Roland Kelts contributed an excellent piece on Takashi Murakami for our Art Space Tokyo collection at about the same time he was finishing up a piece on Haruki Murakami for Stonebridge Press' A Wild Haruki Chase. In this piece for the Japanese Writers' House, he compares and contrasts the two. They are both fascinating characters, and like so much in Japan these days, they can't be completely understood without examining their relationship with the United States.

Roland's profile here is one of about fifty illustrations by Nobumasa Takahashi in Art Space.