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The 6th Story of Special Website Project
“Imagine the Year 2036: FORWORD THINKING IGNITE IMAGINATION”
How Author Toh Enjoe Imagines the Future

April 6, 2015
Ricoh Co.,Ltd.

TOKYO, April 6, 2015 –Ricoh released the sixth story in its serial website project “imagine the Year 2036: FORWARD THINKING IGNITE IMAGINATION”, in which Author Toh Enjoe, known for his Akutagawa Prize-winning novel, “Dōkeshi no chō” (“Harlequin's Butterfly”) and the Nihon SF Taisho Special Award-winning novel in collaboration with Keikaku Itoh, “Shisha no Teikoku” (“The Empire of Corpses”), imagines the workplace in 2036. The illustrations for the story were created by up-and-coming visual artist YKBX, who provided videographs for the Vocaloid Opera THE END.

This special project seeks to imagine the year 2036 through free thinking in collaboration with frontline creators who depict the near future in fiction, manga/animations, and video games.

*VOCALOID is a registered trademark of Yamaha Corporation.

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The sixth story of “Imagine the Year 2036: FORWARD THINKING IGNITE IMAGINATION.”

Author Toh Enjoe (left) and Hiromi Yoshikawa, a Ricoh researcher (right).

image: Illustration by visual artist YKBX

通过视觉艺术家YKBX插图

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