ABOUT
CEO
TABATA, Hajime
- 1971
- Born on May 5, 1971
- 1994
- Joined Tecmo Co. Worked on hit titles such as “Gallop Racer” and “Monster Farm 2.”
- 2004
- Joined Square Enix Co., Ltd. Worked on hit titles such as “Crisis Core – Final Fantasy VII” and “Final Fantasy Rei-Shiki”.
- 2016
- Directed and produced “Final Fantasy XV,” which became one of the biggest hits in the series, selling more than 10 million copies worldwide.
- 2017
- Produced “Tokyo University of the Arts Game Department (tentative) Exhibition” in collaboration with Tokyo University of the Arts
- 2018
- Appointed COO and Studio Head of Luminous Productions Inc.
Produced the CG video part of the NHK Special “Out of the Cradle,” which achieved a record-breaking count of approximately 300 million views on YouTube. - 2019
- Started JP GAMES Inc. with 15 development members who have worked on many hit titles such as the FF series.
- 2021
- Distributed “THE PEGASUS DREAM TOUR”, the world’s first official Paralympic Games application.
Released “Own World”, a metaverse construction middleware of our own technology. - 2022
- Appointed as a member of Keidanren’s Web3 Task Force and as an external expert of the Digital Agency’s Web3.0 Study Group.
- 2023
- JP UNIVERSE Inc., LOGSYS Inc., TBTLab
Announcement of Japan Metaverse Economic Zone
