World TRIZ Sites Project (WTSP) -- Output:  D-jp-Japan

 

World WTSP Catalogs (Japan Part):

WTSP Catalog of TRIZ-related Sites in Japan for the people in the whole world

 

Toru Nakagawa (Osaka Gakuin Univ., and WTSP Project Leader), 
Jul. 13, 2019

cf. Japan WTSP Catalogs:  In Japanese (Mar. 15, 2018) ;
                                      In English (Apr. 4; Apr. 24, 2018)

Posted: Jul. 14, 2019;  Updated:  Jul. 26, 2019

For going to Japanese pages, press buttons. 

Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Jul. 10, 2019)

Last year in March and April, I carried out a pilot project to build a Catalog of TRIZ-related Sites located in Japan.  I posted the Catalog of 92 sites first in Japanese , and then in English translation .  We should note that the Catalogs (even written in English) are for the people in Japan, and not so appropriate for the people in the whole world.

In the present page, I re-evaluated all the 92 sites from the viewpoints of the people in the world.  Namely, for showing the Japan part of the World WTSP Catalogs.  The main criteria are: (a) the usefulness/importance (including originality, uniqueness, contributions, etc) of the site from the global standard,  (b) Representative and frequently-used sites in Japan (even written only in Japanese), (c) Reliable/important sites in Japan in the areas in and around TRIZ.  

The sites which are evaluated as either ◎ Most important, ○ Important, or □ Worthy of World Catalog are to be included in the World WTSP Catalogs as the parts from Japan.   The Japan WTSP Catalogs, on the other hand, are composed of these sites and the sites evaluated as △ Worthy of Country Catalog.  For showing this point clearly, the ◎○□ sites are shown first, separating from the △ sites.  The sites are rearranged, but the site numbers are kept same as in the former manuscript .

This page is composed of the following 5 parts:

(1) Index Table of Sites for the World WTSP Catalogs (Japan part) ( ◎○□) ,  TRIZ sites and sited Around TRIZ

(2) Sites Descriptions for the World WTSP Catalogs (Japan part) ( ◎○□) ,  TRIZ sites 
(3) Sites Descriptions for the World WTSP Catalogs (Japan part) ( ◎○□),  sites Around TRIZ

(4) Sites Descriptions for the Japan WTSP Catalogs ( △) ,  TRIZ sites 
(5) Sites Descriptions for the Japan WTSP Catalogs ( △) ,  sites Around TRIZ
 

This page demonstrates the examples of manuscripts to be prepared by WTSP Teams in various countries. 

The parts (1)(2)(3) form the Japan part of the World WTSP Catalogs.  Namely:

Part (1) corresponds to the Index Page of the WTSP Catalog, while Part (2) and (3) corresppond to the Descriptions of Sites (◎○□).
By clicking the Site Code (i.e. the site number at the leftmost column) of the Index, you can see the Descrption of the Site.

(Note: In the actual WTSP Catalogs, the Index page and the 'Descriptions of Sites' pages will be in separate HTML pages.  But in the present case, they are shown in one HTML page for easier understanding of the Catalog structure.)

 


Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Mar. 16; Apr. 3; Apr. 24, 2018)

In the Japanese page, a full manuscript for the Catalog of TRIZ-related Sites in Japan has been posted, as a preliminary part of the WTSP World Catalog.  It introduces 92 sites, describing in 2 to 8 lines each.  Almost all the sites are posted in Japanese only. 

In the present English page, I temporarily show 25 important sites in Japan with annotation.  Please give me some more time for preparing the English version.


Short introduction to the Japanese page (Editor's Note, Toru Nakagawa Mar. 15; Apr. 3; Apr. 22, 2018).

This Catalog of TRIZ-related Sites in Japan has been prepared as a part of the World TRIZ Sites Project (WTSP), in the following process and policy.

(1) It aims to introduce TRIZ-related sites in Japan, by searching as widely as possible. Internet search with Yahoo! using 'TRIZ' as the keyword is the basic means, and many more sites are added later.

(2) The sites are classified with their types/nature into the following categories.   Number of sites currently described is shown in ( ).

(a) TRIZ-related Information Sending Sites (i.e., important sites having some nature of (b) to (h))  -- (24 sites)
(b) Consultants/Venders/Dealers in TRIZ  -- (12 sites)
(c) Academic societies, associations, journals, etc. in TRIZ-related areas   -- (17 sites)
(d) Universities, public organizations, not-for-profit organizations, etc.  -- (13 sites)
(e) Commercial/non-commercial organizations operating lectures, seminars, distant education, etc. in the TRIZ-related fields  -- (3 sites)
(f) Technical dictionaries, book search, technological news, communities, etc. in TRIZ-related areas   -- (8 sites)
(g) Personal sites, blog sites, and other non-TRIZ sites which post some TRIZ-related articles   -- (14)
(h) Personal sites, blog sites, and other non-TRIZ sites which are useful for TRIZ even though the site do not post TRIZ articles  -- (0 sites)

(3) Each site is introduced concerning to its nature, special features, useful information for readers, etc. 

(4) Main page of each site is shown with URL and a hyperlink.  Searching for TRIZ pages inside each site is also shown with a hyperlink .

(5) Further enhancements and revisions are desired.  Proposals of addition, revision, updating, etc. by any person (especially by the site owners) are welcome. Much enhanced introduction is desirable for the sites with the  mark.

(6) Detailed description of many Japanese sites (just like in the Japanese page) is useful and important for Japanese people, but rather concise description of important sites only should be useful for most people in the world who do not read Japanese. Thus, in the Regional/Global editions of the WTSP catalog, only some selected Web sites will be included.  The sites in the category (a) are the candidates for such a purpose. [TN, Apr. 3, 2018]

(7) Thus in this English page, the 24 selected sites in category (a) are introduced with full annotation and additional 68 sites in categories (b)-(h) in a shorter form of annotation. [TN, Apr. 24, 2018]

 

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Index Table (Index Page)

For World Catalog (Japan), TRIZ

For World Catalog (Japan), Around TRIZ

For Japan Catalog, TRIZ

For Japan Catalog, Around TRIZ

Japan WTSP Catalog Manuscript 3 (Mar. 2018)

 

Japanese page (Mar. 2018)

 


  (1) Index Table of Sites for the World WTSP Catalogs (Japan part) ( ◎○□) , 
                     TRIZ sites and sited Around TRIZ

                 ==> Index Page of the World WTSP Catalogs (Japan part)    

  Index Table of Sites    WTSP Project    Team: JP  (D-jp-Japan)     Writer:  Name:  Toru Nakagawa   Date:  2019/7/13

Site code Site Name Site domain URL Site Location Site Language Role of site Evaluation Single-line Description Desc.
(Y/N)
Description
(name, date)
EX-14 TRIZ Home Page (Innovation Center) WWW.trizhp.org jp en a2-Public Web site not-for-profit organization for promoting TRIZ and related methodologies Y T. Nakagawa
2019/6/12

JP-01

TRIZ Home Page in Japan (Toru Nakagawa) http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/ jp en, jp (a2) Public Web site,
(e1) Method developer
Public Web site dedicated for TRIZ proliferation in Japan.  Editor Toru Nakagawa Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-03

Japan TRIZ Society (NPO) http://www.triz-japan.org/english_top.html jp jp, en (b1) Dedicated association Nation-wide NPO center for promoting TRIZ in Japan.  Holding Japan TRIZ Symp. every year  Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-09

IDEA Corp. (Mamoru Zenko) http://www.idea-triz.com/ jp jp (e4) Consultants Most active TRIZ Consultants in Japan, promoting QFD-TRIZ-Taguchi Method.   Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-10

MOST LLC (Kazuya Yamaguchi) http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~most/ jp jp (e4) Consultants TRIZ consultants, promoting QFD-TRIZ-Taguchi Method and AI.  Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-12

Ideation Japan, Inc. (Teruyuki Kamimura) https://ideation.jp/  jp jp (e4) Consultants,
(e5) Training organizations
TRIZ consultants, with connection to Ideation Intrenational Inc. and having strength in intellectual properties.   Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-14

TRIZ Study (Shinsuke Kurosawa) http://www.trizstudy.com/ jp jp, en (a1) Dedicated for information sending Posting Russian references by G. Altshuller and by MATRIZ  n Japanese translation.   Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-18

Monodukuri.com (Osamu Kumasaka) https://www.monodukuri.com/  jp jp (e7) Networking/Matching organizations Active portal site with the original  'Monodukuri Matrix' from users needs (60) to various methods (108).   Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-02

(Former) Japan TRIZ CB ((Collaborative Board of TRIZ Promoters and Users in Japan) http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/elinksref/eJapanTRIZ-CB/eJapanTRIZ-CB.html jp jp, en (b1) Dedicated association Former nation-wide center for promoting TRIZ in Japan.  Holding Japan TRIZ Symp. 2005‐2007 Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-07

Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd. http://www.cybernet.jp/ jp

jp

(e3) Dealers System integration company dealing the Goldfire Innovator software of IHS.  Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-16

Pro-Engineers (Shigeru Kasuya) http://www.proengineer-institute.com/ jp jp (e4) Consultants,
(g3) Knowledge sharing
Posting many articles introducing TRIZ/USIT especially with examples of TRIZ 40 principles Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-17

IdeaPlant (Rikie Ishii) https://ideaplant.jp/ jp jp (e4) Consultants,
(e2) Software/tool developers
Promoting idea generation methods by using originally designed small tools Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-29

MEMODAS (Kimihiko Hasegawa)  http://www.memodas.jp/ jp jp (e2) Software/tool developers Develped a software tool for generting/expanding ideas by using 8 cells around in a fractal manner. Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-36

Idea Marathon Institute (Takeo Higuchi) http://idea-marathon.net/ jp jp (e1) Method developers Established a method for cultivating creativity by simply generating and recording one (or more) ideas every day.   Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-19

 J-STAGE (operated by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST))  https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/-char/ja jp jp, en (f3) Repository Official electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan, operated by JST under MEXT. Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-24

Dai-ichi Kousha (Akihiro Katahira) http://dai1kousha.html.xdomain.jp/ jp jp (i3) Personal Web site,
(e2) Software/tool developers
Develped "Fuda-Yose" software tool for effective visual thinking to get and expand ideas. Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-37

Netman (Ken-ichi Nagaya) http://netman.co.jp/ jp jp (e4) Consultants Consulting and training especially on the methods for making any trained/taught things fixed.  Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-39

JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency)  http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/  jp jp, en (c2) National organizations National center for promoting science and technology under the Ministry, MEXT. Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-40

NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) http://www.nedo.go.jp/english/ jp jp, en (c2) National organizations National agency for managing R&D under METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).  It leads and funds pioneering R&D projects. Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-42

JCS (Japan Creativity Society) http://www.japancreativity.jp/english/  jp jp, en (b2) Dedicated (academic) societies Academic society (since 1979) on creativity in education, psychology, industries, society, etc. Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-43

JUSE (Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers) http://www.juse.or.jp/english/ jp jp, en (b1) Dedicated association Having led the QC movements (including QC, TQC, TQM) in Japan since 1946.   Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-44

JSQC (Japanese Society for Quality Control) http://www.jsqc.org/en/ jp jp, en (b2) Dedicated (academic) societies Academic society (since 1970) for research in quality-management technologies and their applications Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-45

SJVE (Society of Japanese Value Engineering)  https://www.sjve.org/eng/ jp jp, en (b1) Dedicated association VE aims at designing systems focusing on function/cost.  Two groups inside SJVE have been working actively to study and apply TRIZ in the process of VE.   Y T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-48

JIII (Japan Instititue of Invention and Innovation) http://www.jiii.or.jp/english/  jp jp, en (b1) Dedicated association Established in 1904 for promoting invention and proliferating Intellectual Property, and has its chapters in all prefectures in Japan. Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-58

JAIST (Japan Advaced Institute of Science and Technology)  http://www.jaist.ac.jp/ jp jp (d1) Universities Actgive in research and teaching of creative thinking methodologies Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-59

i.school (The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering) http://ischool.or.jp/global/ jp jp, en (d1)-Universities Educational project established in 2009 by the Center for Knowledge Structuring (The University of Tokyo) for fostering innovative leaders Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

JP-60

Keio SDM (Keio University, Graduate School of System Design and Management) http://www.sdm.keio.ac.jp/en/ jp jp, en (d1) Universities Currently the most active graduate school in Japan in educating/training innovative methodology.  Y (short) T. Nakagawa
2019/7/13

 


    (2) Sites Descriptions for the World WTSP Catalogs (Japan part) ( ◎○□) , TRIZ sites 

 

◎ JP-01   TRIZ Home Page in Japan (Editor: Toru Nakagaw)   http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/ (in Japanese)
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/  (in English)      Location jp   Language  en, jp  Roles (a2) Public Web site, (e1) Method developer 

Editor: Toru Nakagawa (Professor (1998-2012)/Professor Emeritus (2012- ) of Osaka Gakuin University).  He established this site in Nov. 1998 (Nov. 1 in Japanese and Nov. 15 in English), and has been posting new TRIZ-related information actively with unfixed interval of 2 to 4 weeks constantly till present.

The site posts introductory articles, overviews, papers, conference reports, etc. on TRIZ with a wider scope.  Pages in Japanese and pages in English are posted more or less in parallel.  The articles/papers are written not only by the Editor (in Japanese and in English), but also by many Japanese authors (in Japanese and some in English translation) and by many overseas authors (in Japanese translation and some in English).  It has four 'Entrance Pages' adapted for four types of readers (i.e., for Children and high school students, for Students and the general public, for Engineers and researchers novice to TRIZ, and for Practitioners and experts of TRIZ); they show categorized lists of (pretty many) recommended pages with annotation.

The Editor's research themes have evolved from (a) introduction and proliferation of (classical and modernized) TRIZ, to (b) introduction and extension of USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking), (c) proposal of Generalized Methodology for Creative Problem Solving (CrePS), and (d) Research on the Principal Contradiction ('Liberty vs. Love') of Human Culture.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

○ JP-03 (a) (c)  JTS (Japan TRIZ Society (NPO))  http://www.triz-japan.org/ (in Japanese)    
http://www.triz-japan.org/english_top.html (in English)    Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles  (b1) Dedicated association 

Japan TRIZ Society is the nation-wide Center for promoting and proliferating TRIZ in Japan, established officially in December 2007 on the basis of Japan TRIZ CB.

It has organized TRIZ Symposium in Japan every year (from the Fourth in 2008 to the Thirteenth in 2017).  The Symposium till 2012 was held for 3 days with actively calling for participation/presentation by overseas people, but later since 2013 it was held for 2 days and with mostly-domestic participation/presentation except invited Keynote speakers from abroad.  Every year many user industries gave their presentations on TRIZ usage and promotion.  (Almost) all the presentations were shown with slides in Japanese and in English in parallel.   Keynote Lectures and Award-winning presentations (about 5 papers every year, voted by the participants) are publicly posted in the Web site about 3 months later, and all other presentations are posted in the 'Members only' pages of the site. 

The short TRIZ introduction article in this HP is rather poor unfortunately, I think.  In Japan TRIZ Society, four study groups are running for several years.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

○ JP-09  IDEA Corp. (Mamoru Zenko)       http://www.idea-triz.com/ (in Japanese)       Location jp   Language  jp  Roles  (e4) Consultants

IDEA is a consulting firm specialized in TRIZ, starting in 2003 by spinning off from ITEQ, and has been actively conducting trainings and consulting in industries and open seminars.  IDEA has particular strength in applying QFD-TRIZ-TM in an integrated manner to new product development, and in consulting with big and SME companies in such a strategy.

The Web site explains to use the following four IDEA-style scientific development methods in an integrated way: Seeds-driven Quality Deployment (SDCD, for developing new business fields), IDEA-QFD (for developing new products in existing business fields), IDEA-TRIZ (for innovative problem solving with break-through solutions), and IDEA-TM (for implementing new solutions optimally).  Various documents of these TRIZ-related methods are downloadable free of charge (with registration).  IDEA also sells TechOptimizer and Goldfire Innovator of Invention Machine (later under IHS) as a dealer and promotes the use of software tools together with their methods. 

At Japan TRIZ Symposia, several industrial customer companies reported their successful results of promoting/applying IDEA ways in their new product development, confirming the effectiveness of IDEA’s methods and consulting.  

The following two blog sites were operated several years ago, but have not been updated recently:
  Blog by Mamoru Zenko, President: ' I'm fine, today, too' (Diary by IDEA President): http://blog.livedoor.jp/n2ublog-00018/
  Blog by Masahiro Kuwahara, Senior consultant: ‘Daily inventive monolog by a TRIZ consultant’: http://kuwatriz.exblog.jp/

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

○□ JP-10 MOST LLC (Kazuya Yamaguchi)  www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~most/  (in Japanese)     Location jp   Language  jp  Roles  (e4) Consultants

Since 2001 Kazuya Yamaguchi led the innovation of development process and quality management in Kyushu Matsushita Electric Co. (renamed into Panasonic Communications Co. (PCC) in 2003) by using scientific methods including quality engineering, TRIZ, and QFD.  He retired from PCC in 2007 and started a consulting firm, MOST LLC, together with his several colleagues who worked together for the PCC process innovation.

MOST's philosophy is “To propose and provide methods for drastic innovation applicable in the era of AI (Artificial Intelligence, e.g., IoT and Factory big data)”.  More specifically it proposes "to use scientific technology tools in the world (e.g., QFD, TRIZ, Quality engineering (or TM), MATLAB, and some other universal-use tools) effectively, to improve the current styles of research, development, design, and manufacturing into new business promotion styles with high efficiency, and to put your business on a sustainable and growing curve by obtaining maximal results in achievements."

Their methods are written closely by the MOST members in their books (or white papers), which are available in their HP with free downloading (without registration).  They include:
(1) "Improve your quality, then your costs get reduced (recommendations to Taguchi Method)" by Kazuya Yamaguchi (95 pages).
(2) "How to eliminate the needs of remaking software in the market due to bugs (recommendations to Taguchi Method)" by Kazuya Yamaguchi (27 pages).
(3) "We can design without remaking! (Parameter design in Taguchi Method)" by Ikuro Hamada (59 pages).
(4) "Method to realize No. 1/only-one products easily (TRIZ)" by Kiyoaki Matsui (28 pages). 
(5) "Method to develop epoch-making products easily (QFD-TRIZ-TM and Technology and IP strategies)" by Kazuya Yamaguchi (42 pages).
(6) "Method to achieve visual inspection drastically efficiently (MATLAB and TM)" by Ken-ichi Kawano (30 pages).
(7) "Method to achieve acoustic inspection drastically efficiently (MATLAB and TM)" by Ken-ichi Kawano (30 pages).
(8) "Business strategy for executives to raise their performance surely (Raising performance/results come from raising members)" by Kazuya Yamaguchi (31 pages).
All these textbooks are impressive with their strong encouraging messages.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

○ JP-12  Ideation Japan, Inc. (Teruyuki Kamimura)    https://ideation.jp/  (in Japanese)       Location jp   Language  jp  Roles (e4) Consultants, (e5) Training organizations

Ideation Japan was raised by Teruyuki Kamimura, a patent attorney, in 2010 and currently is the only agency of International Ideation Inc. (USA) in Japan. 

In Ideation International, TRIZ Masters (and collaborators of G. Altshuller since 1970s) Boris Zlotin, Alla Zusman, et al. developed TRIZ further in depth to form a new and big system named Ideation-TRIZ (or I-TRIZ).  The system is composed of 3 main components, i.e., Inventive Problem Solving (IPS), Anticipatory Failure Determination (AFD), and Directed Evolution (DE).  Such methods are supported by software tools which install well-systematized solution prototypes (called System Operators).

The HP of Ideation Japan posts many introductory articles on these methods in a way easy to understand.  Multiple issues of pamphlets are downloadable (free of charge, with registration), and videos of an introductory seminar (14 parts, over 3 hours in total) can be seen free of charge (without registration).  Ideation Japan conducts seminars on I-TRIZ and its software tools pretty frequently (with or without charge) as a part of its active proliferation activities.

In 2013 it established 'I-TRIZ Promotion Association' for the purpose of promoting their private I-TRIZ certification.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

○ JP-14  TRIZ Study (Shinsuke Kurosawa)  http://www.trizstudy.com/ (in Japanese)   
http://www.trizstudy.com/contentslist.html (in English, List of Contents in their original languages)  Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (a1) Dedicated for information sending

This site intends to be a Web site for the people who want to study TRIZ deeply in the Japanese language.  The site owner is Shinsuke Kurosawa, formerly at SANNO Institute of Management.  He is very fluent in Russian and has been working to study and proliferate TRIZ since mid-1990s. 

This site is of special importance in Japan in the points that many original TRIZ papers written by G. Altshuller are posted in Japanese directly translated from Russian.  He also posts Japanese translation of various documents authorized by MATRIZ (i.e., International TRIZ Association), e.g., TRIZ Textbook for MATRIZ Level 1 certification, TRIZ Body of Knowledge (BOK), etc.  Besides them he introduces a number of papers on modern TRIZ in Russia, especially those related to education with TRIZ.

A wonderful article in this site for introduction to TRIZ is the instructions and worksheets of "16 steps in TRIZ for you to use today (for solving your problems)", which he has originally written down concisely.  As the process for solving problems, he shows the sequential points of focus in 6 main steps (i.e., problem/task/ideality, situations/viewpoints, inventive principles, resources, strategies/contradictions, and action plan) having 16 sub-steps in total.  For each sub-step, he shows in a worksheet the questions to think, and in the text in parallel he describes the instructions, simple examples, and a consistent set of case study.  The process is so simple and yet powerful that engineers novice to TRIZ may be able to work with it for him/herself even today.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

○ JP-18  Monodukuri.com (Osamu Kumasaka)    https://www.monodukuri.com/  (in Japanese)         Location jp   Language  jp  Roles  (e7) Networking/Matching organizations

This is a nice portal site which has produced and implemented a mechanism for connecting (a) Issues in monodukuri (or manufacturing in general) (and the industries having them) with (b) Methods useful for solving the issues (and the professionals in such methods).  The basis of this mechanism is the 'Monodukuri Engineering Matrix' which Osamu Kumasaka built during his R&D work for Pioneer Corp.  The Matrix has rows of 60 Issues for monodukuri (i.e., Planning 7, Development & design 15, Manufacturing 22, and Quality in market 6) and columns of 118 Methods for solutions (including Strategy techniques 9, TRIZ 8, USIT 1, Quality engineering 8, etc.).  In the Matrix cells, applicability and usefulness of the method for the issue is shown with the 4-grade evaluation (i.e., 3, 2, 1, and 0).

Kumasaka started this Monodukuri.com site in 2012 after his retirement.   First he obtained supports and registrations by many professionals (currently 138), and obtained their contributions of introductory articles on individual methods and their usage (currently 1600 articles, 2-3 pages each), training texts (currently 490 documents), and application case studies (currently 950 cases), for publicly posting in the site.  Users (in industries) may choose an issue most relevant to his/her problem from the list of 60 Issues, then is led by the Matrix to possibly applicable/useful methods, and can further study the methods closely by reading their introductions and case studies.  If a user asks a question (or raise his/her own issue) openly at the site, any professionals may reply to it openly at the site as well. 

All these basic use of the site is free of charge for the users (some of them need registration without charge), while there are additional services of seminars and individual consultation with charge.  The site is now operated with annual support money and payback for consulting arrangement from the registered professionals.  Professionals seem to find merits in the site for paying such money.  Recently, the site started a service by professionals to support SMEs for their applications to governmental grants.

Because of the accumulation of useful information and appropriate operation mechanism, this portal site is now growing steadily year after year.  This is certainly a significant business model started by Osamu Kumasaka.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

□ JP-02  (Former) Japan TRIZ CB (Collaborative Board of TRIZ Promoters and Users in Japan)   http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/jlinksref/JapanTRIZ-CB/JapanTRIZ-CB.html  (in Japanese) 
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/elinksref/eJapanTRIZ-CB/eJapanTRIZ-CB.html (in English)    Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (b1) Dedicated association

The first nation-wide organization for promoting TRIZ in Japan, established in 2005, by the collaboration of TRIZ users and promoters. Japan TRIZ CB organized TRIZ Symposium in Japan (First in 2005 till Third in 2007). The Web site posted the records and presentations in these Symposia. At the end of 2007, the organization turned officially into Japan TRIZ Society (NPO) (see elsewhere). The Web pages are still active inside "TRIZ Home Page in Japan".

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3.]

 

□ JP-07  Cybernet Systems Co., Ltd.  http://www.cybernet.jp/    (in Japanese)
http://www.cybernet.co.jp/english/ (in English) (only partial)    Location jp   Language  jp  Roles  (e3) Dealers

General Agency in Japan of Invention Machine Corp. (USA) since 2007.  The company is promoting the sales of the software tool, Goldfire Innovator (the successor of TechOptimizer), and conducting seminars on it.  Goldfire Innovator is capable to access to a huge body of information sources (not limited to patent DBs) in science and technology with its powerful semantic analysis tools, and hence to conduct surveys and knowledge sharing/management in a much wider scope than ordinary TRIZ techniques for problem solving.  In 2012 Invention Machine was merged into IHS (USA) with the hope to utilize even wider information sources in the world.

The Web site of Cybernet Systems posts introductions to the functions and usage of Goldfire, monthly articles on 'What can you do with Goldfire?', and user supporting information, etc.  Inviting many user industries, Cybernet Systems held Invention Machine User Conference annually in 2009 to 2011 and Goldfire Innovation Forums annually in 2013 to 2017.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

□ JP-16   Pro-Engineers (Shigeru Kasuya)  http://www.proengineer-institute.com/ (in Japanese)   Location jp   Language  jp  Roles (e4) Consultants, (g3) Knowledge sharing

Shigeru Kasuya worked for SONY and later for Fuji Xerox, and started his consulting firm 'Pro-Engineer' in 2006.  His site states its purpose as "TRIZ & Support for Differentiating Technology Development".  He intends to support not only the usage of TRIZ but also more widely the development of new technologies/products, innovation in business processes, human resource development of researchers and engineers, etc. 

The top page of his Web site is a tightly packed index to a lot of information in the site.  There are interesting articles such as abstract documents of his various seminars, articles in newspapers and journals mentioning about his work, his answers to questions/issues raised by various industry users (over 40 articles, which are posted also in the Q&A corner of Monodukuri.com,).  He also shows his own examples for 40 Inventive principles; they include illustrated examples for all the 104 sub-principles, examples from the areas of IT/SW, chemistry, and biology. 

Contradiction Matrix (in the classical form) is also installed in the HP so that the inputs of an improving parameter and a worsening parameter return the outputs of four inventive principles.  He writes an interesting suggestion that a simple Google search with a keyword of target object and a second keyword of function/property can give the information very similar to the results from TRIZ Effects database.  At the end of the site, several case studies of solving problems with TRIZ are demonstrated.  This is an interesting site giving us a lot of new suggestions.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

□ JP-17   IdeaPlant (Rikie Ishii) https://ideaplant.jp/ (in Japanese)  , Rikie Ishii's Activity Report  http://ishiirikie.jpn.org/ (in Japanese)  ,
https://ideaplant.jp/triz/index.html (in English) (only partly)   Location jp   Language  jp  Roles (e4) Consultants, (e2) Software/tool developers

IdeaPlant was a name of a group organized by Rikie Ishii in 2005 in Sendai, with the intention of 'a place for growing seeds of ideas into large trees'. (The group seems to have worked in the name of 'Miyagi TRIZ Study Group' for a certain time.)  Ishii made the IdeaPlant as a business in 2009.

He has been working energetically for raising creative persons and creative organizations, mostly by devising/practicing/proliferating the methods/processes/tools for enhancing the idea generation.  He has produced 'TRIZ Brainstorming Cards' (i.e., playing cards with simplified phrases and illustrations of TRIZ 40 Principles), 'BreStir' (i.e., a playing process for enjoying and activating the Brain Storming using some specialized cards), among others.

He conducts many 'Workshops for enhancing idea generation' at various industries, universities, high schools, local communities, etc., getting high reputation on his vivid way of workshops. His activities at various places in Japan (and some in neighboring countries) are reported frequently in his blog "Activity Reports by Rikie Ishii".  He also actively uses various IT media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, SlideShare, etc.  We can learn his way of workshops and idea generation through his presentation slides, "Techniques for creative idea generation" at his 5-hour mini-lecture and workshop held in Kyoto in February 2018.  https://www.slideshare.net/ishiirikie/5-88358296 .  His presentation is always attractive with his illustrations and good design sense.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

□△ JP-29 (b) MEMODAS (Kimihiko Hasegawa)   http://www.memodas.jp/ (in Japanese)    Location jp   Language  jp  Roles  (e2) Software/tool developers

MEMODAS is a software tool for supporting idea generation by writing keywords/ideas in 8 cells around a JP-center cell and forming further a fractal network of ideas visually.

 


  (3) Sites Descriptions for the World WTSP Catalogs (Japan part) ( ◎○□), sites Around TRIZ

 

○ JP-36   Idea Marathon Institute (Takeo Higuchi)  http://idea-marathon.net/ (in Japanese)     Location jp   Language  jp  Roles (e1) Method developers

A simple method to think of and write down one idea (or more) every day.  Proven to be effective for training oneself to be creative in 3 months, in companies, universities, kinder gardens, schools, etc.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

□ JP-19   J-STAGE (operated by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST))  https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/-char/ja (in Japanese)   Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (f3) Repository

J-STAGE is an electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan, developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), under MEXT.

It posts academic publications in Japan exhaustively, including over 2000 journals, conference proceedings, and reviews published by various academic societies and research organizations in Japan.  Up-to-date issues and back numbers (back to the old initial issues for important journals) of journals are available.  Users may be registered without charge, and can read and download abstract and the first page for any paper freely.  Full text of individual papers may be, depending on the journal, either readable and downloadable freely, or accessible under individual authentication by the publishing society, or accessible after individual payment.   

The Yahoo search inside the J-STAGE site with the keyword TRIZ gives 291 hits.  It may be possible that some more TRIZ-related papers published in old days are newly restored here in coming years.  We should watch this site as an important and reliable academic information source.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3]

 

□ JP-24   Dai-ichi Kousha (Akihiro Katahira)  http://dai1kousha.html.xdomain.jp/ (in Japanese)  
http://dai1kousha.html.xdomain.jp/zukou2-e.html (in English, on Fuda-Yose Tool)   Location jp   Language  jp  Roles  (i3) Personal Web site, (e2) Software/tool developers

Akihiro Katahira started to build this site in 2013 and has been developing it further till present.  He understands that the act of Thinking is the repetition of two phases, i.e., 'Thinking out' (to get an idea useful for him/herself) and 'Evaluation and decision'.  Then in this Web site Katahira is trying to figure out 'What should we do to Think out better and more effectively?'.  

He posts many interesting working papers on 'How to Think out' according to his own thoughts and in his own terms.  Recently he developed and published a software tool of 'Fuda-Yose method', which allows to handle many labels (on which any keywords, short sentences, or figures are written) to move them around in various arrangements on the Excel window for stimulating users to think out.  The Fuda-Yose Tool is also introduced in "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" together with a number of application examples.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

□ JP-37  Netman (Ken-ichi Nagaya) http://netman.co.jp/ (in Japanese)   Location jp   Language  jp  Roles  (e4) Consultants

Promoter of IT-based learning.  Improving PDCA cycle, he proposes P (Goal setting) - D (Habitual actions) - C (Reflection) - F (Feedback) - A (Action improvement).  PDCFA can be supported by a group c-learning software system.

 

□ JP-39 (c)  JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency)    http://www.jst.go.jp/  (in Japanese)   ; http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/  (in English)    Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (c2) National organizations

National center for promoting science and technology under the Ministry, MEXT.  Responsible for proposing S&T strategic plans to MEXT and leading/promoting front-end researches along the strategy.   

 

□ JP-40  NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) http://www.nedo.go.jp/ (in Japanese)  ; http://www.nedo.go.jp/english/ (in English)   Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles  (c2) National organizations

National agency for managing R&D under METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry).  It leads and funds pioneering R&D projects in the fields shown in its name.

 

□ JP-42   JCS (Japan Creativity Society)  http://www.japancreativity.jp/ (in Japanese)  ; http://www.japancreativity.jp/english/ (in English)   Location jp   Language  jp, en   Roles (b2) Dedicated (academic) societies

Academic society established in 1979, focused on creativity in the aspects of education, psychology, methods, applications, industrial use, social promotion, etc.  Publishing an academic journal, and organizing annual research conferences. 

 

□ JP-43   JUSE (Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers)   http://www.juse.or.jp/ (in Japanese)  ; http://www.juse.or.jp/english/ (in English)  Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (b1) Dedicated association

Restarted in 1946 and led the QC movements (including QC, TQC, TQM) in Japan after World War II.  Active in trainings on business management.  Though the areas of intended goals overlaps with TRIZ, it looks like JUSE is not interested in TRIZ.  

 

□ JP-44   JSQC (Japanese Society for Quality Control)  http://www.jsqc.org/ (in Japanese)  ; http://www.jsqc.org/en/ (in English)  Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (b2) Dedicated (academic) societies

Established in 1970 for furthering research into quality-management technologies and their applications.

 

□ JP-45  SJVE (Society of Japanese Value Engineering)   http://www.sjve.org/ (in Japanese)  ; https://www.sjve.org/eng/ (in English)    Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (b1) Dedicated association

VE aims at designing systems focusing on function/cost, and is close to TRIZ.  Two groups inside SJVE have been working actively to study and apply TRIZ in the process of VE. 

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

 

□ JP-48   JIII (Japan Instititue of Invention and Innovation)  http://koueki.jiii.or.jp/  (in Japanese) ;
JIPII (Japan Institute for Promoting Invention and Innovation)  http://www.jiii.or.jp/  (in Japanese) 
; http://www.jiii.or.jp/english/ (in English)  ; Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (b1) Dedicated association

JIII was established in 1904 for promoting invention and proliferating Intellectual Property, and has its chapters in all prefectures in Japan.  JIPII was separated from JIII in 2015 as an organization for conducting seminars and surveys.

 

□ JP-58   JAIST (Japan Advaced Institute of Science and Technology) (Susumu Kunifuji)   http://www.jaist.ac.jp/  (in Japanese)    Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (d1) Universities

Susumu Kunifuji was Professor (1992-2017) and is Emeritus Professor (2017-) at School of Knowledge Science of JAIST .  He was inspired by Prof. Jiro Kawakita, originator of the KJ method, while his college days and has been working to develop the methods and tools for creative thinking.

 

□ JP-59   i.school (The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering)   http://ischool.or.jp/ (in Japanese);  http://ischool.or.jp/global/  (in English)  Location jp   Language  jp, en   Roles (d1) Universities

 “i.school is an educational project established in 2009 by the Center for Knowledge Structuring, The University of Tokyo, with the aim of fostering innovative leaders.” Professor Hideyuki Horii is the leader.

 

□ JP-60 Keio SDM (Keio University, Graduate School of System Design and Management)  http://www.sdm.keio.ac.jp/  (in Japanese); http://www.sdm.keio.ac.jp/en/ (in English)   Location jp   Language  jp, en  Roles (d1) Universities

 “We provide our students opportunities to learn how to design innovative technological systems, to find solutions to social problems, and to become project leaders.”  Currently Keio SDM is the most active graduate school in Japan in educating/training innovative methodology.  Professor Takashi Maeno is the dean of SDM. 

 


  (4) Sites Descriptions for the Japan WTSP Catalogs ( △) , TRIZ sites 

△ 04 (a) (c) Nikkei BP (Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.)  http://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/  (in Japanese)     
http://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/en/ (in English) (only partial)

Nikkei BP initiated the introduction of TRIZ into Japan since 1996, and served as one of the main promoters of TRIZ in Japan by publishing many articles in its monthly journal "Nikkei Mechanical" and a series of 6 textbooks of "Super-Inventive technique: TRIZ" until around 2002.  Later, till present, it has not been so active, and posted small articles from time to time.  The site search with the keyword TRIZ hits 160 pages. 

The following domains are its successors at moment:
  Nikkei BP Technical Information site (Cross-tech) XTech http://tech.nikkeibp.co.jp/
  "Nikkei Monozukuri" journal
  Nikkei BP Consulting Inc.
  Nikkei ITpro http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3.]

△ 05 (a) (b) (Mitsubishi Research Institute) MRI Research Associates   ( http://www.goldfire.jp/IM/ abandoned  ) (in Japanese)

From 1997 to 2007, Mitsubishi Research Institute (its Department of Knowledge Creation Research) and MRI Research Associates were the General Agency in Japan of Invention Machine Inc. (USA) and carried out the introduction and promotion of TRIZ actively.  Especially, MRI promoted the TRIZ software tools, TechOptimizer and Goldfire Innovator, by organizing a consortium of big user companies for developing Japanese editions of the tools.  It also organized Users Group of many industries and held monthly seminars/workshops for cooperative study of TRIZ and annual conferences named as the IM Users Group Meeting. 

Its Web site posted documents and references of such software tools and their seminars and meetings regularly.  At present, however, the site of this URL does not exist.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3.]

△ 06 (a) (b)  Sozo Kaihatsu Initiatives  (  http://www.triz-jp.com/ abandoned ) (in Japanese) 

In 2003, the group promoting TRIZ in Mitsubishi Research Institute span out to start SKI (Key persons: Masatoshi Hotta, Yoshihisa Konishi).  SKI was a dealer of the Invention Machine (USA).  Also in connection with Darrell Mann (UK) and CREAX (Belgium), SKI published the textbooks "Hands-On Systematic Innovation" and "Updated Contradiction Matrix 2003" in Japanese translation. SKI conducted training and consulting in industrial companies and organized open seminars in TRIZ.  SKI closed the business in 2012.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3.]

△ 08 (a) (b)  ITEQ International, LLC.  http://www.iteq.co.jp/ (in Japanese) 

A consulting firm for technologies and quality, having 25 years of experiences, it says.  Pursuing the themes such as implementing the process innovation of development, improving new product development, quality improvement in mass manufacturing, enhancing manufacturing capability, and cost management, the firm posts how to achieve them (especially by consultation) in detail in the Web site.  The firm uses the methodologies such as six sigma, Taguchi method, MT (Hahalanobis-Taguchi) system, QFD (Quality functional deployment), FMEA/FTA, TRIZ, strategy management, etc., and describes the methods in some detail.  As for TRIZ, they recommend to use TRIZ in integration with QFD and Taguchi Method, rather than using it alone.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3.]

△ 11 (a) (b) SANNO Institute of Management  http://www.hj.sanno.ac.jp/cp/page/8196 (in Japanese)  

Since 1997 SANNO has conducted research on TRIZ, TRIZ consulting to industries, and TRIZ seminars, etc.  It has promoted, in connection with Ideation International Inc. (USA), the application of Contemporary TRIZ, TRIZ/IPS, etc.  Until about 2010, SANNO had nearly 10 TRIZ consultants in their 'TRIZ Center', forming the largest TRIZ group in Japan at that time.

Their HP posts introductory articles on TRIZ (7 articles of about 5 pages each) and various suggestions and documents for introducing TRIZ.  SANNO published their research and survey reports in "TRIZ Letter" (Issue 1 in 1998 to Issue 38 in 2012) for regularly sending to their customers, and posted the abstracts of such articles in their HP.
In 2010 Ideation Japan Co. was established and later SANNO left the position of the agency of Ideation International Inc

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3]

△ 13 (a) (b)(c)  I-TRIZ Promotion Association    https://i-triz.org/  (in Japanese)   

This association was established in 2013 by Ideation Japan Co.  It aims at proliferating I-TRIZ in Japan for the purpose of activating the innovation generation, and operates the qualifying system of private I-TRIZ certification. 

The HP intends mainly to describe the I-TRIZ certification.  Nevertheless, it posts documents of articles explaining various (about 50) problem solving methods in close comparison with I-TRIZ.  The HP also posts a blog series entitled as "How to use words and images for generating ideas: Using ever-evolving TRIZ smoothly" (once every month since 2010). 

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3]

△ 15 (a) (b)  Creativity Engineering Institute (Yuji Mihara) http://www.triz-usit.com/ (in Japanese) 

Yuji Mihara worked to introduce and promote TRIZ and USIT in Fuji Photo Film Corp. for several years and in 2007 on his retirement started his own consulting firm.  The HP posts simple introductions to TRIZ and some more articles on USIT (Unified Structured Inventive Thinking).  He explains the usage of USIT, along the process by its original developer Ed Sickafus and utilizing the USIT Operator System which was developed in Japan by Nakagawa T., Kosha H. and Mihara Y. (2002).

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△ 20 (a) (c)  SlideShare    https://www.slideshare.net/ (in Japanese/English/any other languages)     

SlideShare is a world-wide Web service which allows to contribute any presentation slide file (in the formats of PowerPoint, Word, PDF, etc.) for posting without charge publicly to all the people in the world.  SlideShare is operated by LinkedIn, an SNS mostly for business/professional persons.  Main themes of SlideShare are business, creativity, and technologies, but not limited to them.  It has posted over 16,000 presentations in total already, it says.

On the topics of TRIZ, in Japanese, Rikie Ishii and Ideation Japan have posted each several tens of presentations.  Many more presentations related to TRIZ are posted in English and in other languages.  Users can read and download any presentation without charge.  This seems to be an important and rapidly growing information source.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3]

△ 21 (a) (c)  YouTube    https://www.youtube.com/ (in Japanese/English/any other languages)     

This is a well-known popular site accepting to post any category of videos publicly.  It has accumulated a huge number of videos already and is accepting many more videos daily and attracts a gigantic number of viewers daily from all over the world.

When I searched for videos with the keyword TRIZ inside YouTube, an unlimited number of videos appeared (so I quitted at 400 videos).  Videos in relation to TRIZ are only few in Japanese, but many in English and in other languages.  Video lectures by G. Altshuller himself and by many famous TRIZ leaders in the world are found and viewable freely.  This is a convenient and powerful information source, but you should better find elsewhere a good article mentioning a good TRIZ video in YouTube and get its URL to access the video.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3]

△ 22 (a) (f)  Wikipedia   https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ (in Japanese)      

Wikipedia is a 'Free Encyclopedia' which is used very often by ordinary people not specialized in each subject.  Individual pages (or subjects) in Wikipedia are written by any voluntary people and revised many times by many people to improve the descriptions; thus Wikipedia is usually supposed to be a reliable information source.  Unfortunately, however, in the case of TRIZ, such voluntary, collaborative work seems not working well at present (especially so in its Japanese edition).  This is probably because of the complexity of the TRIZ system and the diversity of opinions/understanding by different TRIZ leaders.

Current Japanese edition of 'TRIZ' page in Wikipedia describes, besides a very short general introduction, that the catch-phrase of 'Super-Inventive Technique' used in the initial stage of TRIZ introduction in Japan was misleading, and it lists 40 Inventive Principles with very short explanations.
At moment, the description of TRIZ in Wikipedia (in Japanese) is not recommendable.  Please refer various introductions and articles posted publicly as listed in the present WTSP catalog of TRIZ-related sites.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3]

△ 23 (a) (g)  Mechanical Design Memo 2  https://mechanical-engineer48.com/ (in Japanese)   

This is a personal blog site written by a Chief Engineer having 12 years of experiences in designing in the precision machinery field.  He intends to make notes and documents useful for the profession of mechanical designing and to provide them publicly in the Web to many people working in the area, so as to contribute to releasing the issue of the shortage in good engineers. 

Starting in 2013 (or slightly earlier?), he operated the blog 'Mechanical Designing, Memo' on the livedoor server (the first stage), and in October 2017 he moved to 'Mechanical Designing, Memo 2' on a new server sakura (the second stage).  At the first stage 139 articles were posted in 42 categories, and at the second stage 125 articles in 24 categories.  The site receives constant visits from users, i.e., amazingly 1400 page views per day in average (Nov. 2016). 

The site posts 5 articles on TRIZ, i.e., What is TRIZ?, S-curve and product lifecycle analysis, Patterns of evolutions of technical systems, 40 Inventive Principles, and 39 Technical parameters)  (of 3 to 5 A4 pages each).

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△ 25 (b)  “Improving Creativity” (Yoshihisa Konishi)  https://sites.google.com/site/creativityincrease/ (in Japanese) 

6 Introductory articles on TRIZ and IM software, publicized around 1998 to 2000.

△ 26 (b)  Mitsubishi Electric Business Systems Co.  http://www.melb.co.jp/p_contents/products/ (in Japanese)  

A dealer of Goldfire Innovator software.  Detailed introductory slides on Goldfire, in PDF    .

△ 28 (b)(e)  Information Retrieval Japan, Inc.   http://www.nihon-ir.jp/ (in Japanese) 

Consulting and training company in IP field.  Posting elaborate e-training texts on IP well based on TRIZ (written by Kimihiko Hasegawa). 

△ 30 (b)  IWEL (Hiroto Hayashi)   http://www.iwel.co.jp/ (in Japanese) 

Consulting firm on TRIZ and creativity.  Latest update of the site was in Apr. 2010.

△ 31 (b)  “Visual thinking for improving your capabilities of observation and imagination”  (Hideaki Kosha)   https://ameblo.jp/gijutsu-mieruka/ (in Japanese) 

A blog by a TRIZ/USIT consultant.  Introductory articles on the power of visualization, written in 2011-2013.  

△ 33 (b)  Kunii Designing Office (Yoshimasa Kunii) http://a-design-office.com/ (in Japanese)

Consultant and author of many textbooks on systems engineering & designing.  Particularly, the site illustrates 40 TRIZ Principles by showing 3-5 photos each.

△ 34 (b)  Japan Mode Co.  (Ryuji Kawase)  http://japan-mode.net/ (in Japanese)    

A venture company, having 5 patents of ‘AI-TRIZ’ which combines 3-steps of deep learning with TRIZ.  Worthy of watching their future development.

[Written by Nakagawa T. on 2018/4/3; Much enhancement of description is desirable.]

△ 47 (c) Japan Society for Design Engineering   http://www.jsde.or.jp/  (in Japanese)  http://www.jsde.or.jp/english/ (in English)

JSDE journal “Design Engineering” published two special issues on TRIZ in 2000 with 8 introductory papers.

△ 54 (c)  MPUF USIT/TRIZ Study Group   http://www.mpuf.org/ (in Japanese) 

A study group of voluntary industrial users on USIT.  Started in 2007 and quitted around 2013. 

△ 55 (d) Osaka Gakuin University  (Toru Nakagawa)   http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/jS/ (in Japanese) ;  http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eS/  (in English)

Toru Nakagawa was Professor at Faculty of Informatics (1998-2012).  Many articles related to education and application of TRIZ/USIT are introduced in the Entrance Page for Students (in “TRIZ Home Page in Japan”). 

△ 56 (d) Waseda University  (Manabu Sawaguchi) 

Manabu Sawaguchi was Professor at Graduate School of Waseda Univ. in 2010-2017.  He gave a number of presentations at Japan TRIZ Symposia and ETRIA TFCs.  His Web site at Waseda Univ. is now closed.

△ 57 (d) Kanagawa Institute of Technology  (Masao Ishihama)

Masao Ishihama was Professor at Department of Vehicle System Engineering in 1996-2017.  He gave presentations at Japan TRIZ Symposia and papers in journals.  His Web site at KIT is now closed.

△ 64 (d)  National Institute of Technology, Numazu College (Takayoshi Ohtsu)  http://www.numazu-ct.ac.jp/ (in Japanese)  ; http://www.numazu-ct.ac.jp/english/ (in English)

NIT is a national education system to teach and train students of ages from 15 to 22 for professional engineers.  Prof. Takayoshi Ohtsu is active in cultivating students by applying TRIZ and encouraging robotics and EV competitions, etc.

△ 67 (d)  Automotive Technology Innovation Center at Hiroshima Industrial Promotion Organization  https://www.hiwave.or.jp/ (in Japanese)  

As a part of HIPO activities for supporting industries in Hiroshima, its ATIC conducts TRIZ training seminars every year since 2014, among other seminars.

△ 69 (e)  iStudy Co.    https://www.istudy.co.jp/ (in Japanese)

A training provider on a wide range of topics for business skills.  It has an e-learning course on TRIZ for 4 hours.

△ 70 (e)  Nihon Techno Center Co. http://www.j-techno.co.jp/ (in Japanese)

A training provider on various technologies and methods.  It conducts several TRIZ seminars every year.

△ 71 (f)  Amazon Japan   https://www.amazon.co.jp/ (in Japanese)   

Amazon book site in Japan has the list of 51 books on TRIZ (including about 10 books in English).

△ 72 (f)  Rakuten Books     https://books.rakuten.co.jp/  (in Japanese)

This e-commerce site is good for surveying books, because it covers all the books selling or not in the site.  Site search with the keyword TRIZ gives the result of about 80 books, containing some noises in the 40 to 80 places.

△ 73 (f)  Google Books    https://books.google.com/ (in Japanese, English, and any other languages)

Possible to survey books written in Japanese, English, and any other languages.  Survey with the keyword TRIZ gives 867 hits.

△ 74 (f)  Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Nikkan BookStore http://pub.nikkan.co.jp/books/search (in Japanese)

A newspaper company specialized in business and industry.  The company has published 9 books in TRIZ and is the publisher of the monthly journal “Mechanical Design”, which posts articles/papers on TRIZ from time to time.

△ 75 (f) ITmedia  http://www.itmedia.co.jp/  (in Japanese)  

ITmedia is a portal site for posting news, reviews, and articles in a wide range of  technologies; TRIZ related articles are posted often.

△ 79 (g)  “MechatroIdea” (Kunio Fukatsu)   http://www.mechatroidea.com/   (in Japanese)  

A site operated by a retired engineer, posting his own articles on design methodologies, materials for engineering design, and his personal essays.  In the section of methodologies, a detailed report of his case study using USIT for improving a devise of stacking papers is posted.  Active in 2008-2009.

△ 80 (g)  “Idea Generator”  http://idea-create.com/ (in Japanese)

A new site created by an engineer for the people who want to start a new business.  He installs a software tool where the user specifies a keyword for his intended new business then the software shows TRIZ Invention Principles randomly to stimulate user’s thinking.   

△ 81 (g)  “TRIZ Megame”  http://trizmegane.cocolog-nifty.com/ (in Japanese) 

A blog site by a retired engineer, who is much interested in TRIZ.  A set of illustrated cards of TRIZ Inventive Principles is fancy to remember.  Active in 2011-2013.

△ 82 (g)  IdeaTool  http://ideatool.jp/ (in Japanese) 

A site dedicated to various methods and tools for idea generation.  Lists about 20 methods, explaining in 1-2 pages each.  TRIZ is introduced with a simple list of 40 principles. 

△ 83 (g)  “It’s a good solution, too”(Yoshinori Takagi) http://d.hatena.ne.jp/so-so/ (in Japanese) 

A blog site by Yoshinori Takagi, an engineer and idea creator in SONY.  He is the author of a best-seller book “TRIZ 40 Principles” (2014), which introduces the principles with illustrated symbol of the number, explanations and examples, etc.  He is working actively to proliferating TRIZ to university students and children, as vividly reported in the site.

△ 84 (g)  “Our Hope in the Heaven”  http://hiah.minibird.jp/ (in Japanese) 

A personal blog site focusing on technology foreseeing and intellectual properties.  Since 2013, the site already has over 350 articles (5 to 10 pages each).  The site owner reviews Takagi’s book “TRIZ 40 Principles” very well.  There are many interesting articles and thoughts in the site. 

△ 85 (g)  Yano Research Institute Ltd., “Creating the Future”  http://www.yano.co.jp/mirai/ (in Japanese) 

Yano R.I. is a service provider specialized in marketing and business solutions.  The site “Creating the Future” shows various aspects for foreseeing and creating the future.  Among 20 methods for generating business ideas, TRIZ is introduced with 40 Inventive Principles (in 5 pages).

△ 86 (g)  “Engineer Pit”    https://www.e-pit.jp/careerlab/5/1440 (in Japanese) 

The site Engineer Pit is operated by Forum Engineering Inc., a human-resource matching business.  Among many articles, an introduction to TRIZ (40 Principles and the Matrix) is contributed by an engineer, Takafumi Kuramoto.

△ 87 (g)  MOT Words Index (R. Takahashi)  http://www.ilibrary.jp/MOTtextBooks/words/WordsIndex.html (in Japanese) 

iLibrary site is operated by a voluntary group led by R. Takahashi, a six-sigma black-belt.  MOT Words Index contains about 60 items of MOT (Management of Technology) related methods.  TRIZ is introduced in 2 pages, in a compact and thoughtful way.  Active in 2006-2012, and some updating lately.

△ 88 (g)  “Engineer and MBA through adult education” (R. Takahashi)  http://tech-d.blogspot.com/ (in Japanese)

Personal blog by R. Takahashi, an engineer, six-sigma black-belt, and MBA.  Among many articles, the 4 essays on “Why QFD, TRIZ, and TM are not used much?” is interesting.  He says that the companies and engineers cannot stand for the long time to understand the depth and width of those methods”.

△ 89 (g)  ”Mainly on IP, sometimes on problem solving” (Chiharu Fukuda) http://ipmainly.com/category/triz (in Japanese)

A personal blog site operated by a patent attorney and young mother raising 3 children.  She is much interested in TRIZ and writes about its application in her everyday life.  A unique and pleasant site related to TRIZ.

△ 90 (g)  IoT-Kyoto.com http://www.iot-kyoto.com/ (in Japanese) 

A Web site by a group of 7 engineers, mostly owners and chief engineers in SMEs.  They contributed 5 to 10 articles each, posted in Feb. 2016 at one time.  Hidetsugu Morino introduces TRIZ and Goldfire Innovator in one of his articles. 

△ 91 (g)  SwingRoot  “Active Use of Web for Business” (Kouichi Takagi) http://swingroot.com/triz (in Japanese) 

A Web and blog site by a consultant on the theme of “Active use of Web for business”.  Introduces 8 methods for generating business ideas, including TRIZ. 

△ 92 (g)  “Self-Hacking” http://jibunhack.com/ (in Japanese) 

A blog of a young business person who is motivated to self-development and activation of organizations.  In an essay he introduces TRIZ after much moved with TRIZ at a seminar.

 

    (5) Sites Descriptions for the Japan WTSP Catalogs ( △) , sites Around TRIZ

△ 27 (b)  iTiD Consulting, Ltd.  http://www.itid.co.jp/ (in Japanese)  ; http://www.itid.co.jp/english/ (in English)

Consultancy in wide areas of business and technology.  Posting various articles on methods and their applications.  Directory of about 100 methods (in Japanese).

△ 32 (b)(e)  Functional Approach Institute  (Hisaya Yokota)  https://www.fa-ken.jp/   (in Japanese)

Consulting firm on Functional Approach (VE/VA) having big results in the field of civil engineering.  Introductions (and textbooks) on FA and VE methods.

△ 35 (b)(e)  ME Management Services, Inc. http://www.mejapan.com/ (in Japanese)  ; http://www.mejapan.com/_america/ (in English)

Consulting and training company on management efficiency and cost reduction.  Having group companies in Korea, China, Thailand, USA, and Canada.  

△ 38(c)National Institute of Informatics, CiNii Articles https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ (in Japanese)  ; https://ci.nii.ac.jp/en/ (in English)

CiNii Articles is a national DB service of searching for academic information of articles, books, journals, dissertations, etc.  It was operated as NII ELS from 1997 to 2017, and integrated into JST J-Stage in 2017, but keeps the service of existing DB.  Available for anybody without charge.   

△ 41 (c) “Guides for Industry-academia-government collaboration" (JST)   https://sangakukan.jst.go.jp/ (in Japanese)

Information source for promoting industry-academia-government collaboration, managed by JST.

△ 46 (c) The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers    http://www.jsme.or.jp/ (in Japanese)   ; https://www.jsme.or.jp/english/ (in English)

In the site there are some announcements of seminars on TRIZ among other methods.

△ 49 (c)  HatsumeiGakkai     http://www.hatsumei.or.jp/  (in Japanese)

A private organization started in 1954.  Conducting Sunday invention schools and competitions of inventions by school children, etc. in a country-wide scale.

△ 50 (c)  IPtops.com  https://iptops.com/  (in Japanese) 

Information site collecting IP news and IP blogs, accumulated over 100,000 logs for theses 10+ years. 

△ 51(c) FPIS (Federation of Patent Information Suppliers)   https://sites.google.com/site/federationpatentinformation/ (in Japanese) 

A group of about 30 IP companies/offices.  In 2013 a TRIZ specialist gave a seminar in their study meeting.

△ 52 (c)  Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence  https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/ (in Japanese)  ; https://www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/en/  (in English)

AI is an interesting area from our TRIZ eyes.  But the site of AI society mentions about TRIZ only in one article.

△ 53 (c)  Japan Creativity Development Center  http://www.jcdc.jp/ (in Japanese) 

Built in 2006 by Equivalent Transformation Creativity Society (i.e. a group of followers of ET (Equivalent Transformation) method developed by Prof. Kikuya Ichikawa).  The site seems to be closed lately in 2018. 

△ 61 (d)  Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology   https://aiit.ac.jp/  (in Japanese)  ; https://aiit.ac.jp/english/ (in English)

AIIT was established in 2006 by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, as a graduate school specialized in IT, design engineering, and innovation.  Professor Shigeomi Koshimizu teaches TRIZ and TM.  

△ 62 (d)  Tottori University,  “Hatsumeigaku” (“the Wonders of Invention”)   http://www.med.tottori-u.ac.jp/hatsumeigaku/ (in Japanese) ; http://www.med.tottori-u.ac.jp/hatsumeigaku/en/ (in English) 

A project for teaching simple methods for creating ideas (or the wonders of invention) to school children, conducted by Professor Masaru Ueki.  A charming booklet is published both in Japanese and in English.

△ 63 (d)  The Open University of Japan  http://www.ouj.ac.jp/  (in Japanese) ;  http://www.ouj.ac.jp/eng/ (in English)  

Established in 1983 by the Ministry, MEXT, for open higher education for anybody by using TV broadcasting at first.  It now has many courses for undergraduates, Masters, and Doctors, with current enrollment of over 90,000 people.  It uses Internet online lectures/workshops, archives, and off-line campus education. 

△ 65 (d) The University of Tokyo, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Masayuki Nakao)  http://www.hnl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/  (in Japanese)

Professor Masayuki Nakao has a wide range of research activities, including creative design methods and study of failures.  He was one of the pioneers of introducing TRIZ into Japan in 1990s,

△ 66 (d) Polytechnic Colleges and Polytechnic Centers  http://www.jeed.or.jp/js/kousotsusya/polytech_co/kenkyu/ , http://www.jeed.or.jp/location/poly/ (in Japanese) ; http://www.jeed.or.jp/english/human_resources/ (in English)

Both are operated by JEED under the Ministry MHLW for human resource development.  25 Polytechnic Colleges give 4-year college level education in industrial engineering and 64 Polytechnic Centers give trainings to unemployed people and SME employees; TRIZ workshops were conducted in response to requirements by SMEs.

△ 68 (e)  TradeCreate Co., E-PROJECT https://www.e-project.jp/ (in Japanese)  ;

A training provider on project management, with schooling, e-learning, and consulting.  It conducts two-day workshop on TRIZ and Design Thinking together.

△ 76 (f)  MONOist   http://monoist.atmarkit.co.jp/  (in Japanese) 

A portal site for specialists in monozukuri (or manufacturing) operated by ITmedia.  Introductory/review articles in TRIZ are posted from time to time.

△ 77 (f)  Keymans’ Net http://www.keyman.or.jp/  (in Japanese) 

An information site specialized for IT key persons in enterprises, operated by ITmedia Co.  A series of introductory articles on TRIZ is posted by Hideyuki Honda.

△ 78 (f)  Otsuka Corporation, IT Terms DIctionary  https://www.otsuka-shokai.co.jp/words/ (in Japanese)

A service provider for system integration and solutions.  Dictionary of IT Terms is useful; TRIZ is introduced in a page (of A4), taken from the article in ITpro by Nikkei BP.

 
 

 

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