門田瑠衣子さん Representative of AIDS Orphan Support NGO PLAS There is no person who is unworthy. All humans are valuable.     Do you know about “AIDS orphan“? I had little idea of that, but I learned that its definition is “a child under 18 who lost his/her parent(s) to AIDS”. Today’s “Big Generators” introduces you [...]

Musical group No one will ever be able to destroy the relationship between us and people in China.   Today’s Big Generators introduces you to GYPSY QUEEN, the “Asian band”. Ayaka Sugiyama, executive director of Kawakami Sangyo who we interviewed before, gives them a boost. When I heard that they call themselves “Asian band”, I wondered [...]

榊原健太郎さん Incubator It’s possible for Japanese to create web services that overtake Facebook.     “We will create a second Google or second Facebook!” If you heard that, what would you think? Some of you might think, “No, it’s impossible”. But today’s “Big Generators” introduces a man who makes it his mission to realize such [...]

杉山彩香さん Executive Director of Kawakami Sangyo I want to do it before searching for the reason why I can’t do it. I have made it to this point by doing that day after day. I owe what I am now to that. The theme of today’s interview is kind of extreme; A challenge to Marissa [...]

平 皓瑛さん Entrepreneur   Startups that don’t make innovation happen aren’t worthy of existence.   Today’s “Big Generators” features an IT entrepreneur who lived in the Silicon Valley in his youth. His name is Hiroaki Taira. He moved around Japan with his family because his father, a semi-conductor engineer, was transferred to some branches. Then [...]

坂西優さん Multilingual communication system developer I enjoyed communications with my new found people who have many different background. That’s the origin of our services. Today’s “Big Generators” is a story of a man who aims at building a prosperous and happy world for where people exchange various kinds of languages. Suguru Sakanishi, who developed “WorldJumper [...]

伊藤太一さん Entrepreneur   Age has got nothing to do with marking a first step toward.   Today’s interviewee is Taichi Ito, an entrepreneur. I was introduced to him by Tomo Akiyama, a venture capitalist whom I interviewed in June 2012. Now Ito produces a future world-class photo-posting/sharing mobile application. He will launch an e-commerce website [...]

秋山智紀さん Venture capitalist Silicon Valley is not the only sanctuary for entrepreneurs. Chances can be found almost everywhere.   “Big Generators” has brought you the stories of Japanese entrepreneurs who fight to change the world. But we introduce you to an investor who supports them for the first time. Tomo Akiyama, a Japanese venture capitalist/seed accelerator. [...]

井口奈保さん Communication Process Designer/TEDxTokyo Director   I simply do what I want to do.     This was an accidental encounter. I was going to recommend Mami Asano, a former My Eyes Tokyo interviewee who supports refugees in Japan, as a speaker for TEDxTokyo. It’s one of the franchisees of TED (Technology, Entertainment Design), a global [...]