Joseph co-presents NHK Morning News Report
Earlier this summer I was approached by a producer for NHK’s main morning news show, Ohayo Nippon. They were planning to run a report on some off-the-beaten-track locations that represented Japan’s craftsmanship / attention to detail in manufacturing....
Running Art: Collaboration with Yomiuri TV’s ‘Garigeru’
Running Art: Collaboration with Yomiuri TV’s ‘Garigeru’ A little while back, Yomiuri TV, part of the Nippon TV network based in Osaka, approached me with an idea to turn Running Art into a running game, to be played on the streets of Osaka. The...
TV: Collaboration with NTV for Running Art Series
Earlier this year we joined forces with Nippon TV and Hiroshima TV, to make a three-part series focused on Running Art – “Chikyu Mapping” (literally ‘Globe Mapping’). For the first episode, we headed on down to Hiroshima, where me met up with...
Work behind the scenes: TV Tokyo’s series on Japan’s ODA Program
I’m often asked what I ‘do’, aside from run around with windmills and LEDs strapped to me. Whilst running around in my gear was never part of any business plan, over the past year it’s naturally become one of the main services that our company, Wild Tame Co., Ltd...
TV: Tokyo Kurasso! Joseph Tame on MXTV
Earlier this year I was invited to appear on Tokyo MXTV’s Tokyo Kurasso! (‘Let’s live in Tokyo’), to talk about my Running Art, and the Tokyo Marathon project. This was the first time to appear without my wind-turbine-hat-of-power, but despite that it all went well.
The Gadget Show
People often ask me what I do for a living. Whilst I may respond by saying something about video production and digital marketing, the truth is that I’m a karaoke singer for hire – at least that’s what you’ll believe if you watch the Channel 5 TV (UK) program ’The Gadget Show’.
BS Fuji TV: Birth of the Cool
Recent months have seen a huge increase in the number of TV programs that take as a theme the image of Japan in the eyes of foreigners. It’s one of those trends that you’ll see manifested almost daily (reminds me of when home improvement shows took off in the UK). You’ll either have shows focused purely on what foreigners think, or more commonly, shows that have a foreign guest on the panel providing their opinion on a topic.
NHK World: Featured Tokyo Artist
Back in September 2014 I was contacted by NHK World regarding a couple of programs that they were planning focused on Tokyo-based foreign artists. Broadcast worldwide on Satellite TV, online, via their mobile apps, the program, Tokyo Eye, introduces various aspects of...
TV: Art of Running Introduced on NHK Education
If you start seeing little children running the streets of Japan whilst carefully checking their routes using a GPS tracker, it’ll be thanks to NHK’s morning kids show ‘Shakiin’ which today had a section all about funny ways of running....![[TV] News Zero](https://josephta.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/joseph-news-zero-ntv_7030.jpg)
[TV] News Zero
In June 2014 Japan’s popular nightly news show, News Zero, ran a story on my running art projects.
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[TV]: Peeta Planet
In 2013 I was asked to take Part in Peeta Planet, a social TV travel series broadcast on Dubai One and associated networks across the region
