Area Advisor
Yoichi SHINTANI
Senior Manager, Technology Strategy Office, Hitachi, Ltd., Research & Development Group
Expertise/fields of interest
Using new information and communications media that take advantage of the internet and electronics technology to attempt to solve social problems. Working to foster such media as businesses and disseminate them throughout society.
Profile
In 1977, Mr. Shintani joined the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., where he worked on research and development of mainframe computer architecture. He stayed at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984-1985, and at Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto Research Center in 1992-1993. He then stayed in Hitachi America, R&D Division, and established a research laboratory for data mining and its application to hospital management systems during 1996-2003. After returning to Japan, he was engaged in industry-academia-government collaboration before moving to his current position in April 2011.
Message
I began addressing issues related to an aging society after hearing Dr. Akiyama speak at the University of Tokyo lecture series on research and development visions. I have been participating in the University of Tokyo industry-academia consortium on gerontology since FY 2009. I have been joined by like-minded personnel from my company and its research institutes. Our aim is to better understand the issues and find solutions to which our company can contribute. Now that I have been named an Area Advisor, I hope to support from a business perspective the generation of useful results for the sake of realizing a fulfilling aging society not only for the elderly generation, but for younger generations as well.
