Murakami wants soooooo badly to be Andy Warhol a father of a Genre, so he picks obvious young people to promote who will never overshadow his image with a little content and abilities. One artist who acctually had some content Makoto Aida has essentially been eliminated from this flawed controlled discourse for fear of disclosing that there are many ideas abounding in actual contemporary Japanese art. See MIWA YANAGI, TSUKASA YOKOZAWA, RYOICHI MAJIMA, NAOYA HATAKEYAMA, SHINKO OKUHARA, TADASHI KAWAMATA...