Tomonari Nomura
Japan
CAREER Enrolled in April 2010; Completed master’s degree in March 2012
In my twenties, I set up a couple of new businesses. I experienced success and failure and found that being a manager and entrepreneur is extremely hard. I realized that I wanted to be part of the new media field that is impacting society. KMD was one of my motivations in the search for a new career.
Entering KMD, I wanted to work on projects that would be good businesses after graduation, however, when I joined a project led by Prof. Ichiya Nakamura, I realized that research on digital textbooks could have a great impact on society. The project was about organizing a consortium to develop digital media environments for primary school education. I never had an interest in this field before, but my indifference was because the Japanese educational system uses a one-size-fits-all approach, rather than supporting individual differences. At the same time, I developed a platform of distributing music as a personal research project.
Right now, I work for a US research company and analyze digital media and mobile phone markets. I work together with other analysts overseas and conduct projects abroad.
(This article was written in March 2013.)