Kaoru YamaguchiKAORU YAMAGUCHI is Professor on the Faculty of Management Sciences at Osaka Sangyo University, Japan. At the invitation of Jim Dator, he joined the World Futures Studies Federation in 1987, while he was teaching in the Economics Department, Universit of Hawaii. Since then he has been actively involved in futures studies, presenting his integrated economic theories at the world conferences in Beijing (1988), Budapest (1990), and Barcelona (1991). In June 1992, he was invited to attend the UNESCO seminar on Teaching about the Future in Vancouver, where he emphasized the need for a higher institution for future-oriented studies and proposed a series of future-oriented interdisciplinary seminars on Awaji Island, Japan. Read More Read Less