 There is also interest in the overshadowing of Kubota's career by her husband Nam June Paik's as an issue of the gender biased art world.While in Tokyo, Kubota became friends with Yoko Ono, who was at the time involved in Fluxus and the New York art scene.Kubota and other members of Grounp Ongaku and began working on poetic 'scores' and sending them to Yoko Ono's contact, George Maciunas, in New York.