Culture

How Yukinaga continues traditional techniques by working entirely in analog.

From Ukiyo-e’s decline rose the Sōsaku Hanga movement.

OZ became the prototype for our online selves.

How FRUiTS and Chiaki Ito formed the base for a cel shade Tokyo.

A chaotic genius who bent postwar Japan’s manga into delirium.

Runways, vintage book treasures, and konbini snacks, the final days of Fashion Week Tokyo.

Nujabes' Impact on Anime’s most Iconic Soundtrack.

Tradition becomes design as Kai Mackenzie refines heritage into form.

Danielle Sinai explores what it means to get lost in Tokyo.

A quarter century later, Fukasaku’s dystopian pulp classic still provokes.

Dive into the first three days of Fashion Week Tokyo.

Kyoto-based artist nouseskou merges digital distorted patterns with nature and body.

This post office welcomes letters never meant to be delivered.

A conversation on Kureha’s surreal mirror world.

Spotted at 13, YOSHI’s fashion legacy burns on in Tokyo.

Yutaro Saito’s sixth column joins a man who cleans Tokyo voluntarily.

How Ike Reiko redefined Japan’s pink film underground.

The medicine seller interrogates guilt, exposing sins behind restless spirits.

Peek into Otaku ladies' vibrant, chaotic Daraku Rooms with Kawamoto.

The teenage photographer who rewrote Japan’s youth visually.

The underground manga that showed women’s MMA fighting for recognition in Japan.

Must-see documentaries to understand Japan’s biker gang culture.

The brutal retaliation for a film that mocked the Yakuza’s power.

Immersive sound, design, and cocktails converge at MOGO Milan.

How a department store’s ads hijacked Tokyo’s creative pulse for decades.

Underwater worlds and robotic fantasies.

Paul Tulett photographs concrete forms hiding in plain sight.

Precision and subtlety define the understated power of Tokyo’s uniforms.