Innovators Network member and anime scriptwriter Dai Sato was in New York to give a two-week summer immersion workshop for high school students at Japan Society. Dai took some time out of his busy schedule to talk with Japan Society about his creative process. In this video, Dai muses about his “dream script,” discusses [...]
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Dai Sato on the Creative Process
Posted in Dai Sato, Uncategorized, tagged anime, Cowboy Bebop, Dai Sato, Eden of the East, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Haruki Murakami, Japan Society, Philip K. Dick, screenwriter, Storyriders, U.S.-Japan Innovators Network, Video, Wolf’s Rain on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The 12 Paradigm Shifts of Hiroshi Tasaka
Posted in U.S.-Japan Innovators Network, future, homelessness, tagged Hiroshi Tasaka, Innovators Network, Japan Society, Paradigm shifts, The Five Laws to Foresee teh Future, The New School, U.S.-Japan Innovators Network, Web 2.0 on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Innovators Network member Hiroshi Tasaka’s poetic The Five Laws to Foresee the Future: 12 Paradigm Shifts that will Happen in the Future of Human Society (未来を予見する「5つの法則」) is out in English. Tasaka-san’s philosophical insights into the future of work, life and society make for rivetting reading. For those who may have missed it, Tasaka-san gave a talk at [...]
Lovesick Japan: Stories of Intimacy from Courts to Keitai (Cell Phone) Novels
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cell phone novel, Dana Goodyear, I-phone, I-phone novel, Japan, Japan Society, keitai novel, lecture, love, New Yorker Magazine, sex on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lecture @ Japan Society Tuesday, May 5, 6:30 PM
From the hottest cell phone novels to complex legal opinions to international sex surveys, stories of widespread dissatisfaction with romance and intimacy in contemporary Japan abound. Dana Goodyear, poet, journalist and the author of the New Yorker article “I ♥ Novels,” and Mark West, Nippon Life Professor [...]
11 Questions about Alan Webber’s 52 Rules of Thumb
Posted in Business innovation, Innovation, alan webber, leadership, tagged Japan Society, U.S.-Japan Innovators Network, Fast Company, obama, alan webber, Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Yourself, Collins Business, In Search of Excellence, Jim Collins, Tom Peters, Bob Waterman, Good to Great on March 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In his new book, Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business without Losing Yourself, Alan Webber stimulates, inspires, challenges and helps us understand what makes for a life well-lived and work well-done.
Reflecting 40 years of experience as observer, participant and agent provocateur, Alan has gathered 52 gems of wisdom on how to lead [...]
How’s Your Financial Center Doing?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged academyhills, corporate program, Financial markets, Heizo Takenaka, Hong Kong, Japan Society, Kotaro Tamura, London, New York, Robert Feldman, Singapore, tokyo, webcast on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s time to bring out the big guns and talk about the relative competitiveness of financial centers – Tokyo vs London vs New York etc. At least that was the plan six months ago. Now it’s more a matter of how to salvage a global financial trainwreck. Should make for an interesting discussion.
Capital Market Competitiveness: Burnishing Tokyo’s [...]
Yugo Nakamura – A Wizard, a True Star
Posted in creativity, design, internet, tagged daniel rosenblum, design, GOOD Magazine, IDEO, Japan Society, sustainability, tha ltd, U.S.-Japan Innovators Network, web desighner, Yugo Nakamura on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yugo Nakamura – A Wizard, a True Star
It’s the first day of our exploration of design and sustainability in Tokyo with Max Schorr and Casey Caplowe of GOOD Magazine and Valerie Casey of IDEO.
Wending our way through Shibuya, we arrive at tha ltd, the studio of maverick web designer Yugo Nakamura. You enter through [...]
Live Webcast: The U.S. & East Asia Under the Obama Administration
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged corporate program, Howard French, Japan Society, John Bussey, Mark Halperin, obama, Time Asia, Wall Street Journal, webcast on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Being 7,000 miles from New York gives me the opportunity to watch the next Japan Society live webcast of our Corporate Program (usually I’m at the programs).
Curious to know what some of America’s top journalists have to say about the Obama administration’s geo-political and economic impact on Asia?
Then tune in for The U.S. & East [...]



