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Rainbow Disco Club is an outdoor music event set to take place on October 30th and 31st. Following a series of postponements, we interviewed organizer Masahiro Tsuchiya about the dance party which will be held amid the coronavirus crisis.

Hiroshi Uehara, the founder of brand 430, joined the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as a BMX freestyle technical operations manager. He’s spent the majority of his life having some serious fun, starting from his teens, with BMX. How did Uehara get involved in a particular historical milestone for BMX? He spoke to us about his future and so on.

This series unravels the art in post-corona era through the words of experts. In the 7th edition, editor and art producer Shigeo Goto is with us.

In this column series, SF book reviewer Teruyuki Hashimoto introduces old and new Science Fiction (SF). This article is about the origins of “Cyberpunk” and the pivotal role that Japan played in it.

What is the raison d’etre of love hotels, according to artist Momoko Ishihara, who had a solo exhibition titled Hotel Stone Room No. 507; Fragments of a Memory?

Dominic Marley is a photographer who documents skaters and football players in London. Many skaters became well known in Tokyo because of him, such as Nick Jensen and Lucien Clarke. I’d like to introduce Dom and his photos to you.

In this column series, SF book reviewer Teruyuki Hashimoto introduces old and new Science Fiction (SF). This article is about the happy marriage between fashion and SF: SF on makeup, Kill la Kill’s homage to a classic SF, “Fiberpunk,” and Japanese fashion labels such as C.E. and HATRA. And the issue of lookism — how your looks or attractiveness often determines how the world perceives and responds to you.

Seidenba Saku is the face of DiAN, a music group based in Beijing and Tokyo. We interviewed her about her creative work and the current music scene in Asia.

This series features thinkers and experts to share their insights on the art world in the post-Covid landscape. In the sixth installment, we spoke with Noah Becker, the editor-in-chief of Whitehot Magazine, the leading online contemporary art magazine in New York.

The series by the writer Ryoichi Niimoto living in Brooklyn, who digs deep into the thoughts that musicians put into the songs. Michelle Zauner gained popularity as a dream pop diva and was supported by a wider range of listeners in her latest studio album “Jubilee”. Decipher the thoughts she put in from the lyrics.