Chikao Ikeda
Bamboo Light Performance Director
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1982. In 2007, he founded "CHIKAKEN," a company that produces and produces "bamboo lanterns," together with Kenji Miki. Based on the idea of "festival-style urban development," he creates bamboo lantern objects, connecting "people and people, people and towns, and people and nature," and weaving a landscape that is unique to that place. He aims to make a series of environmentally circulating works of art, and to pass on "bamboo lanterns" as a new Japanese "culture." He uses bamboo, which has overgrown mainly in Kyushu and is known as "bamboo damage," to create lantern objects and return them to the soil as works of art, and aims to pass on "bamboo lanterns" as a new Japanese culture. He has been involved in the "Kumamoto Life People Festival Water Light" since 2007, and with a total of more than 6,000 volunteers every year, it has become a seasonal feature of autumn in Kumamoto, attracting 180,000 visitors. At the G7 Ise-Shima Summit held in May 2016, he directed the dinner venue for the spouses' program. Bamboo lanterns are also a souvenir for the spouse of the prime minister. In order to spread the word about "bamboo lanterns," they collaborate with local communities to create festivals all over Japan and the world. In 2019, they were selected as an advisor for regional creativity by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. They have been featured in many media appearances, including on MBS's "Jonetsu Tairiku," Nippon Television's "Mirai Theater," BS Fuji's "A Drop Beyond," and TV Tokyo's "Schools Don't Teach You Things Like That."

Kenta Nagakura
Writer, producer, editor
Born in Tokyo in 1973. After graduating from Gakushuin University, he worked at a publishing company until he moved to a publishing company at the age of 28, where he produced a string of bestsellers as an editor. The total number of books he has planned and edited to date exceeds 11 million copies. During his 10 years as an editor, he has worked on 142 books, of which 65 sold more than 50,000 copies, 22 sold more than 100,000 copies, and six of his books ranked in the annual bestseller list.
After going independent, she moved between Honolulu and San Francisco for eight years, and is currently involved in content production and marketing, online/telework consulting for businesses that utilize her experience living in two locations, and educational projects based on her experience raising children overseas (she is particularly knowledgeable about gifted education). Her main publications include "Aim to be second-rate, second-rate, top-class!" (Sunmark Publishing), "Parents are 100% wrong" (Kobunsha), "Mobility", "Popular reading techniques", and "GIG WORK" (all published by Subarusha). She distributes information on SNS, YouTube, etc.