Institution designer & civic-tech builder · Independent researcher · VR citizen
Make the flows visible. Then design incentives that don't depend on price.
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I'm interested in how resources, money, rights, and responsibilities move through networks of identities—and how institutions can remain functional when price alone isn't enough to motivate participation.
My long-term focus is public welfare and local government. I explore how systems allocate resources, distribute authority, establish accountability, and create incentives for cooperation.
I'm less interested in wealth as an end in itself than in the rules that govern how it is created, allocated, and used. I want to understand who can do what, who bears the costs, who is accountable, and what makes participation worthwhile.
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Make flows traceable. Build ledgers, accounts, transaction histories, and provenance records. A system is difficult to understand or audit if its flows cannot be followed.
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Design beyond price alone. Explore how qualifications, permissions, roles, reputation, and shared decision-making can complement monetary incentives.
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Test in a sandbox first. Build small, runnable systems—such as a Minecraft economic simulation—to make rules executable, observe their behavior, and find problems before considering real-world applications.
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Connect models to real public data. Work with municipal finances, infrastructure, and labor statistics, while making source quality and data limitations explicit.
Related fields: Mechanism design · Institutional economics and commons governance · Public finance and asset management · Public accounting · Civic technology
- 🐝 Bee-My-Honey v0.4.5: An economic simulation with loans, transaction history, a quest board, staffing dispatch, and pool cash-out. Next: exchange and supply-chain systems.
- 🗺️ Hataraki Map: Building a labor-economics dashboard for Chiba Prefecture using official statistics, explicit source-reliability labels, and an occupation taxonomy that distinguishes license-restricted work from unlicensed work.
- 🔌 Second-Class Electrician: Studying for Japan's written examination, with a longer-term interest in off-grid and distributed energy systems.
- 📖 Sister and Bread: Writing a long-form science-fiction novel planned for 120 episodes and approximately 175,000 Japanese characters.
- 🌐 Localization: Contributing Japanese translations as KOKUTEN on Weblate, including Sim Companies. Ranked #1 in translation activity across projects.
| Project | What it explores | Status |
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| 🐝 Bee-My-Honey | An anarcho-market economy simulator exploring stocks, foreign exchange, futures, banking, mail-order commerce, labor markets (HRMHRM), loans, quests, and staffing dispatch. Includes identity-based corporate templates, an accounting layer, and a cold wallet that turns keys into story-form passphrases. Public welfare is being designed as a major sink for circulating money. Japanese and English UI. | v0.4.5 |
| ⛵ Bell-Boats | Base registration and transportation using bell-based identity anchors. | Released |
| Project | What it does | Status |
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| Hataraki Map | A labor-economics dashboard for Chiba Prefecture. Uses MapLibre GL JS, manifest-driven JSON, official statistics with source-reliability labels, and an occupation taxonomy distinguishing license-restricted from unlicensed work. | In progress |
| Open-Civic-Data-Harvester | Extracts structured data from municipal settlement and infrastructure documents to support public-sector analysis. | GitHub |
| Yorbee | Explores skill matching by decomposing jobs into tasks and skills rather than treating job titles as indivisible units. | GitHub |
| Political Party Matching Style Simulator | Models the 2026 House of Representatives election pledges as parameters to explore trade-offs involving take-home pay, inflation, and administrative distortion. | Live |
| Central Bank Simulator | Visualizes how interest-rate changes can affect households and market expectations. | Live |
| Project | What it does | Status |
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| SONA-OS | System design for an off-grid home managed by an AI character, Sona. | GitHub |
| 🔋 Hungry Sona | An interface experiment that maps a phone's battery level to an AI character's hunger, turning charging into a form of feeding. | Live |
- Python: Data analysis, simulation, and Streamlit applications
- Web visualization: MapLibre GL JS, WebGL, and JSON-driven dashboards
- Minecraft Bedrock Script API: Economic systems, markets, and game mechanics
- C# · Unity and tooling
- Civic technology: Public-data processing, administrative analysis, and open-data workflows
- 3D modeling: Blender, VRM, sound editing, and illustration (drawing dots!)
- Conlang & worldbuilding: Manihoria Common Language, including its writing system, grammar, and custom font
- Fiction: Sister and Bread
- Localization: Weblate and Japanese-language game localization
- Second-Class Electrician (Japan)
- Off-grid and distributed energy systems