The director of legendary Japanese Graffiti doco “Rackgaki” has put it online:

some great footage and tunes aswell.

if nothing for his bio:

Born in Tokyo, 1984. NANOOK lived in a Christian boarding school located in the deep mountain for junior high school and high school. Less-noted, he has a dark past as he once belonged to the Research Group of Daniel, Book of Revelation. But he has gained recognized by people little by little for his fight with a king salmon for 30 minute-long in Alaska in his college student day. Currently, he works on design, drawing for ”A Delicate Relation You & Me”. He has another face as a seismologist “Magnitude Takahashi”. The resource is coming from National Geographic though.

http://nanoooook.blogspot.com/

Talented young Tabaimo creates animated works that are as beautifully crafted and aesthetically appealing as they are enigmatic, fascinating, and often quite disturbing. Not content to simply construct beautiful or intriguing images, she clearly aims to offer a complex and pessimistic vision of Japanese society at the start of the new millennium.

http://int.kateigaho.com/oct03/anime-tabaimo.html

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYL-9A5SZag[/youtube]

Shingo always sounds better in Japanese:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvArYx_wHPI&hd=1[/youtube]

Along with Tomoyuki Washio, Takayuki Ina is really at the forefront of the illustration scene in Nagoya.

He doesn’t have much of a web presence ( http://funkizm.net/ ) but his live painting sessions are hour long meditations and explorations into playfully abstract worlds.

He has also participated in quite a few fashion and music collabos, aswell as regular exhibitions throughout Japan and recently the U.S.

amazing detail:

http://hongkong.edushi.com/?l=en

http://sal-s.com/art/art.html

Skate/snowboard photographer Yoshihiro Higai is having his 2nd exhibition “Cold Frame” at Studio Fish i in Daikanyama (sorry there doesn’t seem to be any English info available).

To check the extent of what he has done check out the “Skate 80’s” section on his site:

http://www.venus.dti.ne.jp/~higai/

I recently stumbled upon this guy’s website of Haikyou (ruins/relics) photography throughout Japan.

He goes by the pseudonym of Shibakouen Koutaro and photographs abandoned schools, amusement parks, apartment buildings , factories and the like.

All in all he has forcefully entered about 74 of these sites and has taken some amazing photos documenting the eerie decay and desolation of areas that were apparently once busy places.

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/research.html