Japan: The Passenger Genki Kawamura He has produced for hip-hop

He has produced for hip-hop powerhouse Kendrick Lamar on To Pimp a Butterfly

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could never free herself from the city of her birth

Japan: The Passenger Genki Kawamura He has produced for hip-hopVisitors from the West look with amazement, and sometimes concern, at Japan's monolithic social structures and unique, complex culture industry; the gigantic scale of its tech corporations and the resilience of its traditions; the extraordinary diversity of the subcultures that flourish in its "post human" megacities. The country nonetheless remains an impossibly complicated jigsaw puzzle whose overall design eludes us. Its inscrutability has made the