Testing his limits at 7,000 meters: the winner from Japan region, Hironobu Shimosawa.

Located just an hour's drive from Tokyo is the 23-acre Ashikaga Flower Park, home to over 350 brilliantly pastel-colored flowers including Japan's oldest and largest wisteria, which adorns an entire half-acre in bright hanging bulbs. The park is a year-round attraction, with seasonal plants that creates an ever-changing sense of magnificence, as nature puts on a show. All you need to do is wake up and smell the flowers.

Interviews with presidents, Nobel prize winners, CEOs and experts.

Nike Commercial.

ISLE Project promotional video

In Japanese society, women are not traditionally trained to become sushi masters. Myths persist that women’s hands are too warm for raw fish, their makeup will block their sense of smell and their menstrual cycles affect their sense of taste. Nadeshiko Sushi is challenging all of that with Japan’s first and only all-female sushi restaurant in Tokyo. There, seven women prove it doesn’t take a man to make a mean sushi plate.

Promotional video for the University of Tokyo research project Eco-Island Initiative in Sado Island on the Sea of Japan.

Google Campaign to promote the UN Convention on Biodiversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan. 2010.

Promotional video and event coverage for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

The UNU Conversation Series was launched in 2013 as a collection of interviews with leading thinkers from around the world who have been invited to speak at the UNU Centre in Tokyo about pressing global issues of relevance to the United Nations and the member states. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8QnLThpVNcWpl_pxb4ilyJQINOEom81L