Tomo Kosuga

Tomo Kosuga

  • Meow Meow Meow

    Cat cafes are huge in Japan right now. As the name suggests, these are coffee shops where cat lovers go to sip overpriced lattes and hang out with an adorable smoosh pile of kitties.

  • Living Alone in the Fukushima Evacuation Zone

    Naoto Matsumura refused to leave his evacuated town, living now in solitude with a farm full of animals.

  • Radioactive Man

    Today marks the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Japan and caused one of the most serious nuclear disasters in world history. The surrounding towns were evacuated in a rush, leaving empty homes and uncared-for animals. In the small...

  • When Communication Transcends Gender Boundaries: Meet Cyborg-Wannabe Sputniko!

    Japanese artist Sputniko! explores gender dynamics in technology through science fiction-esque machine installations, music, and video art.

  • Meow Meow Meow

    Cat cafes are huge in Japan right now. As the name suggests, these are coffee shops where cat lovers go to sip overpriced lattes and hang out with an adorable smoosh pile of kitties.

  • Armageddon Party

    As if there were ever any cause for doubt, Japan’s absolute cultural superiority over America is by 1994 a total given.

  • FLOWERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD

    For many critics and movie-lovers great filmmakers can be separated into one of two groups: Hollywood directors who make great, artful cinema for a popular audience despite commercial demands...

  • A Twitch In Time

    Daito Manabe is a Japanese video artist who sticks half a dozen electrodes onto his face, synchs them all up to a blippy homemade soundtrack, and proceeds to electrocute himself into a choreography of grimaces and twitches.

  • Hair Hats

    When the Japanese hairstylist Shinji Konishi first molded wigs into the likenesses of assorted animals for a gallery show in Tokyo in 2008, he hoped repulsion would trump all else.

  • You Do Have To Live Like A Refugee

    In that age-old contest, that heroic battle of champions to decide which country has the world’s premier internet cafés, none can truly compete with Japan and its facilities.

  • Comfort Food

    As with everything else they do, the girls in Japan take it just that little bit too far, right up to the point where it’s basically obsessive-compulsive disorder.

  • SHOHEI

    Vice: I hear you only draw with ballpoint pens and permanent markers.