Photo-Illustration: The Strategist The Hobonichi Techo planner was the first thing I bought myself when I got hired at the Strategist eight years ago, and I have faithfully bought a new one every year since. Originally designed in 2001, as the brainchild of Japanese polymath Shigesato Itoi, editor-in-chief of the website Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun . Itoi had also worked as a prolific copywriter and video-game designer and is the famous voice behind Tatsuo Kusakabe in Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor