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 are on a mission to fix that. - But this conversa

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 talk about startups live as we usually do. - Tod

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 a very personal and rather speculative episode.

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 the way we share our world with machines. - Kana

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 on their own markets. While this makes things eas

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 medical science and pharmacology as mapping the hum

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 is deeply valued by his users, but he also fran

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 and efficacy are prioritized over rapid innovation

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, and what this startup is doing to fix it. - As in

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 important. - It turns out that the story behind a Ja