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This gentleman deserves to be the focus of this video. #Jasmy Chief Strategy Officer Tadashi Morita has taken a unique and little-known path, deeply rooted in the most significant technological transformations of the past fifty years. Behind screens, cards, protocols, energy systems, and machines lies a meticulous and visionary mind, one that has never stopped innovating.

Everything began in 1971 when he joined the Sony Engineering School. From the very beginning, he was immersed in the rigorous field of industrial precision. He designed testing fixtures for video recorder circuit boards, developed automated testing systems using early Intel processors, and manufactured data storage devices — at that time, personal computers were still just a plot in science fiction.

By the late 1980s, he was leading Sony's computer manufacturing operations in the United States. He ensured the quality of 3.5-inch floppy disks and CD-ROMs and played a key role in the production of Apple's legendary PowerBook 100. He was also responsible for supervising the establishment of overseas production facilities, a strategic move in Sony's global expansion.

In the 1990s, Morita ventured into the forefront of robotics and microtechnology. He led the development of high-speed chip mounters (also known as 'cellular mounters'), flip-chip bonding machines, and fully automated testing machines. These innovations elevated production line speeds to new heights while improving precision and reliability.

But what truly made him a technology legend was his tenure from 1999 to 2013. As the General Manager of Sony's Innovation Division, he led the development of the FeliCa smart card #Japan, an iconic contactless chip that is now used in millions of transit cards, IDs, and payment cards. He joined the NFC Forum as a board member and helped establish the global NFC protocol's standardization, which is the cornerstone of contactless payments on today's smartphones.

He was also responsible for overseeing the development of mobile FeliCa chips, their secure operating systems, and the entire NFC certification ecosystem. He led the format and security architecture for Sony's entire contactless platform and headed the company's security engineering team.

However, Morita is not just building protocols; he is shaping trust. He became an open systems strategist, advising the Japanese government's CREST DÉOS project on how to create reliable and secure architectures. He conducted in-depth research on smart cards and even invented a secure scripting language.

After 2013, he resigned from his executive position at Sony but continued to contribute as a visiting researcher. He began focusing on energy innovation, developing concepts for open energy systems based on AC microgrids, bidirectional battery-powered inverters, and peer-to-peer energy exchange protocols. He also invented a technology called ArcFree, designed to prevent arcing in DC systems. His work contributed to the international standard IEC 62853, laying the foundation for future decentralized energy infrastructure.

Meanwhile, he founded the Interactor Promotions Laboratory, dedicated to building peer-to-peer operating systems for mesh networks. He envisioned the development of a remotely programmable, secure interactive processor that would bring the principles of open systems into the hardware world.

Since 2020, Tadashi Morita has served as the Chief Strategy Officer of #Jasmy. Here, he brings together decades of experience in blockchain, security, and distributed architecture. At Jasmy, he leads strategies for digital trust, data sovereignty, and secure interoperability, combining his experience in FeliCa/NFC with next-generation open systems.

Masafumi Morita has never been the focus of public attention. But his fingerprints are everywhere. In the transit cards used by millions in Japan. In mobile payments. In secure embedded systems.. In renewable energy microgrids. Now, in the protocols that define future digital sovereignty.