However, across the Pacific, DIY Japanese filmmakers began experimenting with the metalwork and fleshy metamorphoses of cyberpunk, and as a result, produced much more hardcore creations than their ...

In 1994, Eric Nakamura launched a zine he dubbed Giant Robot, a photocopied, hand-stapled fanboy’s ode to manga, anime, Japanese punk bands ... issues of Giant Robot magazine, the now-defunct ...

Kenichi Ugana‘s “The Gesuidouz” is a delightful deadpan oddity about a Japanese punk group, whose 26-year-old lead singer Hanako (Natsuko) is convinced she’ll be dead at 27, the same age ...

Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers ... were beloved but not exactly mainstream. The emergence of punk spurred new ways of thinking about creative protest and provocation ...

But the Japanese affinity for efficiency and practicality would provide tools to create new sonic vocabularies, from punk rock and hip-hop to electronic dance music and heavy metal. Without it ...