TEDxTokyo Talks

What kind of entertainment would Neo see in the Matrix? No need to imagine, kids̶ just watch Shiro-A. The troupe’s ingenious pop-cerebral antics are r

Before he turned 30, Hiro Fujita lived in New Jersey, Hawaii, Zurich, London, and Tokyo, was an all-star athlete and an advertising professional who “

“Music has nationalities, but does not have borders.” It was this notion that started Kohei Inoue’s journey to explore the potential of Japanese music

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

Tokyo-based but global in mindset, architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture design everything from public spaces to privat

With each note I play, a world is created in my head. Born in Pakistan, Usman is an artist, a performing musician, a composer, and a film-maker. His c

Every well-run NPO needs caring, dynamic and versatile executives like Miho Walker and Amy Moyers. Before joining Living Dreams, Amy spent ten years h

Shibuya – the city that continuously creates new cultures and sets trends all around the world. Hasebe, the former congressional deputy for Shibuya, s

People love working for Ricco DeBlank. Two years after he took over the Ritz-Carlton Osaka in 2003, for example, an industry survey ranked it as Japan

Japan has approximately 430 inhabited islands. It took Atsuko Isamoto, though, to create a website called Ritokei linking them all together. With the

Often called the thumb piano, the kalimba is the world’s simplest keyboard instrument, African-born and with a pure, uncomplicated sound. HIROYUKI’s u

When he was just 25, Yoshiharu Habu became the only player ever to simultaneously seize all seven titles of the ancient board game known as shogi. He’

A member of the celebrated string trio Orchestrio Zurich—also known as “the smallest orchestra in the world”—Noriko Kawamura started playing violin at

Hiroshi Ishii’s research probes the seamless interface design between humans, digital information and the physical world. In his Tangible Media Lab at

Are we living in the era of the bold eccentric, the realm of the unfettered visionary? Masaki Takeuchi thinks so, and he should know: he’s the man in

Edward Suzuki worked alongside master architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller while attending Harvard on a Fulbright scholarship. Perhaps that’s one