Toru Takahashi (Internet)

Takahashi at a meeting of the members of the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012

In this Japanese name, the surname is Takahashi.

Toru Takahashi (Japanese: 高橋たかはし徹とおる Takahashi Tōru; January 1941 – 20 December 2022) was a Japanese computer network researcher and businessman. He was credited with contributing to the spread of the Internet into Japan and the rest of Asia in the 1990s and was a pivotal figure in the early commercial development of the Internet. For this reason, he was often called the "Father of the Internet" in Japan.

Takahashi was born in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture in 1941. After graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Tohoku University in 1964, he worked as a contributing editor and writer. Since 1982, he has been involved in marketing of Videotex. Since 1986, he has worked on a high-speed LAN construction project using UNIX workstations and routers. Since 1987, he began researching the Internet and assumed office as a member of the Japan Unix Users Association. In 1993, he became secretary general at the time of establishing the Japan Internet Association and became its chairman in 1997. In 1994, he established the Tokyo Internet ISP and became its president. In 2001, when the Japan Internet Association merged with the Electronic Network Council and became the Foundation Internet Association, he became the deputy chief of Foundation Internet Association, and in 2002 became the chairperson of the Asia Pacific Internet Association, and later became a director.

In 2002, Takahashi received the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Minister's Award for Information and Communication. In 2012, he was chosen as the only Japanese person among the 33 members of the Internet Society's Internet Hall of Fame in the Global Connectors category for his contributions in spreading the Internet into Japan and the rest of Asia.

Takahashi died on 20 December 2022, at the age of 81.

Bibliography

• 高橋たかはし徹とおる (2000). インターネット革命かくめいの彼方かなたへ - IT国家こっか戦略せんりゃくと情報じょうほう化か社会しゃかい. ベストセラーズ. ISBN 978-4584185674.
• 藤田ふじた田た、高橋たかはし徹とおる (2001). 藤田ふじた田た社長しゃちょうが高橋たかはし徹とおる教授きょうじゅにIT特別とくべつ講義こうぎを受うける. ベストセラーズ. ISBN 978-4584186107.
• ティム・バーナーズ＝リー (2001). Webの創成そうせい - World Wide Webはいかにして生うまれどこに向むかうのか. 高橋たかはし徹とおる（訳わけ）. 毎日まいにちコミュニケーションズ. ISBN 978-4839902872.
• 高橋たかはし徹とおる（編へん）、安田やすだ浩ひろし（編へん）、永田ながた守男もりお（編へん）, ed. (2002). 次代じだいのIT戦略せんりゃく - 改革かいかくのためのサイバー・ガバナンス. NIRAチャレンジ・ブックス. 日本にっぽん経済けいざい評論ひょうろん社しゃ. ISBN 978-4818814523.

External links

• "高橋たかはし徹とおるは語かたる". インターネット戦略せんりゃく研究所けんきゅうじょ. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 29 June 2018.- Biography, introduction of books, etc.