湯川カナ：Weakness, Essential for team building

YUKAWA Kana

一般社団法人リベルタ学舎代表、コラムニスト。長崎の船乗りの家庭に生まれる。地元の学校では、同級生の声をまとめて厳しい校則の緩和に取り組んだ。かねてより東京に憧れ、勉学に励み早稲田大学法学部に入学をする。在学中、孫泰蔵氏らと学生起業でYahoo!JAPANの立ち上げに携わり、「新しい国を作ろう」という壮大な野望のもと、個性的な創業メンバーらと一心不乱に働いた。Yahoo!JAPANは成長したが自らの体調を壊したため、ストックオプションをすべて返上してYahoo!JAPANを退職しスペインへ移住。人間関係の距離の近いスペイン人の気質に共感を覚えながら、ほぼ日への「カナ式ラテン生活。」のコラム連載や海外出産などを経験し10年間を過ごした。帰国後は、「全ての子供たちが笑顔になること」を目的にリベルタ学舎を立ち上げ、主婦のメンバーと共に社会活動や新たな事業の創出を行っている。

Representative of Academia Libertad Association, columnist. She was born in a sailor’s family in Nagasaki Prefecture. When she was a student, she organized other students’ opinions and tackled to ease strict school rules. She was ambitious to go to Tokyo. She tried hard and entered Waseda University to study law. During her university days, under a big dream of “making a new land”, she worked so intently to establish Yahoo! Japan with Son Taizo and other unique members. Although Yahoo! Japan went well, she fell sick. She gave up all of her stock options and quit her job, and she moved to Spain. She spent 10 years in Spain writing column “Kana’s Latin Life” for a blogsite, Hobonichi, and experienced her own baby-birth. She was deeply impressed by the Spanish mind of closer relationships. After coming back to Japan, she established Academia Libertad, aiming to “make every child smile.” She is now working with mothers to develop new social activities and start up businesses.