WYoshitoshi ABe is a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He first gained fame in his work on the avant-garde anime Serial Experiments Lain. He is also responsible for the concept and character design for the series NieA_7. He is the creator of the dōjinshi Haibane Renmei, which was also adapted into an anime.
WMakoto Aida is a contemporary Japanese artist known for his provocative works of manga, painting, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Though less well-known internationally than Takashi Murakami or Yoshitomo Nara, he is recognized in Japan as one the preeminent figures of Japanese contemporary art.
WEiji Aonuma is a Japanese video game designer, director and producer, who works for Nintendo as the producer and project manager of The Legend of Zelda series. Since 2019 he is one of the deputy general managers of Nintendo EPD.
WChiyonosuke Azuma was a Japanese actor and dancer. He appeared in more than 40 films from 1954 to 1993.
WDekao Yokoo was a Japanese film actor active from the 1920s to the 1950s. He featured in over 90 films.
WKōji Enokura was a Japanese painter and installation artist.
WShigeo Fukuda was a sculptor, medallist, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. His art pieces usually portray deception, such as Lunch With a Helmet On, a sculpture created entirely from forks, knives, and spoons, that casts a detailed shadow of a motorcycle.
WJin Goto is a Japanese Nihonga and Picture book painter.
WRyūsuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
WMasashi Hamauzu is a Japanese composer, pianist, and lyricist. Hamauzu, who was employed at Square Enix from 1996 to 2010, was best known during that time for his work on the Final Fantasy and SaGa video game series. Born into a musical family in Germany, Hamauzu was raised in Japan. He became interested in music while in kindergarten, and took piano lessons from his parents.
WShin'ichirō Ikebe is a Japanese composer of contemporary classical music.
WYusuke Iseya is a Japanese actor, director, artist, and businessman.
WEiko Ishioka was a Japanese art director, costume designer, and graphic designer known for her work in stage, screen, advertising, and print media.
WHiroyuki Iwaki AO was a Japanese conductor and percussionist.
WKim Swoo Geun was a prominent South Korean architect, educator, publisher and patron of artists. Along with architect Kim Joong Up (김중업), he is recognised as a significant contributor in the history of Korean architecture. With his support for diverse art genres of Korean culture, he was referred to as Lorenzo de Medici of Seoul by TIME in 1977.
WKen'ichiro Kobayashi is a Japanese conductor and composer. In Japan he is known among his fans as “Kobaken.”
WYōichi Kotabe , is a Japanese animator and character designer. He has worked on several anime films from the 1960s and 1970s, on the Super Mario video game series, and the Pokémon series in television and film. He was an employee at Nintendo for two decades doing illustrations, character designs, and supervision from 1985 to 2007. At that time, he began to work as a freelancer for the anime and video game industry, including for Nintendo again.
WTetsumi Kudo, was a Japanese artist associated with the Neo-Dada tradition.
WFiroz Mahmud is a Bangladeshi visual artist. He was the first Bangladeshi fellow artist in research at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Mahmud's work has been exhibited at the following biennales including Sharjah Biennale, 1st Bangkok Art Biennale, entry at the Dhaka Art Summit, Setouchi Triennale (BDP), 1st Aichi Triennial, Congo Biennale, 1st Lahore Biennale, Cairo Biennale, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Asian Biennale.
WErina Matsui is a contemporary Japanese artist. She is known for her surreal self-portraits, mostly done as oil paintings. Her work has been praised for its jarring visual impact as it defies normal representations of childhood being cute and innocent.
WKeiko Minami was a Japanese artist, aquatint engraver, and poet.
WYasuo Mizui was a Japanese stone sculptor who lived in France. He preferred abstract form in public sculpture within architectural contexts and took part in several symposia on sculpture in Europe, the US, Israel, and Japan.
WTakashi Murakami is a Japanese contemporary artist. He works in fine arts media as well as commercial media and is known for blurring the line between high and low arts. He coined the term "superflat", which describes both the aesthetic characteristics of the Japanese artistic tradition and the nature of postwar Japanese culture and society, and is also used for Murakami's artistic style and other Japanese artists he has influenced.
WNorio Ohga , otherwise spelled Norio Oga, was the former president and chairman of Sony Corporation, credited with spurring the development of the compact disc as a commercially viable audio format.
WTets Ohnari is a Japanese sculptor and contemporary artist living and working in both, Tokyo and Prague.
WHiroshi Ōnishi was a Japanese painter and university professor.
WCarl Randall is a British figurative painter, whose work is based on images of modern Japan and London.
WRin' is a Japanese pop group which combines traditional Japanese musical instruments and style with elements of modern pop and rock music. It is a female trio of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music alumni who graduated in 2003. The band made their performing debut in December 2003, at Meguro Gajoen, and in April 2004, their first single, called Sakitama, was released by avex trax.
WRyuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, singer, songwriter, record producer, activist, and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.
WMasaaki Suzuki is a Japanese organist, harpsichordist and conductor, and the founder and musical director of the Bach Collegium Japan. With this ensemble he is recording the complete choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach for the Swedish label BIS Records, for which he is also recording Bach's concertos, orchestral suites, and solo works for harpsichord and organ. He is also an artist-in-residence at Yale University and the principal guest conductor of its Schola Cantorum, and has conducted orchestras and choruses around the world.
WTan Ting-pho, was a well-known Taiwanese painter. In 1926, his oil painting Street of Chiayi was featured in the seventh Empire Art Exhibition in Japan, which was the first time a Taiwanese artist's work could be displayed at the exhibition. Tan devoted his life to education and creation, and was greatly concerned about the development of humanist culture in Taiwan. He was not only devoted to the improvement of his own painting, but also to the promotion of the aesthetic education of the Taiwanese people. He was killed as a result of the February 28 Incident, a 1947 uprising in Taiwan which was repressed by the Kuomintang (KMT).
WÉric Van Hove is a Cameroon-raised Belgian metamodern conceptual artist. He lives and works between Brussels and Marrakech. He is the grandson of Louis Van Hove, co-founder and CEO of the Structures Group, the largest post second world war functionalist architecture firm in Belgium.