**Author details**

Sankhani Hemachandra<sup>1</sup> and Nora Sharkasi<sup>2</sup> \*

1 Digital Business and Innovation Program, Tokyo International University, Japan

2 Institute for International Strategy (IIS), Tokyo International University, Kawagoe, Japan

\*Address all correspondence to: nsharkas@tiu.ac.jp

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