Max Hodges ⚡️
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I'm Max Hodges
Founder & Product Maker

I'm a creative product-centric entrepreneur with technical and design skills. I build products, create brands, and launch ventures.

Currently, I am leading White Rabbit Japan, an e-commerce service provider based in Japan. We're building Japan Rabbit, Blackship.com, and White Rabbit Press.

Works
Japan Rabbit

Japan Rabbit

Buy-and-ship anything from Japan. We’ll handle the ordering, payment, pickup, and shipping -- so you don’t have to.

Blackship.com

Blackship.com

Forward packages from Japan.

Tokyo Realtime

Tokyo Realtime
FREE

Audio-guided tours revealing new sides to Tokyo’s most interesting neighborhoods.

White Rabbit Express

White Rabbit Express
SUNSET

Pioneers of proxy-buying service in Japan. Re-engineered and rebranded as Japan Rabbit.

Japanese Kanji Flashcards

Japanese Kanji Flashcards

The world's favorite kanji cards. From White Rabbit Press.

Kana Poster

Kana Poster

The definitive Hiragana and Katakana reference poster. Highly-functional. Minimalist. Made in Japan.

Japanese Graded Readers

Japanese Graded Readers

Graded Readers improve reading speed and fluency, develop and enrich vocabulary, and help language learners move from working-with-words to working-with-ideas.

Kana Flashcards

Kana Flashcards

Learn and remember Hiragana and Katakana with visual and verbal mnemonics.

Clients and media coverage
Major media outlets such as BBC, NYTimes, and The Guardian have recognized and featured my work in photography, audio, and video production.
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    • BBC
    • CNN
    • Architecture Foundation of San Antonio
    • Boing Boing
    • Bunka Fashion Graduate University, Tokyo
    • Ceska Pozice (Czech Position)
    • Dazed and Confused
    • designboom
    • France Inter Radio (87.8 FM Paris)
    • German TV (NDR) – 80,000 Questions Around the World
    • German TV (RTL) – Extra
    • Guardian.co.uk
    • Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP)
    • JapaneseStreets.com
    • Japan National Tourism Organization
    • Japan Subculture Research Center
    • Kodansha
    • LinkedIn
    • Lufthansa Magazin
    • Metro.co.uk
    • Metropolis Magazine
    • New York Post
    • Oops! Japanese Magazine, Vancouver, BC
    • Pecha Kucha – promotion for Global PechaKucha Day – Inspire Japan
    • PingMag
    • Playboy
    • RESPEKT.cz
    • The Japan Times
    • The New York Times
      My photography work has graced the front page of the New York Times — twice.
    • Tokyo Kink Society
    • Tokyo Journal
    • WGSN
    • and other global media publications.