Notable Press and Media Appearances

• National Public Radio, My Fellow Americans: 'Speed Cuber' Shotaro Makisumi, July 12, 2004.
• 15-minute segment on Kioku no Chikara II (The Power of Memory II), Japanese prime-time documentary program on Nippon Television, June 25, 2005.
• Main subject of a full-length documentary CubeFreak (titled after my cubing website). Accepted in the 2008 Newport Beach Film Festival.
• Princeton University's video feature, Shotaro Makisumi dreams in cubes, February 10, 2011.

Record Books

• Two entries in Guinness World Records 2006, August 15, 2005.
• Two entries in Book of Alternative Records, October 1, 2004.
• Entry in Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Expect...The Unexpected, Ripley Publishing, August 1, 2006.