It was an honor to serve as an panel at U.S.-Japan Council and TOMODACHI-Mitsui & Co. Leadership Program event. The future leaders of the US young talents seemed really promising. Hope they get exposed to many different scenes, experience,…

Friend's friend founded TWITTER. One of the founders' ideas were to put the messaging out across like a tweeting. He thought of bringing the Japanese HAIKU into it to express WABI-SABI. Not only the case of Twitter, or Steve Jobs of Apple …

Thank you very much for the 40 volunteers today! It was great to see the great students, principal, faculty members and the program manager at the ceremony and reception. The nationally recognized strong exchange program between Elk Grove …

@Chicago, total of eleven companies/organizations visited me today. So many times, I get asked what the Japanese technology companies next directions are (should be). How the CEO of Rakuten, Mikitani-san stresses constantly in his postings…

My strength certification from the Strength Finder. Now reading "Now, Discover Your Strength." Why now? The new definition of talent management are required in the global economy. Weaknesses stand out more and we need to know better unders…

So, the US's FISCAL CLIFF DEALS were good, and in the beginning of the week or in the beginning of the New Year, you want to make sure that you have nice and slow easy exercises to start up. You always want to avoid a high resting heart ra…

[Lunch Talk] It is encouraging to see Mikitani-san and some of the other great business leaders take on a challenge to become real globalization of Japan, as seen in WSJ Japan Real Time - "Rakuten’s English Policy: Just Speak It." Certainl…