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 and managed a conference, co-hosted by the Ministry of Justice and others, that aims to solve social issues through collaboration between public-private operated prisons (PFI prisons), businesses, and local communities. He is also active as a social incubator for solving social issues and creating new businesses through public-private collaboration between government and business.

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

He started his career as a marketer at Credit Saison. After developing his career at marketing and ad agencies such as Jeki, Dentsu,Transcosmos, Metro Ad Agency, and Dentsu Razorfish, he joined INFOBAHN in 2015. He became a director in 2017, now he is CEO of the company.He is an expert in both mass media and digital communication, and specializes in comprehensive communication design across online and offline, as well as new business development and promotion.

In 2022, he published the book "Gundam Meets Business" (co-authored / SB Creative).

・Marketer Career Association : Executive Director
・Digital Maketing Institute : Executive board member
・Advertising Week Asia : Advisory Council
・Sanno University : Part-time lecturer

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, where he will serve as the General Manager.

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

After graduating from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, she joined the Nikkei Shimbun. In 2005, she joined Recruit, where she worked in net media development in the housing information and travel sectors and media development for Zexy in Shanghai, before becoming the HR Area Net Marketing Division General Manager, Planning Division Executive Manager, and then, in 2013, Executive Sales Management Director and Sales Planning Division Manager at Recruit Jobs Co., Ltd. After leaving Recruit in March 2016, she set up Will Lab Inc. in March 2017.She enthusiastically supports women business leaders and has worked in human resources development and job creation in Kamaishi (Iwate Prefecture) and Toyooka (Hyogo Prefecture). Since August 2019, she has served as an expert member of the Cabinet Office Gender Equality Promotion Committee.

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.

Having graduated from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, he completed graduate studies at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, where he earned a Master of Architecture (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 led various projects across the areas of product, service and vision design. Major awards include the Japan Media Arts Festival and the New York Film Festival. He is currently pursuing doctoral study in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo.

After editing movie guides, comics, books, subscription-only lifestyle magazines and other print media, she joined INFOBAHN in 2007. She is involved in PR and communication activities in various industries, from B2C to B2B. Applying the perspective and communication skills that she developed as an editor, she manages a broad area of planning and content development for both digital and non-digital channels. She has been in her current role since 2021.

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.