MetaTokyo: Spreading Japanese Culture to the World

MetaTokyo is a global cultural city on the metaverse, a project launched jointly by ASOBISYSTEM Co., Ltd., ParadeAll Inc., and Fracton Ventures, Inc. The project was recently incorporated and became MetaTokyo, Inc. It runs its business in collaboration with domestic and international creators and partner companies through the next-generation metaverse and other mediums.

Their first collaboration involved the construction of a pop-up museum focused on generative art, a first in Japan, and they initiated a project displaying the largest NFT art in the country, attracting much attention. In the second round, they announced a collaboration with the magazine 'FRUiTS', auctioning off street snaps from its inaugural 1997 issue on the major international NFT marketplace, Foundation. In this interview, we probing into the background and details of MetaTokyo and its collaborations with Yudai Suzuki from Fracton Ventures, Inc., and Shoichi Aoki, the founder of FRUiTS.