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Engay Food Spreading to the World

February 23 2017

Interviewed & composed by Isao Tokuhashi Edited by Daniel Penso Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Photo provided by NUTRI Co., Ltd.   Do you know “Engay food”? Engay (“嚥下” in Chinese characters) means “swallowing”. There are meals for people who cannot swallow food or people with swallowing disorder or the dysphagia. They can take it from their mouth free from anxiety – that is “Engay food”. Dysphagia can lead to pneumonia. About 70% of people 70 and over are said to have aspiration pneumonia (pneumonia caused by bacteria flowing into the lungs with saliva and gastric juice) and some of them die

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Ceremony of the 9th International MANGA Award

March 31 2016

Reported by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Do you know the “Nobel Prize for Manga”? The International MANGA Award was set up in 2007 with a desire of Mr. Taro Aso, then Foreign Minister. Mr. Aso thought, “We want to give the ‘Nobel Prize for Manga’ as people from its birthplace to the young standard-bearers of Manga abroad” In 2016, they marked the 9th anniversary of the award. 259 works were submitted from 46 countries. The ceremony, which was held at Iikura Guest House on February 26, honored 14 best works, 3 nominees awarded the Silver Award and 1 nominee

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【Photo Report】Yukata de Guide Tour

August 15 2015

Reported by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com One day we heard about an event, in which many foreigners in yukata would participate in, from Noemi Inoue, a woman from Bolivia who’s dedicated herself to attracting foreign tourists to Sumida City. Actually, there are many landmarks such as Tokyo Skytree, Ryogoku Kokugikan (National Sumo Stadium) and Edo-Tokyo Museum that must be quite attractive to foreigners in the city. We really got interested in the event and joined it on August 1, 2015. The event, which celebrates its 10th anniversary, was organized by Visit Sumida Tourism Office, Sumidagawa Edo Cultural Sightseeing Promotion

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Finding lucky in the unluckiest of tragedies (Serbia)

November 13 2014

By Anna Fujiwara (My Eyes Tokyo) 日本語   In a charity event for the tragic Serbian flood of May 2014, jointly hosted by The International Center in Tokyo and My Eyes Tokyo (MET), MET had the opportunity to interview Ms. Jelena Jeremic from the Republic of Serbia and a cooking instructor of Serbian cuisine in Tokyo, and Mr. Nemanja Grbić, Attaché for the Serbian embassy, both whom are currently residents of Tokyo. Serbia and Japan have reached out to one another in times of tragedy and need, with Serbia offering help after the March 11 earthquake of Tohoku, and Japan

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GTIC x Bangladesh!

February 05 2014

Reported by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com “Amalgamate different business areas, nationalities, and ages… and one step forward!!” “Let’s exchange your opinions of start-up, entrepreneurship, innovation. — more open, more global, more innovative!!” — Those are slogans of the entrepreneurs’ group called “GTIC” (Global Techno Innovation Cafe) led by Tomo Akiyama, a former investment banker who’s worked for Merrill Lynch, UBS and so on. They welcomed the high-level government delegation and entrepreneurs from Bangladesh to their 37th session (October 8, 2013). The theme was “Circumstances of Bangladeshi IT industry and business development with Japan”. Many Japanese business people joined the

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Let’s talk over Israeli startups!

October 10 2013

Reported by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Today we introduce you to the meetup which Japanese people who are attracted by “Startups in Israel” got together. Its panelists were those who’ve been getting engaged the business in Israel or with Israeli companies and they discussed “The reason we do business with Israel”. Also there were many big fans of Israeli innovative techniques or Israeli startup scene even though the venue is thousands of kilometers away from the country. My Eyes Tokyo has interviewed a man from Israel before (*Click here to read his story!), but we don’t know very much

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Never forget 3.11

March 12 2013

Two years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. It occurred at 2:46pm on March 11, 2011 (JST) and 2,668 people are still missing (As of March 11, 2013). So the 3.11 Earthquake is not a thing of the past at all. So My Eyes Tokyo features the interviews with expats who had the earthquake and who have given aid to the devastated areas. Read them when you have time and pray for Tohoku’s recovery. ● Kathy Bauer (From US, interviewed on Apr 3, 2011） http://www.myeyestokyo.com/46 ● Sri Lankan Curry Kitchen Project (Interviewed on Apr 24, 2011) http://www.myeyestokyo.com/42 ●

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Hack Osaka!

February 14 2013

Hi, nice to meet you! I’m Tazu Yamada, Kansai Area Manager of My Eyes Tokyo. I’ve delivered some news articles and interviews with wonderful people from the area including Osaka, Kyoto and Kobe in Japanese, but today I will try to tell you what I saw and felt in English for the first time. Today’s topic is “Hack Osaka”. Do you know what it means? It’s a subtitle of the big international conference called “Global Innovation Osaka 2013” which was held in order to discuss how Osaka should be changed right before the opening of the innovative complex facility called

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AP Tokyo Bureau

June 26 2011

– A report from a local paper journalist – A Japanese journalist who works at a local paper joined My Eyes Tokyo’s talk session with AP Tokyo correspondent. He contributed his coverage about “How AP Tokyo reported on the Great East Japan Earthquake?” to us. The following is a summary of his memo of our talk. *Edited by Daniel Penso 校正協力：ダニエル・ペンソ 日本語   The talk session which introduced how reporters of the Associated Press covered and conveyed the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents to the world was held in Tokyo on June 26, 2011. Yuri Kageyama, AP Tokyo correspondent, and