Japan’s first national full marathon winner, at the age of 73, reveals his achievements as a digital legacy
*Life DX Promotion Association, General Incorporated Association* Press release: August 13, 2024
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Japan’s first national full marathon winner, at the age of 73, reveals his achievements as a digital legacy
*After 50 years of running and 344 times, the footprints of Japan’s first 47-prefecture full marathon conquest are now available to the public at the “Digital Memo Heritage” managed by the Life DX Promotion Association*
March 2024 National victory in Fukui Sakura Marathon
Amidst the accelerating decline in the birthrate and aging of society, the black box society including AI, and large-scale natural disasters such as the Nankai Trough, it will become even more important to “establish the individuality, dignity, and sophistication of each person.”
As the first step in solving various social issues, we will digitize the lives of people, pets, animals and plants (referred to as “life DX”) to truly improve people’s QOL and pass on their life experiences and wisdom to the next generation/future. The Life DX Promotion Association (Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Chairman: Takayuki Sato, hereinafter referred to as the Association), which aims to connect and utilize, is working on a digital memorandum heritage that connects to the future. We would like to inform you that “Cutting the Wind, My Life – Footsteps of Conquering the National Full Marathon” written by Mr. Okada) has been officially registered and is now open to the public.
Digital Memorandum Heritage refers to our association’s partner, X-Life Co., Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo: Representative Director) It is one of the services of “xLife”, an all-in-one cloud platform that realizes life DX provided by Takayuki Sato), which allows us to share our life stories (memoirs, autobiographies), life experiences, wisdom, and thoughts. It is a system that connects us now, to the next generation, and far into the future.
About xLife
xLife allows you to use digital services related to your life for free in principle. Everyone has a MyCARD (smartphone business card) and an exchange folder, a life log that records oneself from various perspectives, end-of-life services and digital grave markers (cyber graves), and growth records of pets and the animals and plants they raise. More than 30 icons related to life are prepared, such as various connections and graves of animals at the time of death (digital pet grave markers). It is an all-in-one life digitization service that links all data related to an individual.
One of them, the “Memoir Heritage” icon, is a service for creating digital memorandum heritage, applying for registration, and making it available to the public.
Our association has named the “Memoir Heritage” the “experiences, wisdom, and thoughts based on living proofs” of a unique life, which no one is the same, as a heritage that humankind should remember and pass on to the future. We have established a genre and are promoting activities to popularize it as a new social culture starting from Reiwa.
Mr. Okada, who has been registered as a memorandum heritage, was born in December 1950 in Kunisaki City, Oita Prefecture, as the second son of a farmer.
This was the year when the Korean War broke out and post-war reconstruction gained momentum, but the scars of the war had not healed and society was still poor, and Mr. Okada had a thatched roof, a dirt floor in the kitchen, and a blue general on the ceiling, along with his family. Everyone turned out to make rice cakes, and all the brothers helped out in the family business.
Although Mr. Okada had no involvement in sports, he grew up
energetically and entered the Kyushu University Faculty of
Engineering.
Frank Shorter running the 1972 Fukuoka International Marathon While I was in college, I happened to see Frank Shorter running in the Fukuoka International Marathon while I was playing mahjong, and I was moved by the sight of him running in the Fukuoka International Marathon.
After graduating from university, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (currently NTT), and three years later, in October 1976, he was selected as a member of the in-house relay race, which was a social boom at the time, and ran for the first time.
In November 1990, 14 years after running for the 38th time, at the age of 40, I participated in the Tsukuba Marathon in Ibaraki Prefecture, my first attempt at a full marathon, and successfully completed it. Since then, with the dedicated support of his wife and family, he has continued to travel across the country, adjusting his work schedule.
Achieved 100 full marathons
2013.10.27 Osaka Yomiuri Tokatsu version
34 years later, he won the 47-prefecture full marathon at the Fukui Prefecture “Fukui Sakura Marathon” held in March 2024, his 343rd time running (145th full marathon).
This is the first full marathon to be held in Fukui Prefecture, and it is a national victory that only someone who has already conquered the 46 prefecture full marathons can achieve, a feat achieved by Mr. Okada at the age of 73.
Full marathon national conquest map
Mr. Okada has kept detailed records of race data for all 344 tournaments in which he has participated.
Mr. Okada, who has been running for 50 years while feeling the “wind” (nature, people, culture) all over the country, has written this memoir that has surprised and moved not only running fans but also us as a life story. I’ll give it to you. Please take a look.
Memorandum heritage can be viewed by anyone, not just xLife members, on a smartphone or PC.
Digital Memo Heritage Link: https://www.xlife.jp
(1) The xLife TOP screen will appear. Tap the red bar here, Memorandum Heritage (on this screen, you can register as a new individual member, register as a business member, and also log in as a member). xLifeTOP screen
model membership card
(2) Demo Taro’s model membership card will be displayed. Here, tap Memorandum Heritage in the red bar again. The Digital Memoir Heritage will be displayed (you can also try out various icons on Demo Taro and experience xLife).
(3) Digital memorandum heritage. Mr. Okada’s memo legacy is published in the category “Senior Dream Achievement.”
Digital memorandum heritage (excerpt)
Mr. Okada has been an active runner all his life and continues to run 10km every day and continues to take on the challenge of various marathons.
Currently, the memorandum heritage includes general memorandums as life memoirs, as well as “Connecting the Great East Japan
Earthquake” written by the mayors and others who took command at the time of the disaster, and 80 years after the war, the last generation of people to know about it. “Conveying the war to the present”, “Battle from the dawn” of the Showa generation looking back on the battles of new industries and businesses created by post-war reconstruction and high economic growth, “Achieving senior dreams” to support the energy of the senior generation, “Japanese culture exploration” where you visit Japanese culture and ruins and write down your thoughts; “connecting families” where you write down your family’s history and pass it on to your children and grandchildren; A variety of genres are set, such as “Connecting Lives”.
Anyone can apply for registration of any number of their life stories, experiences, and thoughts associated with the Digital Memoir Heritage (notes that violate public order and morals may not be published). Everyone has their own story of joy and sadness. Even after you are taken to heaven, your story will live on for your children,
grandchildren, and far into the future.
This is one of the major themes of “xLife”, a great romance for the future starting from Reiwa.
●What is the Life DX Promotion Association?
– Utilize it now and keep you alive in the future –
Through Life DX, which digitizes the entire lives of people, pets, animals and plants, we aim to improve the quality of life of all living things.
We aim to improve people’s lives and connect them to the future. The specific activities using “xLife”, which provides all-in-one life DX, are as follows.
1. New connections and family tree support with MyCARD (smartphone business card)
Family/relatives/friends, loved ones will not disappear, the current situation can be seen
2. Creating a “landscape” in your life: Recording a life log You only live once, so let’s stop and think about tomorrow (1st, January, 1st year)
3. “Last message” to your loved ones in case of emergency, “digital grave marker” erected by yourself,
Temple/Spread of a new form of sutra “sutra card”
4. A new social culture, a “digital memorandum heritage” that connects us to the next generation and the future
Passing on your thoughts, experience, and wisdom to the future 5. A new symbiotic society with pets, animals, and plants
Utilization of “growth record and pet score”, “groomer shared medical record” and “digital grave marker”
Our motto is “Digitalization by yourself to hone your
sensibilities,” and we aim to walk together as a lifelong partner. Even after your limited life ends, your xLife will continue to live on, connecting your existence to the future.
PMO/H1O Kojimachi 212, 6-2-6 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0083 Phone number: 03-6261-3305
Email: info@lifedx-ea.com
URL: https://www.lifedx-ea.com/
●What is X-Life Co., Ltd.?
It is a senior venture run by people with IT experience, mostly in their 70s, and aims to provide clues to solving future social issues that seniors are concerned about.
・Information decentralization society due to heavy use of apps ・Fake due to SNS addiction ・Tsukewarai same society
・Black box society based on AI myth
・Aging society with declining birthrate
・Natural disaster society
A new cloud type that supports the digitization of living things (people, pets, animals, plants) as a basis for solving this problem, and can also link the services of various surrounding businesses (companies/organizations, local governments, temples, veterinarians, groomers, etc.) It provides the platform “xLife”.
URL: https://www.xlife.co.jp/
Email: info@xlife.co.jp