| Takuya Fukumoto, creative & technical director of the web magazine "Zipangu", is an artist. He has started a worldwide event called "Bookmark Project" on May 1st, 2001. He received a BFA from Musashino Art University. In 1998, he entered the School of Visual Arts in NY. He is currently in the graduate program at CUNY Queens College.
Nanako Kurihara Ph.D. is a dance scholar and filmmaker. She received a bachelor's degree in Political Science from Waseda University and master's and doctor's in Performance Studies from New York University. She is currently living in Kyoto to do research on Kamigata-mai dance which was mainly practiced by geisha at a parlor and has become an important genre of Japanese classical performing arts. Her award-winning documentary RIPPLES OF CHANGE (http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c74.htm) depicts Japanese women's movement during 1970s, distributed by Women Make Movies (http://www.wmm.com). Her dissertation The MOST REMOTE THING IN THE UNIVERSE is about Hijikata Tatsumi, the founder of butoh dance.
Teruyo Mori, a resident of New York since 1980, is a fashion journalist.
Yumi Morishige, is a freelance writer. She received a BA in English from Kansai University of Foreign Studies, and an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Cornell University. She moved to New York in 1995.
Hideko Otake, President of Zipangu, Inc. and editorial director of the web magazine "Zipangu", is a freelance editor and writer. She graduated Tokyo University with a BA in French language and literature. After working as the chief editor of Ryuko Tsushin magazine in Tokyo, she moved to New York in 1983. She received an MA in Performance Studies at New York University.
Fusae Seki works in the equity infrastructure department in an American securities firm in Tokyo. After 21-years of living in New York, she returned to Japan in September 2000 and plans to stay there for several years. She received BA and MA in economics from Fordham University and the New School for Social Research, respectively.
Mitsuo Toshida is an artist/curator. He also writes articles on the arts. He has exhibited his artwork at various individual and group exhibitions. He received a BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts. Currently, he is a faculty member and co-director of the International Students Program at SVA.
Yoko Umezawa is a translator, living and working in New York since 1981. One of her major works of translation from English to Japanese is Basketball Diaries by Jim Caroll. She has also co-translated various books from Japanese to English, including Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo.
Kenji Yagi is a photographer. Since 1987, he has traveled and taken photos of people in the Western region of mainland China. He moved to Paris in 1991 before staying in New York from 1994 to 1999. He now lives and works in Paris.
Yuriko Yamaki is an editor and writer. She graduated from the First Department of Literature at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. She established Volume Eight Inc., an editorial and translation company in 1989, and became the editor-in-chief of "Monthly FEN Guide." Moving to New York in 1993, she started contributing her stories on the English language, art, racial issues, media, etc. for different magazines. Her publications include "From New York--English Recorded Live" (ALC Press, 1999).
Nobuko Yokomichi is a graphic designer. She studied fashion design at Kuwazawa Design School in Tokyo. After graduating from the Kanazawa International Design Institute, she was transferred to Parsons School of Design in New York. She received a BA in communication design from Parsons in 1997. |
