Tetsuya Sogo (十河哲也)

<  Starting the New Fiscal Year 2026 > As April begins, the cherry blossoms in Osaka’s Expo ’70 Commemorative Park are now in full bloom, drawing many visitors who come to enjoy hanami. Their breathtaking beauty seems to lift my spirits as we enter a new fiscal year. It has been exactly 30 years since I set my sights beyond engineering, pursued management studies at the Kellogg School of Management, and graduated. I feel truly grateful that even now, three decades later, I can continue to be involved in corporate management while enjoying the journey of life.

March 18, 2026: I visited Kyoto University for the first time in a while to attend the final lecture of Professor Tetsuo Kitani, who has been teaching Innovation Management Science (IMS) and will be retiring this March. I had the opportunity to hear highly insightful perspectives on the challenges of fostering entrepreneurship in Japan, grounded in his many years of practical experience. Professor Kitani is an old acquaintance of mine, and I have fond memories of delivering a lecture at Kyoto University at his request on the global expansion of Japanese Monozukuri culture. The Growth Strategy Headquarters of Kyoto University, newly established to integrate the functions of research outcome utilization and fundraising, seeks to create new value by serving as a strategic interface between the university and society. At the request of Professor Kitani (木谷), I had the opportunity to deliver lectures on Japanese Monozukuri culture to government-sponsored international students at Kyoto Univ...