Azby Brown

May 31, 2024 | frieze.com | Andrew Maerkle |Azby Brown |Andrew Durbin |Taro Nettleton

Fig. | Chance encounters have shaped a gallery inspired by Tokyo’s past | Andrew MaerkleWhen Takayuki Kubota, the artist who runs the alternative space Fig., tells me that he’s seeking to build an exhibition-making practice that stops short of professionalism, I check myself.

Oct 1, 2023 | fccj.or.jp | Azby Brown

October 2023Public mistrust of Tepco and the government opened the door to China's campaign of alarm and disinformationThe gradual dilution and release into the ocean of 1.3 million tons of radioactively contaminated water stored in tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which began on August 24, had been planned for years.

Oct 1, 2023 | fccj.or.jp | David McNeill |Azby Brown

October 2023 | Cover StoryJohnny & Associates has finally admitted decades of sexual abuse by its founder, Johnny Kitagawa. What are the lessons for the media in Japan, and will the agency survive? David McNeill talks to Daisuke Takahashi, a reporter for weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun, which led coverage of the story. On September 7, Julie Fujishima announced she was stepping down as president of Johnny & Associates, the talent agency her uncle, Johnny Kitagawa, founded in the 1960s.

Aug 26, 2023 | arabalears.cat | Azby Brown

5 min Protesta a Seül contra l'abocament de residus de la central nuclear de Fukushima al mar. El Japó ha començat a abocar a l'oceà Pacífic el que seran més d'un milió de tones d'aigua radioactiva tractada, que fins ara estaven emmagatzemades a la central nuclear Fukushima Daiichi. Es preveu que es trigaran diverses dècades a abocar tota l'aigua de la central, arrasada el 2011 per un tsunami provocat pel fort terratrèmol de Tohoku.

Aug 26, 2023 | ara.cat | Azby Brown

5 min Protesta a Seül contra l'abocament de residus de la central nuclear de Fukushima al mar. El Japó ha començat a abocar a l'oceà Pacífic el que seran més d'un milió de tones d'aigua radioactiva tractada, que fins ara estaven emmagatzemades a la central nuclear Fukushima Daiichi. Es preveu que es trigaran diverses dècades a abocar tota l'aigua de la central, arrasada el 2011 per un tsunami provocat pel fort terratrèmol de Tohoku.