Roughly four decades ago, I opened a checking account at First of America Bank in Ann Arbor, Michigan. With my Japanese passport, a banker assisted me in becoming an owner of $1,000 for use in academic purpose. This ownership has been a token of being part of America for a…

In a public parking lot of Urayasu, a district of Tokyo Disney Resort, a man started complaining about the city owner to charge parking fees in April this year. A man is myself, a frequent visitor of Urayasu parking for a 15 minute walk to the entrance of the Disney…

Should Japan raise the budget in robotics research? Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash In 2004, a robotic film, “I, Robot”, depicted the future of human kinds. The drama clearly set the stage of the dystopian world run by U.S. Robotics in Chicago. Detective Spooner (Will Smith) saved the world…

A controversial podcaster needs to balance things out. So does general audience. Four decades ago, the only medium available around my desk was a small radio set of SONY, an audio manufacturer. The resource was very scarce to listen to the world outside Japan. …

A new search is about to begin in Tokyo It was more than forty years ago when an American man opened the door for me. The door had been closed for a long time, too long to see the rest of the world. The chance presented itself abruptly. A man…

A consultancy identifies three unconscious bias at corporate office It was nearly four decades ago when I heard about gender equality movement in the United States. In the class of political science, professors offered a case study of Japanese workplace in comparison with other countries, especially developed ones in Europe…

Harvard professer explains it is hard to succeed with a skeptic view in ESG When the bubble economy burst in late 1980’s, young Tokyoities lost an incredibily huge assets in their personal balance sheets. Being in front of premature spreedsheet like Lotus-123, financers in dispair started to look for another…

More than just a single tiny drop of blood to save American healthcare A decade ago around this time, my older brother and I were walking along a pond. It was a chilly morning when both of us quietly enjoyed the first (and the last) companionship, talking about his family…

Advocates reconfigure non-virtual business into digital world In late October last year, Mark Zuckerberg made an announcement that he would change the name of facebook to the new one. I thought that was bold move. He was joking. But to wipe out the bad image of social media and to…