News & activities

Occasional notes: IDEAS brochures, MHQ updates, talks, and public materials. This is not a diary blog.

2026.05.20
GLOBIS article: how to walk the U-curve when the workplace will not move (20 May 2026).
Links
- GLOBIS article (how to walk the U-curve)
2026.04.22
Featured at YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT #36: Tri-sector innovation for sustainability (22 April 2026).
Links
- YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT #36 session
2026.04.13
Guest on MBCC radio: “What happens to young people’s future in a society without mutual aid” (13 April 2026).
Links
- Spotify (MBCC radio)
- Episode notes (MBCC)
2026.03.25
GLOBIS alumni interview with Toga Chiyozaki: toward a society where everyone can use their abilities (25 March 2026).
Links
- GLOBIS alumni interview (Toga Chiyozaki)
2025.12.10
Interviewed Daishi Fukudome on the power of kokorozashi for GLOBIS (10 December 2025).
Links
- GLOBIS article (the power of kokorozashi)
2025.09.12
Presented “The cognitive affective model of theory U” at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society.
Links
- Conference paper (PDF)
2025.08.14
MIT Sloan/UID IDEAS Asia Pacific 3.0 2026参加者推薦を開始致しました。
2025.01.22
Published Stress Defense Strategies in the VUCA Era.
Links
- Amazon (Stress Defense Strategies in the VUCA Era)
2024.09.29
Published The book you should read when you think you would be depression.
Links
- Amazon (the book you should read when you think you would be depression)
2024.06.01
Published the YouTube series Change Management under Well-being Era.
Links
- YouTube series (Change Management under Well-being Era)
2024.05.23
CCL Japan visit with Motohisa Furukawa of the cross-party caucus (23 May 2024).
Links
- CCL Japan (visit with Motohisa Furukawa)
2024.05.04
Asked the Government of Japan to join the Global Carbon Pricing Challenge (GCPC) (4 May 2024).
Links
- CCL Japan (GCPC statement)
2024.02.29
CCL Japan dialogue with METI Minister Ken Saito on renewable energy policy (29 February 2024).
Links
- CCL Japan (dialogue with Ken Saito)
2024.01.24
CCL Japan dialogue with Minister Taro Kono for Administrative Reform (24 January 2024).
Links
- CCL Japan (dialogue with Taro Kono)
2022.10.25
Talked at Monthly MiLI: Inner Development Goals and developing humanity (25 October 2022).
Links
- Monthly MiLI (IDGs) event page
2022.09.16
CCL Japan visit with Kentaro Sonoura (16 September 2022).
Links
- CCL Japan (visit with Kentaro Sonoura)
2022.05.19
Spoke on carbon pricing at the CAN-Japan webinar on IPCC AR6 (19 May 2022).
Links
- CAN-Japan webinar page
2021.03.21
shiawase2021 FR004: #myfuture — meeting my future self, with Mika Kojima (21 March 2021).
Links
- Peatix (shiawase2021 FR004)
- shiawase2021 program (FR004)
2021.03.20
shiawase2021 WS050 Future Dialogue: expanding dialogue for Japan’s future (20 March 2021).
Links
- shiawase2021 program (WS050)
- Facebook event (WS050)
2020.12.06
健康×幸福トーク登壇
Links
- Health × happiness talk (archived copy)
2020.11.22
Dialogue event: learning happiness habits from Fijians, with Yuma Nagasaki (22 November 2020).
Links
- Peatix (2020)
2020.11.15
フィリピンの貧困と幸福度の現状
Links
- YouTube video (Hiramoto Akio Channel)
2020.04.07
コロナ禍でのストレスについての寄稿
Links
- COVID stress article (archived copy)
2020.01.04
SDGs Learning Journey 2020の案内
Links
- SDGs Learning Journey 2020 (archived copy)
2019.05.24
Philippine education project presented in Manila
2019.02.01
SPEA school brochure PDF (2019; Philippine Ryugaku Pro).
Links
- SPEA school brochure PDF (2019)
2018.01.04
SDGs Learning Journey 2018報告
Links
- AMD report (archived copy)
2017.12.07
Talk at the 139th monthly meeting of the Business Promotion LLP: “Philippines (Cebu) study abroad and intercultural experience” (7 December 2017).
Links
- BPS 139th meeting report (archived)
2017.10.26
SPEA talk on happiness with Yuma Nagasaki visiting Dumaguete (26 October 2017).
Links
- Facebook event (2017)
2017.05.22
Press release: SPEA began a Philippines education study program.
Links
- Philippines education study press release
2016.07.08
Press release: research began on SPEA’s Real Life Experience (RLE) method.
Links
- RLE research press release
2016.03.24
Cebu Pot seminar: Happiness Workshop — Why Filipino people are always smiling (magazine notice, 24 March 2016).
Links
- Cebu Pot magazine notice (2016)
- Cebu Pot Facebook (event announcements)
2015.12.15
15th mini-forum: About Filipino Business for Japanese (15 December 2015).
Links
- Mini-forum flyer PDF (2015)
2013.12.07
TIME-IMAGE-CREATIVITY WORKSHOP with Keisuke Takeya at Pinto Art Gallery, Antipolo (7 December 2013).
Links
2013.12.06
ICE 2013 plenary at Heritage Hotel Manila (6–7 December 2013).
Links
2013.09.21
SS-055 Toward establishing coaching psychology in Japan, 77th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association (21 September 2013).
Links
- Conference abstract (J-STAGE PDF)
- Panel photo
2013.07.30
Spoke at a free hitomedia seminar on working in Asia (30 July 2013).
Links
- hitomedia seminar note
2013.03.11
Neue Fahne Journal No. 50: developing mid-level global talent, not only elites.
Links
- Neue Fahne Journal No. 50 (PDF)
2013.01.05
GBX(Global Business eXperience)の記事
Links
- GBX report
2012.11.13
English talk on entrepreneurship in Japan for an IDEA League doctoral-school visit at Tokyo Tech PLIP (13 November 2012).
Links
2011.12.26
Neue Fahne Journal No. 20: recognizing generational differences in values (26 December 2011).
Links
- Neue Fahne Journal No. 20 (PDF)
2011.08.24
Kosaido × Kocoro Lab MHQ seminar flyer (August–September 2011; Neue Fahne).
2011.02.01
Talk at the Sales Strategy Study Group: “What is Motivation 3.0? New currents in organizations and motivation” (February 2011).
Links
- Sales Strategy Study Group (talk record)
2010.06.22
Press release: partnership with Shubiki on a workplace mental health service.
Links
- Shubiki partnership press release
2009.07.01
MHQ(Mental Health 質問票）のバージョン１発売のプレスリリース
Links
- MHQ version 1 press release