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Born in 1977 in Hyogo Prefecture. Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai International University. D. (Sociology). Specializes in sociology of music and media studies. Travels to music festivals around the world to study their relationship with society. He is the author of “Rock Festivals Sociology: On Festivals in Individualized Society” (2016, Minerva Shobo), co-author of “How Have We Faced Western Music” (2019, Hanaden-sha), “How Have We Faced Western Music? (2019, Kaden-sha), and “Critical Word: Expanding and Renewing Popular Music ” (2023, Filmart-sha).

Born 1988 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. Graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of Photography.
He mainly produces music videos and other music images, and also works as a photographer.
Since the early days of NOT WONK, he has been accompanying the band to live performances and recitals, taking photographs/videos.

Instagram：https://www.instagram.com/satoyuki0823

Born in Hokkaido, Japan. Photographer. Leader of the guerrilla rice cake pounding unit “Mochi wa Mochiya”.
He is currently working underground, documenting underground culture through books, advertisements, websites, movies, and other media.
He is the author of “Tsukiji Fish Market Blues” (Tokyo Kirara-sha), a collection of photographs of people at the Tsukiji market taken from a fixed point.
He loves pounding rice cakes so much that he started “Mochi ha Mochiya,” a business trip rice cake pounding shop. I will do it at any place with a mortar and pestle, so please ask me for help!
https://www.instagram.com/numatamago/　

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.

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.

He began his career in the early 00's as an editor of a certain street magazine. Afterwards, after editing and writing for various media, as an office staff of T.R.E.A.M., a group ruled by the account “Tonight is Tanaka” that existed in the dawn of X, he organized parties such as “Tanaka Face Ball”, compiled the compilation album “LIFE LOVES THE DISTANCE” Producing, organizing the D.L memorial program “The World of Sick Infinite D.L” broadcast on Dommune, A&R of the collaborative EP “Colors” by GOODMOODGOKU & Yusaku Arai, and more. And in 2019, he launched DAWN to give back to the street culture that has benefited him so far.

Born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University, Faculty of Economics. Has interviewed more than 2,000 filmmakers and actors. Author of “Broken Girl: Beautiful Girls Who Drown” (Film Art, Inc.), which examines girls and violence in movies. He co-authored or edited “Legendary Film Art Directors x Yohei Taneda” (SPACE SHOWER BOOKS), “The Future of Shinji Somai” (Tokyo News Press), and “Shinji Somai: The Lowest Days” (Rice Press). He has also contributed to “Auteurism Rowe Yeh” and “Auteurism Shinji Somai 2023 Typhoon Club Scenario Complete Scroll” (A PEOPLE).

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” .

Writer and editor. He writes film reviews and columns for Asahi Shimbun, Shukan Bunshun, CREA.web, etc. He also conducts film-related interviews and edits books and pamphlets. He also interviews film-related people and edits books and pamphlets, and interviews film directors and actors as an MC for the YouTube program “Katsuben Cinema Club. His first collection of film columns, “Intoxicating Movies: Vacation Morning Begins with a Cider” (Shunyodo Shoten) is now on sale.

Film writer who writes for the web media "All About News", "Netorabo", "CINEMAS+", "Joshi SPA!", "Magmix", etc. Her all-time best movie is "Let Me Hear You Sing Ai".

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

Born on July 27, 1976. Born in Hyogo Prefecture. He started “Shabenjazu”, a talk event for fans to talk with each other in 2014, and still holds the event at the end of every month. He is also active on YouTube, where he provides commentary on the original works of American comic book characters, as well as movie predictions, impressions, and thoughts. He is also a cat lover.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@syavengers
X: https://x.com/genjyuro