13 Facts About Hiroki Azuma

Hiroki Azuma was born on May 9,1971 and is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher.

Hiroki Azuma is the co-founder and former director of Genron, an independent institute in Tokyo, Japan.

Hiroki Azuma was an Executive Research Fellow and Professor at the Center for Global Communications and a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Japan Center.

Hiroki Azuma is married to the writer and poet Hoshio Sanae, and they have one child together.

Hiroki Azuma's father-in-law is the translator, novelist, and occasional critic Kotaka Nobumitsu.

Hiroki Azuma is one of the most influential young literary critics in Japan, focusing on literature and on the idea of individual liberty.

Hiroki Azuma began writing inspired by the work of Kojin Karatani and Akira Asada.

Hiroki Azuma is an associate of Takashi Murakami and the Superflat movement.

Hiroki Azuma handed the work directly to Karatani during his lecture series at Hosei University which Hiroki Azuma was auditing.

Hiroki Azuma launched his career as a literary critic in 1993 with a postmodern style influenced by leading Japanese critics Kojin Karatani and Akira Asada.

Hiroki Azuma has published seven books, including Sonzaironteki, Yubinteki in 1998, which focuses on Jacques Derrida's oscillation between literature and philosophy.

Hiroki Azuma wrote Dobutsuka-suru Postmodern, which analyzes Japanese pop culture through a postmodern lens and uses the term "database consumption" to describe a new paradigm of media consumption that consumes elements of a narrative rather than a narrative itself.

Hiroki Azuma has set up a non-profit organization to encourage cutting-edge critics who might be shut out of the existing publishing world.