Column

DJ Kenji Takimi speaks on Primal Scream’s sound and transformation during the Second Summer of Love era.

A column by Rishi , editor-in-chief of the music zine 痙攣, about the manga artist Tatsuki Fujimoto.

Skateboarding can be viewed from multiple angles in this age of diversity. What does it look like to you? What exactly is skateboarding? There is probably more than one answer to these questions. Obviously, the answers varies depending on the times and the way it appeals to society. This time, we’ll focus on people who continue to look at and record the most universal aspects of skateboarding.

Fujii Kaze just released his sophomore album, Love All Serve All, and is currently on tour. We investigate what makes his music attract so many people.

Peppe introduces his first encounter with Japanese culture through his manga. The fourth installment is on his visit to the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei, Tokyo.

Tomo Kosuga, an art producer living in Amsterdam, explores photography around the world today in this series of columns. In his seventh installment, he reveals the long-veiled, unknown lifetime of Dutch photographer Paul Blanca.

Peppe introduces his first encounter with Japanese culture through his manga. The third installment is on his trip to a Japanese sake brewery in Okutama, Tokyo.

Hajichi, a tattoo with a deep blue pattern on the back of a woman’s hand, is said to have disappeared after it was banned by the Meiji government. A writer Lee Tonouchi, who was born and raised in Hawaii, discusses the origins of Hawaii’s unique language, which is closely related to hajichi, as well as its diversity.

Mike Kershnar takes film photography, draws with a pen in his hand, and tirelessly types words. His forte is jumping on his skateboard and being able to manifest his energy anywhere, as long as he has the tools he can carry around. He creates and leaves behind unique works, and I’d like to show you a glimpse of that.

Shy Thompson, an up-and-coming American journalist who writes for Pitchfork and Bandcamp Daily, unravels Mioko Yamaguchi’s ’80s masterpiece of Japanese synthpop and her latest work “FAIRYTHM.”