Institute / Research Cases
71 lives, read against the record.
Each Research Case tests the Quantum Spacetime Strategy OS against a life whose outcome is already settled. From a single date of birth, the OS output is set beside the public record, year by year — the founding, the summit, the fall, the handover. Analytical theory and historical fact are kept distinct.
Institute Selection
The Institute Selection — Top 25
Twenty-five cases chosen by the institute, in order.
Michael Jordan
Basketball
Why did Michael Jordan reach his first summit in a void year?
Steve Jobs
Apple
Why could he return to the company that had cast him out, in a year of the same cycle?
Oda Nobunaga
Warlord
Why did Oda Nobunaga fall at Honnoji, on the eve of unifying the realm?
Jensen Huang
NVIDIA
How did the chart with the weakest energy come to move the largest vessel of wealth?
Albert Einstein
Physics
Why did Einstein leave his greatest work in the period of his weakest strength?
Shohei Ohtani
Baseball · MLB
What was in motion in 2023, the year of the WBC title?
Michael Jackson
Music
Why did a body found “quite healthy” at fifty stop on that day?
Konosuke Matsushita
Founder, Panasonic
Why were both the founding and the incorporation placed in void years?
Leonardo da Vinci
Art · science
Why did his greatest masterpiece and his greatest loss arrive inside the same obstructed phase?
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France
Why was a destiny loved by heaven left unprotected?
Freddie Mercury
Queen
Why did Freddie Mercury’s legendary day carry light and shadow at once?
The Kobayashi family
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical
Where did father and son align — and where did they turn against each other?
The Otsuka family
Otsuka Kagu
When, and in what order, were the retained earnings lost?
Ichikawa En'o II
Kabuki
Why did Ichikawa En’o II close his life in a year of the same cycle as the year he took his name?
Masayoshi Son
Founder, SoftBank
Why does a destiny built for wealth run on the drive to attack?
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Why did a diary cut off at fifteen open to the world only after her death?
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
Why did the inventor who electrified the world die penniless?
Kakuei Tanaka
Prime Minister of Japan
How did a man who fell in public come to hold the greatest power behind the scenes?
Ichiro Suzuki
Baseball · MLB
Why did the bat stop five months after his twenty years of records closed?
Carlos Ghosn
Nissan · Renault
What overlapped in the decade in which his social position broke?
Kukai
Buddhist master
How did Kukai receive the missing element of his destiny — in his first decade and on the day of his final meditation?
Walt Disney
Film
Why was Walt Disney’s kingdom left unfinished?
Eiichi Shibusawa
Industrialist
Why did the enterprise grow widest across twenty years of headwind?
Hikaru Utada
Music
Why did her debut and her record-setting album fall inside one two-year void?
Kuroda Kanbei
Strategist
Why did the summit of his life come after retirement?
Field · 27
Business
The Otsuka family
Otsuka Kagu
When, and in what order, were the retained earnings lost?
The Kobayashi family
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical
Where did father and son align — and where did they turn against each other?
Tsubasa Yozawa
Entrepreneur
What happened in the same window, returning twelve years apart?
Hiroshi Mikitani
Rakuten Group
How does a twenty-year void show itself once it has closed?
Eiichi Shibusawa
Industrialist
Why did the enterprise grow widest across twenty years of headwind?
Soichiro Honda
Founder, Honda
Why did the company take shape inside forty years of headwind?
Kazuo Inamori
Founder, Kyocera
Why did he move himself from the summit of three industries into honorary roles?
Yusaku Maezawa
Founder, ZOZO
Why did the moon announcement and the sale of his company fall in the same two years?
Masayoshi Son
Founder, SoftBank
Why does a destiny built for wealth run on the drive to attack?
Fumiko Motoya
APA Hotel
What was the decade of advance bound to?
Carlos Ghosn
Nissan · Renault
What overlapped in the decade in which his social position broke?
Asako Hirooka
Industrialist
Why did she place the business in a man’s name?
Tadashi Yanai
Uniqlo · Fast Retailing
Why was Uniqlo born inside a twenty-year void?
Akio Toyoda
Toyota
Why did he come to lead inside a twenty-year void?
Jensen Huang
NVIDIA
How did the chart with the weakest energy come to move the largest vessel of wealth?
Shintaro Yamada
Mercari
How did a chart without wealth build a marketplace of wealth between people?
Michael E. Porter
Competitive strategy
From what position in time did the leading theory of competitive strategy emerge?
Jeff Bezos
Amazon · AWS
From what position in time did AWS emerge?
Tom Peters
In Search of Excellence
Why did that book sell far beyond expectation?
Jim Collins
Built to Last
Why did the summit of a life arrive in a void year?
Clayton Christensen
The Innovator's Dilemma
Why did the theory spread so explosively?
Konosuke Matsushita
Founder, Panasonic
Why were both the founding and the incorporation placed in void years?
Steve Jobs
Apple
Why could he return to the company that had cast him out, in a year of the same cycle?
Jack Ma
Alibaba
Nine days after a twenty-year void closed — the largest IPO in history.
Warren Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway
Inside a twenty-year void — to the richest man in America.
Osamu Suzuki
Suzuki Motor
Inside a twenty-year void — an adopted son-in-law’s bet on India.
Tomoko Namba
DeNA
Inside a twenty-year void — the partner who served, then founded.
Field · 18
Entertainment & Music
Masahiro Nakai
Television
What happened after the father who held him up was gone?
Takuya Kimura
Actor · singer
Why did marriage and the break-up fall on days of the same structure?
Namie Amuro
Singer
Why did she close the curtain herself, at the summit?
Yusaku Matsuda
Actor
Why do the day of his marriage and the day of his death share one cycle?
Jun Matsumoto
Arashi
Why did three milestones fall in the same May, three years running?
Michael Jackson
Music
Why did a body found “quite healthy” at fifty stop on that day?
Hikaru Utada
Music
Why did her debut and her record-setting album fall inside one two-year void?
Ken Shimura
Comedy
Why did Ken Shimura’s solo golden age arrive inside a twenty-year void?
Walt Disney
Film
Why was Walt Disney’s kingdom left unfinished?
Freddie Mercury
Queen
Why did Freddie Mercury’s legendary day carry light and shadow at once?
Yutaka Mizutani
Actor
Why did Yutaka Mizutani meet the role of his life in his most turbulent period?
Ran Ito
Actor · Candies
Why did Ran Ito close the curtain herself, at the height of her popularity?
Shuri
Actor
Why did Shuri take her parents’ path as an actor with a destiny that does not inherit?
Teruyuki Kagawa
Actor · kabuki
Why did Teruyuki Kagawa take his father’s stage name at forty-six, with a destiny that does not inherit?
Ichikawa En'o II
Kabuki
Why did Ichikawa En’o II close his life in a year of the same cycle as the year he took his name?
Murasaki Fujima
Japanese dance
Why did Murasaki Fujima marry in a year of the same cycle as her husband’s day of birth?
Yuko Hama
Actor · Takarazuka
Why did Yuko Hama part from a husband born on a day of her own cycle, and raise their son alone?
Ichikawa Danko V
Kabuki
Why did Ichikawa Danko V take his name in a void year, and play his grandfather’s signature role the year after his death?
Field · 8
Sports
Takanohana Koji
Sumo
Where in time did the choice of stable and two mid-life turns fall?
Michael Jordan
Basketball
Why did Michael Jordan reach his first summit in a void year?
Shohei Ohtani
Baseball · MLB
What was in motion in 2023, the year of the WBC title?
Naoya Inoue
Boxing
Why was a world summit born as the foundation of his fortune thinned?
Ichiro Suzuki
Baseball · MLB
Why did the bat stop five months after his twenty years of records closed?
Mike Tyson
Boxing
Why did Mike Tyson become the youngest heavyweight champion the year after losing his mentor — and return fifteen years after retiring?
Muhammad Ali
Boxing
Why did Muhammad Ali win, lose and regain the title inside a twenty-year void?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Football
Why did he lose one final and win another, twelve years apart, in years of the same cycle?
Field · 6
Politics & History
Kakuei Tanaka
Prime Minister of Japan
How did a man who fell in public come to hold the greatest power behind the scenes?
Kuroda Kanbei
Strategist
Why did the summit of his life come after retirement?
Oda Nobunaga
Warlord
Why did Oda Nobunaga fall at Honnoji, on the eve of unifying the realm?
Marie Antoinette
Queen of France
Why was a destiny loved by heaven left unprotected?
Toru Hashimoto
Politics
Why did Toru Hashimoto win his first election, and leave politics, at the two ends of his most turbulent period?
Akechi Mitsuhide
Sengoku Warlord
Why did he strike down the lord who raised him, and lose everything eleven days later?
Field · 5
Science
Nikola Tesla
Inventor
Why did the inventor who electrified the world die penniless?
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Why did the psychiatrist holding a visa to America leave it unused?
Charles Darwin
Natural science
Why did Darwin hold his theory for twenty years, and release it on that one day in 1859?
Thomas Edison
Inventor
Why did Edison bring a machine that records the voice into the world on those two days in December 1877?
Albert Einstein
Physics
Why did Einstein leave his greatest work in the period of his weakest strength?
Field · 6
Thought, Society & Art
Water and Fire
The conditions for conception
The decision to have a child, treated with the same method as business and succession.
Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
From what position in time did that book reach the world?
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Why did a diary cut off at fifteen open to the world only after her death?
Kukai
Buddhist master
How did Kukai receive the missing element of his destiny — in his first decade and on the day of his final meditation?
Leonardo da Vinci
Art · science
Why did his greatest masterpiece and his greatest loss arrive inside the same obstructed phase?
Helen Keller
Society · education
Why did Helen Keller gain language in the same period she lost light and sound?
Field · 11
Family & Succession
The Otsuka family
Otsuka Kagu
When, and in what order, were the retained earnings lost?
The Kobayashi family
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical
Where did father and son align — and where did they turn against each other?
The Hosoki family
Rokusei Senjutsu
What time did the founder of Rokusei Senjutsu herself live through?
Ran Ito
Actor · Candies
Why did Ran Ito close the curtain herself, at the height of her popularity?
Shuri
Actor
Why did Shuri take her parents’ path as an actor with a destiny that does not inherit?
Teruyuki Kagawa
Actor · kabuki
Why did Teruyuki Kagawa take his father’s stage name at forty-six, with a destiny that does not inherit?
Ichikawa En'o II
Kabuki
Why did Ichikawa En’o II close his life in a year of the same cycle as the year he took his name?
Murasaki Fujima
Japanese dance
Why did Murasaki Fujima marry in a year of the same cycle as her husband’s day of birth?
Yuko Hama
Actor · Takarazuka
Why did Yuko Hama part from a husband born on a day of her own cycle, and raise their son alone?
Ichikawa Danko V
Kabuki
Why did Ichikawa Danko V take his name in a void year, and play his grandfather’s signature role the year after his death?
Osamu Suzuki
Suzuki Motor
Inside a twenty-year void — an adopted son-in-law’s bet on India.
Time Phase · 36
The Twenty-Year Void
Cases with events inside the twenty-year void. In this period the frames of heaven and earth fall away, and fortune moves beyond the bounds of destiny. Growth far beyond one’s destined capacity tends very strongly to become fortune borrowed in advance.
The Otsuka family
Otsuka Kagu
When, and in what order, were the retained earnings lost?
Takanohana Koji
Sumo
Where in time did the choice of stable and two mid-life turns fall?
Hiroshi Mikitani
Rakuten Group
How does a twenty-year void show itself once it has closed?
The Hosoki family
Rokusei Senjutsu
What time did the founder of Rokusei Senjutsu herself live through?
Eiichi Shibusawa
Industrialist
Why did the enterprise grow widest across twenty years of headwind?
Kazuo Inamori
Founder, Kyocera
Why did he move himself from the summit of three industries into honorary roles?
Masayoshi Son
Founder, SoftBank
Why does a destiny built for wealth run on the drive to attack?
Asako Hirooka
Industrialist
Why did she place the business in a man’s name?
Takuya Kimura
Actor · singer
Why did marriage and the break-up fall on days of the same structure?
Tadashi Yanai
Uniqlo · Fast Retailing
Why was Uniqlo born inside a twenty-year void?
Akio Toyoda
Toyota
Why did he come to lead inside a twenty-year void?
Stephen R. Covey
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
From what position in time did that book reach the world?
Clayton Christensen
The Innovator's Dilemma
Why did the theory spread so explosively?
Naoya Inoue
Boxing
Why was a world summit born as the foundation of his fortune thinned?
Jun Matsumoto
Arashi
Why did three milestones fall in the same May, three years running?
Steve Jobs
Apple
Why could he return to the company that had cast him out, in a year of the same cycle?
Ichiro Suzuki
Baseball · MLB
Why did the bat stop five months after his twenty years of records closed?
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Why did a diary cut off at fifteen open to the world only after her death?
Michael Jackson
Music
Why did a body found “quite healthy” at fifty stop on that day?
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Why did the psychiatrist holding a visa to America leave it unused?
Oda Nobunaga
Warlord
Why did Oda Nobunaga fall at Honnoji, on the eve of unifying the realm?
Ken Shimura
Comedy
Why did Ken Shimura’s solo golden age arrive inside a twenty-year void?
Helen Keller
Society · education
Why did Helen Keller gain language in the same period she lost light and sound?
Freddie Mercury
Queen
Why did Freddie Mercury’s legendary day carry light and shadow at once?
Yutaka Mizutani
Actor
Why did Yutaka Mizutani meet the role of his life in his most turbulent period?
Ran Ito
Actor · Candies
Why did Ran Ito close the curtain herself, at the height of her popularity?
Shuri
Actor
Why did Shuri take her parents’ path as an actor with a destiny that does not inherit?
Ichikawa En'o II
Kabuki
Why did Ichikawa En’o II close his life in a year of the same cycle as the year he took his name?
Yuko Hama
Actor · Takarazuka
Why did Yuko Hama part from a husband born on a day of her own cycle, and raise their son alone?
Mike Tyson
Boxing
Why did Mike Tyson become the youngest heavyweight champion the year after losing his mentor — and return fifteen years after retiring?
Muhammad Ali
Boxing
Why did Muhammad Ali win, lose and regain the title inside a twenty-year void?
Jack Ma
Alibaba
Nine days after a twenty-year void closed — the largest IPO in history.
Warren Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway
Inside a twenty-year void — to the richest man in America.
Osamu Suzuki
Suzuki Motor
Inside a twenty-year void — an adopted son-in-law’s bet on India.
Tomoko Namba
DeNA
Inside a twenty-year void — the partner who served, then founded.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Football
Why did he lose one final and win another, twelve years apart, in years of the same cycle?
Time Phase · 13
After the Void
Cases with a major event in the first void year after the twenty-year void ends. Movement far outside one’s destined capacity tends very strongly to meet an adjustment near the end of the void, or in the first void year after it — as an “exchange of fate”, where fortune passes between members of a family, or as a “light-and-shadow return”, where the person is drawn from the light back toward the original place of their destiny. Another path remains open: to digest that energy in another form and complete one’s later years, as Viktor Frankl did.
The Otsuka family
Otsuka Kagu
When, and in what order, were the retained earnings lost?
Hiroshi Mikitani
Rakuten Group
How does a twenty-year void show itself once it has closed?
Yusaku Maezawa
Founder, ZOZO
Why did the moon announcement and the sale of his company fall in the same two years?
Takuya Kimura
Actor · singer
Why did marriage and the break-up fall on days of the same structure?
Tadashi Yanai
Uniqlo · Fast Retailing
Why was Uniqlo born inside a twenty-year void?
Naoya Inoue
Boxing
Why was a world summit born as the foundation of his fortune thinned?
Jun Matsumoto
Arashi
Why did three milestones fall in the same May, three years running?
Steve Jobs
Apple
Why could he return to the company that had cast him out, in a year of the same cycle?
Anne Frank
The Diary of a Young Girl
Why did a diary cut off at fifteen open to the world only after her death?
Oda Nobunaga
Warlord
Why did Oda Nobunaga fall at Honnoji, on the eve of unifying the realm?
Murasaki Fujima
Japanese dance
Why did Murasaki Fujima marry in a year of the same cycle as her husband’s day of birth?
Yuko Hama
Actor · Takarazuka
Why did Yuko Hama part from a husband born on a day of her own cycle, and raise their son alone?
Jack Ma
Alibaba
Nine days after a twenty-year void closed — the largest IPO in history.
How to Purchase
Purchase by inquiry
Each Research Case is a PDF report of 6 to 20 pages, priced at ¥50,000 including tax. Reports are written in Japanese.
Inquire
Email the case number — for example, QS-RC-066 — to the institute.
Invoice
We reply with an invoice in Japanese yen, payable by bank transfer. Transfer fees are borne by the purchaser.
Delivery
Once the transfer is confirmed, the PDF is sent by email.
As digital content, Research Cases cannot be returned or refunded once the order is confirmed. See the Legal Notice.
Contact
Purchase a Research Case
Send the case number by email. We reply with an invoice.
Contact the Institute