INTERVIEWS | My Eyes Tokyo

Age has got nothing to do with marking a first step toward.

2012-07-24

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Taichi Ito Entrepreneur Today’s interviewee is Taichi Ito, an entrepreneur. We were introduced to him by Tomo Akiyama, a venture capitalist whom we interviewed in June 2012. Now Ito produces a future world-class photo-posting/sharing mobile application. He will launch an e-commerce website and give a shot at interaction between app & e-commerce system. When it’s achieved, people who have different backgrounds share their hobbies and enjoy communication with each other through selling and buying on his web services. Ito is now busy building such a world. We tell you his

We’ll popularize “Serendipity interest commerce” in the rest of the world – meshtiles

2012-07-24

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Today we are introducing you to “meshtiles”, a photo posting/sharing application. You may think, “Is that a wonderful idea? There are many photo sharing services!”. But this story does not confine itself to meshtiles. Furthermore, the episode of meshtiles is just the beginning of the whole story. meshtiles & something & something… About not only photos but also services derive from its current system, Taichi Ito who’s in charge of developing/managing the meshtiles talked to us about its potential. – Taichi Ito – Graduated from Keio Univ. (Bachelor of Commerce). Gained

Our missions is to draw a new picture of Chinese or create a new image of Chinese.

2012-07-19

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Shota Ko (China) Representative of China Elite Club One day we received a mail. “I’ll launch a new web media so let me hear your ideas”. A person who sent us this mail is Shota Ko, today’s interviewee. We met him for the first time at a seminar about how to attract foreign tourists to Japan. We swapped business cards with each other, but we didn’t talk very much. However he remembered us, who has been running a tiny web media and asked for our advice. Then we met each

I find astonishing ideas while communicating with a diversity of people.

2012-06-28

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Tomo Akiyama Venture capitalist We’ve 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. We met him for the first time in mid June, 2012. We attended a conference in Tokyo and was deeply inspired by words of the man wearing a polo shirt and jeans. He was tapping on a laptop, his name was called, stood up, grabbed a microphone and said; “I think a rogue

I don’t want to associate my activities with the anti-nuclear movement.

2012-06-20

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Kateryna (Ukraine) Bandura player/singer (She’s been in Japan since Dec.2006) We interviewed a foreign musician in Tokyo for the first time in ages – introducing Kateryna from Ukraine. A friend of ours took us to a piano concert. She knows that we’ve been interviewing foreigners so she provided us the chance to meet Kateryna. It consisted of two parts and she performed in the beginning of the second part. A woman in a colorful costume beautifully plucked an Ukrainian instrument called “Bandura“, which has dozens of strings, and began to

It‘s extremely enjoyable for me to tell Japanese people about my country’s culture.

2012-06-09

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Rose Ohashi Ethiopian cooking instructor (She’s been in Japan since May 1998) My Eyes Tokyo brings you interviews with teachers from “Niki’s Kitchen“. It’s a cooking school in which foreigners teach their homeland dishes to Japanese people. The memorable 10th interviewee is Rose Ohashi, an iron chef from Ethiopia. She’s been here in Japan for 14 years so speaks Japanese very fluently. She smiles warmly and jokes like “When I was asked where I’m from, I answered that I came from Tobu-Nerima (Where her house is located)!”. Rose is such a

I have no nationality.

2012-06-08

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Kong Ryon Sun (Korea) Project Supervisor of the Earth Festa Kanagawa 2011 & 2012 (Born in Japan) “We want to know how people from countries far from Japan look at Japan and Tokyo”. That’s the motivation for continuing interviews with people far from here physically and culturally. So we’ve interviewed only a few Asian people. But today we’ll bring you a story of “a foreigner who was born and raised in Japan”. Her name is Kong Ryon Sun, a third generation Korean woman living in Japan. She worked for a

How many women in Japan could learn about sushi that much?

2012-04-08

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Yan Yifei (China) Sushi chef (She’d been in Japan Sept.2008 – Apr.2012) My Eyes Tokyo Radio listeners may have heard the name of this sushi restaurant – “Nadeshico Sushi“. Nadeshico (Nadeshiko) is originally a kind of flower and it has become a compliment to the beauty of Japanese women. As indicated by the name, beautiful women make sushi as sushi chefs and customers smack their lips while chatting with chefs – such a unique sushi restaurant opened in Akihabara, the mecca of otaku (geek) culture, in October 2010. We were

I’ve learned Japanese culture while I taught Russian culture.

2012-04-01

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Averiyanova Lyudmila (Russia) Trading farm staff/Russian Cafe organizer (First visit to Japan in 1998, Returned to Japan in 2006) One day we were invited to a Russian language salon by our friend. It’s called “Russian Cafe”, which is held near JR Urawa Station in Saitama Prefecture on the first Sunday of each month. It was amazing! 90% of the participants are Japanese, but they were talking to each other in Russian really fluently. And our friend introduced us to Averiyanova Lyudmila, one of the participants in the salon. We’ve met

What is missing in our current Japanese culture? There is a hint about this missing piece in Latin-Spanish culture.

2012-03-06

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Naho Iguchi Communication Process Designer/TEDxTokyo Director This was an unexpected encounter. We were going to recommend a former My Eyes Tokyo interviewee as a speaker for TEDxTokyo. It’s one of the franchisees of TED (Technology, Entertainment Design), a global set of conferences and Naho Iguchi is a director of TEDxTokyo. So we connected with her. TEDxTokyo is one of the role models amongst nearly 2000 TEDx events around the world. TEDxTokyo is given a license by TED and independently organizes a TED-like event in Tokyo. TED was founded about 30 years

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