2025 help follow up grok lead - **Japan** - **Action Plan**: Huang partnered with SoftBank to deploy Japan’s most powerful AI supercomputer using the Blackwell platform. Collaborations with GMO Internet Group and SAKURA internet aim to create a national AI network supporting healthcare and robotics. - **Unique Aspect**: He highlighted Japan’s mechatronics expertise, pushing for AI factories that advance physical AI applications. chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk (Bethesda MD)

Since world war 2 Japan's engineers interacting with Deming quality systems have given the world benchmarks for supercities where between 15 million to 40 million depend on extraordinary infrastructure (eg underground, bullet train, containerisation shipping and sme supply chains eg down the far east coastal belt japan korea s taiwan hk singapore) . Japanese like many Asians also have a consciousness with nature - they led the way borlaug crop science is reputed to have saved a billion asians from starvation. Fresh food and rural rituals eg tea ceremonies chracterise what the Japanese see as thhe good life. With only about 15% of their own carbon energy, they have been a leader in renewable energy as well as a loyal partner of USA. The Japnese were the first mian client of Moores Lasw from 1965 due to their innovation of microelectronics, eloectronic games and resileient architecture. From 1964 trip to Olympics, now King Charles has shared many ideas in common with Japan Royal Family with both nations originally responsible for geonomics of post colonial livelihoods  as well as what some now call decolonial ai).By the 1980s diaspora chinese invetsned in many of same supercity infrastructures. From 1987 Taiwan bet its country on both advanced manufactiruring and chip foundry withouth which jensen huangs million fold deeper gpu machines at heart of AI may not have existed. Jensens starting up Nvidia in 1993 was timely. Classical moores law was oming to an end- a thrird million fold multiplier - telecome smobilising data clouds as well as personal intelligence devices. TEchnically stanadrds such as 1g To 6G are cooperatively agreed with UN swiss arm ITU (as they have been sunce 1965 with switzerland also being standrads organiser of electricity grids). 

Today pne of the foirst 25x energy efficient suercomputres designed by nvidia partners is in Japan thanks to fact that in 2019 nvidia softbamk arm were all one future vision. Researving platforms uniquely developed by fitrst 10 suopercomputers is an optimal way of understand hw AI next helps human brains

Japan is advancing renewable and resilient economies - integrating abe's osaka track and soc5.0. The Osaka expo 2025 offers many insights into japan biotech advances. The future of water is a joint ointerest of the currentb  emperor and UK King Charles. Small islands AI share solutions that arguabkly huge contients do not lead

Mayors of supercities can offer unique intelligence - see mayir koike 2025 offer for tokyo hosting what UN NY is no longer energised by regarding millennials goals and transformational intyeligenve needs

researching japan 2009-2016 -1000th fold increase in commns tech

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Meet our leadership team

Hirofumi Yokoi, Japan

President, Chief Executive Officer

“Regardless of how social innovation is defined, we continue to work together with people and institutions on the intersection between experience and education, and we believe that, through the hybrid, reciprocal practice, the world becomes worth living with mutual empathy and peaceful coexistence.”

Prior to founding Akira Foundation, Hirofumi worked with Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon. In this role he was in charge of market research and analytic solutions for social business programs, including the MIT Arab Business Plan Competition (Lebanon) and Grameen-Jameel microfinance joint venture (U.A.E.). He began his professional career as a senior analyst in the automotive industry and was frequently quoted in several major media and newspapers.

Hirofumi has taken numerous advisory roles in American Councils for International Educations, the 5th World Children’s Festival (WCF), Sophia University, Japan, and the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (theWSIE). He is currently an assistant professor in the Global Leadership Program at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Hirofumi completed an annual executive program on Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development (FIPED) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He holds a Post-MBA from McGill University and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Together with his twin brother, Hirofumi is listed among over 30 innovators changing society in the ‘Innovative Ideas for Business Success’　by Kogan Page, UK in 2013.

Baria Daye, Lebanon

Director, Open Innovation

Baria Daye is a consultant analyst on the Starting a Business indicator at the Doing Business Unit, part of the Financial and Private Sector Development Vice-Presidency at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), The World Bank Group. ( http://www.doingbusiness.org/ ) She also is a passionate civil society activist with an entrepreneurial twist. Particularly interested in youth empowerment and gender issues, Baria founded the Tripoli Youth Forum NGO while still at college, worked as Policy Advocate for Women’s Issues in Lebanon at Vital Voices Global Partnership US-based NGO, and occupied a Board Membership at the Fadila Wassef Fattal Cultural Salon. Holding a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics from the American University of Beirut, Baria pursued a graduate academic degree in Business Administration (MBA) at the Lebanese American University. As a result of her diverse background and activism record, she developed a specific interest in tackling social problems from a business perspective through sustainable entrepreneurship, which led to her involvement as Board Member at the Maurice Fadel Prize for the best business plan competition in North Lebanon. She has completed a wide range of international training programmes including: International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) on NGO Management in the U.S., by the U.S. Department of State and thus became member of the Lebanese State Alumni Community (LSAC); Human Rights towards Gender Equality in Sweden, by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the Swedish Institute for Public Administration (SIPU), and Uppsala University; Women Entrepreneurship Promotion Executive Program in the Netherlands, by the Maastricht School of Management (MSM). With great enthusiasm, Baria also joined the team working on the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship 2012 (www.thewsie.org) organized by the Design-Innovation Company “Tranzishen”. She was selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2012.

Cesar Santoyo, Philippines

Director, Community Development

Cesar V. Santoyo is the President of Social Enterprise English Language School, which provides middle- and low-income families with innovative and compelling English language teaching services by Filipino migrant women in Japan as certified teachers. Since the Great East Earthquake on March 11, 2011, Cesar has led SEELS and been committed to improving the lives of both underserved Filipino migrant women’s and Japanese people’s across disaster-stricken regions including Fukushima and Sendai, Japan.
Prior to starting SEELS, Cesar founded the Center for Japanese-Filipino Families (CJFF) in 2000 and, as the Executive Director, leads a program to enhance the quality of life for Filipino migrant women and improve the perceived image of theirs among Japanese by creating jobs to them as English teachers. Before relocating to Japan, he lived in Hong Kong and worked as Executive Director at the Asian Center for Development Studies (ASCEND) in coordinating reforestation initiatives of farmers’ organizations in the Philippines.
Cesar received the Geny Lopez Bayaning Filipino Award 2012, and his social enterprise, SEELS, was selected for the 1st Michinoku Entrepreneurship program led by Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities (ETIC). Furthermore, SEELS was named one of the Global Hot 100 Companies at the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (THEWSIE) held in Boston in September 2012.

Sosha Mitsunaga Smith, Japan

Director, Youth Development

Mr. Sosha Mitsunaga Smith is CEO of Common Earth Company.

Born to a Japanese mother and American father, Sosha grew up flying between the two countries. After a few years in the language education industry, Sosha co-founds a language consulting firm to offer global translations services.

Continuing his volunteer work in Tohoku after the North East Japan Earthquake in 2011, he graduated Waseda Business School. One of the several things he did while volunteering was to make use of his bilingual skills and take action in coordinating and translating for foreign aid groups that flew in.

After going back to finishing his MBA degree in Tokyo, he decided to forward his vision and go one step further – to create a business that can provide a sustainable channel to empower communities such as those is Tohoku. This was Earth Camp – the first service of Common Earth Company.

Kensuke Mori, Japan

Director, Legal Affairs

Kensuke Mori joined Akira Foundation in 2010 as an auditor, and since then, he has helped and given legal advice to Akira Foundation.

He opened his own office as a Certified Administrative Scrivener in 2007. Inspired and motivated by Mr. Muhammad Yunus and his microcredit methods operated by Grameen Bank, he has helped young social entrepreneurs in Japan to make decisions in choosing a form of better legal entities and to found and manage their organizations.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Law at the Gakushuin University.

International Advisory Board Members

Mr. C. Jeffrey Char, Japan

President and CEO, J-Seed Ventures, Inc.

Ms. Tri Mumpuni, Indonesia

Founder and Executive Director, IBEKA

Ms. Masami Hayashi, Mexico

Managing Director, Microfinance Network

Dr. Christian Wirth, Australia

Lecturer, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University

Our Father – Akira Yokoi

“The person to act on the Level 5 leadership”

Our Roots

Naming our program after our late father captures his many characteristics, which our program vision and mission embody. During his remarkable life, Akira nurtured and empowered us, and even now, he continues to inspire us. Our program stands as a fitting tribute to him and his lasting impact. Indeed, the roots he provided us serve to support us while allowing us to grow.

History of the Name “Akira”

“Akira” is a Japanese word that means something enlightening, visionary and forward-looking. Other words commonly associated with its translation include: to bring out, to clarify, to demonstrate, to develop, to define, emerging, manifest, and visible. There are also overtones of human nature to this word: bright, clean, extravert, illuminative, shining, splendorous, vibrant, and wise.

Life of “Akira”

Our father left behind much more than just his name and its meanings. His life exceeded the very meanings of his name. He acted on “Level 5 leadership,” as Jim Collins stressed in his best-selling book, “Good to Great.” One of his hallmark feats, “the Kijan Project”[1] in Indonesia (in 1970’s at Toyota Motor Corporation), presented his most personal challenge. But it also demonstrated what one person could do to advance interweaving societal values with economic development in an emerging part of our world.

The Essence of “Akira”

Akira Yokoi’s life blended “personal humility” and “professional will”. This combination positively affected many people and societies well beyond the business world. An outpouring of his courage, determination, empathy, and generosity is still alive in our veins. “Akira Foundation” symbolizes his legacy and our will to harmonize our being with others.

“Man is only a privileged listener and respondent to existence. … We are trying to listen to the voice of Being. It is, or ought to be, a relation of existence, responsibility, custodianship, answerability to and for.”

- Heidegger

• [1] This story is abstracted from Akira Yokoi’s unpublished memoirs, originally written several years before he passed away, entitled, “Fighting the Three River Kings: Project files of Indonesia, Australia, and Europe.” (April, 2008)

History

2009

Social Innovation Scholarship (SIS), founded by Hirofumi & Atsufumi Yokoi in Tokyo, Japan on July 17
Partners with Japan Educational Exchanges and Services (JEES) in Tokyo, Japan on July 17
Selects the 1st SIS scholarship winners in Tokyo, Japan on October 23
Launches a new global website on October 27
Elects the 1st SIS Fellows in Tokyo, Japan on November 12
Akira Foundation Japan (AFJ), established by Hirofumi & Atsufumi Yokoi in Tokyo, Japan on December 11

2010

Selects the 2nd SIS scholarship winners in Tokyo, Japan on August 8
Approves the current Akira Foundation’s emblem on August 22
Elects the 2nd SIS Fellows in Tokyo, Japan on August 23
Akira-Keio SFC Social Innovation Scholarship (AXIS), founded by AFJ in Tokyo, Japan on November 11
Partners with Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) in Kanagawa, Japan on November 11

2011

Launches new Japanese website on February 7
Main Office moves to Shibuya in Tokyo, Japan on March 1
Selects the Akira-Keio SFC Social Innovation Scholarship (AXIS) winner in Tokyo, Japan on March 17
Sponsors the 1st conference on Vulnerable Filipino Migrants: Focus on Japan, held in Osaka, Japan on March 19-20
Supports the formation of a social enterprise, SEELS Co., Ltd., founded by the Center for Japanese-Filipino Families (CJFF) on May 18
Sponsors the Asia Career Seminar Series, held by JRI & AFJ in Tokyo, Japan on May 28
Selects the 3rd SIS scholarship winners in Tokyo, Japan on August 25
Hold the 1st off-site meeting of Akira Social Ventures (ASV) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on September 30

2012

Establishes Akira Social Ventures, JLT (ASV), formally registered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on January 3
Formally registers as a general incorporated association (Act No. 48 of 2006) in Tokyo, Japan, and renames as akira foundation on February 3.
Elected as a strategic partner of the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (THEWSIE), which was launched in 2006 at the United Nations, on March 12
Announces the Microfinance Tour to Lebanon on April 28
Baria Daye selected as a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum on May 4
Mr. Cesar Santoyo, President of Social Enterprise English Language School (SEELS), awarded 2012 Gawad Geny Lopez Global Bayaning Pilipino Awards in the Philippines and selected for the 1st Michinoku Entrepreneurship program in July
Selects the Akira-Keio SFC Social Innovation Scholarship (AXIS) winner in Tokyo, Japan on July 27
Coordinates and sponsors the symposium of the "Sophia University 100th Anniversary Project", "Urbanization in Africa and the Emergence of New Global Scale Issues", held in Tokyo on August 9
Becomes a strategic partner of African Centre for Cities to help create academic and social bridge between Japan and Africa on September 20
SEELS named to the list of Global Hot 100 Companies at The World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (THEWSIE) on September 25
Coordinates in collaboration with African Centre for Cities (ACC) at University of Cape Town and Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard University, and sponsors the session of the “Smarter African Cityscapes: Evading the Hype” at the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (THEWSIE) 2012, held in Boston on September 26
Funds and registers Annata Foundation in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 9
Selects the 4th SIS scholarship winners in Tokyo, Japan on November 21
Becomes the International and Regional Supporting Organization to support the international forum of MaD (Make a Difference) 2013, to be held by Hong Kong Institute of Contemporary Culture (HKICC) in Hong Kong on November 23

2013

SEELS awarded grants from World in Asia (WiA) on February 24
Elected as a strategic partner of the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (theWSIE), which was launched in 2006 at the United Nations, on April 11
Signs Memorandum of Understanding with American Councils on Promoting International Education, Social Innovation and Cultural Exchange on April 18
Cesar Santoyo selected as one of 600 entrepreneurs in Tohoku by Social Incubator Fund led by Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities (ETIC.) for his effort as the President of SEELS on April 27
Hirofumi & Atsufumi Yokoi appointed as the “TOMODACHI U.S.-Japan Youth Exchange Program” country co-directors in Japan by American Councils International Education on May 17
Financially supports the campaign activities led by Tokyo Volunteer Action Center on June 13, as do other companies including Toyota Motor Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation and Glaxo SmithKline
SEELS awarded grants from Japanese government under the project to promote creation of social business on August 9
Becomes a member of TrustLaw Connect, the Thomson Reuters Foundation's global pro bono service that connects NGOs and social enterprises with the best law firms around the world on August 22
Hirofumi & Atsufumi Yokoi attended in the World Summit of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (theWSIE) held in New York, USA, on October 9 to 11
Hirofumi & Atsufumi Yokoi named among over 30 innovators in the world by Kogan Page, a leading independent global publisher in London on December 12

2014

Agreed to continue to work together with American Councils for International Education in the TOMODACHI U.S.-Japan Youth Exchange Program on February 12
Sponsors the Philippine Studies Conference in Japan (PSCJ): Emerging Philippines: New Frontiers, Directions, Contributions, held at Kyoto University on February 28 to March 1
Elected as a strategic partner of the World Summit on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (theWSIE), which was launched in 2006 at the United Nations, on April 9
Financially supports the campaign activities led by Tokyo Volunteer Action Center on June 10, as do other companies including Toyota Motor Corporation, Mitsubishi Corporation and Glaxo SmithKline
Sponsors the program “Connect The Dots: Workshop for Future Entrepreneurs” on August 8
Organizes a seminar for a delegation from the King Prajadhipok's Institute (KPI), Thailand, on September 19
Imprements the 2014 TOMODACHI US-Japan Youth Exchange Program from November 1 to 16

Location & Contact

 HOW TAIWAN RELAUNCHED AI FOR HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT - 1987, 1993, 2001-2, 2004 2009, 2012 +++

summer 2025 help openly question grok "Huang announced a new NVIDIA office in Taiwan, reinforcing its role as a global AI hardware leader. He’s deepened ties with TSMC and Foxconn to build AI factories focused on robotics and agentic AI for manufacturing. - **Unique Aspect**: He emphasized Taiwan’s semiconductor prowess, urging it to lead in sovereign AI by integrating digital twins into production processes. #### chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

In 1956 Von Neumann's last notes were "Computer and Brain". While Neumann-Einstein-Turing world to transform humanity in line with nature's deep data science goes back to 1905 Einstein e=mcsquared, Neumann and Turing had little more than 10 post war years to design computers and data coding. Neuman anticipate neural network algorithms and at least 10**18 more tech being expoentialised by 2025 through computers chips and satellites. He advised design win-win trades. End making energy engineers nations most hated and wanted of people.

Taiwan became the epicente of what human brains could do with machine learning by betting the country on chips - see counyry's tech grandfather H Li and eg leaders of Foxconn world number 1 in advnaced manufactring conumer products and Maurice Changs ai foundry from 1987. Taiwean was also in the middle of diaspora chinese investments made mainly through british-influenced chiese fianacial centers hong knog (see eg how Li Ka Shing helped continue investment after HK return toi china) see eg intelligence griwn around singapore liee kuan yew.

Jensen Huang started nvidia 1993 to connect taiwan and american intelligence and design computing 2.0 around deep data and gaming's non linerar processing. 1993 was a good time - as moores law's accelerator negun in 1965 was waning; the world needed to choose how data and messages linked humans on worldwide webs. 

Here are some dates when emerging tech multiplied ariund seeds taiwan-valley sewed - which are AI and which AI depended on are up to you

by 1997 3 taiwan american families -yang's yahoo, tsias, as well as huangs nvidia were uniting best of pacific coast's valley-taiwan (and hk, and japan , and soon with jack ma china). This shouldnt surprise teh wordlwide web semed an extroardinary brain freedom in its first few years before advertsising media marooned it in not-always socieal good media

in 2001 steve jobs hosted 65th borthday party with fazle abed- he wanted to revisit his 1984 launch of ending big brother with the g=former shell oil engineer who had dedicated since 1972 to village women empowerment - why hadnt bangladesh shared its intelligence with world- abed said there had been a lot to do but he'd start a university iif silicon valley would start celebrating femeale engineers and opening their work to female graduates the world over; by 2002 jobs and jensen huang had started coding pixels; by 2004 y=tje yangs were invetsing in an interdiciplianr as well as female and male lac at stanfird;s engineering quad- this gave space for such women as koller founder pof moocs, fei-fei li founder of machine learning, lila inbrahim to become demis hassabis ops leader out of london, to perco=ieve human senses, as well as women The Economist first met 1982 in why not silicon valey everywhere such as mrs john doerr and condi Rice and over in berleley the soon to be nobel laureatate jennifer doudna of CRiSPR gene editing. It was 2009 huang bet the compoany on ai also starting deep learning lab at stanfird quad; it was 2012 venture capital piled in with alexnet winning fei-fei li's annual competition , it was 2015 elon musk became first co=ustomer for the biggest chip brains ever made-all the while it was the peopels of taiwan that were manufatiring the products ai plays on 

To understand how taiwan has played at least as much genius-design on nvidia's innovations as silicon valley - see nvidia annual summits both from santa clara and from taiwan. In 2025, taiwan is one of first 10 ecosystem epicenters of nvidia's 25X energy more efficient supercomputers and links to nvidi'as worldwide inception catalogue of 20000 ai startups-

 survey what taiwan hosts on suoercomputer - eg earth2.0 aiming to be locally most advanced weather alerts as well as all the deepest data of climate mapping. At the very least it is vital that peoples have these open maps not just insuraince companies. Another lead out of taian is digital twinning. It is important to note transparency and deepth of partner formation around a project such as earth2.0 Our understanding is 3 first partners were nvidia, taiwan government and teh weather companu which had been bought by IBM. IBM devotion to long term daya collection on weather is important as it is currently also a leader in quantum compiuting . It is likely that the depth of data mapping weathr calls for will one day need quantum's best. NB while nasa has pioneered spce work, it is not clear that the risks from space through 21sdt centiry is eomething american taxpayer want to be sole invetsor in - at least that seems to be demonstarted by the markets for space rocket launches.

I am not an expert on space exploration markets- here is an introductiry view from Grok3 summer 2025- I expect this may be fast chnaging and that there may be other ways of defining what sort of space race deepens either a compay's sovereignty or an nation's depending on how deep or 360 degree broad its interest in space monitoring is> However what we can be certain of - suorecompute gets connected with accurate but contimous mapping space involves if it is to be safely united for all peoples.

Subfields of Space Exploration:

1. Rocket Launching (Space Transportation)
2. In-Space Manufacturing
3. Space Agriculture
4. Nuclear Propulsion
5. Satellite Services/Maintenance
6. Space Exploration/Human Spaceflight
7. Space Tourism/Habitats

Rocket Launching: Confirmed as a subfield, critical for payload delivery [web:0, web:4].Leaders in Rocket Launching (2025):

• Companies:
  • SpaceX (USA): ~87% global upmass (2023), 96 launches, reusable Falcon 9 ($2,000/kg) [web:12, web:20].
  • Rocket Lab (USA/NZ): Small-lift leader, 50+ Electron launches, Neutron in dev [web:14, web:19].
  • ULA (USA): Vulcan for NASA/DOD, 100+ missions since 2006 [web:8, web:22].
  • Arianespace (France/EU): Ariane 6 debut 2024, historic 50% market share [web:9, web:13].
• Governments:
  • USA (NASA, DOD): SLS, EELV, $6.8B private contracts [web:5, web:10].
  • Russia (Roscosmos): 18 launches (2023), Soyuz for ISS [web:12].
  • China (CNSA): 60+ launches, Long March for Tiangong [web:12, web:20].
  • India (ISRO): 7 launches, cost-effective PSLV ($15,000/kg) [web:12].

Measurement Criteria: Launch frequency (e.g., 223 global launches, 2023), payload capacity (e.g., SpaceX’s 1,600 tons), innovation (reusability, $/kg), and contracts (NASA, DOD) [web:12, web:14, web:20].

 These days factories which blend human and robot inputs are most smartly designed with a virtual twin accompanying the first real factory. That way safety can be simulated; and flexible redesign of interactions between humans and robots achieved. The robots collect all the data. This also makes replicating smart factory franchises to other nations practical. For example foxconn;s digtal twins will likely set the benchamrk as will hong kongs where the world most affordable blended medica cenetre is being built as announced at HKUST 2024

We would be surprised if taiwan cities are the first to sewe humanoids out populating humns doing all the repetitive work of city cleaning etc. Please note agentic ai without robot bodies will come first beuase physical ai needs a lot of repetitive learnning to be added. Taiwan is already nearly to in high school maths and it will be no surprise if its first to transform school maximising role ai agents can augment both teachers and stydent roles.