Profile
DJ Naoyaman
Naoya Miyazaki
DJ Naoyaman, who writes the views on this site, is the DJ name of Naoya Miyazaki. He is an essayist and content creator who publishes mainly on note.com, as well as a marketer and branding producer.
DJ
He has been a DJ for 32 years. For a time he was signed to a production company and wrote music reviews for media across Japan, and he still stands behind the turntables today.
On note he runs the magazine Artists inside the DJ bag, a series that digs deep into one artist at a time, such as DJ Shadow, DJ Kentaro, J Dilla and Radiohead, over several instalments.
Other names
- Ikkenbo: yokai
- Kuranpok: Kamakura history and geography
- Yuge Bungo: saunas
Career
- Mizuho Information & Research Institute (large-scale payment systems for London and New York; business consultant)
- CyberAgent (management, internet advertising agency division)
- Ritz International, director (beauty services and clinic management)
- Flying Brain, CEO (upstream marketing and branding for more than 50 brands, mainly apparel and wellness)
- Shiwa Kingyo, representative
- Area branding producer for Azumane, Shiwa, Iwate (2024–)
- Currently marketing director at several wellness and healthcare companies
Education
- Umejima Elementary School, Adachi
- Adachi No. 4 Junior High School
- Meiji Gakuin High School
- Aoyama Gakuin University, College of Literature, Department of Education (left before graduating)
- Meiji University, School of Commerce (graduated)
Past brands
- Baroque Japan Limited
- The Walt Disney Company
- ZOZOTOWN
- Coca-Cola
- MARK STYLER
- 英・インターナショナル (apparel group)
- 恵山株式会社
Current brands
- MINERALion, Lypo-C (SPIC)
- KINS (KINS Inc.)
- madama・hada (WSP)
- Goto no Tsubaki
- ReFa, SIXPAD (MTG)
Fields
Fiction, essays, marketing, accounting, branding, DJing, theatre, spice cooking and more.
Talks
Tokyo University of Technology, Kanto Gakuin University, Kanagawa University, Wako University, Senshu University, the towns and cities of Shiwa, Goto and Tobe, and others.
Other projects
- Ikkenbo no Nihon Yokaigaku Taikei: a personally edited database of Japanese yokai, with sources and reliability ratings
- Kama Kuranpo: a personally edited guide to the temples and shrines of Kamakura, organised as walks
- Kachofugetsu, soshite sakana to mushi: a quiz book of hard-to-read kanji for fish, insects, birds and plants
- note: essays and DJ-related series
- Sauna Ikitai: a record of saunas across Japan, as Yuge Bungo
- 掌蹠膿疱症.com: Information on palmoplantar pustulosis, bringing together personal experience and published sources.
- SUBURBIA CLASSICA: A classical music selection with listening guides, composition histories and recording stories.
- CRATE DIGGIN’: A Hip Hop archive exploring samples, producers, places and musical history.
- 酸冷交代浴のススメ: A bathing guide to carbonated baths and cold water, combining experiences, facilities and references.
- gooooooooood* expression: An interactive encyclopedia of web expression: motion, typography, sound and interaction.
- Book Keeping: Practice bookkeeping and accounting for Nissho, Zenkei and USCPA with local learning records and review.
How he writes
On every site he keeps verifiable facts and his own interpretation apart as far as possible. Here too, facts carry sources and views are marked as views.
Sources for this profile
Compiled from the profiles on his own sites (checked 30 September 2026). All in Japanese.