 Some Personal Info. |
For the past 32 years, I had been involved in the studies of telecom networks and their implementation at NTT's Laboratories and their headquarters, respectively. For the past 20 years, I have been serving first as Vice Chairman, then as Chairman, of a Study Group on telecom network standardization at the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) in Geneva, Switzerland. From these experiences, I have become extremely interested in the relationship between telecom networks and society, economics and businesses, especially in how they influence each other. At the moment, I am doing research regarding the above relationships at the University of Edinburgh in UK as a Visiting Professor.
My spiritual base is the Christian faith I received through my bible study group activities in my University days in Japan. In pursuing my studies and activities, I have always tried never to forget justice, fairness, and love, and I would like to continue to do so.
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Research Interests |
I am studying the following topics with the objective of establishing Social and Business Theories on Global Info-Communication Industries:
1) International standardization
2) Regional comparisons of global info-communication industries
- Regional sharing of various fields of info-communication industries
- Info-communication industries and regional development
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Publications |
Programming Electronic Switching Systems April, 1976
Peter Peregrinus Ltd., UK IEE(Institution of Electrical Engineers)
Telecommunications Series 3
ISDN Systems and Technology October, 1990
Prentice-hall, USA
Marching Toward the Global Intelligent Network March,1993
IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue
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Appointments and Professional Experience |
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1958-59 |
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High school exchange student to the USA (AFS) |
| 1967 |
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, the University of Tokyo
Joined NTT (Assigned to work at its Laboratories) |
| 1973-74 |
Master of Science at the University of Essex, UK |
| 1980 |
ITU-T Study Group 11 Vice Chairman |
| 1984 |
NTT Laboratories, Head, Switching Systems Department |
| 1987 |
NTT Laboratoriess, Director, Telecom Network Technology Division |
| 1992 |
NTT Headquarters, Director, Network Planning |
| 1993 |
ITU-T Study Group 11 Chairman |
| 1997 |
NTT Research and Development Headquarters, Deputy Executive Manager |
| 1999 |
Waseda University, GITI, Visiting Professor
NTT Executive Adviser |
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Title Appearance |
Implementing NTT's Open Network Strategy NTT Group Seminar in Washington D.C. 4 February, 1997
Plans and Activities for GII/NII at NTT GII/NII Global Cooperation in Research
and Education, Waseda Universiry, 24-25 March 1997
Trends in Mobile Communications Seminar on Global Trends in Info-Communications,
Budapest, Hungary, 13-15 May 1997
Types of Services and Interconnection Requirements ITU Telecom Development
Forum, Singapore, 12 June 1997
Planning and Positioning the Telecoms Operator for Future Technologies
and Service Korea International Telecommunication Summit 1997, Seoul, Korea,
5 November 1997
Telecom Network Digitalization -How it is done- The 3rd Asia-Pacific Research
and Development Management Seminar, 16-17 February 1998
Digital Convergence for Creative Divergence in Globalizing Electronic Commerce
Shanghai Forum on Globalizing Electronic Commerce, Shanghai, China, 22-23
April 1998
Info-Communication Technology - Recent Trends and Impacts on Society -
Keynote Speech at the International Conference on Intelligence in Services
and Networks (IS&N) 1998, Antwerp, Belgium, 25 May 1998
Interoperability Experiments from the Users Point of View Global Information
and Telecommunication Institute (GITI) Forum, June 3-4, 1998, Omiya, Japan
Telecommunication Development in Asia Special Lecture at the Delft university
of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, 29 October 1998
Progress in the Standardization of the 3rd Generation Mobile System Special
Lecture at the University of Essex, England, 30th October 1998
Telecommunication Market in Japan: Entering the Digital Era and the 2nd
Phase of Competition IEEE Communication Magazine, November 1998 (Special
Issue on Telecommunication Markets, Industry and Infrastructure in Asia)
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