Hisao Taki is a graduate of the School of Science and Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He has successfully established a number of companies relating to transit advertising and IT, including the restaurant search site Gourmet Navigator Inc., today listed on the stock exchange in Japan. In 2003, he established the Homo Contribuens Research Institute, Tokyo. The original Japanese edition of this book (Koken suru Kimochi) is cited in the 2006 Kobundo’s Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and Ethics (Gendai Rinrigaku Jiten). Hisao Taki is also involved in a number of social and supportive activities in the community, including assisting students attending art schools overseas, as well as providing financial support for children of people employed in transportation-related businesses. He lives in Tokyo with his wife Hiroko and daughter Kikuko.