TEDxTokyo Talks

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

“Institutional Investor” has ranked Kathy Matsui the top equity strategist in Japan several times, yet her role as co-head of Asia macro r

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

Eisuke Tachikawa launched his Wiki web project OLIVE just forty hours after the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. The crowdsourcing database gathere

Since he was a teenager, Eddie Ugata has been drawn to sixties American pop culture, collecting original comics, records, vintage guitars and clothes,

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

Ken Okuyama has spent a lifetime fashioning exotic yet practical things of surpassing beauty. The prizewinning car designer has shaped models for Gene

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

Katsumi Sakakura expresses his art through a combination of elements characteristic of traditional Japanese culture—movement, rhythm and spirit.

Ryutaro Kaneko knows the booming, heart-pounding rhythms a taiko drum can produce: he toured the world as a central performer of famed drum troupe Kod

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

Leslie Kee was born in Singapore. After graduating from photography school in Tokyo, Kee spent five years working in New York City before returning to

Some geniuses really know how to have fun. Take Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Revered for conjuring up gaming masterpieces like Sega Rally Championship, Space Ch

In 2008, lacquer artist and Living National Treasure Kazumi Murose began to focus on preserving intangibly important Japanese culture and heritage thr

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

Jun Aoki is known as a leader in customized rental properties, but started his career working in regular real estate brokerage and managing an interne