TEDxTokyo Talks

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

Takafumi Horie – Entrepreneur Takafumi Horie says the most crucial thing when you are facing your dreams or objectives is to avoid making excuse

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

A master of system design specializing in mechanics and natural language processing, Google’s Hideto Kazawa dove into the development of disaster reco

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 “

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

Inspired by the world renowned annual arts event in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, Burning Man has become a global cultural movement with more than

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

Shizuka Aoi – Dancer Shizuka Aoi tumbled into the world of gymnastics at the age of six and continued it until college, leaving a great record o

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

BLACK – Yo-Yo Performer and Serial Dreamer BLACK is all about impossible dreams. After getting Gold Medal at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 2001 whi

Channeling good intentions is tougher than it looks, but Michael Maher King seems to possess the knack. The young British founder and CEO of Smile Kid

Nana Watanabe has a wide-angle lens on life. As a photographer, she has shot for iconic brands like Shiseido, Sony Music and Paris Vogue, and also exh

Master percussionist Winchester Nii Tete hails from the honorable Addy-Amo-Boye clans of drummers in Ghana. His finely textured repertoire echoes exub

Ever wondered why you’re happy, or how to get that way? Five years ago, filmmaker Eiji Han Shimizu and director Roko Belic began traveling around the

Plastic doesn’t seem so fantastic these days—more an ecological nightmare that is overflowing our garbage dumps, accumulating in vast, drifting island