TEDxTokyo Talks

After 18 years of researching novel technologies, Kentaro Toyama is ready to try something else. He believes there is a “myth of scale” about technolo

Formed by a group of five in 2005, HANDSIGN are known for their buoyant performances that blend dance, song and original sign language. Here in Japan

Why did an Irish economist working for the EU in Tokyo end up making a powerful and incisive film about suicide in Japan? Simple: a friend and neighbo

Give most people a pair of scissors, tell them to get creative, and you might get a string of paper dolls or a few snowflakes. Give Hayashiya Imamaru

Ken Mogi reveals the narrowness of artificial intelligence. Everything is connected to the “brain”. Mogi is a brain scientist who focuses on “Qualia (

Abigail Terrien – Founder of Abi Loves Sales Agency and MyOrganic Tokyo Abigail Terrien believes we can be trendy and still keep the Earth clean

Before becoming TED’s licensing director in 2007, Lara Stein was deeply involved in broadband entertainment programming, animation and interacti

Ryogen – Guitarist Ryogen uses a single guitar for his live concerts and recordings, and yet his amazing technique makes it sound like multiple

Bill Werlin was born in Colorado mountain territory and grew up working at his family’s ski area, surrounded by the majestic Rockies and untainted ski

Makoto Aida’s scenes of skewed eroticism—obsessively detailed, leaning toward the violent and grotesque, and humorous in the very darkest sense—drive

At some point in history, the Japanese stopped writing vertically. Nowadays, it may be rare to find people who write by hand at all. Aoi Yamaguchi is

Kenji Williams is an award-winning filmmaker, music producer, theatrical show director, and classically trained violinist who fuses music, visual arts

Nobu Okada discovered his passion for all things space after attending NASA space camp in high school. Now, as founder of Singapore start-up ASTROSCAL

Struggling people probably need music more than others. What makes Makoto Kuriya such a distinctive pianist are the soulful groove he developed while

When Masahiko Inami decides to get reflective, he just disappears. That’s because the Keio Media Design professor is the inventor of the Optical Camou

In the entertainment realm, you’d call Masa Inakage a supreme hyphenate, as in “producer-director-creator-artist-storyteller.” And he actu