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This is the application “tap*rap transformation” for children's learning, which my
group just created and that is now being sold on the App-store and the Android market.
Children can learn words by touching and exploring what comes up on the tablet.
This application also allows you to create your own characters, and thus stimulates
children's creativity. This is application converges entertainment and learning. I am
also privately developing this kind of digital content.
More than 30 years ago I formed a punk rock band called “Shonen Knife”. I served
as their director and also played instruments supporting them. Shonen Knife showed
that everyone could create and play punk rock on the world stage even though they
are from the Far East.
However, I gave up music understanding that my mission was not to be a cre-
ator but a producer and a supporter for creative people. I then joined the Japanese
government and created IT policy for 14 years.
In order to create a society and the environment for talented creative people, I
made policies supporting digital technology, creative activity, and digital business.
After graduating from the government, I spent 4 years as a Visiting Professor at
MIT Media Laboratory. My main project was to establish a research center focusing
on children and their creativity called “MIT Okawa Center”. Then I moved to Stanford
