In 1994, he founded Wired Japan magazine, of which he served as editor-in-chief. In 1998, he launched INFOBAHN, a company specializing in corporate digital communications. He also founded Gizmodo Japan and numerous other media, both print- and web-based, and published Japan’s first blog in book form, the bestselling Kawori Manabe: Just between You and Me, along with doing pioneering work in content marketing and owned media. In 2005, he served on the Content Policy Committee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Cabinet Office.

Since 2017, INFOBAHN has been the official Japanese partner of the Tech Open Air (TOA) technology conference in Berlin. He organizes and implements innovator creation programs, including annual trips to Berlin, while networking with in-house entrepreneurs and others.

He also served as a judge for the Hiroshima Prefecture Sandbox, ran a program to lead the social implementation of blockchain in the same Cross-Tech Challenge, and was involved in conceptualizing and running Hamamatsu City's first international hackathon "Hamamatune," an annual conference held in Hakuba Village, Nagano Prefecture, centered on the circular economy, and the He has been involved in the conceptualization and operation of such events as "GREEN WORK HAKUBA," an annual conference held in Hakuba Village, Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the circular economy.

In 2022, he planned a conference, co-hosted by the Ministry of Justice and others, aimed at solving social problems through cooperation between private companies, local communities, and public-private partnership (PFI) prisons. In 2024, he was appointed as a member of the selection committee for the next operator of the PFI prison "Shimane Asahi Social Rehabilitation Promotion Center"

His main published works are After GAFA: A Map of Tomorrow’s Decentralized World (Kadokawa), Rise of Corporate-Generated Media (Gijutsu Hyoron), and The Web as an Image of Society’s Future (PHP). He has also supervised and provided explanatory material for the Japanese editions of Free: The Future of a Radical Price, Share: What’s Mine is Yours, Public Parts (NHK Publishing) and numerous other books.

・Full-time professor in the IT Department, Business Breakthrough University
・Publisher of Business Insider Japan
・Israeli Blockchain Association Advisory Board member
・Nagano Information Technology Council ambassador
・Shimane Asahi Rehabilitation Program Center (PFI Prison), The Ministry of Justice in Japan, Selection Committee for the next project

After a role in setting up a specialist UX design business within a Design and Consulting agency, he joined INFOBAHN Inc.in 2011. Since joining the company, he has served as the Kyoto Branch Office Manager as well as a design strategist, founded and served as the lead manager of the Innovation Design Support Business focusing on UX Design/Service Design since 2016, and launched the Organizational Culture Design Division in 2023. Yuichi is focusing on supporting the revitalisation of ‘creativity in people and organisations’, currently.

・Project Management Association of Japan certified project management specialist (PMS)
・Director at HCD-Net (Human Centered Design Organization)
・Professor, College of Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University
・Part-time lecturer in the Department of Media, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
・Ph.D. in Management Science at the Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University

After working in the publishing industry, she was involved in the editing, publishing, and overseas copyright negotiations of books and magazines.In 1994, she launched the Japanese version of "WIRED'' and served as its business manager. After that, she became independent and founded the online media company Mediagene Co., Ltd. (formerly Infobahn Group Headquarters) in 1998, and in 2015 established the digital agency Infobahn Co., Ltd. through an incorporation-type split. From 2022, she will serve as the secretary of Keizai Doyukai. Co-founded TNL Mediagene in 2023 and became COO and president. In 2024, she became an outside director of NOK Corporation.

At ASEAN-Japan Investment (now Japan Asia Investment Company, Limited), she was engaged in corporate valuation, capital policy planning, and listing support for startup companies. In 2012, she became the first female executive officer at Osaka Securities Exchange (now Japan Exchange Group, Inc.), the first female executive officer at a securities exchange in Japan.

He worked in sales planning for a web development company, as a planner and director. He was involved in major Japanese companies’ websites, brand site updates, e-commerce, new community site . Since joining INFOBAHN as a planner in 2011, he has worked on company-owned media as a producer, planner and project manager. In 2025, he will be entrusted with the global event "TechGALA Japan" organized by the "Central Japan Startup Ecosystem Consortium" and will oversee the entire project.

Having graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, he completed postgraduate studies at Southern California Institute of Architecture [SCI-Arc] in Los Angeles, where he received a Master of Architecture degree (M.Arch). After working for architectural design firms and a digital production in both domestic and overseas, he joined INFOBAHN, Inc. in 2014. Based on design research, he has been engaged in product and service design on various scales across industries. His works and research have been awarded at the Japan Media Arts Festival, the New York Film Festival, ACM UIST and the Japanese Society for the Science and Design. Part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology and Social Science, and the Faculty of International Co-Creativity and Innovation, Osaka University of Economics.

After working for a PR company, he joined Infobahn in 2016. He has experience working on PR projects for government offices, local governments, companies and educational institutions in fields such as content marketing, promotional and branding activities, and large-scale website construction and database design and construction. After joining Infobahn, he has worked on numerous projects, dealing with issues from a holistic perspective, from the real world to the digital world, and in recent years he has been focusing on overseeing the company's marketing and sales.

After working as an art director mainly in the communication design, he participated in the founding of INFOBAHN in 1998.

He now supports value creation in a variety of sectors through an integrated design process for business development and brand communication running from concept creation to creative direction and experience design. Recipient of the NY ADC Award, Japan Media Arts Festival award and many others. Exhibitor at SFMoMA, Milano Salone, Tokyo Design Week and other venues in Japan and abroad. His work features in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.