2014年3月25日火曜日

The Power of Digital Media To Kids

   In front of computers and cameras, kids are kneading the clay, cutting up colored paper, and making joyful sounds. It looks like they were able to make something that was better than expected. - At the digital animation workshop.   My group has been doing such activities all over the world, from developed to underdeveloped countries. From setting characters, storyboards, story, composition, dialogue, to editing; everything is...

2014年3月19日水曜日

I’m A Policy-Maker.

   To start my blog, I would like to introduce myself.  I’m a policy-maker. I used to be a punk rocker (Shonen Knife) but gave up and became an official of the Japanese government. For 14 years, I made IT policies in the government and it has been 15 years since I started working for universities (MIT, Stanford, and Keio). It has been 30 years since I transformed from a creator who expresses and invents in their own style into a producer...