W. David Marx (Marxy) — Tokyo-based writer and musician — is the founder and chief editor of Néojaponisme.
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Nick Sylvester is a writer living in New York. He is a former editor of the
Village Voice and
Pitchfork Media, and he currently blogs at
Riff Market.
W. David Marx (Marxy) — Tokyo-based writer and musician — is the founder and chief editor of Néojaponisme.
Posted in 2008, Features, Internet and Games, Music, Popular Culture, Technology, The Present, Youth Culture 34 Comments »
Patrick Macias is the author of numerous tomes on Japanese pop culture, including Japanese Schoolgirl Inferno, Otaku in USA, and Cruising the Anime City. He blogs at
patrickmacias.blogs.com.
Posted in 2008, Features, Internet and Games, Markets and Consumers, Media, Politics, Popular Culture, Subculture, The Present, Youth Culture 16 Comments »
A one-time journalist for the Mainichi Shimbun,
Sasaki Toshinao (b. 1961) is one of Japan's most articulate and widely-read commentators on the country's net culture and its relation to the emergence of the so-called "Lost Generation" of people in their twenties and thirties who joined the work force just after the bubble economy burst in the early nineties. His work includes his CNET blog Journalist's Perspective, a regular column for Cyzo magazine, and books such as
The Flat Revolution 『フラット革命』 (2007) and
The Birth of Blog Discourse 『ブログ論壇の誕生』 (2008).
Chris Salzberg lives in Tokyo and is a primary writer for Global Voices Online - Japan.
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