{"id":603991,"date":"2026-04-24T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603991\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:05:08","slug":"the-fresh-faces-behind-sushi-tech-tokyo-the-students-driving-japans-entrepreneurial-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/603991\/","title":{"rendered":"The fresh faces behind SusHi Tech Tokyo \u2014 the students driving Japan\u2019s entrepreneurial turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo is readying for its annual startup convention, SusHi Tech Tokyo \u2014 starting Monday \u2014 to bring together entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers from across the globe. But Asia\u2019s largest startup event also highlights a quiet shift taking place among Japan\u2019s younger generation, where in a country long associated with preference for stability and traditional career paths, an increasing number of students are turning toward entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>At the center of the shift is ITAMAE, a student-led initiative working alongside SusHi Tech Tokyo, which brings together students across Japan to organize events around the convention to inspire other young people in Japan about entrepreneurial possibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Short for Innovative Technology Academic Maestro and in line with the sushi-themed naming of the convention \u2014 with SusHi Tech standing for Sustainable High City Tech and itamae\u00a0referring to a sushi chef \u2014 the group is united in its goal of building a community of young innovators, working to disrupt the \u201canti-failure\u201d culture in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tokyo is readying for its annual startup convention, SusHi Tech Tokyo \u2014 starting Monday \u2014 to bring together&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158,1166,261224,17205,175806],"class_list":{"0":"post-603991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-startups","11":"tag-sushi-tech-tokyo","12":"tag-tokyo","13":"tag-tokyo-metropolitan-government"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}