Personal

Born in 2005 in Fujisawa, Japan. Living in Dubai.

I went to Eiko Gakuen, a Catholic school in Kamakura, and then to The University of Tokyo, where I study law. At the start of my second year I moved to Dubai to join a startup and spent a year there, surrounded by investors and founders.

Now I run a startup in Dubai, working on Reals, Dive Dubai and rentalfinder.ae. When I am in Tokyo, I live in a share house with friends from university.

Timeline

2005

Born in Fujisawa, Kanagawa

A beach town an hour south of Tokyo.

2018–2024

Eiko Gakuen

Six years at a Catholic boys' school in Kamakura. Basketball, President of the school festival committee, volunteering.

2024

The University of Tokyo

Law major.

2025

Moved to Dubai

Joined a startup run by an alumnus of my school and spent about a year there.

2026

Dubai and Tokyo

Running a startup in Dubai. In Tokyo, I live in a share house with friends from university.

Books, manga, film

Growing up I read Makoto Shiina's Gaku Monogatari, borrowed from my mother, plus Keigo Higashino's Galileo series, Tokuya Higashigawa and Hiroshi Mori's The Perfect Insider.

Manga: SLAM DUNK, Black Jack, Space Brothers, NARUTO, DEATH NOTE, Bakuman, Hikaru no Go, Gaku.

Film: Catch Me If You Can, The Wolf of Wall Street, Interstellar, and most of Studio Ghibli.

People I look up to

Elon Musk / Peter Thiel / Mark Zuckerberg / Shohei Ohtani / Rui Hachimura / ONE OK ROCK

Visited so far

  • - Indonesia (Bali)
  • - Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Malacca)
  • - Brunei
  • - South Korea (Seoul)
  • - UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ras Al Khaimah)
  • - Sri Lanka
  • - Philippines (Cebu)
  • - China (Qingdao)
  • - Saudi Arabia (Jeddah)
  • - United States (New York, San Francisco)
  • - Oman (Muscat)
  • - Singapore

Contact

Want to talk? My X DMs are open.

@tk__jpn

I would especially like to hear from

  • - Founders
  • - iOS engineers
  • - AI and machine learning engineers
  • - People who can do GTM for consumer apps
  • - Influencers and content creators
  • - People who love events and live shows, or have run them
  • - Angel investors and VCs
  • - Alumni of Japan's big tech startups
  • - University and graduate students
  • - People into hackathons, run clubs, or HYROX
  • - People who want to work at a startup in Dubai

Elsewhere

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