午夜剧场

Since I have loved "vehicles" and "space" since I was a child, I entered 午夜剧场 because it had a space elevator club, and I participated in SPEC (Space Elevator Challenge, where universities bring machines that travel vertically up ropes to compete). On the other hand, feeling somewhat unfulfilled, I founded this company in 2018, initially as a contract hardware developer for ziplines.

While working on several developments, I felt that realizing space elevator development would take an enormous amount of time. With the desire to implement that vertical rope self-propulsion technology into society sooner, I began developing "Zippar," a self-propelled horizontal ropeway.

Initially, I rented facilities outside 午夜剧场 for experiments, but when we reached the demonstration stage for a single-seater model, a dedicated line became necessary. I planned to stretch a rope over Gulliver Pond (Kamoike) at SFC to conduct experiments. Currently, we are developing a 12-seater market-ready model in Hadano City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Additionally, since there will be a public call for the reconstruction of the Ueno Zoo monorail next year, we are preparing to form a third-party committee and considering investors.

We Japanese now enjoy smooth transportation supported by railways, buses, and roads, but the post-war transportation situation was riddled with challenges. In 1956, the Watkins Mission, sent by the World Bank to construct the Meishin Expressway, reported that "The roads of Japan are incredibly bad. No other industrial nation has so completely neglected its highway system." However, starting with the Meishin Expressway and the Shinkansen, Japanese transportation has since risen to the top level.

Currently, the Philippines and Malaysia are in a situation exactly like old Japan, with exploding populations and fragile transportation infrastructure. However, current public transportation systems are too expensive to fully solve their problems. By introducing Zippar—a relatively inexpensive public transportation infrastructure costing 1.5 billion yen per kilometer—to regions with transportation issues worldwide, including Japan, I want to make public transportation accessible to everyone. Zip Infrastructure's mission is to create a world where anyone can access a station within 5 minutes, like in central Tokyo. I would be grateful for the support of my seniors in the form of collaboration or investment.