He worked as a software engineer and a tech magazine editor in Japan. In 2014, he came to study gerontology at Portland Community College.
Executive Director
Co-Founder & President
Before starting the Encorepreneur Cafe, he had visited Portland from Japan many times and learned a lot from Portlanders who he had met and talked to.
Co-founder & CEO of Shinko Fukushikai (Japan)
Co-Founder & Chair
She started affordable nursing homes for middle-class families in Japan in the early 1980s by renovating vacant buildings such as former company dormitories.