Jun Isomura is delighted to meet twice. The first time I am in the front of a car, taking notes, he in the back, out of sight, answering questions in impeccably accented British English. It is only when we disembark that we finally meet face to face.
We meet again at Hachiko in Shibuya, where I find him as happy as a puppy. "Well that was interesting," he says. "All those people waiting for other people, and people like me watching who's meeting who."
Isomura, a pioneer in Japan's cyber security field, is a professional people person, a watcher and listener on the sidelines who spends much of his time keeping the wheels of politics oiled.
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