Daniel Robson, Executive Producer of the videogame and entertainment media IGN JAPAN operated by Sankei Digital, was invited to speak at a UK-Japan Game Industry roundtable held at British Embassy Tokyo for a visiting UK video games trade mission to Japan on July 16.
Fourteen game developers and publishers from the UK visited Japan as part of the trade mission, co-organized by the UK Department for Business and Trade, UK Interactive Entertainment (Ukie) and Games London. Robson, a British expatriate in Japan, joined a roundtable to offer the visiting developers insights into the Japanese game industry.
The UK exhibited for the first time at this year’s BitSummit, an annual indie games festival held in Kyoto, Japan. Following this, at EXPO 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, the National Videogame Museum’s exhibit “Videogames: Transforming Lives” was held in the UK Pavilion.
Robson attended the roundtable and related events and said, “I speak at a lot of events, but as a Brit expat in Japan, this was a cool event to be invited to join! It’s also great to see the UK putting resources behind exporting its excellent and underappreciated game industry.”
* Sankei Digital has experts who are available as speakers on the gaming industry. For more information, please contact us.