Joint General ManagerSumitomo Mitsui Trust Group
Professional Experience
2020–present Joint General Manager, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group
2017–2018 President & Representative Director, ReMark Japan
2015–2017 Department Manager, Digital UX Planning, AXA General Insurance (AXA Direct Japan)
2008–2015 Division Manager/Web Manager, Systems Division, Aflac Insurance Service. Team Lead, Direct Banking, Shinsei Bank
1993–2008 Assistant Manager, NEC Design & Promotion
Education
MBA, Aoyama Business School (2010–2012)
BA, International Christian University (1993)
Selected Presentations
NEC i-expo (2006)
UX-Meet-Up, AXA Germany (2016)
IA Summit, Canada—poster (2017)
Yahoo! Japan (2017)
J-Money interview (2018)
Join this informal, visual, and interactive session and explore the posters at UXPA International 2026. During this session, attendees will be able to move from poster to poster and engage with each speaker to hear more about the speakers’ work and ideas. This session consists of posters on a variety of topics including career development, […]
Regulated industries silo designers. We report a cross-bank UX network in Japan that convenes practitioners under compliance-safe norms (e.g., Chatham House Rule, no competitive intel). In discovery sessions, designers highlighted: constrained career paths, tool-centric drift, uneven AI ethics, and difficulty articulating human value to business. We piloted three tracks: (1) Career & Craft Clinics; (2) […]