Mission
Betting on the potential of culture as a common language and acting as an interpreter of values,
we overcome the boundaries and barriers that stand between people, such as countries, regions, and times, to solve the problems of human society.
Purpose
By positioning cultural decline as a "social problem" and identifying issues and their solutions,
we will create the soil for society to value culture. Crossing the border between Japanese and foreign cultures will foster a sense of kinship that transcends national borders.
Member
Rep: Yuki Tokunaga
Founder of Culpedia
Work for Sumiji Golf Co.
Affiliate Researcher, Research Open Laboratory for Emergent Strategies (ROLES), Institute for Advanced Study, The University of Tokyo
Born in July 1990. Graduated from Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics. Fluent in Japanese, English, and Russian. After working as an English-Russian interpreter and an announcer for the Russian national broadcaster Sputnik, she joined Mitsui & Co. in 2015. At Mitsui, he spent four and a half years in overseas business development of steel products and two years studying abroad in Israel before being transferred to the in-house think tank, Mitsui Bussan Institute for Strategic Studies, Inc. During his time at the general trading company, he was in charge of a total of 100 countries in regions including East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, North America, Central America, the Middle East, and Africa. He will retire at the end of July 2024.
He has also participated in Y7/Y20, the official adjunct to the G7 and G20 Summits, serving as the Japan Representative to the Y7 Ise-Shima Summit in 2016, Chair of the Y20 Osaka Summit in 2019 (agenda: Environment and Economy), and Special Envoy to the Y7 Hiroshima Summit Co-chair of G7/G20 Youth Japan from 2023 to 2024.
He has written articles for Shinchosha, Diamond, Bungei Shunju, Kodansha, and The Mainichi (Mainichi Shimbun English edition).He has written more than 50 articles.
He has visited more than 80 countries. To realize cross-cultural exchanges, he aims to be a language interpreter and a “values interpreter.”
Organization
Organization: Culpedia
Establishment: August 2020