answered with 'no way, you won't find a job and earn any money with that. Study something...
