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  1. Accelerating Education in an Age of Declining Birth Rates: How Do We Develop Advanced Talent with a Limited Population?

    One of the major challenges we face is the declining birth rate. The trend in the number of births shows just how sharp the decline is. This change is expected to affect many areas, including the survival of educational institutions such as universities, the maintenance of the social security system, and the sustainability of local communities, and these issues are being actively discussed…

  2. "Become the One Who Draws the Frame of the Puzzle": How Startups Grow Through Co-Creation

    I feel that "whether you can draw a big blueprint that goes beyond your own company" is becoming even more important now. In particular, when and the like, I feel that the ability to draw a big blueprint is being put to the test. So in this article, I explain the importance of a blueprint in co-creation and problem solving, using the metaphor of a jigsaw pu…

  3. How to Explore Ideas in the Age of Generative AI (2026 Edition)

    The advent of generative AI has greatly changed how we do intellectual work, starting with programming. In 2025 in particular, I feel that generative AI became much more practical for research and idea-generation tasks. The arrival of ChatGPT Pro 5.2, steady progress in NotebookLM, and Gemini 3 plus Nano Banana…

  4. Raising the Momentum of Japan's Startup Ecosystem: On Articulating Philosophy and Themes

    Recently I have heard, one after another, people say that "the momentum of Japan's startup ecosystem may be declining." I feel that way myself to some extent. For example, looking at Initial's report, funding amounts have flattened, and even if there is no bad news...

  5. Startups and Rebalancing for "Stability"

    The world seems to be entering a phase of rebalancing, in which order is forced to be "rebuilt." Contributing to a new stability in the midst of that rebalancing could itself become a medium- to long-term market, and new efforts such as startups may have a role in that process…

  6. Classifying Deep Tech Startups by RDD&D

    Attention on deep tech startups is growing. A document from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) defines deep tech as "technology based on scientific discoveries obtained through research in specific natural science fields," but beyond that, anything involving hardware tends to be called deep tech, and so do teams connected to universities…

  7. 💯 Ask the Question: "How Do We Build a ¥100 Trillion Startup?"

    There are rumors that SpaceX will go public at a market capitalization of about ¥200 trillion, and reports that OpenAI is raising funds at a valuation of ¥125 trillion and Anthropic at ¥50 trillion. No company in Japan has a market capitalization above ¥100 trillion. Japan's…

  8. The Full-Stack Deep Tech Startup Strategy

    I have long translated and written about the concept of the "full-stack startup," which Chris Dixon proposed in 2014. Combining this full-stack startup with deep tech gives you the "Full-Stack Deep Tech Startup,…

  9. Blueprinting the Future

    I feel that over the past few years, the importance of 'blueprinting the future' has been growing. The 2010s were a period in which 'groping our way through the future' to find the right problems that could be solved by 'the solution of software and smartphones,' and the importance of problem solving, were relatively high…

  10. Focused Research Organizations (FROs): The Potential of Nonprofit, Tech-Startup-Style Science and Technology Research Institutions

    In December 2025, the U.S. NSF announced a new initiative called Tech Labs Initiative and began collecting input from the community (RFI). Tech Labs is a new operating model that targets technical bottlenecks that are hard to solve within the frameworks of universities and companies…