Ultimate Sentences
My dad’s from Ehime and my mom’s from Hiroshima
so I’ve got roots in the Chugoku–Shikoku region.
My dad worked for an insurance company, and my mom was a full-time homemaker.
Because of my dad’s job transfers, I moved around a lot.
I was born in Hiroshima,
went to kindergarten in Saitama,
spent the early years of elementary school in Shimane,
the later years in Osaka,
went to junior high and high school in Ehime,
and studied at university in Fukuoka.
[University]
I graduated from Kyushu University, School of Design, Department of Art and Information Design.
My major was called the Department of Art and Information Design.
It gave me a broad overview of media creation and information technology.
The program focused more on hands-on projects than lectures, which I liked.
For example, I had classes where I made a 3D animation, a documentary, did some basic programming, worked with sensors, and even made things like arts and crafts.
[Work]
I'm a software engineer
Right now, I'm working on a project for the construction industry.
These days, construction companies usually create blueprints on computers.
And they want to make that process more efficient.
For example, there’s a part where they have to label different building components — like putting “door” on doors and “window” on windows.
Doing that over and over is really tedious, so they’re looking at using AI to automate it.
I'm developing a software extension to make that possible.
[How I got here]
When I was in university, I did an internship at a company and met a guy from the Philippines.
About five years later, after I had left that company, he reached out saying he'd started a company in the Philippines and asked if I was interested in joining.
I said yes, and that's how I ended up here.
[Turning point]
When I was in university, I worried about myself and my future because I felt like I didn’t have anything I really wanted to do. Toward the end of my junior year, a friend of mine who was interning at a career-related company lent me a book called The Mindset for Changing Careers.
The book said that most people actually don’t have a clear passion or dream—and that it’s totally fine. That line lifted a weight off my shoulders, because I’d always felt like I should have a clear goal. Instead, the book emphasized that people usually have an image of the kind of person they want to become, and that the hints for that are hidden in the life they’ve lived so far.
It suggested one way to figure out the person I wanted to become: give yourself a label.
So I gave myself the label “Creative Dragon”—a super creative individual.
Suddenly, everything felt clearer, like a fog had lifted. From that moment, it felt like my new life had begun. Now, I can decide what to do based on whether it brings me closer to that version of myself.
[My Core Values]
Becoming the person I want to be
Working toward the world I like
Living free
Staying mentally and intellectually strong
Being cool
Doing what feels meaningful
I thought about the meaning of life,
and realized there's no meaning at all.
I'm just a bunch of atoms,
a product of long, long natural selection.
If life has no meaning,
that's honestly sad and kind of frustrating.
But alright then—if that's how it is,
I'll be the one who decides what my life means.
If I'm going to die anyway, I'd rather leave something behind.
I want to do something fun, something interesting.
So I'll keep gathering whatever seems useful,
and keep living my life today, too.