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神奈川県横浜市出身。大阪大学大学院博士後期課程所属。専門はポピュラー音楽研究、メディア研究。
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Bassist/Composer. Born in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture. A musician who creates soundscapes using double bass and electronic sounds. In 2019, he composed music for the Mina Perhonen fashion show, collaborated with Kento Koganezawa, Yosuke Amemiya, Suzuki Takayuki, and Misaki Kono, and produced arauchi yu (cero), Yuka, and Janis Crunch. Bassist for “Wang Hao Tsuchi Kyō” with Arauchi Yu, Yūka with Mahō Band, Hasunuma Shuta Philharmonic, Sangatsu, and Suga Dairo Trio. His discography includes ‘Hiroki Chiba + Saidrum’ (2008), Kinetic's ‘db’ (2016), ‘Eine Phantasie im Morgen’ (2017), ‘Nokto’ (2018), and ‘Asleep’ (2019). His latest work is the soundtrack for the film ‘Enemy’ directed by Daihachi Yoshida, released in January 2025.

Contributed to music, literary, and fashion magazines. She is the co-founder of "Cosmetics Begins to Speak", an activity to think about alternative ways of beauty in 2022.

Writer. He has been familiar with dance music since he was a teenager and writes extensively about popular music, making use of his own experience as a beat-maker. He is the author of “Rhythm in J-Pop History” (blueprint, 2019).

Born in Wakayama in 1982. I love dogs. I have never owned a dog.

Writer and music selector with a theme of region and climate. Presides over B.O.N., an editorial production on travel and festivals. His major publications include "Nanyo no Songline" (Kiltibooks), "Bon Odori no Sengo Shishi" (The Postwar History of Bon Odori) (Chikuma Shobo), "Oku Tokyo-jin ni Aini ni Iku" (Going to Meet Oku Tokyo People) (Shobunsha), "Nippon no Matsurism" (Artes Press), and "Nippon Daiondo Jidai" (The Nippon Great Ondo Era) (Kawade Shobo Shinsha).

Editor & Writer. I have a rabbit. His name is Momotaro.
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Born in 2001 in Saitama Prefecture. Graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Imaging Arts.
Started working as a filmmaker while still in school. Currently based in Berlin as a photographer and filmmaker.
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Active in the field of photography and video. Loves cats.
Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/erinkaori

2002 Nagoya → Tokyo
I was a staff member at LIVERARY. Likes soil:)
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Kazuko Uemoto, photographer, born in Hiroshima in 1984, won the Canon New Cosmos of Photography Excellence Award in 2003, and in 2013 launched "Natural Studio," a photo studio using natural light in Shimokitazawa. He is the author of "Work ECD Watashi no Ikkaku Chaoki", "Kananai", "Kazoku no Last Hi", "Surrender Records", "Vermeer", "Typhoon Issho", "Love Takes Time", and a collection of photographs, "Happily Ever After". His latest book, "About Sabisashi" (co-authored with novelist Yusei Takiguchi).

Graduated from the Department of Graphic Design, Tama Art University in 2022.
He began working as a photographer while still in college, and held his first solo exhibition “KOUGOSEI” (2022 in Tokyo) just six months after starting photography. The following year, he published a photo book “CAFUNE” (published by Mirai Publishing in 2023) and held a solo exhibition “CAFUNE” (Tokyo, 2024). In addition to producing artwork, he has been actively involved in client work, including being selected to supervise the photography for the Saturday night drama “Halation Love” (2023, TV Asahi).
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