TEDxTokyo Talks

Masayo Takahashi is a researcher in the area of visual disorders. After carrying out a pioneering iPS cell clinical study in summer 2013, she was name

VERBAL is a hiphop MC who has collaborated with a variety of musicians, including m-flo . He is a member of the famous rap group TERIYAKI BOYS® and ha

Few Westerners have delved deeper into the Japanese consumer’s psyche than Bill Hall. Bill started one of Japan’s first specialist healthcare market r

Can anybody make sense of all the random data rampaging through the cloud? Mizuki Oka, a post-doc researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Center for K

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

Tamako Mitarai has always focused on doing work in places where her efforts can make a real difference. While she was a student, she worked with NGOs

Corporations and governments regularly ask Chandran Nair how to do business the right way in Asia. Chandran—who built Asia’s top environmental consult

What you can get from the photos Rei Shito takes on the streets of Tokyo are glimpses into the lives and mindsets of impromptu models on the move arti

Hiroshi Ishii – Computer Scientist & Media Artist To achieve your goals, Hiroshi Ishii says, you must continuously stand out like the prover

Shiho was involved in production activities at Central Saint Martins, Royal College of Arts, and IAMAS etc., and she chose the path of bio-technology

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

Known in the music realm as Shing02, bilingual rapper Shingo Annen spent his childhood in Tanzania, London and Japan. At the age of 15, he moved to th

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

Everyone poops. The problem, says John Kluge, is that 2.5 billion of us have no clean place to go, and that lack is generating massive troubles with g

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

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