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Paradox of Mega Local City-Regional Development 2.0-
The cities, where are in urban areas or have population more than 10 million, are called “Mega city”, and Tokyo is recognisably one of them even in the world.Local cities try to catch up with the Megacity,Tokyo. In different many ways, local cities are compared with Tokyo, however what should those cities are aiming to? Should all the local cities become like Tokyo?
In this session, we will bring the question, what is the ideal future for Mega local cities, getting close to Tokyo at some points? We will solve the paradox of whether Mega local cities should mimic Tokyo.
We will have three guests.
Kazuma Ieiri, who is from Fukuoka and a serial entrepreneur, Yoppy, who is a web writer, and Motokazu Terai, who is from Machizu Creative Co., Ltd. Ieiri has established venture capital called NOW, and invest young people including them living regional areas. How does he see the way of regional development? Yoppy is chief editor of “SPOT” and writing about regional areas. Terai is CEO of Machizu Creative Co., Ltd., and under the concept of making creative autonomous region, he engage with community development.
Those three guests will show interesting view of regional development.
・About Tokyo from three different views
・Interesting approaches in local cities
・Positioning of Fukuoka as Mega local city
・The future expectations to Mega local cities
Yoppy
Chief editor of SPOT
Yoppy is a writer and an editor-in-chief of SPOT. He is well known on web media such as Yahoo! and Omokoro. He has attracted many people through his blog, but his fans frequently ask him money and he criticizes his fans that “they are low quality”.
https://twitter.com/yoppymodel
Kazuma Ieiri
NOW, Inc. CEO & Co-founder, CAMPFIRE CEO & co-founder
Kazuma Ieiri established paperboy&co. (current: GMO PEPABO Inc.), and was listed on JASDAQ, at the same time, he was the youngest ever on it. He founded other companies such as CAMPFIRE Inc. and BASE, Inc., and launched NOW, Inc. As an angel investor, he invested more than 50 start-ups, such as BASE, Inc. and dely, Inc.
https://now.vc/
Motokazu Terai
CEO / Association design director of Machizu Creative Co., Ltd.
Motokazu Terai founded KOMPOSITION ORG., and connected public space and private sector vitality such as many wall painting projects and the largest street basketball tournament in Japan, and offered the opportunities to people who express. Later, he founded Machizu Creative Co., Ltd., and started MAD City project to make Chiba and Matsudo "Creative region". He drives his own real estate utilization and area branding business forward and develop it in Takeo, Saga, "TAKEOMABOROSHI TERMINAL" and Saikyo line in Saitama, "SAI-KYO DIALOGUE LINE"
http://machizu-creative.com/ https://madcity.jp/
