Kensaku Yamada is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2016-17.  He started his career as a software engineer for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.  Yamada has been engaged in software product development for operating systems and database tools.  Recently, he designed a customer's system as a system integrator as well as provided many other companies with hardware products like PCs, servers, and network switches.  Yamada graduated from Niigata University with an M.S. in information engineering.