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The Brief #32 Eco-friendly flying cars, African “Smart Villages”

Toshi Maeda by Toshi Maeda
11/03/2022
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Two innovative Japanese tech solutions tackling global challenges. First, Japanese company SkyDrive is developing eco-friendly flying taxis (eVTOL aircraft) that produce zero CO2 emissions, with a planned launch in 2025 and a debut at Osaka Expo. Tokyo startup “Dots for” is bringing affordable internet access to rural African villages through low-cost distributed network systems, with the goal of improving education and quality of life.

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A multilingual journalist with over 25 years of experience in the media industry, Maeda worked as a producer and correspondent for Reuters TV in Tokyo after stints as a reporter at The Japan Times, The Associated Press in San Francisco, Newsday in New York, and The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California. Maeda has also taught journalism at Komazawa University’s Faculty of Global Media Studies. Currently, he serves as executive editor for solutions-focused bilingual news platform J-Stories, a PBMC media outlet.

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