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Mr. Hector Garcia
Author of IKIGAIHéctor García was born in Spain and worked at CERN in Switzerland before moving to Japan, his home for 18 years and counting. While in Tokyo when he is not writing his next book, he makes a living in the IT industry.
His popular blog led to his international bestseller A Geek in Japan and later on The Magic of Japan. He is the co-author of the bestselling Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life; translated to 70 languages. Ikigai has the strange honor of being the most translated book ever originally written in Spanish. To this day he has published ten books, the latest one translated to English is The Book of Ichigo Ichie, and recently he has published his first fiction work in Spanish.
Hiromu Inada
90 years old Tri-AthleteInada is the oldest triathlete to complete what many consider to be the most difficult race in the world — the ironman triathlon — at the world championships. But with his steely resolve, the Japanese senior aims to keep proving he can move mountains and that age cannot stop him from achieving what his heart pushes him to do.
While the standard, Olympic-distance triathlon race consists of a 1.5-km swim, a 40-km ride and a 10-km run, the ironman requires competitors to complete a race more than three times as long under a given time limit.
Dr. Makoto Suzuki
Director of the Okinawa Research Center for Longevity ScienceDr. Makoto Suzuki is a cardiologist and geriatrician. In 1976, he moved from Tokyo to Okinawa and began work at the Ryukyu University Hospital. While working in the field of community medicine, he discovered that there were an unusually high number of very healthy old people living on Okinawa. He began the Okinawa Centenarian Study, which has documented the phenomenon for more than 30 years. The findings of his research became the basis of several books that became bestsellers in Japan and around the world.