Shohei Shibata

Shohei Shibata, its representative and founder, graduated from University of Tokyo and joined NHK in 1988. After an initial three-year assignment as a TV director at the NHK Okinawa Station, he was transferred to the News Department at the NHK Broadcasting Center in Tokyo. From 1992 to 1995, Shibata worked for the Center for Ethnological Visual Documentation. He then became an independent TV director. In 1997, Shibata established ASIA Documentary Productions Company in Tokyo, serving as its president and as a TV producer and director.