CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors who create NiEW together.

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/

Tsuyoshi Kizu
Writer. He writes about movies, music, and gay culture for various media. He is the author of "New Dad: Atarashii jidai no atarashii ossan" (New Dad: Atarashii jidai no atarashii ossan) (Chikuma Shobo).

Rintaro Kanemoto
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

Mitsutaka Nagira
Born in 1979. Music critic, supervising the mook series "Jazz The New Chapter" (Shinko-Music), which compiles jazz since the 21st century. Co-author of "Listening to 100 Years of Jazz" (Shinko- Music, 2017), a collection of trilogies with Masahiro Goto and Koji Murai, and "10 Viewpoints on Pop Music" (Artes Publishing, 2020), edited by Toshiyuki Owada.

renzo masuda
https://www.renzomasuda.com/

Hideo Miyamoto
Born in Tokyo, Scorpio type A. Started freelance activities in 1996. Although my main focus is on music, I am interested in covering a wide range of topics, from people in the city to culture in general, regardless of genre. I am usually at home, live concerts, art exhibitions, or bookstores. I am also active in X and Instagram. I'm mainly into music, but I'm also into art, cooking, sneakers, flea markets, literature, J-League, Premier League, motorsports, bicycles, Miffy, Moomin, cats, starry skies, Buddhist statues, ukuleles, etc. If there is a job offer, I'll probably not refuse.
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Masaaki Hara
He is a writer, music selector, producer of label rings, founder of net radio dublab.jp, and part-time lecturer at Waseda University. His books include “Jazz Thing: What is Jazz?"
https://linktr.ee/masaakihara

Kenta Shibayama
Photographer, born in 1994. Currently active in a variety of media, mainly portrait photography, including the web, advertising, and magazines.
HP : https://shibayamakenta.com/
Instagram :@aurisms

Kana Miyazawa
After working as a brand director and in the press, she started her writing career in earnest around 2012, relocating from Tokyo to Berlin in 2014, where she is currently writing articles on European local culture for many media. She also works as a PR person for domestic and international fashion brands, music labels, and overseas festivals.
Instagram:@kanamiyazawa

Yusuke Yamatani
Born 1985 in Niigata Prefecture, Tokyo-based photographer. After graduating from Rissho University with a degree in philosophy from the Faculty of Letters, he worked at Gaien Studio and later moved to Nagasaki, where he learned photography through interactions with Shomei Higashimatsu and other unknown photographers he met. Major exhibitions include “KYOTOGRAPHIE” (2015), solo exhibition “KAIKOO” (Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, 2021), “VOCA 2021” (The Ueno Royal Museum, 2021), “The 14th Yebisu Film Festival” (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2022), solo exhibition “ONSEN” (Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, 2024), an exhibition at the Condé Nast headquarters building in New York, and a European tour with the performance piece “Doors”. Major collections include “Tsugi no yoru e” (self-published, 2013), “ground” (lemon books, 2014), “RAMA LAMA DING DONG” (private edition, 2015), “Into the Light” (T&M Projects, 2017), “Doors ' (Gallery Yamaya, 2020), and 'ONSEN MMXXIV' (flotsam books, 2024).

Yasuo Murao
Music and film reviews. He has written for a wide range of media including Music Magazine, Record Collector's, Rollong Stone Japan, CINRA, Natalie, REALSOUND, bounce, INTOXICATE, CLUEL, FUDGE, GQ, and TOKION. He has also contributed to numerous liner notes and pamphlets.

Kuroda Takanori
After graduating from college, he made his major debut in a rock band in the late 1990s. He then became a freelance writer/editor/photographer. He became a freelance writer/editor/photographer. He is the world's only My Bloody Valentine He was the world's only My Bloody Valentine-approved photographer, and was Japan's exclusive interviewer for Paul McCartney in 2018 and Ringo Starr in 2019. In 2018, he interviewed Paul McCartney, and in 2019, Ringo Starr for Japan's exclusive interview. He is the author of "Shoegazer Disc Guide" (co-supervisor) and "My Bloody Valentine" (co-supervisor). My Bloody Valentine is Everything" and "When Melody Inspires".
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