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Born in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. Likes fishing and photography. Lately also likes mountains.
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Photographer. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1991. In recent years, he has been challenging himself with various photographic expressions across genres, such as shooting for fashion magazines, brand looks and advertisements, and visual photography for musicians. He is also actively working both in Japan and abroad, regularly holding exhibitions and releasing collections of his work, from his base in Tokyo.

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).

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.

Born in 1982. Born in Tokyo. After graduating from university, worked for a publishing company before going freelance in 2014. He won the 25th Bunkamura Dumago Literary Award for his book "Monkiri Shakai: Unraveling a Modern World Stiffened by Words" (Monkiri Shakai: Unraveling a Modern World Stiffened by Words). He is also the author of "Nihon no Kizumo," "Kikiyasusa no Shiru," "Machizumo wo Shavings," "Betsu Kariwari Daimonai," "Kikkatachi no Kotoba Tachi (Words I Picked Up Today)," "It's Not My Father," "Nankai Ikaanashi," etc. He is a personality on TBS Radio's "Takeda Sunatetsu no Pre-kin Night," and a regular on Bunka Hoso's "Ohtake! Makoto Golden Radio! Tuesday regular.

Percussionist, born in 1992 in Hokkaido. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts after studying percussion at the high school attached to the Faculty of Music, Tokyo University of the Arts. Upon graduation, he received the Acanthus Music Award and the Doseikai Award. As a leader project, he leads Answer to Remember, SMTK, and Songbook Trio, and has participated in numerous live performances and productions by Quruli, Ringo Sheena, KID FRESINO, Ozora Kimishima, CRCK/LCKS, and many others.

SF (Soulful) writer/tension critic/professional playboy.
His independent magazine “T.M.I.” released in '22 and '23 was a small historical hit.
He is a narrator in an R&B band called Young Love, and is also active in a neo picture-story unit, Pegasus Dan.

Born in 1997, born and lives in California, USA. Currently a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. While continuing to work as an agent to connect artists in Japan and abroad, and to connect music and society, he also writes as a writer. Her first book, “Sekai to Watashi no A to Z,” a compilation of serial articles from the literary magazine “Gunzo,” will be followed by “#Z-Generation Values” (both from Kodansha) in the fall of 2023.

Editor, border culture researcher, dramaturg, and representative of TISSUE Inc.
He is active mainly in the fields of publishing, art, and public projects, with the aim of “thinking about expression and society from the perspective of movement and boundaries. He writes an irregular column “Border Crabs” on Torch web.
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ライター・編集者。海外映画を専門に、評論やコラム、インタビューなどを書籍・雑誌・映画パンフレット・ウェブメディアなど多数の媒体で執筆。国内舞台作品のリサーチ・コンサルティングも務める。

Editor and writer. Born in Tokyo.

MUSICA Editorial Department