The Starfish and The Spider (The Japanese edition)
My new book (of translation) is out.
It is the Japanese translation of "The Starfish and the Spider -- The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations" (By Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom).
In Japanese, the title is 「ヒトデはクモよりなぜ強い−−21世紀はリーダーなき組織が勝つ」（オリ・ブラフマン／ロッド・A・ベックストローム著／糸井恵訳）
Check it out here (Nikkei BP, the publisher, website) and here (Amazon.co.jp).
To check out the original (English) version of "The Starfish and the Spider," go here.
Dreams of Japanese Women: Miwa Yanagi
My Grandmothers/YUKA (2000) by Miwa Yanagi
H1600 x W1600mm Lightjet Print
(this article first appeared in the may 28, 2007 issue of newsweek international)
Female Forms
In Miwa Yanagi's striking photographs, Japanese women waver between society's expectations and their own deepest desires.
Miwa Yanagi was feeling lost. It was the early '90s and she had recently earned a master's degree from Kyoto City University of Arts. Short on money and ideas, she took a job teaching art history, but felt guilty about not making art. During her commute each day, she observed uniformed young women operating elevators in big department stores. Then one day, it hit her: she might have been wearing a suit, but she wasn't any different from those elevator girls. She was playing the role of teacher, just as they were playing their parts. "I thought, everybody was trying to meet others' expectations in this society," she recalls.
Momoyo Torimitsu rejects kawaii culture
An interview with the New York-based Japanese artist, Momoyo Torimitsu, ran in The Japan Times.
Rejecting kawaii culture: New York-based Momoyo Torimitsu refuses to lump herself in with artists inspired by anime
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007 - By Kay Itoi
Momoyo Torimitsu (b. 1967) is a little tired of being remembered for Jiro Miyata, a life-size robot she created based on a middle-aged salaryman in 1994. But who could forget? Miyata, which Torimitsu had crawl around the streets of Tokyo, Paris, New York and other cities, so brilliantly embodied the hard working, misunderstood, badly dressed everyman of Japan's post-bubble era. But the artist has since moved on.....
To read more, go here. (Free registration needed.)
Rejecting kawaii culture: New York-based Momoyo Torimitsu refuses to lump herself in with artists inspired by anime
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007 - By Kay Itoi
Momoyo Torimitsu (b. 1967) is a little tired of being remembered for Jiro Miyata, a life-size robot she created based on a middle-aged salaryman in 1994. But who could forget? Miyata, which Torimitsu had crawl around the streets of Tokyo, Paris, New York and other cities, so brilliantly embodied the hard working, misunderstood, badly dressed everyman of Japan's post-bubble era. But the artist has since moved on.....
To read more, go here. (Free registration needed.)
