This disruptive tech started with a dance move
It's hard to get paid to do what you love. Perhaps no one understands this better than dancers, but Taku Kodaira and his team at Mikro Entertainment a...
Disrupting Japan: Startups and Innovation in Japan
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Startups are changing Japan, and Japan is once again starting to innovate. Disrupting Japan introduces you to some of the Japanese innovators that will be household brands in a few years and explains what it’s really like to be an innovator in a society that values conformity.
The Future of Disrupting Japan
Disrupting Japan turns seven years old this week! Unfortunately, because of current conditions in Japan, we won't be able to sit down over a beer and ...
The new era of Evocative Machines. Why you’re going to love it.
We speculate a lot about our future "robot servants" or "robot masters", but that whole metaphor is wrong. It's not going to happen that way. This is ...
Why the robot uprising will give us Robot Pets, not Robot Masters
Japan has a very different approach to robotics. Japan leads the world in industrial robots, but there is also a growing movement that is reinventing ...
One way that AI is transforming family farms
Some of Japan's innovations are going to have a much bigger impact outside of Japan. Like most startups, most AgTech startups sensibly tend to focus o...
What you can learn from this “PoopTech” startup
The bacteria in our gut affect our lives and our health in ways we are just starting to fully realize, and mapping this biome is expected to advance m...
Instagram for skin disease? Wait, this could work!
A lot of great ideas seem crazy when you first hear about them. Today Ryotaro Ako, founder of Atopiyo, explains not only why this is a great idea that...
So, your startup wants to play in Japan’s Regulatory Sandbox?
Disruption comes slowly to medicine. And that's a good thing. Since the ethos of the profession is "First, do no harm", it makes sense that safety an...
Why people are afraid to trust AI. And how to fix it
Artificial Intelligence makes a lot of people nervous. That's understandable. Today we sit down with Ken Fujiwara of Hacarus to discuss why that is, a...
What you can learn from Japan’s seven-minute miracle
Today we are going to look at a different kind of innovation. It's not technology. It's not patentable, and I'm not sure it's scalable. But it is impo...