Ikuta started his business ventures in Shinjuku's Golden Gai District with a small rental property. His company is currently expanding with its flagship brand, “Unbelievable NIBOSHI Ramen NAGI.” Following the managerial philosophy of "bringing the world together through noodles", the company sells its products under the brand name “Ramen Nagi BUTAO” worldwide, with stores located in countries such as the Philippines, the United States, Taiwan, China, and Singapore.
The company also operates their own soup and noodle production factories and is well-versed in manufacturing & product development. "Bringing about a gust of wind to the calm" - those words serve as a motto to help foster unconventional ideas and technologies that continue to surprise and delight customers using innovative ramen and top-of-the-line service as a unified force.

After becoming involved in internet technology from his school days, Gaku Ueda had early involvement in the development of web services during the rise of the world wide web. Moving to the United States in 2001, Ueda has been involved in the development of large-scale web and mobile services such as Yahoo! Groups, Google Maps and Twitter as both a software engineer and a member of management.
In 2013 Ueda founded MODE Inc., a cloud platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) in Silicon Valley and is currently the CEO of the company.
Ueda graduated from the Waseda University Graduate School of Science and Engineering in the Department of Information Science.

Born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1977, Erika Ogawa spent her childhood in Germany, France, and the United States. She graduated from Toho Women's High School and Aoyama Gakuin University, where she acquired a Business Administration degree.
In an effort to become the bridge that conveys the wonders of Japan to the world, she signed a contract with Guiness World Records (UK) in 2008. Not only did she work as an official Guinness World Records certified member, she was also dispatched to Japan alone for the first two years with the responsibility of conducting market research and building the startup.
In 2012, she became the representative of the Japan office and was the youngest member of the UK headquarters leadership team as well as the first Asian executive.
In April 2013, the “Guinness World Records @ Machi Okoshi Nippon” was launched, connecting with town development schemes by challenging world records using local specialty products – spreading to 47 prefectures.
In addition, as a new endeavor, the “Takumi Nippon” project is underway to support the transmission of Japanese technical skills and craftsmanship under the title of “the best in the world”.
She is also a senior accelerator of World in Tohoko, a corporate association that supports the management of social entrepreneurs. Finally, she is the mother of one child.

Testsuya Kawanishi has been active in the fields of electrical engineering and electronics since his school days. He is currently engaged in research on hardware supporting optical communications at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. He is developing technologies related to ultra-high-speed optical fiber communications in cooperation with the rest of the laboratory and other collaborating researchers in Japan and overseas.
As an individual researcher he specializes in the field of optical modulation, or converting electrical signals into optical signals. He has pursued his research with a style that fixates not just on speed but stunning accuracy as well. One area in which this high accuracy has been leveraged is with its application to radio astronomy, utilized as the standard light signal for the world's largest radio telescope, ALMA.
Recently, this technology has been applied to radar systems for monitoring runway and track safety. From his own experience, he feels it is more important to have an attractive theme that can impress a lot of colleagues, rather than the innovative technology being immediately useful.

Yoichi Sato became the first General Manager of TikTok in Japan in January 2020.
Prior to TikTok, he worked at Quora as a business development consultant.
From 2006-2017 Sato worked at Google Inc., News and Publishing in the Asia Pacific region and led Product Partnerships, including Google News, Google Books/Play Books, and Google Scholar with responsibilities for building relationships with the major content partners.
Prior to this, he worked in business development affairs at Microsoft and Toyo Keizai Inc.

Medical Doctor, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1945.
Katsuya Takasu graduated from Showa University School of Medicine and completed his doctoral course at the Graduate School of Medicine. While studying at graduate school he also studied overseas (Italy & Germany) to learn the latest in cosmetic surgery.
Many of the world's latest cosmetic surgery technologies, such as liposuction surgery, were introduced to Japan by him.
Takasu also received the Dark Navy Blue Ribbon for Philanthropy and the The Japanese Red Cross Society's Gold Medal for Merit. Has published books through Fushosha Publishing and Takarajimasha publishing.

Born in 1975. In 2003, Tomotaka Takahashi graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University and founded Robo Garage, becoming the first venture in Kyoto University. His representative works include Weekly Robi, Ropid, and FT.
In 2013, he succeeded in sending the world's first communication robot, “Kirobo”, into space. He also won the RoboCup World Tournament for five consecutive years.
He was selected as TIME Magazine's “Best Inventions of 2004” and one of Popular Science Magazine's “33 People Changing the Future”. Guinness World Record holder for achievements demonstrating Evolta, including a climb out of the Grand Canyon and a successful completion of the "24 hours in Le Mans" challenge.
Takashi is currently the CEO of Robo Garage Co., Ltd.; Specially Appointed Associate Professor of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo; Visiting Professor of Osaka Electro-Communication University; and Advisor of Human Kids Science Robot School.

In 1995, Hiroshi Harada joined the Communications Research Laboratory of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (currently the National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, NICT).
Since then, he has engaged in wireless communication systems, systems R&D and standardization for 19 years (including being a postdoctoral fellow at Delft Institute of Technology in the Netherlands, and director of NICT Singapore Wireless Laboratory).
Specifically, he worked on Software-defined Radio (SDR), which converts wireless communication systems through software. He has been engaged in the research and development of cognitive wireless technology that searches for and communicates with available frequencies depending on a given signal's usage situation. He is also involved with the formulation of wireless standards as a member of The United States IEEE1900.4, 802.11, 802.15, and 802.22 committees. He is chairman of the United States IEEE1900 and vice chairman of IEEE802.15.4m, 1900.4, ANSI / TIA-TR51.
Harada is a board member of the WhiteSpace Alliance in the United States, the SDR forum in the United States, and the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance in the United Kingdom, and is promoting widespread use of their technologies.
Recently, R&D on wireless devices for next-generation smart meters and smart sensors was undertaken, the results of which were standardized in IEEE802.15.4g. In addition, he established the Wi-SUN Alliance, an international standard certification body for systems using this standardization technology. The communication specifications of this alliance are adapted into TEPCO's next-generation smart meters.
Since April 2014, he has been a professor of communication information systems at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, where he has been conducting research and development of fifth-generation mobile communication systems (5G).

Tomoe Makino has been responsible for product development and user growth of the Japanese versions of AOL, Google, YouTube, & Twitter. From 2016 to 2020, he was a Representative Director at Trip Advisor and is formerly the CSO of Good Eat Company, Inc. He started his current position in January 2022.
In addition, he is the President of META Tourism Promotion Institute, the digital strategy advisor to the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), and is a member of the expert committee for the promotion of tourism in Tokyo.

Yukihiro Matsumoto was born in 1965 and graduated from the University of Tsukuba, Third Cluster of Colleges, College of Information Science.
Matsumoto began with the design of the object-oriented programming language in 1993, “Ruby”, released as free open source software in 1995. Today, it is one of the most used programming languages in the world. He has many titles, such as Fellow at Rakuten Technical Research Institute and at Network Applied Communication Laboratory.
Matsumoto is a global programmer born in Japan, known in the developer community as “Matz”, and is the president of the Ruby Association.
Author of “Matsumoto Yukihiro: The World of Code” (Nikkei BP) and others.