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  Once upon a time, in the middle 1990's, K, a graduate school student, lived in a town of NISIOGIKUBO in Tokyo. The neighborhood of NISIOGIKUBO station, a relatively small station between big ones of OGIKUBO and KICHIJOJI, had, as it does today, a lot of small shops selling sophisticated goods. One day, K went into one of his favorite shop and found 2 prints in silkscreen-like vivid colors. They were AR's "POOL HUSTLER" and "THE COMPOSER".
  Time passed like an arrow and in the 2017, K happened to buy 2 small originals of AR. K opened the package which had flown all over the Pacific Ocean, and was surprised. No white smoke came out, but one minuite later, K was, as if he had been enchanted, looking for the next pieces to buy as well as the things to sell to get money for them.
  Then, AR and K exchanged e-mails so frequently like high-school girls, reached to a hypothesis that AR's art surely holds something in it that appeal to the aesthetics of the Japanese people, and decided to launch "ARK" to introduce and promote AR's art in Japan. K is not sure if they lived happily ever after, but wish from the bottom of his heart that a lot of Japanese people get aware of AR's art and love it.