Ike&Sons Inc. was founded on December 25th, 2006, by three communication business experts, Kunihiro Kadoike, Kenji Fukuoka and Yuichi Kenjo with Kunihiro Kadoike as the chief  executive director.

Ike&Sons was first conceived to combine their expertise.

Profiles of directors  

Chief Executive Director: Kunihiro Kadoike.

Kunihiro Kadoike joined Gumma Television Broadcasting Company in 1973. He served as division chief for production and Tokyo branch head. He  retired early to become managing director of COM Ltd., a production house, which is a subsidiary of  Niigata Broadcasting Company and part of the Fuji Television network. With over 30 years  of experience working in Media, Mr. Kadoike's (IKE) warm hearted character and  vast network of people has enabled IKE & Sons to knock on doors that are usually unavailable to many companies  foreign and domestic. 

Executive Director: Kenji Fukuoka.

 Kenji began his career  as a producer for Dentsu Advertising Agency. He then joined Gunma Television. He specialized in planning and producing Sales Promotion events mainly in the area of TV commercials . He joined COM Ltd., led by Mr. Kadoike in 2006. He has since been working with Ike&Sons Inc. 

contact fuku@ikeandsons.jp

Executive Director: Yuichi Kenjo,

While a student of theater at Nihon University,  Kenjo was involved in the production of events and stage plays. After graduated from school, he took a job as a recording producer and worked with a variety of artists. He met Fukuoka at the Gunma TV and agreed to create  a company which would combine music and event in a creative manner. In June  Kenjo and Fukuoka left COM and established Ike&Sons Inc.

International Business Department

Chief Producer

William (Willy) Badger

Kenji Fukuoka met Willy in the studios of Gunma Television. Kenji thought Willy was a famous foreigner and introduced himself. To his amazement, Willy wasn’t a famous foreigner but a friendship began. Kenji has become Willy’s Mentor or Sempai .

Willy Badger is a dynamic award winning multi-lingual entertainer with outstanding communication skills and creativity. He has lived and worked in Japan for the last 12 years. His other talents include being a popular columnist for www.golf-in-japan.com, and an award winning short documentary filmmaker. He is able to conduct interviews in English, French and Japanese.

His major goals with IKE & Sons are:

1. • Find great international TV Shows, Documentaries and  Movies that the Japanese viewer can relate to
   

2. • Create entertaining events for the foreign companies in the Greater Tokyo Area.
   

3. • Bring Foreign Talent to Japan
   

4. • Offer a different route for emerging foreign artist to get their projects produced and bought in Japan.
   

contact willy@ikeandsons.jp