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Kiki Kudo writes about living in New York City and Connecticut during the pandemic.

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.

Rikako Yagi, whose appearance in the Netflix original series “First Love: First Love” is a hot topic, introduces the movies that have influenced her in her acting career.

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.

In the sixth installment, we report on the Android and Music Science Laboratory opening at the Art Science Department, Osaka University of Arts, where Keiichiro Shibuya recently started working as a visiting professor.

In the fifth installment of this series, we report on “MIRROR,” an android opera shown in Dubai in March of this year.

On one hand, Yua Uchiyama is an active member of idol group RAY. On the other, she has gained local popularity for her Twitter #YuaUchiyama’sOneAlbumADay and for her music blog on note.com. The second review for her music serial is on Haruomi Hosono’s Tropical Trilogy.

In honor of the late Rei Harakami’s legendary cassette tape re-release, we’re kicking off a short series of three articles. In the first installation, we interview filmmaker Yasuto Yura, whose friendship with Harakami dates back to their university days.

In the fourth installation of this series, we report on an impromptu performance by musician Keiichiro Shibuya and Shingon Buddhist monk Eizen Fujiwara in Dubai last December.