This guide to Tokyo and its environs includes up-to-date bilingual listings and maps, practical advice and chapters on excursions, language and cuisine.
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June Kinoshita is co-founder of Hanoa Productions, a firm that specializes in editorial content production, project management, social media marketing and strategic consulting in biomedicine and music. June was the co-founder and Executive Editor of the Alzheimer Research Forum ("Alzforum"), where she built and managed a multidisciplinary team of editors, writers, knowledge engineers, software developers, database designers and data curators to create the pre-eminent web-based scientific resource and online community in biomedicine.
As an entrepreneur, June co-founded and serves as Chief Marketing Officer of SociaLife, a start-up in healthcare social networks. She is also Chief Strategy Officer for fanatic.fm, a web-based music platform. Previously, she co-founded and served as Chief Information Officer of N-of-One, Inc., an innovative personalized oncology company. She actively blogs for Socialife and Opera of the Future and runs social media strategy over Facebook and Twitter for various organizations.
June is a member of the advisory council of the M.I.T.-Harvard Medical School Division of Health Sciences and Technology; an advisory board member for the Center for Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies in Santa Barbara; and is a founding board member of the Foundation for Alzheimer's and Cultural Memory. She was co-principal investigator with the Massachusetts General Hospital center for interdisciplinary informatics on SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) and has served on the scientific advisory boards of the Telemakus Biomarkers Project, Schizophrenia Research Forum.
As a journalist, June has published hundreds of articles for such national publications as the New York Times Magazine, Allure, American Health, New York Times Book Review, Technology Review, Longevity and Newsweek. She was also Science Consultant on the nationally televised series on women in science, "Discovering Women," produced by WGBH in Boston, and was Program Developer and Science Editor for "The Secret Life of the Brain," a five-part film on neuroscience, co-produced by David Grubin Productions and WNET in New York City (2002), and for "The Forgetting," a nationally broadcast PBS film on Alzheimer's Disease (2004).
June served on the editorial board of Scientific American magazine, where she specialized in the neurosciences and physics. She became the first staff editor to publish a full-length article in the magazine, a report on the Voyager II fly-by of Neptune from mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. June has been a consulting editor to the journal Science, where she spearheaded the journal's coverage of scientific research and biotechnology in Asia, and produced several landmark issues on science in Japan, China and the Asian "Tigers."
June graduated from Harvard College in 1980, where she concentrated in physics. She is the recipient of the M.I.T. Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, an award of excellence by the American Medical Writer's Association, and Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory's science writing fellowship. She received the 2006 American Aging Association's Excellence in Journalism award for her role in creating the Alzheimer Research Forum. Her work has been featured on NBC's Today Show, NPR and Oprah. June is the author of an acclaimed guidebook, Gateway to Japan (Kodansha International, 1990, 1993, 1998), and was a consultant for the feature film, Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Douglas.
As an entrepreneur, June co-founded and serves as Chief Marketing Officer of SociaLife, a start-up in healthcare social networks. She is also Chief Strategy Officer for fanatic.fm, a web-based music platform. Previously, she co-founded and served as Chief Information Officer of N-of-One, Inc., an innovative personalized oncology company. She actively blogs for Socialife and Opera of the Future and runs social media strategy over Facebook and Twitter for various organizations.
June is a member of the advisory council of the M.I.T.-Harvard Medical School Division of Health Sciences and Technology; an advisory board member for the Center for Cognitive Fitness and Innovative Therapies in Santa Barbara; and is a founding board member of the Foundation for Alzheimer's and Cultural Memory. She was co-principal investigator with the Massachusetts General Hospital center for interdisciplinary informatics on SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine) and has served on the scientific advisory boards of the Telemakus Biomarkers Project, Schizophrenia Research Forum.
As a journalist, June has published hundreds of articles for such national publications as the New York Times Magazine, Allure, American Health, New York Times Book Review, Technology Review, Longevity and Newsweek. She was also Science Consultant on the nationally televised series on women in science, "Discovering Women," produced by WGBH in Boston, and was Program Developer and Science Editor for "The Secret Life of the Brain," a five-part film on neuroscience, co-produced by David Grubin Productions and WNET in New York City (2002), and for "The Forgetting," a nationally broadcast PBS film on Alzheimer's Disease (2004).
June served on the editorial board of Scientific American magazine, where she specialized in the neurosciences and physics. She became the first staff editor to publish a full-length article in the magazine, a report on the Voyager II fly-by of Neptune from mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. June has been a consulting editor to the journal Science, where she spearheaded the journal's coverage of scientific research and biotechnology in Asia, and produced several landmark issues on science in Japan, China and the Asian "Tigers."
June graduated from Harvard College in 1980, where she concentrated in physics. She is the recipient of the M.I.T. Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, an award of excellence by the American Medical Writer's Association, and Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory's science writing fellowship. She received the 2006 American Aging Association's Excellence in Journalism award for her role in creating the Alzheimer Research Forum. Her work has been featured on NBC's Today Show, NPR and Oprah. June is the author of an acclaimed guidebook, Gateway to Japan (Kodansha International, 1990, 1993, 1998), and was a consultant for the feature film, Black Rain, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Michael Douglas.
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