Turning dialogue into a practical tool for navigating culture, conflict, and coexistence:

Eddie works at the crossroads where cultures meet, technologies emerge, and dialogue becomes a practical tool for coexistence. His work is grounded in a simple but demanding question: how can people with different histories, values, and ways of thinking engage one another constructively -- especially when the stakes are high?

Over the past three decades, Eddie has developed rare cross-domain expertise that weaves together intercultural diplomacy, structured dialogue, and technology-to-society translation. Whether bridging U.S.–Japan historical and psychological perspectives, designing bilingual, rules-based discussions at scale, or helping institutions make sense of complex innovation systems, his focus has remained consistent: turning dialogue into something operational. For Eddie, empathy without structure is fragile, and structure without empathy is hollow. His work lives in the balance between the two.

Born in Japan and educated in the United States, Eddie’s career naturally unfolded between cultures. Early on, he found himself drawn to environments where technical complexity and human systems intersect. As a Research Fellow at the Boston University Center for International Relations, he contributed to NASA’s Man–System Integration Standards while working at the Johnson Space Center, examining how humans and advanced systems must be designed together. He later served as a Senior Analyst at the world’s first space business consulting firm, facilitating U.S.–Japan aerospace joint ventures at a time when technological collaboration required not only engineering precision, but deep cultural trust.

That same blend of rigor and cultural fluency shaped his work in large-scale technology transfer. Eddie established the International Maglev Technology Center in Boston and managed multiple U.S. Department of Transportation initiatives overseeing high-speed transportation exchanges between Japan and the United States. He also founded a U.S.-based R&D center for a leading Japanese architecture and engineering firm, creating collaborative programs that connected industry with top academic institutions. One of his most public-facing projects involved working with Yoshishio Kyotani -- often called the father of superconducting MAGLEV technology -- to bring a cutting-edge transportation system from an automaker’s R&D center to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, making advanced innovation accessible to the public imagination.

Alongside this work, Eddie has been deeply engaged in entrepreneurship and global innovation ecosystems. He has held key roles in multiple data-driven IT and internet technology ventures that were later invested in or acquired by major global corporations, including Oracle, Mitsubishi Corporation, and Colt Technology. Since 2001, he has also served as Senior Managing Director and Co-Director of a Boston-based think tank focused on global policy, social justice, and cross-cultural innovation.

Yet even as his work moved through technology, policy, and institutions, dialogue remained the through-line. Eddie is the founder and principal of ƐI-Terrace, a global nonprofit platform dedicated to peace and democratic resilience through structured, bilingual dialogue. As of December 2025, he has facilitated more than 450 bilingual discussions, bringing together participants across generations, cultures, and political perspectives. These conversations are not free-form exchanges, but carefully designed spaces where structure, narrative, and psychological insight help people listen more deeply—and disagree more productively.

Since 2022, this commitment has extended into humanitarian practice. Eddie leads an ongoing initiative exploring the role of music and creative collaboration in trauma recovery for survivors of conflict in Ukraine, Russia, the Middle East, and Africa. The work reflects his belief that healing, like dialogue, often begins beyond words.

As a writer and researcher, Eddie has published extensively in both English and Japanese. From 2001 to 2011, he authored 111 investigative articles for JETRO’s Venture Business Front Line, examining global startups, innovation trends, and the human dynamics behind technological change. His writing has also appeared in professional papers, academic publications, and major magazines and newspapers in Japan and the United States. Full list of publications available upon request.

He is also a long-term researcher of the late Professor Masao Kunihiro, the renowned cultural anthropologist often called the “god of simultaneous interpretation.” A first-prize winner of the All Japan English Oratorical Contest, Eddie has curated and analyzed Kunihiro’s complete body of work, including unpublished materials, and continues to apply these insights to bilingual dialogue and intercultural education.

Outside his professional life, Eddie studied Indian classical music under Daud Rahbar and is an avid pianist—an influence that quietly shapes his approach to rhythm, listening, and collaboration. Across disciplines and decades, his work reflects a single through-line: helping people meet complexity not with fear or abstraction, but with structure, curiosity, and humanity.