When Albion “Ash” Hudson, founder of the seminal streetwear brand Conart, saw an opportunity to leave his hometown of Los Angeles and move to Japan in 2013, he jumped on it.
“I decided to move to Japan on a whim,” says the 49-year-old Hudson from his apartment in Tokyo. “I was sick of LA, so I came here with no contacts and no job waiting for me. I just decided that I was going to somehow figure out how to make it in Japan.”
