Everyone, big news! Today, we are announcing the winner of the Tofu x Mixi contest, which was open to submissions in July. We got lots of amazing entries from promising and active entrepreneurs all over Japan, but there can only be one winner. We narrowed it down to three last month, and ultimately–after several rounds [...]

Our communications liaison, the wonderfully talented and kooky Sonoe (aka Unae), made some Tofu logo-shaped onigiri this weekend. Looks delicious!

We are so excited and honored to have Novmichi Tosa, the president of art and music collective Maywa Denki, as one of our 10 entrepreneurs during the week of Tofu. He’ll be here in SF from October 27-November 2. Here, a video featuring the Otamatone, a tadpole-like theremin-esque instrument that he invented himself. This video, [...]

Since Tomo was in San Francisco and couldn’t make it to our launch party in Tokyo last night, we instead had him make this awesome welcome video, which we showed at the beginning of the part of the program where we introduced the 8/10 attendees who are confirmed to come on the program. It’s in [...]

Big big news from us today! We’ve just announced the first eight (of ten) Tofu Project attendees for our one-week summit in San Francisco from Oct 27-Nov 2. They are: Takehiro Kakiyama, Flutterscape Yohei Kiguchi, Milog Eri Kikunaga, Chrysmela Emi Kusano, Kwl-E Ami Miura, Sunbridge Kohei Nishiyama, Cuusoo.com Satoshi Suzuki, Wondershake Novmichi Tosa, Maywa Denki [...]