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S6:E8 Showcasing Tokyo's Technical Treasures: Business Matching Innovator - Furukawa Taku
First Aired: August 12, 2020
Runtime: 28 min
Small scale, specialist technical workshops, or "machikoba," have long been a lynchpin of Japanese manufacturing. But without the ability to effectively communicate their supreme skills, overseas competition and a lack of successors have seen the sector shrink in recent decades. Entrepreneur Furukawa Taku is aiming to change all that, working with a network of over 100 workshops in downtown Tokyo to refresh their old-fashioned business models and promote creative cross-sector collaborations.