Ichiro Yamaguchi Editor & Author

Ikujiro Nonaka is Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University. He has won wide-ranging recognition for his work in developing the theory of Knowledge-based Management. He was also appointed a Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar of the University of California in 1997 and was elected to the Fellows Group of the Academy of Management in the United States in 2002, becoming the first Asian scholar among the Group’s members. He was Dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, from 1997 to 2000. Previously, he was Professor (1982–95) and Director (1995–98) at the Institute of Business Research, Hitotsubashi University.

Ichiro Yamaguchi is Professor Emeritus at Tōyō University in Tokyo. He taught Philosophy and Japanese in Department of Economic Science at the University of Witten-Herdecke in Germany (1990–94) and was  Professor of Philosophy at Tōyō University until 2013.

Yuko Ishihara  (translator) is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Global Liberal Arts at Ritsumeikan University. Her research interest lies in the intersection of phenomenology and modern Japanese philosophy.