IPA’s Mr. Tsuda Receives FORBES Japan’s “30 Under 30” Award

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Mr. Tsuda of IPA, whom I think is one of the ID geeks, has been selected for FOEBES JAPAN 30Under30 2026. He is the second member of the ID-geek circle to receive it, the first being Kristina Yasuda (@kristinayasuda) 7 years ago. Isn’t that a high proportion of ID geeks?

And perhaps even bigger is fellow recipient Juufutei Raden (@juufuuteiraden). I’m a fan 😁, and I subscribe as well. After all, cultural activities need support.

青い背景に黒い衣装の儒烏風亭らでん。右下に「Forbes JAPAN 30 UNDER 30 JAPAN 2026」のロゴ — 儒烏風亭らでん🐚ReGLOSS (@juufuuteiraden) August 25, 2026

And the article was posted by Virtual Bishoujo Nemu / Nem ⚡️, who appears to have renamed herself and recommends Juufutei Raden. It seems she recommended her as a member of the advisory board.

Forbes JAPANの儒烏風亭らでん掲載ページ。左に「境界なき文化を行き来して美術と視聴者をつなぐ」の見出し、右に青い背景の儒烏風亭らでん — — バーチャル美少女ねむ/Nem⚡儒烏風亭らでんちゃん推薦系VTuber (@nemchan_nel) August 25, 2026

It’s a small world, isn’t it?

When I visited the FORBES Japan site, I also found other award recipients such as Ikuta Rira and BABYMETAL, ¹, and it made me realize anew just how remarkable this is.

Mr. Tsuda will speak at today’s OpenID Summit 2026.

Open Data Spaces: Agentic AI時代の分散データマネジメント
津田通隆独立行政法人情報処理推進機構デジタルアーキテクチャ・デザインセンター情報分析官／Open Data Spaces Chief Architect（最高設計責任者） — (source) https://www.openid.or.jp/summit/2026/#schedule-timetable

I also dug up Kristina Yasuda’s article from 2019.

Time really flies. 2019 years already. Time flies like an arrow. No wonder I’m getting old.

Recently, people have been telling me that I’ve aged, but I have to keep going a little longer.

Footnotes

although I cannot help feeling that it is a little late to say so now

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