Smartphones are now a part of life. Without being restricted by time or place, you can cry while reading, check your own direction, and miss the past with your loved ones. You will feel the comfort. Wouldn't you be thrilled to think that you could use such a great tool for your work more? Radical Balance is a company that makes you wonderful by freeing you from time and place.


Watch over the lonely elderly with a smartphone
Introducing "Yurukone," an app that uses IoT and AI to alleviate the anxieties of lonely elderly people and young people with such parents.

  • Providing communication that maintains an appropriate sense of distance that can be continued every day without burdening both the young people watching over and the elderly receiving it.

  • Simple operability that even elderly people who are unfamiliar with device operation can easily use.

  • Reassurance of the child who is the watcher by checking the physical condition and survival of the parent every day.

The Sun Also Rises

January 22,2026

Right now, for various reasons, I’m going through a difficult time. In moments like this, I think of the Hemingway title that serves as this piece’s heading and use it to stir myself forward. Things may be bad now, but they won’t stay that way forever. After all, no matter how painful the past was, the sun rose again, didn’t it? This time, I want to look back on that idea-that it rises again-and try, little by little, to rise once more.
 
First, a story that isn’t directly about me, but about a professional baseball player I admired. Takashi Nishimoto once climbed as high as becoming the ace pitcher of the Yomiuri Giants.

Growth Through Compounding

December 29,2025

Compounding is not a concept limited to money.
How we learn, how we work, how we keep our distance from others-these things accumulate quietly over time and eventually create significant differences. That said, such growth can sometimes make a person lonely.
 
The Snowball Called Compounding
Recently, the policy interest rate was raised to 0.75%, reportedly the highest level in 30 years. Savings have become slightly more attractive.

Options are a weapon - and a trap

Novemver 29,2025

Toxic workplaces and the U.S. - China power struggle share the same core truth: the side with more options controls the side with none.Not understanding this structure is like stepping onto a battlefield unarmed.

Those without options have no freedom
When you lack options, you get cornered. People take advantage of you because you have no alternatives - they can spin you around in the palm of their hand. In that position, you risk being controlled.

Dictatorship - The Leader Who Lost His Mirror

October 31,2025

A while ago, I came across the term “Seven Ministers of Dissent” in the morning edition of the Nikkei. It refers to seven subordinates who are unafraid to speak their minds, even to their ruler. The idea is that if a king has seven such ministers, no matter how incompetent he may be, his throne will remain secure.
 
Recently, Japan’s prime minister changed. As the nation’s first female prime minister, she has drawn enormous attention and enjoys strong approval ratings.

A Farewell to Stalemate

Septembar 29,2025

When you try to do everything at once, you can get so tied up that you can’t move at all. And yet, sometimes a small trigger lets a ray of light break through the clouds, and before you know it, the sky has completely cleared.
 
The Chaos of System Development
Take system development ー my own profession ー as an example. To build a new system within budget, you first have to define the scope. Each department, and every person from rookie to veteran within them, has different things they want the system to do.