is a film director, writer, and producer. He now teaches at

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and graduate program at

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. He is a former advertising executive at

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who survived the 1995 sarin gas attacks in Tokyo, which led to his later film work. He produced the 2001

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winning ''Bean Cake'', directed by David Greenspan. He directed a short film, ''Don't Call Me Father''. in 2012. One of producers for the film was

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, who won

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in Economics in 2020. In 2015 he began to work on what would become

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, a film following his pursuit of truth and justice by talking and travelling with current

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executive Araki Hiroshi. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in engineering at

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's school of regional development and creativity. He is also known as an inventor of the SA method, which is a unique idea-generation technique and application. He is a member of The Japan P.E.N Club.　 Olivia Rosenthal, a french novelist interviewed him in 2018 and released a novel based on it in 2022. He co-founde
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, a language education company, with Kaho Fujikawa, his student at

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. He founded Sarin Gas Attack Victims Association in 2022 for his experience that he was anti-democratically not allowed to join Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Attack Victims Association represented by a widow without any particular reasons and list Japan National Police Agency in 2023.

References

External links

Good People Inc.YouTube Channel.
1966 births Living people Academic staff of Waseda University {{Asia-business-bio-stub