Sneaker marketplace taps Rui Hachimura as latest brand ambassador
Online sneaker marketplace Goat is teaming up with NBA rookie Rui Hachimura, hoping his popularity in his native Japan will help the company make inroads in one of its biggest growth areas. Asia is quickly becoming the dominant region in luxury fashion and streetwear. After ...
Koshiro Hino's 'Geist' summons spirits with sound and light
Despite being a fraction of the size of Tokyo, Osaka boasts a long history of underground music that pushes boundaries. The tradition is being kept alive by experimental musician Koshiro Hino. His newest project, "Geist," is a multisensory sound-and light-show that features 13 performers, live ...
Koshiro Hino pushes the limits of control as YPY
A couple of years ago, I started to get a sense of deja-vu while loitering on the weirdo fringes of Japan's club scene. Whenever I asked DJs or producers what homegrown music they were most excited about at the moment, the same name kept ...
Dark sounds for dark times from avant-garde group Goat
It's at a showcase for Berlin's Pan record label, where I first stumble on Osaka band Goat. As I walk down the concrete steps of Shinsaibashi venue Conpass, I can already hear the music. The gradually increasing reverberations of sound grow ever more tight ...
Komaki cops net goat after it runs loose in neighborhood for three hours
A horned goat entered and ran loose on a school playground and a surrounding housing area in the city of Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, leading to a three-hour hunt involving 25 police officers. The police received an emergency call alerting them of the goat running around ...
