Future Corporation

Yasufumi Kanemaru has served as:
Member of the Cabinet Secretariat’s Council on Investments for the Future, member of the Council for the Realization of Work Style Reform, member of the METI New Industrial Structure Committee, member of the IoT Support Committee of the METI IoT Acceleration Lab, member of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Expert Committee for Strengthening the Insurer Function and Achieving High Quality Medical Care in an Age of Data Health, Vice President of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, Representative Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of Nippon Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA), and specially appointed Vice-Chair of the Japan Handball Association.

Kunihito Ishibashi is Future’s founding member. Based on the principle that “one should develop what the market lacks,” Ishibashi has constantly engaged in a wide range of development work, from middleware development to hardware development. Currently, as Chief Security Officer & Chief Information Officer, Ishibashi is committed to managing technical, organizational, and customer information, and further strengthening security through IT apparatus. Also, he supervises Future’s basic research, including with respect to the technology base and methods necessary for medium-to-long term growth.

Joined Future System Consulting (currently Future) in 1998. Engaged in numerous projects, mainly in the distribution service industry, as an IT consultant. Left the company in 2012 to care for her family, and after working at Microsoft Japan, rejoined the company in 2017. President and Chief Executive Officer, Future Architect, Inc. in 2019 and led the IT consulting business. Assumed her current position in 2024, in charge of our alliance strategy and business development. Yuki is promoting the creation of an environment in which employees can work in various ways, so that all employees, not only women, can choose their ideal careers and play an active role in their job.

Hiromi Yamaoka has wide-ranging experiences in the Bank of Japan, the central bank in Japan, and worked in various policy-related positions including the Representative in Paris, the Head of Economic Outlook Group and the Head of Large-Bank Surveillance. He also assumed key duties in many international policy forums such as the member of Markets Committee (MC) and the member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), as well as the member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). He published many books, papers and articles on economic and legal issues. He is an attorney at law in New York.

Until 2012, Akira Kawamoto worked in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and held a number of government posts, including head of Research Office of the Trade Policy Bureau, head of Electricity Market Division, Cabinet Office Counsellor (science and technology policy), and Cabinet Secretariat Counsellor (responsible for the National Commission on Social Security). He also worked in the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation in Japan, as well as OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). In addition, he has published a number of books, including “Why Japan cannot carry out reform?” and “Regulatory Reform.”

A wealth of work experience in corporate legal affairs, litigation, intellectual property, compliance, etc. In 2003, became an in-house lawyer. While concurrently conducting a wide range of non-profit activities at the in-house lawyers’ association, responsible for lobbying activities as a government council member and corporate management. Also responsible for corporate diversity promotion activities, including the translation of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's “Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life's Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union”