Héctor García Puigcerver, known online as Kirai, is a Spanish writer, blogger and former systems engineer, born in 1981 in Alicante, Spain. He moved to Japan in the mid-2000s and became known for his blog "Kirai.NET: un geek en Japón," which won best personal blog at the 2004 Bitácora Awards. After working as an engineer — including a stint at CERN and later on speech-recognition technology — he left the tech industry to write full-time. He is the co-author, with Francesc Miralles, of the intern...