Maywa Denki

Art May 13, 2018

Twenty-five years in the company of Maywa Denki

by Mio Yamada

Maywa Denki, Japan's "parallel-world electric company" celebrates quarter of a century of wacky art performances, peculiar gadgets and lots of humor.

Music Oct 13, 2016

Shugo Tokumaru gets his friends involved on new album 'Toss'

A couple of months ago, Shugo Tokumaru released a video on YouTube that showed him preparing an elaborate meal from an unlikely set of ingredients. In it, he took a selection of toy instruments — a ukulele, a recorder, some castanets, a party horn ...

Culture | Japan Pulse Mar 18, 2010

Wild ideas for new instruments

by Felicity Hughes

Yoshi Akai has a lot of wild ideas, many of which harken back to the good old days of early technology.

Art Feb 12, 2010

The magical mystery tour of 'media artist' Yuri Suzuki

by Mark Thompson

The youngest artist showing at "Cyber Arts Japan," 29-year-old Yuri Suzuki, is among the generation that grew up immersed in the culture that informs so much of new media art today. He has received honorable mentions in Ars Electronica's interactive art division for two ...