The Monocle Weekly

The Monocle Weekly

This week Tyler Brûlé is joined in Tokyo by Monocle's Asia bureau chief, Fiona Wilson, and Tokyo corresondent, Kenji Hall, for a discussion on the Japan disaster relief efforts with Lindsay Whipp of the Financial Times. Dan Inamoto of family-run woodcraft business Oak Village shares his insights on how the earthquake and tsunami is affecting Japan's small craft businesses and we also talk to Yujiro Taniyama - an actor and a candidate in last week's elections for the governor of Tokyo. Finally DJ and music producer Verbal joins around the table to talk about his new album.


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Tyler Brule
Tyler Brûlé

Editor in chief

Lindsay Whipp
Lindsay Whipp

Correspondent, The Financial Times

Dan Inamoto
Dan Inamoto

Director of Global Marketing, Oak Village

Verbal
Verbal

Rapper, DJ and producer, M-FLO

Yujiro Taniyama
Yujiro Taniyama

Filmmaker, actor and TV presenter

Fiona Wilson
Fiona Wilson

Monocle Asia bureau chief

Kenji Hall
Kenji Hall

Monocle Tokyo correspondent

Hosted by editor in chief Tyler Brûlé, The Monocle Weekly is a mix of smart discussion, previews, field reports and feature interviews. From our studio in London and our bureaux in Tokyo and New York, Monocle's editors focus on the stories shaping the week ahead.

Culture editor Robert Bound is a regular with his weekly playlist of artists established and obscure and editor Andrew Tuck is at hand to moderate debates and pull in contributions from our correspondents in far flung corners of the world.


Tracklist

'I Should Be So Lucky'
by Kylie Minogue


'I Can't Help Myself'
by Verbal


'You Are...'
by Verbal


Credits

Producer: Alexander Mills
Sound Engineer: Chris Sharp
Editor: Aleksander Solum
Photographer: Ivan Hugo