Malcolm W. Adams is the Founder and President & Executive Producer of Totown Communications Group Japan. A native of Omaha, Nebraska, he
resides in Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshu. Adams has had an illustrious career as a TV and Radio News correspondent, TV and film Producer/Director, Broadcast Journalist and Media Artist for more than thirty-eight years. He first went to Japan in 1976 as a News Anchorman from KNX Newsradio, the CBS owned station in Los Angeles. In 1981 he became the resident TV and Radio correspondent for the Tokyo bureau of CBS NEWS.
In 1984 Adams was recruited by Ted Turner to start the Cable News Network in Japan and launch the CNN award winning series "This Week In Japan" for the worldwide CNN Network.
Adams produced and hosted the show, which featured Japanese heads of state, American celebrities and government leaders such as Former U.S. Presidents Carter, Reagan and Bush.
In 1986, Adams established Totown Communications Co., Ltd. with a dream of eventually starting his own record label in Japan. Thus, the name TOTOWN (for Motown of Tokyo and Tokyo Town) was born in anticipation of realizing this dream. As one of the leading African-American entrepreneurs in Japan for the past 25 years, Adams has establish a lucrative group of small business enterprises known as Totown Communications Group Japan which includes Totown Digital Media, The Media Arts Lab, Totown Records, Mal’s Bar, Totown Music Publishing Co. and Adams International Academy. The flagship firm of this group, Totown Communications Co., Ltd., is a rising star in the growing field of Cross-cultural Corporate Communications. In addition to many multinational corporate clients such as Sony and Yamaha in Japan, Totown has a major consulting agreement with Corning Corporation to provide Cross-cultural training workshops and Ex-pat services for employees who are assigned to conduct business around the globe.
Adams has received numerous awards throughout his career as a journalist including the Maejima Prize, Japan’s equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in Journalism.
He is the only non-Japanese to have received the award, which is presented annually by Japan’s Ministry of Post and Telecommunications.
Adams, 57, is married to a Japanese national and has four children and three grandchildren.
