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Editor's Note (Toru Nakagawa, Oct. 6, 2014)
I have made a number of "From the Editor" pages so far from time to time in order to write on the purposes and operation policy of the present site, information of improvements/extensions, messages, etc. Such pages are located at different places (mostly under 'TRIZ Forum') in the page categories as well as in the folder structure. Now, on the occasion of introducing the four Entrance Pages and reorganizing the General Index pages, I have decided to make this Index Page and to accumulate all the Editorial pages with brief introduction and one-click hyperlinks.
Principal, standing Editorial pages are listed at the top, and then (selected) historical and new Editorial pages are listed below. (Please refer to the 'General Index (A) Editorial' for more detail.)
Guide to the present site (Standing information) ==> See below for some closer information
(1) Purposes of this Home Page (on the 20th Anniversary) (Toru Nakagawa)
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(2) Operation Policy of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (Toru Nakagawa)
(3) On the 20th Anniversary of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (Toru Nakagawa)
(4) New Information and Archives (since 1998)
(up to date)
(5) General Index
(6) Site Search in the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan"
(7) Four Entrance pages
Entrance page C:@Let's enjoy 'Think & Try' ! (for Children and Highschool students)
Entrance page S: For solving problems creatively (for Students and the General public)
Entrance page E: Methods of creative problem solving (for Engineers and Researchers novice to TRIZ)
Entrance page P: Practices and methodologies of Creative problem solving (for Practitioners and Experts)(8) Japanese pages of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan"
(9) Index Page of the Editorial pages (the present page)
(10) Index page of 'Letters from Readers' pages
(11) Announcements: Publications of Book Series "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" by CrePS Institute
(12) Announcements: Awards presented by the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Foundation
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Editorial: Guide to the present site: "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (Standing information)
(1) Purposes of this Home Page (on the 15th Anniversary) (Toru Nakagawa)
This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on a not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal site but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. I envisage that Pubic Web Sites built in different TRIZ Communities will form A Global TRIZ Community with much reduced language barriers
. Since last year I have been proposing to establish a General methodology for creative problem solving & task achieving by integrating various creativity methods including TRIZ/USIT
Operation policy as a public Web site is written, including: Ways of accepting contributuions, Assignment of copyrights, Handling of copies of articles and their distribution, Request of voluntary support for translation work, Update announcements, Accesss point to us, etc.
All the articles since the start of this site are recorded in the chronological order with brief introductions. Main and subsidiary pages (e.g., slides, PDFs, English/Japanese pages, etc.) are acessible with one click. The archives may be accessible throug the top part of the 'New Information' page.
All the articles are listed in categorized tables and are accessible with one clicks. Kept up to date. The 4 main pages are:
(A) Parent page & Editorial
(B) References, links, news, etc.
(C) Papers, case studies, lectures, etc.
(D) Forum, conference reports, communications, etc.
Keyword search by using Google Custum Search Engine.
In English: Search for English pages:
In Japanese: Search for Japanese pages:
@Entrance page C:@Let's enjoy 'Think & Try' ! (for Children and Highschool students)
@Entrance page S: For solving problems creatively (for Students and the General public)
@Entrance page E: Methods of creative problem solving (for Engineers and Researchers novice to TRIZ)
@Entrance page P: Practices and methodologies of Creative problem solving (for Practitioners and Experts)
English pages
CrePS Institute was established in 2013, Director: Toru Nakagawa
The "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Foundation was established by Toru Nakagawa in 2009.
Editorial: Index of 'From the Editor' pages (latest article at the top)
From the Editor: Message for the New Year 2021 (Toru Nakagawa, Jan. 3, 2021)
(Jan. 5, 2021)
On the 22nd Anniversary of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (Toru Nakagawa) (Nov. 11, 2020)
This Web site "TRIZ Home in Japan" celebrated its 22nd Anniversary on Nov. 1. I am very grateful to you all, including authors, translators, and readers in Japan and around the world, for your continuing support. This site serves as an open forum of information exchange for better understanding and usage of Creative Problem Solving Methodologies. Initially, I intended to introduce TRIZ, a Russian-based methodology for mostly technological areas, but along with the development of such methodologies the scope of this site became wider and deeper year after year. TRIZ itself has evolved to wider application including business and marketing, and has been spreading widely in the world. My own research has extended to USIT as an easy-to-learn TRIZ, the Six-Box Scheme as a new paradigm of creative problem solving, and CrePS (General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving) which intends to integrate and unify various methods by using the Six-Box Scheme. I found the fundamental contradictions in Human Culture and their solution directions in the relationships of Liberty-Love-Ethics. Such history of of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" is recently written in "Site Introduction (Features and Selected Articles)"
(Feb. 13, 2020).
This site is meant to openly publish information and communications on a not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal site but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas people. Four Entrance Pages have been installed in 2012 for your easy access to articles. Since November 2017, we have been working as World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP) and reported the completion of World Catalogs of TRIZ and Around-TRIZ sites at five conferences during this autumn
I wish this Home Page be useful for you readers to solve your various problems. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome.
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Here I introduce the features and selected articles of this site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan". This intends to be a manuscript of detailed site introduction for the WTSP Catalogs. Features are explained briefly on: History, Editor, Purpose, Fields/types/scopes of articles, Special features (Parallel in Japanese and in English, Methods for accessing articles). Then, articles are reviewed briefly according to the categories: (a) Introducing TRIZ （1997-2001）, (b) Introducing USIT （1998-2001), (c) Extending USIT (2002-2003）, (d) Absorbing Modernized TRIZ （2001-2004）, (e) Finding 'Six-Box Scheme' (2003-2006), (f) Japan TRIZ Society and Japan TRIZ Symposia (2005-2008), (g) Education with TRIZ/USIT at OGU (2000-2012), (h) Activities of JTS and international relationships (2009-2012), (i) General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving (CrePS) (2012 - 2016), (j) Various topics in wider scopes (2011-2019), (k) Social Issues and the Principal Contradiction of Human Culture (2015-2019), (l) WTSP Project (Dec. 2017 - present). About 160 articles are listed with hyperlinks.
On the start of New Year 2020, I wish you all the year be healthy, happy, successful, and the World be peaceful. (Sorry but because of the passing away of my younger brother Akira Nakagawa last March at the age of 75, I would refrain from celebrating the new year.)
Situations in the world, as well as in Japan, are getting unstable and more difficult in many aspects. In such circumstances, we are studying and promoting 'Creative problem solving methodologies'. I often feel what I can think and what I can contribute to the society and the world are quite small. But we have only to accumulate such small things day after day.
Reflecting the last year, I am thinking what I should do this year. A brief list of them are:
(1) World TRIZ-related Sites Project (WTSP): Last year we have built the First, preliminary version of the World WTSP Catalogs. This year we should extend and improve them much more. We have to make them evaluated as "The WTSP Catalogs are usefull to find good and important TRIZ-related sites with fair and close introductions". For getting such evaluations we need to make good examples of site descriptions after close surveys.
(2) Continuing the studies and promotion of Creative problem solving methodologies: Study and introduce excellent papers and articles in the world, build the Dr. Ed Sickafus Memorial Archives (on USIT and his further extensions), make some overview maps of various relevant methodologies, translate the "CID course for chldren" (authored by Natalia Rubina) into Japanese, etc. etc.
(3) Further investigate my findings about "Liberty vs Love Contradictions and Ethics".
(4) Try to keep my own daily life creative, healthy, and peaceful. I am now learning photography; See the results:
This Web site "TRIZ Home in Japan" celebrates its 21st Anniversary today, Nov. 1. @I am very grateful to you all, including authors, translators, and readers in Japan and around the world, for your continuing support. This site serves as an open forum of information exchange for better understanding and usage of Creative Problem Solving Methodologies. Initially, I intended to introduce TRIZ, a Russian-based methodology for mostly technological areas, but year after year the scope of this site became wider and deeper along with the development of such methodologies. TRIZ itself has evolved to wider application including business and marketing, and has been spreading widely in the world. My own research has extended to USIT as an easy-to-learn TRIZ, the Six-Box Scheme as a new paradigm of creative problem solving, and CrePS (General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving) which intends to integrate and unify various methods by using the Six-Box Scheme. Since 2015, I have been trying to apply them to social problems, and in 2018 I presented papers on the fundamental contradictions in Human Culture and their solution directions in the relationships of Liberty-Love-Ethics. Thus the scope and contents of this site have been slightly changing as a result of natural evolution.
This site is meant to openly publish information and communications on a not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal site but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas people. Four Entrance Pages have been installed in 2012 for your easy access to articles. Since November 2017 I have initiated the World TRIZ Sites Project (WTSP) for building catalogs of TRIZ-related sites in the world, and October this year we have reported the completion of the "World WTSP Catalogs (2019)". We are going to improve them further by voluntary collaboration of many TRIZ leaders over the world.
The number of visits since November 2005 is (on Oct. 31) 239,693 (increasing by about 2,500 for the last 1 year) to the top page in Japanese and 44,785 (increasing by about 1,500) to that in English. I wish this Home Page be useful for you readers to solve your various problems. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome.
This Web site "TRIZ Home in Japan" celebrates its 20th Anniversary on Nov. 1. @I am very grateful to you all, including authors, translators, and readers in Japan and around the world, for your continuing support. This site serves as an open forum of information exchange for better understanding and usage of Creative Problem Solving Methodologies. Initially, I intended to introduce TRIZ, a Russian-based methodology for mostly technological areas, but year after year the scope of this site became wider and deeper along with the development of such methodologies. TRIZ itself has evolved to wider application including business and marketing, and has been spreading widely in the world. My own research has extended to USIT as an easy-to-learn TRIZ, the Six-Box Scheme as a new paradigm of creative problem solving, and CrePS (General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving) which intends to integrate and unify various methods by using the Six-Box Scheme. Since 2015, I have been trying to apply them to social problems, and I recently presented papers on the fundamental contradictions in Human Culture and their solution directions in the relationships of Liberty-Love-Ethics. Thus the scope and contents of this site have been slightly changing as a result of natural evolution.
This site is meant to openly publish information and communications on a not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal site but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas people. Four Entrance Pages have been installed in 2012 for your easy access to articles. Since last November I have initiated the World TRIZ Sites Project (WTSP) for building catalogs of TRIZ-related sites in the world by voluntary collaboration of many TRIZ leaders over the world.
The number of visits since November 2005 is (on Nov. 11) 237,172 (increasing by about 3,300 for the last 1 year) to the top page in Japanese and 43,275 (increasing by about 1,600) to that in English. I wish this Home Page be useful for you readers to solve your various problems. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome.
Just before the election of the House of Councilors, I made a summary of my recent research, and sent it via post to about 250 people and posted it here.
(1) I have clarified the structure of ‘General Methodology of Creative Problem Solving (CrePS)’. (ref. TRIZCON2016 Presentation.)
(2) For applying CrePS to social problems, I visualized the logic of Fujita’s Book “The Low-living Elderly” in diagrams. (ref. A pamphlet of 24 pages of visualized LLE diagrams.)
(3) I critically reviewed the 82 customer reviews of the LLE book posted at the Amazon.co.jp site, and found in people a serious lack of understanding of social thoughts and social ethics. Considering its roots, I have recognized that ‘Liberty vs. Love’ is ‘the Principal Contradiction in the Human Culture’. Human Culture has been trying to solve the Principal Contradiction, but the contradiction has become even more complex and difficult to solve in many aspects. As we learned in TRIZ, we should recognize/understand the contradiction first and then working to solve the contradiction. (ref. ‘Liberty vs. Love’: The Principal Contradiction Inherent in the Human Culture. )
Editorial: 'New Information' posted in 2013 is moved to the archive file
Book series published by the CrePS Institute (Toru Nakagawa) are now purchasable at the Market Place of Amazon.co.jp. The printed editions of volumes (1A), (2A), (3), and (4) are available for the standard price plus 259 yen for delivery (as fixed by the policy of Amazon). No shipping out of Japan. Books and their DL editions are available at the DLmarket site as before.
Editorial: An Advice for Searching Pages in This Web Site (Toru Nakagawa)
Try to use the following alternative retrieval methods depending on what sort of pages you want:
(a) Top Page (for New Information (with introductions) within 6 months),
(b) Four Entrance Pages (for Children, for Students, for Engineers, and for Practitioners), [Table of Contents is added in each of these Entrance Pages. (Mar. 27, 2015)]
(c) Categorized General Index Pages (Editorial, References, Papers, Forum),
(d) New Information accumulated (for all the pages listed in the chronological order since 1998)
(e) Any relevant pages (use the links in the texts and in the link tables), and
(f) Site Search with Keywords
The General Index privides a large number of categorization tables which contain all the articles posted in the present site for these 16 years since its start. Each article is shown by the title, the authors, and the date of posting/update,and has links accessible with one clik to its English page as well as its Japanee page. With the accumulation of articles, the General Index page has become so heavy that I have divided it into four pages. They are:
General Index (A) Parent page and Editorial:
General Index (B) References: References, Links, News and activities, Software tools:
General Index (C) Papers: Papers, Case studies, Technical reports, Introductory articles, Lecture materials, Documents of methodologies:
General Index (D) Forum: Reports of conferences; Book reviews; Communications, discussions, questions, opinions, feedbacks, etc.; Collabo pages:Note that the pages from the Editor have been gathered in the Index page of Editorials
The top page of this site has just been renewed and four 'Entrance Pages' have been introduced, as you see. The table cells of 4 different colors are the icons to guide you to the Entrance Page suitable for you depending on your current situations and interests.
Let's enjoy 'Think & Try' !
(for Children and Highschool students)
For solving problems creatively
(for Students and the General public)
Methods of creative problem solving
(for Engineers and Researchers novice to TRIZ)
Practices and methodologies of Creative problem solving
(for Practitioners and Experts)
In each Entrance Page, I am planning to write some introduction at the top which may stay for some years, and I am going to show a list of selected articles which are suitable for the Entrance Page among the articles so far posted in the present site. Every such article is introduced briefly and is accessible with one click of hyperlink icons.
Each article is characterized with the marks in 5 different colors:
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old or not classifiedj.
A circular mark, either
Hyperlinks to articles are shown with the icons:English PDF page,
English brief introduction page, and
In ( ) shows the date of posting/updating in the present site.
Entrance Page C: "Let's enjoy 'Think & Try' ! " (for Children and Highschool students)
Entrance Page S: "For solving problems creatively" (for Students and the General public)
Entrance Page E: "Methods of creative problem solving" (for Engineers and Researchers novice to TRIZ)
Preparing these pages and editing the introductions to all the recommended articles, I would like to encourage you to read and learn these articles written by many different authors in Japan and all over the world. I hope the present site has become much more friendly for you with thes Entrance Pages.
Vol. 4 of the "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" Series published by CrePS Institute. Supervising translator: Toru Nakagawa. Original English edition: "Inventive Principles for Information Technology", by Umakant Mishra (India), Final manuscripts: August 2008. Soft cover, B5 size, 430 pages, 4,000 Yen + tax.
Vol. 3 of the "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" Series published by CrePS Institute. Japanese translation by: Toshio Takahara and Toru Nakagawa. Original English edition: "Hierarchical TRIZ Algorithms" by Larry Ball, posted in series in "The TRIZ Journal" from May 2005 to Jun. 2006 . Soft cover, B5 size, 208 pages, full color print, 4,200 yen + tax.
Also Vol. 3S:@"Hierarchical TRIZ Algorithms (for Novices) -- Illustrated Course Material" is publishedCcontaining introoductory and simple sections as specified by the author.
Vol. 2A of the "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" Series published by CrePS Institute. Japanese translation by: Toru Nakagawa. Original English edition: "Matrix 2010: Re-updating the TRIZ Contradiction Matrix" by Darrell Mann, IFR Press, UK, Nov. 2009. Soft cover, B5 size, 154 pages, 2,600 yen + tax. (With two A2 size sheets)
Vol. 1A of the "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" Series published by CrePS Institute. Supervising translator: Toru Nakagawa. Original English edition: "Hands-On Systematic Innovation" by Darrell Mann, CREAX Press, Belgium, May 2002. (In Chapter 10, the contradiction Matrix in the Altshuller's original form has been replaced with Matrix 2010 (by Darrell Mann). Soft cover, B5 size, 502 pages, 7,000 yen + tax. (With two A2 size sheets)
So far I published (or prepared for publication) five books from Sozo Kaihatsu Initiative, Ltd. (SKI) as the main translator. After a gap of one year since SKI's quitting its business, I have decided to restart the publication of the books by starting my own sole proprietorship, CrePS Institute, as a publisher. The books will be available in the form of Print on Demand (and digital downloading of PDF files) from the CrePS Institute page
in an internet downloadiing site 'DLmarket' in Japan
To my thanks, I have been receiving emails occasionally from various readers in Japan and from overseas. Communications suitable for open discussions will be posted. This page contains index tables of "Letters from Readers" pages.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates its 15th Anniversary on Nov. 1 together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on a not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal site but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. I envisage that Pubic Web Sites built in different TRIZ Communities will form A Global TRIZ Community with much reduced language barriers
Editorial: Collaboration Pages with the Promoters of TRIZ and Related Areas: Aims and Call for Contributions
Three years ago we started 'Collabo Pages' in Japanese. Since they may be productive also under international cooperation, I am now posting the descriptions of the aims of the pages and call for your contributions. Collabo pages accept contributions of (relatively brief) introductions/communications by different TRIZ promoters in Japan and in the world more-or-less regularly. This may be a new way of cooperation for proliferating TRIZ, much stronger than simple mutual links. [This page was prepared for posting on Dec. 24, 2010, but missed.]
A list of items which we should better do (with this Web site) for understanding and penetrating TRIZ is revised after 4 years of interval (in Japanese). (a) Revision of the list of TRIZ references and the list of TRIZ links (in Japan and in the world), (b) Introductory pages (or sub-sites) friendly to TRIZ novices, younger people, and children, (c) Collaborative pages with various TRIZ promoters, (d) Japanese translation of important overseas papers/articles, (e) English translation of important Japanese papers/articles, etc. Publication of books and training activities are also important for me to do. I wish the readers to cooperate with me in these activities.
Since the accumulation of articles has become so large in this site, I have set up the keywrod search facility of this site by using Google Custom Search Engine. Search for English pages
The present site has a powerful feature that all the articles accumulated for over 14 years are kept active with easy access. The General Index page is the key tool for the purpose. All the articles are classified into their categories and arranged in the chronological order (the latest at the top) in each (sub)category, and are accessible by one click to the individual pages. In the revision this time, the overall structure is kept as before without change but the categorization is slightly revised and is shown more clearly with the color coding of the table and in a consistent formatting. There are a number of articles which are added from missing, enhanced in the reference, moved to more appropriate subcategories, etc. The index is quite large, of 37 printed pages in English and of 30 in Japanese, and yet useful and handy for accessing articles you want.
Greetings from Japan for a Happy New Year 2013! I have resigned by the end of last December from the Board and Management Members of the Japan TRIZ Society, NPO. But I still have a strong will to "develop TRIZ/USIT further and make it useful for solving problems and achieving tasks in many and different issues in Japan and in the World", and continue to be active as the Editor of the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" as before. I wish to make this home page a 'Public site' really useful for learners and practitioners of TRIZ/USIT in collaboration with many authors and readers in Japan and in the World.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates on Nov. 1 its 14th Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on a not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal site but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. I envisage that Pubic Web Sites built in different TRIZ Communities will form A Global TRIZ Community with much reduced language barriers
The Award for the fourth year is to be presented to Professor Denis Cavallucci for his contributions and services over many years in the field of TRIZ. His contributions through the research, development, and education are highly appreciated and thanked.
I have retired Osaka Gakuin University by the end of March at the fixed age (plus 1). During these 14 years while I was working at Faculty of Informatics of OGU (and even during many more years while I was a student, and was working for the University of Tokyo and later for Fujitsu Limited), I have been owing much to you among many others for your kind support and collaboration. I am sincerely grateful to you all.
On the retirement, Osaka Gakuin University has given me the title of Professor Emeritus of OGU, and has allowed me to use my OGU email address permanently and kindly further to continue the operation of "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" in the OGU Web site. In addition, on a voluntary basis, I am going to continue my work as one of the Board Members of Japan TRIZ Society, NPO, and as the Program Chairperson of TRIZ Symposium in Japan to be held by JTS. Thus I am going to continue my TRIZ/USIT activities in a way almost same as before.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates on Nov. 1 its 13th Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on a not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal site but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. After the March 11 Japan Disaster, many people overseas sent us kind messages of prayers and encouragements, which were posted here both in Japanese and in English pages
On March 11, 2011 a huge earthquake (of Magnitude 9.0) and the subsequent tsunami hit Japan in the north-eastern part and caused terrible disasters, including about 30,000 (and still increasing) dead and unfound, and critical difficulty in cooling down the nuclear power plant complex. I sincerely mourn for the victims and pray for comfort for the people in the disaster. Having received many email messages of condolence and encouragement from our readers overseas, I am posting them in the Japanese page for transferring warm messages and also in the English page for sharing information and warmth of hearts. We Japanese thank you all so much. (Mar. 23, 2011)
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates on Nov. 1 its 12th Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal site but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. I envisage that Pubic Web Sites built in different TRIZ Communities will form A Global TRIZ Community with much reduced language barriers
A poster proposal at ETRIA TFC 2010. This is a vision and proposal for building a Global TRIZ Community effectively. My proposal is: (1) Let's build many Public Web sites in different TRIZ communities, and (2) set both outward-looking and inward-looking windows on them for overcoming the language barriers, and (3) form an autonomous global network of them in the Internet. This vision was obtained through my 12 years of operation of this Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan", and advocating it since 2007.
Photo Gallery is now open on the top page of this Web site. On clicking on a small photo on the top page, its full-size picture (of max. 800 pixels in width) will appear. Contributions of your photos are welcome.
New categories of pages are now started in Japanese. Several Japanese promoters of TRIZ and related areas are going to contribute (relatively) short articles regularly or from time to time. For each contributor an HTML page will be operated for posting his/her articles in a cumulative manner. The readers who are interested in the articles will visit the contributors' original Web site or Blog site. Thus a collaborative network of promoters' Web sites will be formed with stronger connections than simple mutual hyperlinks; The "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" is going to serve as the Hub.
The page of "TRIZ News and Activities" and its 10 children pages have been rebuilt and updated in the Japanese site. Corresponding rebuilding in the English site is under the way.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its 11th Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. I envisage that Pubic Web Sites built in different TRIZ Communities will form A Global TRIZ Community with much reduced language barriers
"TRIZ Home Page in Japan" (Editor: Toru Nakagawa) has recently established the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" Foundation, for the purpose of further penetration and development of TRIZ in Japan and in the World. As the first initiative, an Award was presented to Mr. Darrell L. Mann for his contributions and services over many years in the field of TRIZ and Systematic Innovation. His contributions through the research, writing, development, and training are highly appreciated and thanked.
Poster Presented at ETRIA TFC 2008. Various types of Web sites are considered from 4 different aspects: (1) ways of posting, (2) ways of reading, (3) ways of financial support, and (4) ways of description language. Desirable ways of Public Web sites are shown from these 4 aspects. The vision of the Global Network of Public Web sites having both Outward-Looking and In-ward Looking Windows is illustrated in a slide. The 10 slides well illustrate my original proposal.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its 10th Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. It is intended to publish most pages in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. On the basis of these experiences, I am now advocating the vision of "A Global TRIZ Community intermediated by Pubic Web Sites built in different TRIZ Communities" for overcoming the language barriers
Selected Papers in TRIZ are listed here; the papers written by Overseas (i.e. non-Japanese) authors and posted (or to be posted) in English and/or in Japanese in this Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" for these 10 years since 1998. All these are excellent papers I have learned much; many of them are openly available in English (or in Japanese) either in this Web site or in their original sources, but still many others are waiting for translation into Japanese and for posting. We recently obtained the approval by TRIZCON and ETRIA of posting original English versions here after several months of the conference even prior to Japanese translation under the permissions by the authors and the conference organizers.]
Selected papers from ETRIA TFC2007 are added in the list with brief introductions for the purpose of calling volunteers for translating them into Japanese.
I have described about the current situations and the target direction of this site. This site should not be a private site but intends to be a public one which accepts contributions by many authors and readers (in Japan and the world) and publicizes various TRIZ-related information actively from public viewpoints. A lot of things should be done for this purpose, and several tasks are now back-logged. I should very much appreciate your voluntary support for such a goal.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its Ninth Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. (The Official Pages of the 'Collaborative Board of TRIZ Promoters and Users in Japan' posted in this site are now fixed as they are, because the CB has finished its role and its successor, The Japan TRIZ Society, has opened its Official Web site in its own server.) It is intended to publish most pages in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. During last one year we had over 34000 visits to the top page in Japanese and over 4900 visits to that in English. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its Eighth Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. The Official Pages of the 'Collaborative Board of TRIZ Promoters and Users in Japan' have been posted in this site since last year, enhancing its public service. It is intended to publish most pages in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. During last one year we had over 31600 visits to the top page in Japanese and over 5200 visits to that in English. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
Four students who are just going to graduate our university at the end of this month have built a Web site named as "TRIZ Home Page for Students by Students"
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its Seventh Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. The Official Pages of the 'Collaborative Board of TRIZ Promoters and Users in Japan' have been posted in this site since last spring, enhancing its public service. It is intended to publish most pages in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
Japanese translation by Toru Nakagawa and published by Sozo Kaihatsu Initiative (SKI). The data book of "Matrix 2003" has been highly evaluated by Japanese users. The Japanese Edition contains a number of editorial improvement for users' convenience. The Q&A documents should be useful for readers of the English version.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its Sixth Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. It is intended to publish most pages in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
Supervising Translator: Toru Nakagawa; Translators: Knowledge Creation Study Group, Publisher: Sozo Kaihatsu Initiative (SKI),
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its Fifth Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on not-for-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. It is intended to publish most pages in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
Perspective guide to 14 articles on TRIZ and USIT posted in this site, mentioning their positions and the paths for reading. On a request by a project of translating some of them into Spanish,I wrote this for new readers.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its Third Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on non-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers, as you see already. It is intended to publish most pages in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
(Mar. 28, 2002)
Thanks to supports and contributions by many readers, this site has been accumulating a large number of articles. Thus the top pages of this site have been reorganized in a more readable format for new or novice readers as well as for regualr or expert readers. The General Index contains categorized summary tables of all the articles, which are accessible with single clicks.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its Third Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on non-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners /practitioners. Readers' contributions either in English or in Japanese are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
Nakagawa's TRIZ-related open activities, e.g. lectures, seminars, conferences, etc. will be posted regularly.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its Second Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on non-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/ practitioners. Readers' contributions either in Japanese or in English are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrates today its First Anniversary together with readers in Japan and over the world. This site is to promote the understanding and real usage of TRIZ by openly publishing information and communications related to TRIZ on non-profit basis. Though I have been operating this site as a volunteer, this site is not a personal but a public forum to be composed of the contributions by readers. Most pages are published in Japanese and in English in parallel for the purpose of mutual understanding and collaboration between Japanese and overseas TRIZ learners/practitioners. Readers' contributions either in Japanese or in English are heartily welcome. We wish that "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" continues to help readers understand and apply TRIZ better in their real problems.
!World 200 TRIZ Links' has been obtained by searching with Alta Vista with the keyword of "TRIZ". They are ranked with the number of links connected to. Supplements of Links to TRIZ Consulting Firms, etc. are composed.
In paralell to the Japanese pages, the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" is now open in English as well. Principal pages in Japanese are translated into English. It is my desire that the understanding and proliferation situations of TRIZ in Japan can be seen from abroad and the works in Japan are known in the world. The
This home page has been established as an open forum of information exchange for better understanding and usage of TRIZ, especially based in Japan. For the TRIZ methodology to be accepted widely in industrial sections and technological fields, we believe, not only profit-based activities by promotors and acceptors but also nonprofit-based and open activities of promotion, research, and education are necessary. This home page is established as a nonprofit-based forum of open information exchange and publication, and is operated on a volunteer basis.
Readers' contributions are heartly welcome, including introductory articles, papers, technical reports, case studies, news and topics, questions, comments, etc. on the topics of TRIZ and related areas.
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