Works
- Hassōhō: Sōzōsei kaihatsu no tame ni (Abduction: for the development of creativity), 1967
In Thinking Tools
Known for
A geographer and ethnographer, he devised the KJ method, named from his initials, to organize field notes: observations go on separate cards, which are grouped by affinity from the bottom up and then labeled and related. In English it is usually called the affinity diagram.