On the night of Nov. 5, Awich established her solid position as Japan’s top artist of the new age. Appearing before an audience of 18,000 fans that packed K-Arena in Yokohama, Japan, a new venue that opened in late September, she put on a three-hour show that was a crystallization of her full potential. From the first note to the last, Awich gave off an aura of authority with a down-to-earth, personal feel, in a way that no other Japanese artist has. A rapper from Okinawa, Awich gave voice to our modern age, both as a mother and as an entertainer without precedent. She showed the delight and exhilaration hip-hop and rap…
