Dr. Takashi Inoue, Chairman and CEO of Inoue Public Relations Inc. (IPR) is born in 1944 and holds a Ph.D. in public management from Waseda University. He is also a visiting professor at Kyoto University and Communications University of China. In 1970 he founded IPR serving the high-tech industries during the early days of “Japan as No. 1.” His firm’s first foreign clients included Intel and Apple. For Apple, IPR did the PR work for the 1984 launch of the Macintosh (Mac) in Japan. The company also helped Tenneco, the U.S. auto-parts maker, to realize de-regulation and won in 1997 the prestigious International Public Relations Association’s Golden World Award Grand Prize. In 2016, it won the Golden World Award for its work helping Concur Japan, Ltd. (a subsidiary of Concur Technologies, Inc.) change Japanese regulations for an innovative new product.
