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Shigeko Kubota is a pioneering video artist born in Japan. In this article, New York-based contemporary artist Mark Bloch reveals how she has been perceived around the world, unraveling the secret of her creative practice and artistic expression.

In this series, Tsuya-chan writes about contemporary music with a focus on Japanese hip-hop. She breaks down the relationship between music and fashion, as well as fashion trends and youth culture. In the sixteenth installment, she looks into the creativity of Japanese rapper LEX, who had a notably busy year.

Spoon & Tamago is a Brooklyn-based web media that conveys Japanese art and design to the world in English. We asked its editor-in-chief, Johnny Waldman, about its background and perspective.

In this article, we cover the Metabolic Rift exhibition tour, a reimagined version of the iconic experimental music festival, Berlin Atonal.

Peppe introduces his first encounter with Japanese culture through his manga. The first installment of the series is on Kabuki.

On the streets of Shibuya, there are people who are drunk and sleep as if they are unconscious while riding on the streets, trains, and sometimes bicycles. “Shibuya Meltdown™” is an instagram account that captures these images.

Filmmaker and photographer Julien Levy has released a new photo book featuring photographs of young creators and artists taken in Tokyo in the year 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. This interview explores the background of the project and his perspectives.

Frederic Auerbach has been shooting campaigns for luxury brands and celebrity portraits mainly in Paris. He talks about fashion photography and the Japanese sense of beauty.

Afrofuturism includes not only science fiction in written form, but also movies and music. The term was coined in 1993 and has kept developing since then. Here, science fiction critic and anthologist Teruyuki Hashimoto traces the genealogy of this discrete imagination.

Haruomi Hosono’s concert documentary, which was shot in 2019 in New York and Los Angeles, is finally complete. Director Taketoshi Sado, a close collaborator of Hosono’s, tells us how Hosono feels about the U.S.