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Born in Saitama, Japan in 1983. Music director and critic, involved in promotion and production in the record industry since 2006, and A&R for many artists. He is the author of "Music Goes On: The Latest Music Life Thoughts" (Music Magazine, 2021) and editor of "What is City Pop" (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2022).

Twitter: https://twitter.com/shibasakiyuji

Born in Nara Prefecture. Lives in Kyoto City and works as a writer for the web medium ANNTENNA.

Born 1988 in Ibaraki Prefecture, currently resides in Kyoto City. After graduating from university, he worked at a live music club in Kyoto City and launched the web media ANTENNA in 2012. He was responsible for interviewing, photographing, and writing, and produced many articles. Later, as a web director, he created and maintained websites for various companies, and in 2019, he became independent as a photographer. He does interviews for magazines and web media, as well as photographing people for weddings and music photography.

Writing. I like cats, houseplants, food (charcuterie, spiced food, peaches, hard pudding, big-box Chinese, assorted) and summer. I am interested in things that cannot be reconciled. Sometimes I work as Team Unfinished.
Twitter：https://twitter.com/yr00mt
Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/yr00mt/

Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1998, he graduated from Tokyo College of Photography in 2020 and started his career based in Tokyo. He shoots for magazines, websites, advertisements, and other genres.
Instagram: @torintaro
https://rintarokanemoto.com

Trackmaker/DJ, video production, writing, and more. I have also provided tracks and music for many commercials, and have performed for tofubeats “Vibration” and provided music for the game “MINDHACK”.
https://kotetsu-shoichiro.com/

Born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1968. Started writing with the music magazine "Rhythm & Pencil," which he started with his friends. His books include "Boku no Heisei Pants Socks Shoes Songbook," "20th Century Greatest Hits," "Koizumi Single" (a book accompanying Kyoko Koizumi's best album "Koizumi Chronicle"), "Music Manga Guidebook" as an editor, and books he edited include Goro Nakagawa and Hiroshi Nagai's "Friends Like Music," Ichiro Asazuma's "Hit is Everything," Masao Onose's "Guitarist Daikokuurai," and "Rock Gaho/Kakubarizumu Special Issue. He has also translated Terry Southern's "Red Dirt Marijuana" and Brian Wilson's "The Autobiography of Brian Wilson.

Born in 1997, Aquarius. From Nishiogikubo on the Chuo Line to Seijogakuenmae on the Odakyu Line.Writing for Musicman, ANTENNA, and other publications.　X｜Instagram　

Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1976. Music journalist. After graduating from Kyoto University's Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, he worked for Rocking On before going independent. He is active in a wide range of activities, including interviews and writing in the fields of culture and business, with a focus on music, as well as regular appearances on TV and radio. He is the author of "Heisei no hit songs" (Shincho-shinsho), "The collapse of hits" (Kodansha Gendai Shinsho), "Why did Hatsune Miku change the world? (Ota Publishing), and co-author of "Vocaloid Song Guide: 100 Masterpieces" (Seikaisha Shinsho) and "Shibuya Music Zukan" (Ota Publishing).
Blog "Daily Tones and Words” http://shiba710.hateblo.jp/
Twitter：@shiba710　
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Music writer born in 1990 in Iwate, living in Osaka. Loves club culture, festivals, and rivers. writes for fujirockers.org, ANTENNA, TURN, etc. Working on Elliott Smith's zine.

https://www.renzomasuda.com/

Born in 1991 in Tokyo, Japan, writer began writing music-related columns and disc reviews in 2016, and the following year joined the media outlet TURN, where music writer Shino Okamura serves as editor-in-chief, as an editor/writer. He is currently away from the editorial team but continues to write as a regular writer. His other major writing media include “Music Magazine,” “Real Sound”, and “OTOTOY” .