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Born 1985 in Hakodate, Hokkaido. Writer, emcee, band member, and alternative music historian. Presides over the record label "Haliental. He writes "Ongaku to Owari" (Music and Warai) on Ongaku Natalie. Podcasts "Movie Chat" and "Ornate Music Historical Perspectives.

Writer. I write and interview for art magazines and books. I am currently a regular contributor to artscape's "Hello, Curator? I have also been an external editor of Bijutsu Techo since 2009. He has been an external editor of Bijutsu Techo since 2009, and has been involved in the publication of Daisuke Tsuda and Oriza Hirata's "Nippon no Geijutsu no Yukue: Why Does Art Create Divisions? (Seigensha), and "Kou no Jidai" by Ryuta Ugi (Chim↑Pom) and Osamu Matsuda (Asahi Press).
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DJ/writer. While working as an editor/writer, he departed from the rails of general society during the pandemic. Since then, he has become more involved in the Japanese indie electronic music scene. In 2021, he began DJing under the name NordOst, and continues to play 100 genre-less gigs a year at numerous venues around the Tokyo metropolitan area. Organizer of the “Fourth Way” party series.

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/

After majoring in Western art history, I worked in a small theater in Tokyo. My favorite glide is "seared ribs x 5". My favorite painters are Georges de La Tour and Leon Spilliart. I am of the school that drizzles olive oil on natto.

Photographer
Portrait photography for various media, artist photos for musicians, live performances, and jackets. and jackets for musicians.
https://www.instagram.com/kanatarumi/
https://www.kanatarumi.com

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).

Born in 1987, she is a writer. She majored in Osamu Dazai seminar at university, and since 2011 has worked for fashion magazines such as “Zipper,” “nina's,” and “Linnell,” where she mainly writes culture pages covering new movies and stage performances. In 2014, after the birth of her first child, she began full-fledged reporting and writing about theater. She covers rehearsals, interviews, and writes theater reviews. She has contributed to “Theatre Saikyou-ron-ing,” “Ro-tike Drama Manifesto! SPICE,” ‘Theatre Criticism Magazine Paperback,’ etc. From 2023, he will be a member of the jury for the CoRich Performing Arts Festival! He has been a member of the jury for CoRich Performing Arts Festival! He has also held irregular exhibitions using poetry, such as “色彩-ichijitsu” (2012), “こゝろは、家なき子” (2015), and “Kimi ga Haru wo Kiiroi mo mo Bakeru” (2020). Other published works include the private novel “Chawan Ichiru no Uso (A Bowlful of Lies)” (included in “USO vol. 2”) and the essay “Mother and Sparrow” (winner of the Bungeishicho Essay Award for Excellence).

Born in Tokyo in 1990. Graduated from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. While in school, studied sociology and anthropology, and frequently visited Eastern Africa. After graduation, worked for a video production company before going independent. While working mainly in magazines, web media, and advertising, she focuses on the relationship between society and the individual, and creates works that take the social background and social structure as their subject matter, showing them both in Japan and abroad. His work has won the runner-up prize at the Dummy Award Kassel in Germany, been published in overseas magazines such as Foam Magazine in the Netherlands and Le Monde in France, and his photo book “Recruit” was selected as one of the 10 best photo books by Italian Vogue magazine in 2016.

WEB : https://hiroshi-okamoto.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hiroshi_okamotoo/

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

1992年生まれ、大分県在住。本・朝ドラ・大河ドラマ好きの子供時代を経て、山口大学に在学中、映画に夢中になる。卒業後、書店勤務の傍ら、『リアルサウンド映画部』にて主にテレビドラマのレビューを多く執筆する他、『映画芸術』にて新作映画についての連載トーク「映画たちよ！私たちのディスクール」に参加している。現在は「半分書店員、半分ライター」として、ドラマ・映画・人と向き合う日々。

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.