Leaving Footprints Where There Are No Paths

During student days, learning "Hegel's Dialectic" from an ethics lecturer and "How to Learn Economics by Reading the Dictionary of Economics" from a political economy lecturer at Sundai Preparatory School Kyoto. At the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Kyoto University, studying "Theories of Genius" which had a profound impact. In the Faculty of Economics, specializing in game theory and human resource management engineering in the seminar of economist Hideshi Ito. Formed a student exchange group with American exchange students, including Yahoo founder, Hollywood film director David Greenspan (advisor to our company), Emmy Award-winning journalist Trisha Sorrells Doyle (advisor to our company), and serial entrepreneur Gerrit van Wyngaarden, who now lives in Seattle. Also met Akiko Yamazaki, who married Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, in Ito's seminar. In the summer of the third year of university, studied abroad at Columbia University in the United States, where a friendship with Taiwanese politician Sean Lien developed. After graduating from university, joined Dentsu Inc. but resigned after becoming a victim of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. Around that time, meeting management consultant Taiichiro Usami (7th-term student of the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management), who was mentored by Konosuke Matsushita, and became an executive in his management consulting company. Through Taiichiro Usami's introduction, spending a year as a trainee at MetaNet, an internet consulting company run by Frank Burns, who served as a strategist for the Internet Superhighway initiative, independently researching the "potential for asynchronous creative collaboration." After interning at Venture Access, a venture information company in Silicon Valley, entering the MBA program at the University of California, Berkeley. In the second year, joining the startup Minds and Technologies Inc. Full-time after graduation, transitioning to Ordinate Corporation, a seed-stage company known for the invention of 56K modem signal processing, and being responsible for business development of fully automated spoken English exams using AI and voice recognition technology. During a research stay at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information, educational linguist Yasuya Harada (director of the Information and Education Research Institute at Waseda University) was met. Upon returning to Japan, collaborating with serial entrepreneur Gerrit van Wyngaarden on app development and food-related equipment import businesses. Later joining a management advisory company founded by a former investment banker and friend. Around that time, receiving personal coaching in management consulting techniques from legendary consultant Seiichiro Yahagi, who was recruited during the early days of BCG at the Boston headquarters. Opening a private school to teach management and English to Waseda University students. Participating in the Digital Content Institute, a nonprofit organization led by Mitsuru Kaneko, developing and lecturing in educational programs for content industry professionals called "Content Strategy." There, meeting Roger Christiansen, director of "Friends" and "Hannah Montana." Publishing an original creative technique called SA Method, described as 21st-century dialectic, in the Journal of the Value Engineering Association. Currently, in the latter stages of the doctoral program at Utsunomiya University's Graduate School of Regional Development Science, researching creative techniques. Acting as the representative of the Sarin Victims' Association and announcing the preparation of a high school screening of "AGANAI," aiming to donate half of personal income to victim support. Feeling that the work regarding the sarin incident was completed, joining Kaho Fujikawa's startup, LOGIGLISH Inc.

As a producer (planning and development) in Hollywood, a short film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001. The directorial debut won the Grand Prix at EDIF2021 and received worldwide acclaim, achieving an unprecedented perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomato Meter for a first-time director. While the debut short film did not win any awards, the producer, economist Paul Milgrom, won the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Member of the Pen Club.

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