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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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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 [...]

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This wonderful video is based on a retreat we held in the Fall of 2007 titled Invigorating Communities, Designing for Inclusion. The video was created by BAYCAT Studio, where Innovators Network member Villy Wang serves as the President and CEO. Enjoy!

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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 [...]

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Stephen Schwarzman, Chairman & CEO of The Blackstone Group, had this to say at a Japan Society Corporate Program luncheon about the role the rating agencies played in creating a perfect storm that led to the current global financial crisis. 
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Had a good meeting with Akiko Matsunobu, Executive Director of the Tokyo Foundation, this morning.
I first met her some years ago when she was Chief Officer of Peace Winds Japan. She’s one of those unusual people with experience at both NGOs and corporations, having worked for both FedEx and American Express in her previous incarnations.
Tokyo [...]

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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 [...]

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