Japanese Man Travels World, Seeks Global Entrepreneurs & Nomad Workers
Yuki Naruse, a Babson college alumni and student at Tokyo’s Waseda University, just started his tour to meet entrepreneurs and nomad workers all around the globe.
He is now staying in Singapore, and I had an opportunity to interview him before he left Tokyo last week. (Thanks to Hiro Maeda for arranging the interview.)
Why are you doing this world interview tour?
I had suspended my political and economic studies classes at Waseda University, and has been attending Babson College in Boston, MA for a year. Babson has a unique course specializing in the gig-economy and entrepreneurship, where I had an opportunity to learn about nomad workers and cosmopolitan work styles. Also I made friends with those who want to work and live in that way, and I just realized there are a number of nomad workers around the globe. Some of them are even Japanese. Then I developed a passion to meet them and learn their perspectives face-to-face.
早稲田大学の政治経済学部を中断し、マサチューセッツ州ボストンのバブソン大学に１年通っていた。バブソンはユニークなコース、特にギグ・エコノミー（非正規雇用が多い労働市場）や起業家精神に関するコースがあった。そこで、ノマドワーカーやコスモポリタン・ワークスタイルについて学ぶことができた。また、そういった道で働き、生活していきたいという友達もでき、世界中に多くのノマドワーカーがいることが分かった。その中には日本人でさえいるのた。それから彼らに直接会って、その考え方を学びたいという気持ちに取り付かれるようになった。
What is the main objective of the tour?
Basically I have three objectives for the tour. First of all, Japan is considered as an introverted society, but I just would like to make my efforts on changing it to be more outgoing, and encourage the Japanese young generation to go anywhere in the world. Secondly, I just want to build up a new world-class platform for nomad workers. There’s no blueprint for it in my mind so far, but I just want to embody the idea more concretely during the tour. Finally I just would like to discover good roll models as a nomad worker and a global entrepreneur, and introduce them on my website.
Which countries are you expecting to visit?
Starting with Singapore, I’m planning to visit Bangladesh, India, some European countries, South Africa, Latin America and several U.S. cities including Silicon Valley.
While traveling across the globe, he will keep updating his project website and Facebook Page with a bunch of interviews from nomad workers, and more information on the “gig-economy” digital workers and influencers. Keep an eye on his updates and kindly drop him a line if you are interested in seeing him.
