This document discusses the Japanese PHP community. It covers the topics of business, wars against PHP, trends in frameworks and coding environments, and the community. For business, it notes that PHP is the most common scripting language for jobs posted but that average PHP salaries are lower than for other languages. It describes conflicts with the IPA and a famous Japanese blogger who are critical of PHP. For trends, it indicates CakePHP, Symfony and Zend are major frameworks and over half of PHP developers use text editors. The community prefers meetups in Tokyo and broadcasting on ustream with social events after meetups.