TEDxTokyo Talks

In just a few short years, thirteen year old ukulele virtuoso Rio Saito has played festivals throughout Asia and as far afield as New York City and Ho

Magnus Jonsson loves to see great ideas grow up. Renowned internationally as a forward thinker in the digital culture field, he’s been exploring the i

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

While many people have started preparing Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, engineer Ken Endo has been working to prepare paralympic athlete

Want to de-stress, lower your blood pressure and pulse, and even bolster your immune system’s ability to fight cancer? Yoshifumi Miyazaki’s suggestion

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

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

Plants are under constant environmental stress throughout the year, meaning that more intense sunlight or a rise in temperature due to global warming

Classic Edo magic, known as tezuma, is the captivating integration of illusion, traditional Japanese acting, musical performance, costumes and stories

You can think of Toshi Nakamura’s NGO, Kopernik, as an online marketplace offering low tech with a higher purpose. Since 2009, Kopernik—a member of th

Sketch pads and easels had no place in Matteo Ceccarini’s life until the day he stepped into a bookstore near the University of Florence and saw an ad

As the co-founder and CEO of the nonprofit group Japan for Sustainability (JFS), Junko Edahiro is immersed in the colossal task of spreading environme

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

For years, Marco Tempest’s masterful blend of digital media and magic has enabled audiences to glimpse the future before technology gets there.

Creating love through design has been Yu Jordy Fu’s goal since she was six, when she had her first solo art exhibition at the Beijing Capital Museum—a

Imamaru Hayashiya – Paper Cutting Artist A paper-cutting entertainer in the vaudeville tradition, Imamaru Hayashiya is also a paper-cutting arti