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He is the president of Chiba Institute of Technology. Following the exposure of his personal and professional financial ties to sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein , Ito resigned from his roles at MIT, Harvard, the John D. Ito was born in Kyoto , Japan. His family moved to Canada and then to the United States , when Ito was about three, to a suburb of Detroit , Michigan , where his father became a research scientist [ 12 ] and his mother a secretary for Energy Conversion Devices, Inc.

The founder of his mother's company, Stanford R. Ovshinsky , was impressed with young Ito, whom he thought of almost as his son.

Joichi "Joi" Ito (伊藤 穰一, Itō Jōichi, born June 19, ) is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

Ovshinsky mentored the boy's interests in technology and social movements, and when Ito was 13, gave him work with scientists, saying, "He was not a child in the conventional sense. Ito and his sister Mizuko Ito , called Mimi, spent summers in Japan with their grandmother, who taught them about traditional Japanese culture. Ito returned to the United States to attend Tufts University as a computer science major, where he met, among others, Pierre Omidyar , later founder of eBay.

Ovshinsky encouraged him to return to school. Ito enrolled at the University of Chicago in physics but later dropped out as the program was overly oriented towards producing practical engineers rather than teaching an intuitive understanding of physics. Ito also attended Hitotsubashi University , according to his essay in Japanese.

Digital Architect, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, author, and scholar.

Ito is one of Timothy Leary 's godsons—a close, nontraditional familial relationship that Leary reportedly developed for a few of his friends' children. Ito currently [ when? Ito became a disc jockey working in nightclubs in Chicago such as the Limelight and Smart Bar, also working with Metasystems Design Group to start a virtual community in Tokyo.

He helped bring industrial music from Chicago Wax Trax and later the rave scene, managing a DJ team and visual artists, including importing Anarchic Adjustment to Japan.