Hiroko Azuma （born May 9, 1971) is a Japanese cultural critic,
author and professor. A graduate of the prestigious Tokyo
University, he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1998. He has
been a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Japan Center. One
of the youngest literary critics in Japan today, he is a
contemporary and co-conspirator with many of Japan's brightest
modern talents in art, film, and literature. He is an associate of
Takashi Murakami and the Superflat movement.
Azuma launched his career as a literary critic in 1993 with a
postmodern style influenced by leading Japanese critics Kojin
Karatani and Akira Asada. In the late 1990s, Azuma began examining
various pop phenomena, especially the emerging Internet/video
game/nerd culture, and became widely known as an advocate of the
thoughts of a new generation of Japanese.
Azuma has published seven books and in 2000 he won the Suntory
Literary Prize, as the youngest writer to ever win that prize.
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