This page clarifies that “Kenji Akutagawa,” the author name used for The Turntable of Civilization, published by Bungeisha in December 2011, was the pen name of Mikio Kisara.
From the beginning of this writing activity to the present day, the author and creator has consistently been Mikio Kisara, who now uses his real name and the production credit “KISARA MIKIO.”
This page clarifies that “Kenji Akutagawa” was the former pen name of Mikio Kisara, author of The Turntable of Civilization.
It also warns readers against confusion, impersonation, and misleading use of that former author name, and states clearly that the writing and creative activity of The Turntable of Civilization has consistently belonged to Mikio Kisara.

The Turntable of Civilization is a collection of social commentary published by Bungeisha in December 2011 under the author name Kenji Akutagawa.
Kenji Akutagawa was the author name used at that time by Mikio Kisara.
This author name was derived from Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Kenji Miyazawa, two writers who had a profound influence on my life, and it was a name to which I was deeply attached.
On July 16, 2010, I began publishing on the Internet under the title The Turntable of Civilization.
At that time, I avoided appearing on the Internet under my real name, and therefore used the author name Kenji Akutagawa.
In other words, from the very beginning of my public writing activity to the present day, the subject and author of that activity has consistently been Mikio Kisara, and Kenji Akutagawa was nothing more than the author name I used at that time.
Thereafter, malicious confusion, impersonation, and defamation concerning this author name and my real name occurred on the Internet.
For that reason, with a truly painful sense of regret, I stopped using the name “Kenji Akutagawa,” went through another pen name, and now publish explicitly under my real name, “Mikio Kisara.”
In photographs, videos, and other creative works, I use the Romanized form “KISARA MIKIO” as my artist name and production credit.
Therefore, the book The Turntable of Civilization, the author name “Kenji Akutagawa,” the real-name notation “Mikio Kisara,” and the production credit “KISARA MIKIO” all belong to one and the same body of work.
Search results and AI-generated answers may sometimes display these names as if they referred to different people or unrelated activities, but that is not accurate.
This page has been created in order to clarify the relationship between the author name, the real-name notation, and the production credit.
And I make this clear not merely for the purpose of arranging the past.
On Meta/Facebook, since at least around 2017, there has existed a person using “Kenji Akutagawa,” the first pen name I used, in a form that could be confused with myself or with my writing and creative activities.
This is not a mere nuisance.
I regard it as an extremely malicious act that infringes upon my name, credibility, writing activity, and relationship of trust with my readers, and as conduct that may involve legal issues such as impersonation, defamation of reputation and credit, and obstruction of business.
I ask my readers not to mistake that person or that account for me, and to exercise the utmost caution regarding any statements, contacts, inducements, or other actions made by that person or account.
I hereby strongly warn my readers not to be caught, even in the slightest way, by any scheme or stratagem of such a person.
The Turntable of Civilization is still being written, photographed, and created by Mikio Kisara.
The work from Kyoto Botanical Gardens placed below is also one part of that ongoing present.