Culture
Christian Lee Hutson: Beginners
The debut album of Phoebe Bridgers’ creative prodigy
Talking With the Only Gaijin in the Village
Scotsman Iain Maloney on his new book about life in rural Japan
THE NOVEMBERS Interview: At The Beginning
Japanese rock quartet crosses genres and generations on its eighth album
Your Summer Reading List
Recommendations from Tokyo's literary scene
Maika Loubté: Closer to Emotion
French-Japanese chanteuse on fundamentals and her latest album
Masu Dore: ‘The Best Ever in 18 Years’
Japanese rock trio returns with two new singles
Morenx in Japan: ‘Respect My Identity and Respect My Culture’
Vlogger and activist Brianna Slaughter talks BLM, mental health and allyship
Breasts, Eggs and Existential Feminism
Mieko Kawakami’s intimate portrait of womanhood in 'Breasts and Eggs'
My Quarantine Albums
A stay at home soundtrack from artists in the music scene
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Hayao Miyazaki
New memoir reveals strange and surprising facts about the famous artist
Goodbye to All That
A not-so-fiction story about life in Tokyo during the pandemic
Primordial Violence
Tomoko Konoike: Art, nature and human creatures
Yoshitomo Nara: Beyond the Big-Headed Girls
Yeewan Koon's new book traces Yoshitomo Nara's diverse career
What Went Wrong at ‘Terrace House’?
Reflecting on the Japanese reality show after the death of member Hana Kimura
LiLi Releases Debut Single
Building bridges between Japan and the world through music
WONK: Escaping the Filter-Bubble Phenomenon
Tokyo experimental soul band WONK releases new album EYES
The American Who Brought Ghibli to the World
An interview with Steve Alpert, author of 'Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man'
we smile when we want to
A photo essay on womxn in Tokyo
Pasocom Music Club Interview: Finding Creativity in Limitation
A millennial take on 90s synthesizer sounds
Choice is Yours
Bringing fashion to Morioka
Blossoms in Isolation
Blossoms talk quarantine creativity and new album Foolish Loving Spaces
When Art Imitates Life
Galleries and artists adapt to cope with the coronavirus
The Japanese Kiltmaker in Scotland
Hitomi Nomura's path from an ordinary Japanese woman into an artisan of Scotland's national dress
‘Black Creatives Japan’ Opens the Dialogue
Founder Ayana Wyse on visibility and what's lacking in the J-vlogging scene
Questioning Normalcy in the Age of the Pandemic
'Convenience Store Woman' author Sayaka Murata on breaking norms
#WFH and Other Playlists to Power Your Day
Spring vibes and focus tunes to stave off the coronavirus blues
Walking Like We Do
The Big Moon on their new album and pretending to be Zayn Malik
Paper City
Untold stories of the firebombing of Tokyo
Sustainable Threads
Fashion mogul Hiroko Ito redesigns the future
Art/Cult and Commerce: Japanese Cinema Since 2000
A review of American film critic Mark Schilling's new book
‘Followers’: The Highs and Lows of Insta-fame
Mika Ninagawa, Tokyo’s top creative, on her new hit Netflix show
Single Review: Pastel ‘Let You’
Making a cross-genre blend of electronic funk and jazz in Taiwan
Metropolis Playlist: Spring 2020
Music for your morning commute and other desperate times
Dialogue in the Dark: Totonou
Lose a sense to gain a new perspective at this immersive event