is a Japanese

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and author of the

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and personal management book ''Future Notes: The Open Road''.

Entrepreneurship

Watanabe is the founder and CEO of ISFnet Inc., a

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-based integrated

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company. He has pioneered the adoption of

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service standards in the IT sector.

Philanthropy

In 2010, Watanabe established Future Dream Achievement, an NPO aimed at providing education, training, and employment, and advocating

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Bibliography

* (2008), Magazine House, Tokyo,

References

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