“Tokyo Kousaten”
Interviews of Tokyo professionals
While diligently upholding the past’s ideas and traditions, from art to music to food and infinitely more, Tokyo is a city that never stops pushing forward to embrace the latest technological advances. “Tokyo Kousaten”, a new television program from TV TOKYO Corporation that showcases those parts of Japan’s capital where past and present intersect in uniquely dazzling and balanced ways as the program title "kousaten" which means "crossroads", suggests. Check the TokyoTokyo website each month for English-language versions of “Tokyo Kousaten” videos.
Chef
Haruyuki Yamashita
Miso maker
Yuki Tsujita
Designer
Tomoe Shinohara
Distiller
Ayumu Yamaguchi
Ship carpenter
Tatsuya Sano
Manga artist
Motoka Murakami
Edo Armor craftman
Tomomi Kato
Designer
Tomosaka Koizumi
Kihachijo weaver
Fumiko Yamashita
Theater director
Satoshi Miyagi
Moss terrarium creator
Tsuyoshi Kawamoto
Cosplayer
Moe Iori
VR and the Metaverse
Takuhiro Mizuno
Taiko drums
Yoshihiko Miyamoto
Painter
Tsurutaro Kataoka
Kimono influencer
Sheila Cliffe
WOTA BOX
Yosuke Maeda
Space development engineer
Toshihiro Obata
Flower artist
Nicolai Bergmann
Contemporary artist
Noritaka Tatehana
Pop pianist
Harami-chan
Glue gun artist
Rintaro Mizuguchi
Photographer
Masataka Nakano
Folding screen artisan
Koto Kataoka
Miniature doll house artist
Yukio Kawai
Atelierista
Ayaka Tsuda
Pickled plum producer
Junpei Takeuchi