Former Ricoh Co., Ltd. / Technical Advisor, Japanese Standards Association
He joined Ricoh Co., Ltd. in 1984. Since then, he has been involved in quality management and reliability control within the company, as well as promoting and disseminating statistics.
My first encounter with JMP was in 1995. I was captivated by its high quality and excellent handling, and I've been a heavy user ever since.
Subsequently, he held organizational positions such as Head of the Quality Management Promotion Office in the Quality Division. From 2010, he served as a leader in business development, including Head of the Business Planning Office in the Eco-Solutions Division and Director of the Smart Facilities Business Center. From 2019, he served as Head of the Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Promotion Office in the HC Business Division. From April 2023, he served as Head of the Ethics Management Office in the Technology Management Center, promoting ELSI awareness and dissemination, and as an ethics review committee member, he reviewed research plans and conducted support and awareness-raising activities. From April 2025, he began working as an expert in the Ethics Management Group of the Technology Management Office in the same center.
Outside of Ricoh, he has served as an editorial board member of the Japan Society for Quality Control since 2002, received the Nikkei Quality Control Literature Award in 1999 and 2013 (co-authored), and has been Vice President of the Japan Society for Quality Control since October 2024. He has also received the Quality Control Promotion Achievement Award (2018) and the Reliability Society Excellent Column Award (2020).
His main areas of expertise are statistical quality control and reliability engineering. His major publications include "23 Lectures on Statistical Methods Learned Through Anscombe-esque Numerical Examples," "Eye-Opening Statistics" (2017), "Eye-Opening Multivariate Analysis" (2019), "Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning" (2021), and a guide to JMP.
