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2018
2018x1
Miyazaki's Sweet Potatoes Win Fans in Asia - Makoto Ikeda
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Miyazaki Prefecture's satsumaimo, or sweet potatoes, are selling fast in other parts of Asia thanks to Makoto Ikeda, the CEO of Kushima AoiFarm. Since he started this company with a .. show full overview
2018x2
Towards Unprecedented Consumer Electronics
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Tech Entrepreneur - Takuma Iwasa Up to the 1990's, Japan's home electronics giants led the global market. But recently, unwilling to implement key reforms, they have been slow to .. show full overview
2018x3
Automotive Revolution from Kyoto
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EV Venture - Hiroyasu Koma Kyoto is a long-established center of craft excellence. Hiroyasu Koma's 30-person start-up firm brought that power together to make a high-performance .. show full overview
2018x4
A New Generation of Fisheries Workers: Marine Industry Pioneer - Takuya Hasegawa
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Marine Industry Pioneer - Takuya Hasegawa Along Japan's northeastern coast, efforts to develop young fisheries workers by boosting recognition for local marine produce and organizing .. show full overview
2018x5
Putting Southeast Asian Chocolate in the Global Spotlight: Luxury Chocolatier - Keiichi Yoshino
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Keiichi Yoshino left a career in finance to open a chocolatier in Kyoto, Japan's former capital. Only 4 years in, his brand has already won international awards and been picked up by an .. show full overview
2018x6
Bringing Lightning Protection to Rwanda: Lightning Protection Consultant - Atsushi Yoshida
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Lightning Protection Consultant - Atsushi Yoshida Atsushi Yoshida runs a 70-year-old firm specializing in high-voltage lightning arresters. Its devices, produced via research at the .. show full overview
2018x7
Connecting Cows to the Cloud
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Livestock Management Innovator - Shinya Kobayashi The last decade has been tough for cattle breeders in Japan. Four-tenths of farms have folded, and the experience needed to succeed .. show full overview
2018x8
Chariots of Gold: Sports Wheelchair Engineer - Toru Ozawa
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Sports Wheelchair Engineer - Toru Ozawa The key to gold medal success at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games may just be held by Toru Ozawa, engineer with a specialist wheelchair .. show full overview
2018x9
Deals on Wheels
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Mobile Supermarket Innovator - Tatsuya Sumitomo Across Japan, a decline in public transport and small retailers is said to have left as many as 7 million seniors unable to access .. show full overview
2018x10
Giving Used Machinery New Life Overseas
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E-Commerce Entrepreneur, Takayuki Aoki With many up-and-coming nations undergoing rapid development, Japanese construction equipment is finding new popularity around the world due to .. show full overview
2018x11
Global Kitchen through the Sharing Economy
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Culinary Exchange Facilitator - Miwa Okada Around the world, one sector relatively untouched by the IT-driven paradigm shift known as the sharing economy has been dining and catering. .. show full overview
2018x12
Revolutionary Study App Goes Global
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Educational Technology Entrepreneur - Goichiro Arai In January 2018, at the Global EdTech Startup Awards in London, a Japanese firm came through a field of over 2,000 to claim the top .. show full overview
2018x13
Big Data Driving a Bus Revolution
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Public Transport Innovator, Masaru Yajima With 80% of Japan's regional bus routes operating at a loss, Masaru Yajima runs a firm working to revive these vital transport lifelines. GPS .. show full overview
2018x14
Virtual Reality: Transforming the Future of Medicine
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Medical Technology Pioneer - Maki Sugimoto Virtual reality: currently a hot technology in the world of video gaming, and now also on the brink of transforming the medical field. .. show full overview
2018x15
Giving New Life to Dormant Possessions: Self-Storage Innovator - Hayato Matsuzaki
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A trunk room is rented storage for items you don't often use but just can't throw away. But it's not always easy to keep track of inventory or pick up possessions when you need them. .. show full overview
2018x16
The Future of Regional Revitalization
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Community Planning Pioneer - Daisuke Yamanaka Long beset by depopulation and industrial decline, these days the town of Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, boasts a science .. show full overview
2018x17
Sake Reimagined: Taking On the World - Sake Innovator, Takuma Inagawa
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Forced by a shrinking domestic market to venture overseas, Japan's sake brewers face stiff competition from the established dominance of wine. Takuma Inagawa heads a startup that's .. show full overview
2018x18
Cosmic Cleanup: Space Waste Pioneer - Nobu Okada
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For more than 60 years, we have been sending satellites and rockets into space. But this progress has polluted Earth's orbit with a host of man-made space debris, creating a fast-moving .. show full overview
2018x19
Rice Against Time: Regional Food Advocate - Masayuki Habuki
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In Tokyo's upscale Ginza district is a rice ball shop so popular that lines of hungry office workers are a regular lunchtime sight. As well as the finest ingredients from all over Japan, .. show full overview
2018x20
Tatami Revolution: Traditional Mat Maker - Yoshiaki Kagami
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Woven rush tatami mats are a traditional element of Japanese homes. But a shift toward Westernized lifestyles has seen production drop to a third of its former peak, driving both makers .. show full overview