This week's Puppet Theater Radio continues with a car talk after the Japanese Society of Doll and Toy Research Conference "100 Years of Modern Puppet Theater". We talk about the research presentation "The Development of Modern Puppet Theater Expressions in France" by Tomoe Kobayashi, who was also active in the Philippe Genty Company. This program is the official radio program run by the only library dedicated to puppet theater in Japan. It is updated every Monday. [Hideaki Katami] Director of "Puppet Theater Library" / Head of "Puppet Theater Trolley" Born in Kyoto in 1948. Founded the "Trolley Puppet Theater" in 1971 (1975-Puppet Theater Trolley), and has been delivering fantasy to more than 1 million children not only in Japan but also in 16 countries around the world for over 50 years. Elected as a UNIMA council member in 1984, he was in charge of the 15th convention (held in Japan), and since 1986 has served as deputy secretary-general of the UNIMA 15th convention and 88 World Puppet Theater Festival Organizing Committee. As a puppetry researcher, he has been running the Puppetry Library since 1991, and also lectures on "Children's Cultural Activities" at Kyoto Women's University and other institutions. In 2005, he was a member of the executive committee for the Osaka International Puppetry Festival to commemorate the registration of Bunraku as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Japan. In 2008, he supervised the National Theater Cultural Digital Library's "Folk Performing Arts and Puppet Theater." In 2013, he published the "Puppetry Book Materials Catalog." In 2019, he served as an editorial committee member for the "Japanese Doll Toy Dictionary." Torokko's Twitter can be found here: / torokko_puppet [Yoshi Sato] Researcher at the Puppetry Library / Producer/Coach Born in Fukuoka in 1986. After graduating from Kyoto University, he joined Studio Ghibli. He was an assistant to Toshio Suzuki and belonged to the publishing department. After moving to Nippon Television, he became a film producer. His representative works include "The Boy and the Beast," "Death Note Light up the New World," and "My Love Story!!" After going independent, he moved to Kyoto. Currently, as a professional coach, she coaches various writers and creators, and is active in many areas, including producing an online school with Kazuhiro Fujiwara, who is involved in educational reform. While working in various entertainment industries, she was shocked by puppetry. She was attracted to puppetry, which moves the hearts of viewers as objects come to life in front of them, and has studied puppetry from all over the world, including Japan, the United States, and France. She currently works as a researcher at a puppetry library and visits various homes to bring puppetry to children. She is currently writing a series of essays as a puppeteer in the Kyoto magazine ``Hankei 5m.'' #PuppetryLibrary #TomoeKobayashi #Basiltwist #JapaneseDollToySociety #100YearsOfModernPuppetry