In 2010, Carl Barat of Libertines fame came to Tokyo to promote his eponymous solo album, which was rather good. I interviewed him at the...

Back in 2008 I had been hoping to interview the artist Tadanori Yokoo face-to-face with the help of an interpreter, but that didn't work...

Kawano with the Sony PlayStation Vita console Back in 2011, a few months after the massive Earthquake that devastated much of Japan, I ran i...

In late 2009, I conducted a telephone interview with Mikael Akerfeldt, the leader of OPETH. He was in Italy and I was in Saitama. The entir...

"Hmmm, why do my hands smell like that?" In January 2011, I met and interviewed Tadasu Takamine at the Yokohama Museum of Art.  ...

OK, I had minimal input into 2004 interview, but I had some because I did the copyediting, so I decided to include it with my other intervie...

In 2011 I did an article on an exhibition at the Geidai Museum for the Japan Times . I had absolutely no idea about the contents of the exh...