Fumi Yamazaki
traveller / researcher / consultant / journalist, Fumi Yamazaki

Fumi Yamazaki is a bilingual traveller / researcher / consultant / journalist, a guest researcher at The University of Electro-Communications, and a researcher at Joi Ito’s Lab. She formerly worked for NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, the largest telecom in Japan), Internet marketing research company Interscope, and Digital Garage where she was involved in VC investment, incubation of startups and hosting conference and events. She was the founding member of Technorati Japan, involved in various free culture movements including Creative Commons Japan and iCommons. She writes various blogs including fumijp.blogspot.com, a commentary blog about various aspects of Japan and fumi25.vox.com which she introduces interesting videos from NicoNicoDouga, a popular video sharing site in Japan.