For years, Marco Tempest’s masterful blend of digital media and magic has enabled audiences to glimpse the future before technology gets there.
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Read moreAt the age of 27, Toshio Tanahashi quit the rat race and became an apprentice at the Zen Buddhist Gesshin Temple in Shiga Prefecture. Through three ye
Read moreKen Mogi’s mission is to understand how qualia—the subjective sensory qualities that roam our consciousness, like the “redness” of red—arise from the
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Read moreWhen Jesper Koll peers at Japan’s inner financial mechanisms, people line up to find out what he sees. Consistently ranked as one of the savviest Japa
Read moreJesper Koll calls himself a professional Japan optimist, but that doesn’t prevent him from speaking constructive truths to power. An advisor to a broa
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Read moreNaohiko Umewaka’s family lineage in the art of Noh dates back six hundred years. His greatgrandfather, Umewaka Minoru, is credited with saving Noh the
Read moreAn early advocate of mobile video and established expert in the field of digital media, Sandeep Casi worked for large corporations for the best part o
Read moreBringing hope to people’s hearts through music. Hisayo Togashi is the Japan Philharmonic Orchestras Chief Manager for the project “Forest of Music” wh
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