We study emotion, mental health, well-being, and related practice on a cognitive-science base. In recent years this work has drawn on Theory U as a method of practice and systems thinking as a method of inquiry.
2026
Kohei Noda (2026) GLOBIS article: how to walk the U-curve when the workplace will not move, 20 May 2026. (article)
Kohei Noda (2026) Featured at YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT #36: MIT Sloan IDEAS Asia Pacific session “Tri-sector innovation for sustainability in a VUCA/BANI world,” 22 April 2026. (session)
Kohei Noda (2026) Guest: “What happens to young people’s future in a society without mutual aid”, MBCC radio, 13 April 2026. (Spotify)
Kohei Noda and Shutaro Takeuchi (2026) Interviewers, GLOBIS alumni interview with Toga Chiyozaki: toward a society where everyone can use their abilities, 25 March 2026. (interview)
2025
Kohei Noda (2025) Interviewer, Daishi Fukudome on the power of kokorozashi, GLOBIS, 10 December 2025. (interview)
Kohei Noda (2025) The cognitive affective model of theory U. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, pp. 466-469. (PDF)
Kohei Noda, Mame, Rie Kaishita (2025) Stress Defense Strategies in the VUCA Era: Tips for Preventing Depression and Accumulating Stress (Amazon)
2024
Kohei Noda (2024) The book you should read when you think you would be depression (Amazon)
Kohei Noda, Ken Matsumura, and Mika Kojima (2024) Change Management under Well-being Era (YouTube series)
Kohei Noda (2024) CCL Japan visit with Motohisa Furukawa of the cross-party caucus, 23 May 2024. (visit record)
Kohei Noda (2024) Asked the Government of Japan to join the Global Carbon Pricing Challenge (GCPC), 4 May 2024. (statement)
Kohei Noda (2024) CCL Japan dialogue with METI Minister Ken Saito, 29 February 2024. (visit record)
Kohei Noda (2024) CCL Japan dialogue with Minister Taro Kono for Administrative Reform, 24 January 2024. (visit record)
2022
Kohei Noda (2022) Talk at Monthly MiLI: Inner Development Goals and developing humanity, 25 October 2022. (talk record)
Kohei Noda (2022) CCL Japan visit with Kentaro Sonoura, 16 September 2022. (visit record)
Kohei Noda (2022) Spoke on carbon pricing at the CAN-Japan webinar on IPCC AR6, 19 May 2022. (webinar)
2021
Kohei Noda and Mika Kojima (2021) shiawase2021 FR004: #myfuture — meeting my future self, 21 March 2021. (Peatix)
Kohei Noda (2021) shiawase2021 WS050 Future Dialogue, 20 March 2021. (program)
2020
Kohei Noda (2020) Talk on health and happiness, 6 December 2020. (event page)
Kohei Noda and Akio Hiramoto (2020) The current status of poverty and happiness in the Philippines, YouTube Hiramoto Akio Channel. Video (channel)
Kohei Noda (2020) Dialogue event: learning happiness habits from Fijians, with Yuma Nagasaki, 22 November 2020. (Peatix)
2019
Maria Belinda Villavicencio, Joan Bondoc-Antonio, Eric Cruz, Connie Germono, Kohei Noda, Kookie Consing-Gagui (2019) Big Idea: Embedding Systems Thinking in Philippine Education. Education that Matters / Benedictine International School. January–May 2019 project; presented at the May 2019 Manila workshop Thriving in the Age of Disruption. (poster)
2018
Kentaro Yoshida and Kohei Noda (2018) Chapter 10 The Case of Service industry “IT and Call center” — the Philippines, Reverse Innovation of Japanese SMEs. Doyukan (Amazon)
2017
Kohei Noda (2017) Talk at the 139th monthly meeting of the Business Promotion LLP: “Philippines (Cebu) study abroad and intercultural experience,” 7 December 2017. (talk record)
Kohei Noda (2017) Talk on happiness with Yuma Nagasaki visiting SPEA Dumaguete, 26 October 2017. (Facebook)
Kohei Noda and Maria Katrina Taylo, Normalised purely psychological Happiness national comparisons by UN and Gallup surveys. Internal discussion meeting at Free Bird Institute in Fiji.
2016
Kohei Noda, Yoshihiko Matsuoka (2016) Proposal of Real Life Experience Method in English Language as Second Language. 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society (PDF)
Kohei Noda (2016) Happiness Workshop: learning from Filipino — Why Filipino People are always smiling, Cebu Pot Seminar, 24 March 2016, Henry Hotel, Cebu. (PDF)
Kohei Noda and Takashi Maeno, Trend in Happiness of Filipino From the Viewpoint of Comparison to Japanese, The 23rd Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology 2016, Nagoya, Japan. (Cancelled)
2015
Kohei Noda (2015) About Filipino Business for Japanese, 15th Neue Fahne mini-forum on HR management in the Philippines, 15 December 2015, Tokyo. (PDF)
Kohei Noda and Etsuyo Nishigaki (2015) in Etsuyo Nishigaki et al. (eds.), Introduction to Coaching Psychology, Nakanishiya (Amazon)
2014
Kohei Noda (2014) Simulation of emotional mechanism, in Gen Murai (ed.), Approaching quality from quantity, Shin-yo-sha (Amazon)
2013
Kohei Noda (2013) Developing global talent for an era of four million: forming a thick middle layer, not only elites. Neue Fahne Journal No. 50. (PDF)
Kohei Noda (2013) Lecturer, job-hunting support seminar at the company joint briefing hosted by Fukuoka City and the Fukuoka Chamber of Commerce, 28 May 2013, Fukuoka International Congress Center. (report)
Kohei Noda, Plenary Talk, ICE 2013: PELS International Congress on eLearning 2013, 6–7 December 2013, The Heritage Hotel Manila, Philippines (conference)
Kohei Noda and Keisuke Takeya (2013) Facilitators, TIME-IMAGE-CREATIVITY WORKSHOP, Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo, 7 December 2013. (notice)
Etsuyo Nishigaki, Tadashi Hori, Masato Honma, Kohei Noda (2013) Toward establishing coaching psychology in Japan, 77th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association (PDF)
2012
Kohei Noda (2012) English talk on entrepreneurship in Japan for an IDEA League doctoral-school visit, Tokyo Tech Productive Leader Incubation Platform (PLIP), 13 November 2012. (talk record)
Noda K. (2012) A cognitive emotional model for “intrinsic motivation”, Proceeding of the 34th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society.
2011
Kohei Noda (2011) Lecture on PhD employment at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Ookayama) career guidance, Student Support Center, 9 November 2011. (PDF)
Kohei Noda (2011) Recognizing generational differences in values: challenges for corporate talent development. Neue Fahne Journal No. 20. (PDF)
Kohei Noda (2011) Talk at the Sales Strategy Study Group: “What is Motivation 3.0? New currents in organizations and motivation,” February 2011. (talk record)
Noda, K., and Kodama, Y. (2011) Research on the Special Characteristics and Background Elements of Japanese Entrepreneurs, Proceedings of the 9th annual meeting of Japanese Academy of Human Resource Development.
Noda, K., Miyakoshi, D., Igarashi, K., and Hiramoto (2011) The development of the mental simulation methodology which enhances mindfulness and motivation, Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of Japanese Cognitive Science Society (PDF)
2010
Noda K. and Agullo, B. (2010) Simulating Corporate Organizational Performance at the Cognitive Modeling/Architecture Level, Proceeding of the 32nd Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society.
Noda K. (2010) How to assess work values correctly, Proceedings of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Academy of Human Resource Development.
2009
Agullo, B. and Noda K. (2009) Agent-based HR cost simulation to aid strategic HRM decision-making, Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Academy of Human Resource Development.
Noda, K., Aizaki, A. and Iwasawa, T. (2009) Attempt to develop a depression survey to use in organizations, Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Industrial Counselors, pp. 138-139.
2008
Noda, K., Hisatsu, G., and Voss, K. (2008) An application of Cognitive Emotional Agent Architecture to model Emotional Intelligence, International Journal of Work, Organization and Emotion, 2(4) pp. 389-406.
Noda, K., Sasaki, K., Noguchi, A. and Yokoi, M. (2008) Modeling emotional intelligence from kansei informatics point of view, Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Kansei, pp. 12-14.
Noda, K., Takeda, Y. and Yokoi, M. (2008) Cognitive Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs) to enhance emotional intelligence, Proceeding of the 30th Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society.
2007
Noda, K. (2007) Brain Inspired Cognitive Emotional Agent Architecture and its Application to Corporate Human Resource Management System. Doctoral Dissertation, Tokyo Institute of Technology. (PDF)
Noda, K. and Hisatsu, G. (2007) An Application of Cognitive Emotional Agent Architecture to Corporate Human Resource Management, Proceedings of 29th annual conference of the cognitive science society, 1824. (PDF)
Noda, K. (2007) An application of human resource evaluation ontology, Proceedings of Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources (LKR 2007), Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Noda, K., Voss, K. and Hisatsu, G. (2007) An application of cognitive science research outcomes to the visualization and the knowledge sharing of human resource evaluation information, Cognitive Studies, 14(1) pp. 74-89. (PDF)
2006
Noda, K., Voss, K. and Tokosumi, A. (2006) Emotion agent architecture simulating emotional reactions in a recruitment interview, Proceedings of international One-Day conference on “Emotion and Work”.
Noda, K. (2006) Emotion Mechanism of Anxiety by Agent Based Simulation on Recruitment Interview, Proceedings of 6th annual meeting of the Japanese Association for Cognitive Therapy, 117.
Noda, K. (2006) Towards a Representational Model of Evaluation Ontology, Proceedings of International Symposium on Large Scale Knowledge Resources: LKR2006, 159-160.
2005
Noda, K. (2005) Chapter 4 “DPI (Diamond Personality Inventory) test” and Recruitment Interview, Attitude Ability Handbook, 50-57. Tokyo: Diamond Inc.
Noda, K. and Tokosumi, A. (2005) The Development of Value Ontology, Proceedings of Symposium on Large Scale Knowledge Resources: LKR2005, 179-182.
2004
Noda, K. and Tokosumi, A. (2004) An Embodied Computational Model of Simulating Depression, Proceedings of IEEE 13th International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.
Noda, K. and Tokosumi, A. (2004) “Artificial brain methodology” and an application of StarLogo, Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 374-375. (PDF)
2002
Hashida, K. et al., including Kohei Noda (2002) Conference report on ICCS 2001, Cognitive Studies, 9(1) pp. 178-181. (PDF)
Noda, K. and Tokosumi, A. (2002) A simulated embodied agent model of depression by Artificial Brain Methodology, Proceeding of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 8-9.
Noda, K. (2002) A Computational Model of Depression by Design Approach, Master Thesis, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
2001
Pfeifer, R., Iida, F., Noda, K. (2001) Joint Swiss-Japanese Projects of the AILab, Journal Quarterly Review of Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce, 3.
Noda, K. and Tokosumi, A. (2001) A Double-layered Architecture of Emotion, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems KES’2001 Part 2, 1239-1242. Tokyo: Ohmsha.
Noda, K. and Tokosumi, A. (2001) The emergence of depression – A proposal for a methodology of emotion research, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, 164.
2000
Noda, K. (2000) Leadership generation model from the perspective of emotion, VALDES Technical paper, Tokyo Institute of Technology. (PDF)
Kohei Noda et al. (2000) Leadership in situations without role identity, Niigata University–Tokyo Tech Exchange Discussion Program resume. Noda: leadership from interpersonal cognition and emotion. (resume)
Noda, K. and Tokosumi, A. (2000) The cognitive model of thinking process under the depression, cognitive therapy news, 15.
Tokosumi, A. and Noda, K. (2000) Design principle of an artificial brain for emotion and kansei. Proceedings of the 11th T.I.T. Brain Research Symposium, pp. 38-45.
1997
Noda, K. et al. (1997) Spectroscopic diagnosis of microwave-heated atmospheric-pressure oxygen plasma, Meeting abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan 52(2-4), 908. (PDF)