Yusuke Kamata
- Producer
- Editor
1997. Graduated from Waseda University, Politics and Economics (One of the best school in journalism).
1997. Moved to New York City, US.
2000- Start working at news room of FCI NY, a Japanese TV network, Fuji Television's New York branch, as a TV news producer, director and reporter. Specialised in sports, he produced many stories about Japanese Major League Baseball player such as Hideo Nomo (Dodgers), Hideki Irabu (Yankees), Ichiro Suzuki (Mariners), and Hideki Matsui (Yankees) and also other major sports such as Basketball, Golf, Xgames and NFL. Mr. Kamata had been covering a variety kind of stories all over the States.
2006, he became a freelance producer and start working with Gigantic Pictures, independent film production in NY. He took a part in the feature film production and produced a couple of films with them while he continued to take an important role for Japanese network sports production in US.
2011 when Great East Japan Earthquake occurred.
2012 he founded a production company, GENERATION ELEVEN PICTURES, Inc. in Tokyo.
He has many projects under development about multi-cultural stories between US and Japan. He has acknowledged many stories about US and Japan relationship and history with his unique experience.