Yuichiro Muramatsu is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  He started his career as a software engineer for Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.  Muramatsu has been engaged in system engineering designing and consulting tendency analysis for many companies, as well as bridge system engineering that brings and localizes the off-shore software product to Japan and aboard.  Muramatsu graduated from Chiba University with a B.S. in electric engineering.