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A One-Way Ticket to Tokyo: Bobby Dixit On Risk, Reinvention And The Wild Early Days of PlayStation

Yamato Magazine: Let’s start at the beginning. What brought you to Japan in the first place?

Bobby Dixit: I was in my third year at King’s College London and I was struggling to know which direction I wanted to take. An opportunity came up to study in Japan at the Chiba Institute of Technology for a year. Of course I went.

Yamato Magazine: How did that experience take you back to Japan?

Bobby: After that, I came back to the UK to complete my master’s and then I interviewed for a position to do my second master’s thesis at Sony’s Broadcast & Professional Europe research labs in Basingstoke. It was between me and a mature student who I thought would get the job because he was very polished. There I was, a kid with a ponytail in flip flops.

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