Tetsuo Kogawa

Tetsuo Kogawa (b. 1941) is a Japanese media theorist, writer, and performance artist whose work since the late 1970s has centered on radio art and pirate microbroadcasting. He studied philosophy at Sophia and Waseda Universities and taught communication studies at Tokyo Keizai University until 2012.

Inspired by Italy's Autonomia pirate radio movement, Kogawa became the leading figure of Japan's 1980s mini-FM boom, founding Radio Home Run and the campus station Radio Polybucket as models of decentralized, anarchist media practice. He ran workshops worldwide teaching people to build low-power FM transmitters, and in the early 1980s corresponded with Félix Guattari during his visits to Japan.