MASAKI WATANABE - Client Director, JKR
Masaki joined in 2001 and has overall responsibility for all the company’s brand consulting including consumer packaged goods, foods, beverages, and mobile phones.

Before joining the company he was, from 1984 to 2000, Brand and Marketing Manager for Levi Strauss Japan K. K. Previously to that he worked for 2 years for Triumph International Japan, the woman’s underwear manufacturer and, before that, between 1973 and1981, worked for Shakai Chosa Research Institutes and AD Research.

Masaki is bilingual and after graduating from Rikkyo (St. Paul) University in 1970 with a BA in Sociology, worked for the Soken Institute, one of Japan’s oldest established research firms.