Asia | My Eyes Tokyo

Rakugo is the dreamland in my life.

2016-01-28

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Chi-Fen Wu (Taiwan) Rakugo Performer We’ve covered some people who are engaged in a Japanese traditional verbal entertainment called “Rakugo“, which is performed by a lone storyteller. Even though you have to know about Japanese culture, language and customs deeper in order to enjoy rakugo, it’s getting popular among foreigners. There are some non-Japanese rakugo performers who we’ve interviewed from the US, Turkey, UK and Sweden. Now let us introduce you to another performer from Taiwan named Chi-Fen Wu, a.k.a. “Giran-tei Shoronpo (宜蘭亭小籠包)”. We met her for the first

Japan is a place where innovation and consideration live together.

2016-01-17

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Chan Wing Kong (Hong Kong) TV Producer A (Belated) Happy New Year 2016! We’ve interviewed people from many different countries for 10 years since My Eyes Tokyo launched. However we have not heard stories from people from this area… Hong Kong. Let us introduce you to a really gentle Hong Konger called Chan Wing Kong, a TV producer. We didn’t know how to read his name correctly because he told us his “Japanese” name when we met him for the first time. His Japanese name is Tsuyoshi, which derives

I always want to know something that I don’t know. I couldn’t have come this far without curiosity.

2013-10-01

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Tomoko Komatsuzaki PR Producer She looks lily, but actually she is very energetic and passionate. Her target is mainly Asia and has introduced 1000 million people to services and products from Japan. And she challenged a big international project – selling Japanese “Night views” to Hong Kong. We met her at an event which was held by “GTIC” (Global Techno Innovation Cafe) in the summer of 2012. GTIC is an entrepreneurial group led by Tomo Akiyama, a startup accelerator, and she joined his meetup as a presenter. We felt empathy

I feel my activities connect Vietnam and Japan so I’m really happy now.

2012-11-14

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com Hai Trieu (Vietnam) Singer (He’s been in Japan since 2001) We met him for the first time at the event called “Love Asia Vol.18” which was held in Shibuya in October 2012. Its slogan is “Unify Asian nations through music” and Hai sang songs with his band. He looked a little bit small in stature from a distance, but we were really amazed with the incredible strength of his voice and his commanding performance. After his show, we were called by Ayaka Sugiyama, MC/organizer of the event who is the

To eliminate cultural and economical segregation – that’s my dream.

2012-11-05

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com DongYol Lee (S. Korea) Social entrepreneur/Chief organizer & Global facilitator of Startup Weekend Tokyo (He’s been in Japan since 2005) This is the interview for those who are interested in bootstrapping. DongYol Lee organizes the event called “Startup Weekend Tokyo”, It’s a Tokyo version of Startup Weekend, which originated in Seattle and is now held in about 300 cities in the world. Things participants do are forming a team, making a product or service and pitching in 54 hours during the weekend. You pay only $75 per event and join

No one will ever be able to destroy the relationship between us and people in China.

2012-11-01

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi Mail to: info@myeyestokyo.com GYPSY QUEEN Musical group When we heard that they call themselves “Asian band”, we wondered why they didn’t say they are a Japanese band. But they said with a laugh. “Japan is part of Asia, isn’t it?” Absolutely! But it’s not the only reason for it. They’ve performed in 10 countries so far, such as China, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia and Japan. Such an “Asiatrotting” band has tons of stories but we were limited in time so they picked the stories of their first tour in China.

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 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

Each person, each part of India is different. So I wanted people to see that.

2011-08-13

Interviewed & written by Isao Tokuhashi & Tomomi Tada Mail to: itokuhashi@myeyestokyo.com Karen Pereira Gomez Indian cuisine instructor (She’s been in Japan since 2009) The 8th interviewee of “MET × Niki’s Kitchen” is Karen Pereira Gomez, an Indian woman from Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). Her character is a passionate and lively one that lets her enjoy exploring new things in the world. And in her class, we can see she is keen on teaching real India, especially her community which is very diverse and something new as well.Why is she like that? The key might be found in

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