When I was in elementary school 5th grade
My father worked too much and I got cerebral hemorrhage
I became bedridden due to half-conceit.
At that time
I thought I’d be a doctor when I grow up
I studied hard.
And I was able to enroll at the university called Jichi Medical University
That college is
You do not have to pay a tuition fee.
You can have living expenses.
However, after graduation I return to the locality In my case it is Shizuoka prefecture
Regional medical care
And remote medical care
Do you understand that everyone is remote?
In the mountains
It is a place where there are not many doctors
So I have to work for 9 years
Why did you choose a doctor?
I did not want to bother my parents
That’s because of that simple reason
And graduated from medical school
I am in the northern part of Hamamatsu city
A place called Sakuma cho, a small town in the mountain
I transferred to a small hospital Sakuma Hospital
Is it an obligation to exchange for tuition?
30 years old There must be the greatest growth so far
As a doctor who has to learn the most advanced medical science
When I was 30 years old
Going to a small hospital in the mountain
To be honest it was not true
And at the beginning of his assignment
I felt it was quite long for 4 years
40%
Please think about this number for a moment
Do you know what number this is? 40%
Actually Sakuma town I was assigned to back then 20 years ago from now
The aging rate was 40%
The aging rate is the proportion of people over 65 years old in the total population
Sakuma-cho with an aging rate of 40%
There are many senior citizens
Because half of the population is older than 65 years old
But this 40% is very important
Actually in 2050
Japan’s average aging rate will be 40%
Currently it is 27%
Even at 27% Japan has a high world population aging rate
And after about 30 years it will be 40%
2050 40%
At that time “back to the future”
Although the movies were popular
I thought at that time.
Oh, perhaps I ride in a time machine
He came to Japan in 2050 and came to the future and is doing medicine
So thinking so very worthwhile
I was able to do medical treatment
And
Although I thought it was long for the first 4 years
“When I live” The old people said well
While living it is not it
It’s getting better and more comfortable
why? That’s why
Please look at this smile
It’s beautiful, is not it
This is the residents In Sakuma-cho
It is to the people of the residents I did it really well
I said “family doctor” “family doctor”
It was a family doctor who examined all the family members
Indeed family family wear
I had a relationship with residents
And this is also the fate of the family doctor though
A lot of people
I took care of death
I think that it probably exceeded 100 people over four years
I was 30 years old then
Of course it is a job as a doctor
Everyday every day
To say that you take care of the elderly
There was something very sad
But inside
I have already gone to the other world – I went to heaven
Patients taught me various things
I will take up two of them
“Life is only once”
And “Life seems long and short”
These two words will follow my life
It made a very big meaning
And when the obligation for 4 years approached the end
Honest talk I’m in this town
Feelings have changed in the wind that it is okay to live for the rest of my life
But just around that time
I decided to take care of a grandfather who is over 80 years old
And I said this to myself before that grandfather died
“teacher”
“The teacher is still young”
“In our rural town like this
Thank you for working hard as a doctor
But the teacher Do you have something you want to do? “
Look back on the life beyond the age of 80
There is something I want to do
When I did not challenge
It seems like a great regret
I still do not know because I have never become 80 years old
That old man said
“I have something to do and challenge me
I regret not being surprised that I failed it was not good. “
“If there is something the teacher wants to do something
Why do not you do it?
This word is, I gave my body a shocking stimulus
I feel that what I was sleeping in the body woke me up
Things like hot magma come from melamera and body
I felt like going up
Actually I want to live overseas because I can do it once in my lifetime
I wanted to fight on the world stage I felt like that
But unfortunately there is no connection too
I have no ability
Not much money
I was giving up thinking that it was an unreasonable dream to be honest
At such time
To the special hospital of the heart of the urban area where I was sending the patient
I was given a chance to go see the tour
And I got this question from Professor there
“What are you going to do after the remote medical care?”
I got a very prompt reply as per the textbook
“I will live my life in local health care in Shizuoka prefecture”
Then the director there is a tremendously crazy face
“Tell me if there really is something I want to do”
At that time, I said the real intention for the first time
“I would like to study abroad as it’s all I have for a lifetime.
But for me it’s a dream
I think it is impossible because it is an absolutely incomprehensible dream. “
Then the doctor
Laughing nicely
“If you want to study abroad, you can introduce it”
That being said that way
Very very mysterious
I decided to study abroad at the Tonkotsuko
Actually, I am a human being who does not believe me at all like God
Only then
Possibly
I caught it
The grandfather who gave the advice from heaven
You guessed me perhaps
It was such a strange feeling
And the studying abroad is
United States California
It is Stanford University of Silicon Valley
However,
Unfortunately it is not such a sweet story
For three years I have to work with unpaid salary
Under these conditions three years of study abroad was allowed
Silicon Valley is the most expensive region in the world
With 4 children
One wife
I have trouble with two wives (laugh)
That family is the most valuable Silicon Valley in the world
And I ate savings
Although I was prepared to go there
Anyhow
Finally it was a survival for a year
At that time I
That director who introduced me to Stanford
Did you feel patience with us?
He told me that he will make up for living expenses
However
In return
I felt that I could fulfill two obligations and a villain face
First duty
“Make friends all over the world”
Approximately 2 humans will come out condition
The first one says good things (laugh)
That’s why I’m relieved
Surely the second one is terrible and stupid
It’s like I can work at my hospital for a lifetime with a monthly salary
Well I still wanted to go to America
I wanted to go to Stamford
No, it is OK at all
Well then, what is the second one? – Talk about things like incidentally
While listening to it I heard it for a while
The second one
“Go to Stanford and think hard for Japan’s future
that’s all”
It was just that.
And in April 2001
With family
America is California
I studied at Stanford University in Silicon Valley
However
Life is not that sweet
It is a lab I belonged to
Develop new medical equipment with Silicon Valley venture
It was such a laboratory
But naturally
I have never studied
I can not speak English well.
And from a small hospital in the mountain in Shizuoka prefecture
Because I went to the world’s best Stanford University
As a matter of course
I could not be opposed at all
However
First mission in exchange for living expenses
“Make friends all over the world”
Only this worked hard
Just to make friends all over the world
I helped a lot if there was a person in need
I was happy with the work that people disliked
And not just within the university campus
I made an effort to make many friends outside the university
I did it for 3 years.
And when my 3 year abroad came close to the end
I got an incredible offer from Stanford University
Prepare a post
I also pay my salary
Please remain in Stamford as you ask
Actually it is when you are helping various people
You participated in various projects
When we were helping various ventures
I am with various venture companies I decided to work together
While in the campus and inside the Silicon Valley
A good rumor was flowing
“When you work with him, you will succeed”
I should have noticed I got a lot of accomplishment
I was a human being who did not think much about performance at all
Even now after 17 years
I still survive in Stamford
But this is not my ability
Because others helped me to the last
I thought at this time
As a matter of fact people are supported by people
I thought that way
And the second mission
The second mission is “Please think about the future of Japan”
This proposition is too heavy for me
There was not room to think about it
However
An incident arises that must be considered for that
March 11, 2011 Tohoku Great Disaster This is a major incident in Japan
At this moment I am the second mission
I thought that the time to do this came.
As a medical volunteer
In Fukushima
Join as a medical volunteer doctor
I applied for it
I was saved by various people until now
This time I
The time has come to help people in Japan
But the day before I go to Fukushima
President Obama
Outside the radius of 80 km from Fukushima nuclear power plant
An official of the United States officials came down to evacuate
Of course, such an order is coming to Stanford University
I am japanese
It is an official of an American university
Unfortunately we could not go to Fukushima
I can do something for Japan
I thought I could do it but I could not
To be honest, I fell into self hate and confidence loss
Whether you are a human being really needed by society
I can not do anything when Japan is in a pinch
Although it is an honest embarrassing story
Drinking and drinking from the daytime
It was being driven to about half before depression
But at that time
Senior citizen’s words of Sakuma
I came back to my place
“Life is only once”
“Life seems long and short”
“I regret not having tried and failed”
It is somehow from heaven
Patients who saw Sakuma
I think I asked something for me
And I got up.
Immediately after the earthquake the Abe administration
For the recovery of the Japanese economy
We carried out the “three arrows” policy
The third arrow
that is
Depending on the medical industry
To restore economic development
Especially Japan is good at manufacturing
Taking advantage of that manufacturing
Developed medical equipment in Japan
And it will develop the industry thereby
Such a national strategy was devised
I thought this was the only moment I already had
What you can do
What you must do
What you can do only
I thought about contributing to Japan by this
Keywords are
“Medical”
And “medical equipment” “aging society” is
Based on these three keywords
Japan and the United States
Make a bridge across the Pacific Ocean
To put it briefly
Japan and the United States collaborate to cause medical innovation
This is what I have to do
I thought like that
And we will move on to execution
2013
I am six billion
Operate assets
Venture capital established
Establish a venture capital
Let’s make various ventures from Japan
I am thinking like that I am doing it now
The second one
Establish entrepreneurship training course in Japan
Entrepreneurial development course especially for medical care
This is one of the national projects
We are starting from 2015
And American and Japanese
NPO connecting medical professionals
Here we are also founded
And last month
Against an aging society
With the technology of Silicon Valley
Japanese needs
Combine these two
Current issues of Japan’s aging society
We will think and solve with everyone
We established a think tank
Japan is currently the world leader in aging rate
It is a country where there are many elderly people
But in the country where there are many elderly people in Japan
If you give an idea to solve for that aging society
In the future it will be not only in Japan but in the world aging society
You may be able to contribute
In Sakuma Town
I experienced medical treatment in 2050
I am adapting it to patients who can suffer from the world right now
As a clinician in Japan until 17 years ago
I saved a sick patient in front of my eyes
And
Current
I made a bridge between Japan and the United States
I am trying to save my sick patient
Anyway, at the time of elementary school
Their desire to save patients with high volition has not changed at all
I lasted for 33 years
I went back and forth between Japan and the US
People depends on people
I learned that you will receive new options for life
To everyone I
The words you got from Sakuma
I would like to dedicate
“Life is only once”
“Life seems long and short”
“I regret not having tried and challenged”
And two missions from Mr. Director
“Make friends all over the world”
“Think of the future of Japan”
And there are more important things than that
that is
“Take action!”
My dreams Japan’s dream
For the dream of the world
“Switch to action!”
However, everyone thinks that the world can not change suddenly
However
I think that you can change themselves
Three hundred people gathered here today
Please each person change yourself and move to action
Japan may change
And that makes the world a better way
It might lead us
Everyone every little thing
Any small matter is OK
Please act for yourself
And I believe it will change the world
(applause)
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