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I am Shigenori (Shig) Matsushita, a businessman with computer science background.
I worked for Toshiba Corporation
Headquarters for 34 years and a half, to reach the VP standing, and for 3,000-employee Toshiba
Information Systems Corporation for 3 years as Executive VP responsible
for software and systems business groups. Then I worked for an American
start-up company, "Wink Communications", for 5 years
as President of Wink Japan. Next I worked for 3 years for a venture capital company, Seibu Shinkin Capital (西武しんきんキャピタル). Although I have retired from the full time job in 2006, I am a visiting professor in Chubu University, directors of boards in DDS Corp. and in Luke 19 Co., Ltd.
Born in Tokyo and brought up in a seaside town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, the west end of Honshu, I graduated from University of Tokyo with BS in Electrical Engineering in '59 to join Toshiba as a computer engineer. As a Fulbright exchange student, I studied for a year in University of Illinois in '62-'63 to get MS and later I was bestowed with Doctor of Engineering degree from University of Tokyo in '74 for a thesis on a crosstalk theory of digital signals.
I feel very much obliged to American people who made it possible for me to study in the States when Japan was still poor. In return, I tried to play an interpreter between two countries and established about a dozen business relationships between American corporations and Toshiba.
I have rather diversified interests in; travel, walking in the nature, "haiku" poems, oil painting, photos, composing songs, astronomy, and surfing the Internet, of course.
Information Processing Society of Japan introduces me as one of the 69 pioneers of computers in Japan, in English and in Japanese. 情報処理学会による紹介
I am Sumie (Sue) Matsushita, a mother of two sons. The elder son, Koshi, and the younger son, Aiki, are both working in Bay Area, California in the IT engineering field. Hence we, devoted happy couple, are alone in Hachioji, Tokyo. I and Shig made friends with each other in '57 when we were
students, and we celebrated the 45th wedding anniversary in '09.
I and Shig enjoyed a 67-day 2/3 world cruise, except the Pacific, in 2002 and a 48-day cruise over the Pacific in 2007 on American ships, where we were almost the only Japanese.
I majored in English literature and had worked in The Imperial Hotel of Tokyo before we got married. I associate with many international friends resident here and abroad.
From time to time since '86, we spend time in a mountain cottage in a larch wood at the halfway up Mt. Yatsugatake at Mitsui-no-Mori (三井の森八ヶ岳中央高原), 200 km west of Tokyo, at the altitude of 1,400 m. The temperature there is about the same as in Sapporo, Hokkaido or Berlin, or in average 7 deg C (13 deg F) cooler and colder than in Tokyo. There bloom many wild flowers, unique to highlands, in the summer. It is my pleasure each year to find flower plants as early as possible in the spring and cut weeds around them many times to wait for the flowers.
In December '00, another resort house of ours was completed at Izu Kogen (伊東市伊豆高原), 100 km south-west of Tokyo downtown, on the east seashore of Izu Peninsula. Brought up in the mountain country, I have strong aspiration for the sea, and I appreciate changing colors and appearance of the sea as watched from the house. I like warmer winter and early spring there.
At my home at Hachioji, I am raising many floriculture flowers like orchids. I like to have my cooking appreciated and, as a kind of hobby, I have an English class in Tokyo.
