KAWADA Tom

Born in 1976 in Kumamoto Prefecture. KAWADA went to work for a sewing machine manufacturer in 1999. At his interview with the company, he presented a "Future Resume" that outlined a multitude of achievements that he eventually accomplished, including designing the company's servers and overall web environment, creating a system capable of handling parts orders throughout the world, and devising patented technology to connect sewing machines to the internet. He left the corporate world in 2009 to become the eldest of the AR3Bros.　(Three Brothers of Augmented Reality), an innovative team of developers. He has appeared on TV shows such as Waratte Iitomo! (It's Okay to Laugh!), Jonetsu Tairiku (Passionate Continent), and Kagai Jugyo Yokoso Sempai (Welcome to the Extracurricular Lesson, My Senior). His recent works include the Hoshi ni touch panel gekijo (Touch Panel Theater in the Stars) at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, and the Warp suru romen densha (The Warping Streetcar) in Hiroshima. KAWADA is breaking new ground to augment real space through such efforts as the launch of Techno konto (an event for comedians to unveil new skits) in Shibuya. He hosts the critically acclaimed radio show "INNOVATION WORLD" on J-WAVE on Friday nights at 22:00. His genius does not recognize the bounds of genre or media.