January 7, 2016 • 28m
A groundbreaking meals-on-wheels service provides the sick with bento meals tailored to their individual medical requirements by t...Read more
January 21, 2016 • 28m
Yuya Nakamura is President and CEO of a company currently drawing attention from around the world through the development of compa...Read more
February 4, 2016 • 28m
Hirofumi Seo uses cutting-edge computer graphics to visualize the most complex medical data. After securing the University of Toky...Read more
February 25, 2016 • 28m
In 2010, Toru Tokushige founded Terra Motors with the goal of being largest producer of two and three-wheeled electric vehicles in...Read more
March 10, 2016 • 28m
Kohei Hayamizu is the founder of Soundpower, a company trying to solve the energy problems facing the global community through ent...Read more
March 24, 2016 • 28m
With mottainai, the Japanese word for "waste", gaining currency around the world, one Japanese entrepreneur is using the term as t...Read more
April 7, 2016 • 28m
Japan's corporate culture has a reputation for discouraging independent thinking. Daichi Konuma created International Corporate Vo...Read more
April 21, 2016 • 28m
When the Olympic games come to Tokyo in 2020, robot taxis may already be a common sight. Led by Hisashi Taniguchi, robotics ventur...Read more
May 5, 2016 • 28m
As Japanese tea grows in popularity around the world, more and more people from overseas are being drawn to a plantation on the ou...Read more
May 19, 2016 • 28m
With Japan's population aging, around 2 million adults now use diapers, and incontinence management is a major burden for many eld...Read more
June 2, 2016 • 28m
To many in Japan, industrial waste disposal carries an image tarnished by practices such as illegal dumping. Since inheriting her ...Read more
June 16, 2016 • 28m
In recent years, economic pressures have seen numerous Japanese watch brands send the production of their devices overseas, forcin...Read more
July 7, 2016 • 28m
Orihime is a desktop avatar robot that can be controlled remotely from anywhere in the world. Its creator, Kentaro Yoshifuji was i...Read more
September 8, 2016 • 28m
With many children across Japan unable to find a place in nursery daycare, Hiroki Komazaki, CEO of NPO Florence, is leading effort...Read more
September 22, 2016 • 28m
In Bangkok, Thailand, a Japanese-style dry cleaning and laundry service is currently attracting widespread attention. Driving this...Read more
October 6, 2016 • 28m
Toshihiro Nakamura founded a social business providing simple, durable, affordable technology to developing countries. The goal is...Read more
October 20, 2016 • 28m
At-home medical care. But unlike traditional on-call emergency care, this service sees doctors and nurses visit patients regularly...Read more
November 17, 2016 • 28m
In Switzerland this fall, athletes and the technologies behind their prosthetic limbs were put to the test at the world's first Cy...Read more
December 1, 2016 • 28m
To rent an apartment in Japan, tenants have long needed to name a guarantor - usually Japanese, with a steady income. But this rul...Read more
December 15, 2016 • 28m
As diets in Japan become increasingly Westernized, obesity and lifestyle diseases are on the rise. Average daily intake of fruit a...Read more