A strategy officer's brief, set on a dark green sheet

The homepage sits inside a single bordered sheet on a raised panel. A small eyebrow reads as an executive summary; beside it the headline, set for Hiroshi as Keeping food within reach as towns grow smaller, stands next to a compact square portrait of 120 pixels. His role and market follow, then his profile headline about planning for fewer customers in each town without leaving the towns. Below a ruled line the sheet divides in two. The wider column, numbered 01, carries his leadership approach, which begins with the observation that most of his towns will be smaller in ten years. The narrower column, numbered 02, lists five areas of responsibility, from store-network planning to seasonal visitor demand.

A band of three figures follows: net sales, supermarkets and vans. Beneath it, a definition list pairs each case title with that case's first sentence, so the closure of two inland stores, the move to a shared private brand and the checkout decision each appear as a dated situation rather than a claim. A link leads to the complete case record. The page then continues with Hiroshi's own home narrative: his one-sentence thesis, three introductory paragraphs, three proof points with their costs, his current work on a ten-year network plan and the single outside-director seat he would consider.

The palette sets cream type on a deep forest-green ground, with a lighter green sheet, sage rules and a sand accent for eyebrows, dates and links. For a grocer from Iwate this avoids the bright reds and yellows of supermarket promotion; the site reads like a board paper, which is what Hiroshi wants it to be. The renderer loads Lora for the name, headings and figures, and Work Sans for labels, navigation and long passages. Lora's moderate contrast keeps a Japanese place name or a yen figure legible at display size, while Work Sans stays clear in the small uppercase column labels.

The Career page becomes an executive-search briefing. Each of Hiroshi's six appointments is a ruled row with the title on the left and the dates set to the right, followed by a panel of company facts and a narrative. A reader can follow him from wholesale sales to village grocers, through store management and buying, into a coastal district after the 2011 tsunami and then planning and strategy, with team size and financial scope stated at each step. Board Readiness opens with his contribution, then places three columns between heavy rules: the committees he would join, his eighteen available days with the seat he is pursuing, and his governance learning. The supporting evidence follows, including the difference between presenting to Sawanagi's board and sitting as a nominee director elsewhere.

Hiroshi's argument depends on admitted costs: a van service that still loses ¥41 million a year, 120,000 labour hours of savings given up, two small suppliers lost to the shared label. A brief format lets those figures sit in plain view without decoration. The Impact page prints each case in full, including what he would change, and the Expertise page explains methods such as the store-renewal register and separate van accounts. On a phone, the portrait shrinks to 70 pixels, the two columns stack and the career rows move their dates beneath the titles, so a committee member reading on a train still meets the record in the intended order.

The Summary suits leaders whose strength is judgement under constraint rather than a public profile. A rural bus operator's planning director, a regional bank's head of branch strategy or a food manufacturer's operations chief would each benefit from a sheet that states scope before story. It also works for a first-time outside-director candidate who needs to be exact about which boards they have presented to and which they have sat on.