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Kenichi Watanabe (Narrativist / Value Designer)
- Author of " Planetaria " and " Narrativism "
- Cabinet Office Cool Japan Producer
- Director of the Cool Japan Public-Private Partnership Platform (CJPF).
- Regional Revitalization Evangelist (Cabinet Office)
- Expert Committee Member for the National Tax Agency’s Project to Promote Overseas Expansion of Japanese Alcoholic Beverages
- Visiting Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts
- Visiting Professor at Tohoku University of Art & Design
- Specially Appointed Professor at Japan Pharmaceutical University
- Researcher at Keio University Graduate School of System Design and Management (SDM)
- Fellow for multiple municipalities including Tochigi City, Nasu Town, Ise City, Tarumi City, Tamura City, Taketomi Town, and Ito City
- General Producer of the Tochigi Prefecture Official Event at Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai
- Tochigi Future Ambassador
- General Producer of Manga Africa.
- CEO of XPJP Inc. and Tatsumoto Inc
- Representative Director of Space SAGA Association
- Planetary Design Director at Space Data Inc
- Culinary License (National Qualification in Japan)
After working at KDDI, The Asahi Shimbun, and the Cabinet Secretariat, he became independent as a Value Designer focused on solving social issues. He produces social projects both in Japan and internationally, centered on public-private partnerships across fields such as regional revitalization, Cool Japan strategy, inbound tourism, education, food culture, and the space industry.
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