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Interview with Zyun Kusaba, Founder of Tokyo Game Market & Co-Founder of Japon Brand

Interview with Zyun Kusaba, Founder of Tokyo Game Market & Co-Founder of Japon Brand
From gallery of W Eric Martin
We're ready to start rolling out the videos from our coverage of day 2 of Tokyo Game Market in May 2018, but I wanted to highlight this video before any others — an interview with Zyun Kusaba (草場純), who founded Game Market in 2000 and who co-founded Japon Brand in 2006.

I confess to being ill-prepared for this interview, and unfortunately I often aimed my questions at Ken Shoda, our translator, rather than Mr. Kusaba himself. A lesson for me for next time.

That said, I'm glad that we got to speak with Mr. Kusaba on camera so that we can feature someone who has made great contributions to spreading awareness of Japanese games to the world at large.

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