Theme: Catch our wind,Renovate your sight.

“Catch our wind, Renovate your sight”

The scene is different when you see from sky and ground.

The chance to change your sight is, however, getting fewer and fewer without realizing it.

The first TEDxHamamatsu event aims to rediscover the attractions of Hamamatsu which you can firstly realize with renovated your sight. Our goal is to share the “ideas” with you, and spread out as a result of rediscovering the attractions.

Hamamatsu has a notorious strong wind in winter called “Enshu no Karakkaze”, which means the winter strong wind in Enshu area.
But when you change your sight, you’ll realize the wind make us not only hard and tough, but power such as generating electricity with wind turbine or making the kite fly.

Catch the wind to fly up to sky and you can find new scene. We hope TEDxHamamatsu will be “the wind” for you.

SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY OF ART AND CULTURE
2-1-1 Chuo Naka Ward
Hamamatsu, Sizuoka, 430-0929
Japan

Hirokazu Asanuma

Strategic Management Consultant/ Tax Accountant, Certified Internal Auditor

Born in Hamamatsu in 1963. He energetically gives lectures on working method and strategic management mainly all over Japan, and has obtained a deep trust not only from companies but educational, financial, medical, and administrative institutions. After graduating from university and graduate school, he started to work as an accountant, and decided to become a business design consultant. He published a lot of books which explain the theory of Peter F. Drucker in easy words, and gives lectures, seminars and corporate training. So he has been known as an authority of Drucker in Japan. His hobbies are reading, traveling and looking at art. He is also familiar with the martial arts, and he has shodan rank in Karate and Iaido.

Jinsuke Mizuno

No curry no life / Traveling Chef

Born in Hamamatsu in 1974, lives in Tokyo. He does unique activities such as setting up a traveling chef group called ''Tokyo curry Bancho''. Because of his activities, he became popular by not only other chefs but also famous people. After finishing the high school he had moved to Tokyo for the university. Soon he missed the taste of a curry restaurant in Hamamatsu that he used to go often, so he has been to a lot of curry restaurants, finally he became a connoisseur of curry. He set up the group ''Tokyo curry Bancho'' which is composed by twelve men in 1999. Since then, his motto is enjoying the taste of the curry of the time with other people who also loves curry. He set up several curry group, ''Tokyo spice Bancho'' in 2008, ''Continental curry Bancho'' in 2015, and content creation project of curry called ''Eat me project''

Masakazu Kimura

Business-Academia cooperation maverick Executive board member/ vice-president of Shizuoka University

Born in 1960, Shimizu City (Currently Shizuoka City, Shimizu Ward). He was engaged in research and development of power semiconductor devices at Shizuoka University electronic engineering institute from 1985. After acting as visiting professor at the University of Victoria, Faculty of Engineering in Canada in 1992, he returned to Shizuoka University in 1999 and worked on Industry-University Cooperation. He leads the Shizuoka University Organization for the Promotion and the Innovation, which creates opportunities for co-operation between industry and university. He has striven to contribute to society by enabling university research to be utilized by industry. To expand this activity, he start his challenge to renovate the education field, because he believes that developing capable people for the future is important. Not only on-the-spot education, he also proposes an education to change “strength” to “unique talent”, and finds ways to raise children’s potential.

Sachiya Sasaki

Digital sound equipment engineer/ Sound culturalist

Born in Iwate Prefecture in 1963 As well as he works for developing digital sound equipments, he teaches sound culture at art college, such as universal design of sound, collecting musical instruments, and conducting fieldwork to discovery natural sound or ethnic music. Using his holiday, he researches local traditional music in Tibet as well as in Japan, to discuss the relationship between people and sound. He also studies universal design of sound to realize what the proper sound is for the visually impaired people. He has introduced the charm of hand-operated music box to people not only to hold workshops all over Japan, but also to attend International Music Box Association meeting in the United States to appeal hand-operated music box.

Satoru Shoji

“Playing Planner”, Tourism guide of Okuhamanako

Born in Fujinomiya city, he started working for Okuhamanako Tourist Association 3 and a half years ago. Once in Okuhamanako, a place with beautiful wildlife, he overturned the concept of tourism and became a “Mastermind of entertainment” and an “Expert in having fun in the moment”. As he walks far and wide across local areas with a camera in one hand, he helps Mikkabi mandarin farmers or wipes floors and cuts grass at temples, spending every day re-discovering Hamamatsu’s attractions. He is acknowledged by locals because he now knows more about local areas in Hamamatsu then the people who were born and raised there. His great talent is to find fun in normal every day life in local areas, and changes them into tourist attractions. He focuses on delivering local tourism information through pamphlets, homepages, and SNS sites. Furthermore bus tours based on this information are very popular and have received many repeaters.

Takeshi Maeda

“A logger in Tenryu”, President of Kicoro

Born in 1974, in Chiba Prefecture. He realized the splendor of Japanese nature through his travels around the world, and he aspired to protect it. Twelve years ago, he moved to Tenryu in Hamamatsu which was alien land for him. Besides engaging in forestry, he has been making people aware of these forestry issues, regardless if they are inside or outside the prefecture. For example, he started conducting lectures in schools, held “FUJIMOCK FES” which the participants can experience the logging process, the procuring of materials by themselves, and the lessons of “MOKUIKU” regarding the Forestry Agency project. His thoughts go to the forest which is still required for people after 100 years, and he currently works on new forms of forestry development. It'll be himself more than anyone else who will enjoy the chemical reaction that occurs by leaving the isolated community and going outside of it.