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    Art & PhotographyLeafy Yun Ye, Tokyo Odyssey

    Leafy Yun Ye’s fascination with the dreamy, uncanny beauty of Tokyo

    ‘I felt like I stumbled into someone else’s dreams’: The Chinese-born, Los Angeles-based photographer explores the complexity and allure of Tokyo as an outsider

    Art & Photography

    Mar 20, 2024

    Emily Dinsdale
    Art & PhotographyCult* (2024)

    Kink and isolation: Inside the debut issue of Tokyo’s Cult* magazine

    Japanese fetish nights, urban isolation, and the hotel from Lost in Translation: we explore the story behind the first issue of this bilingual art, fashion and culture magazine made by Tokyo creatives

    Art & Photography

    Mar 13, 2024

    Marigold Warner
    Musicviolent magic orchestra

    Violent Magic Orchestra: the extreme black metal gabber group from Osaka

    On DEATH RAVE, the Japanese group brings a fusion of black metal, techno and visual art as an ‘absolutely new and overwhelming experience’

    Music

    Mar 12, 2024

    James Balmont
    Life & CultureCourtsey of Vuse

    Vuse continues Driven by Change legacy in Japan

    Working with artist MILTZ, the latest partnership champions the rising Japanese artist

    Life & Culture

    Mar 11, 2024

    Film & TVWIFE TO BE SACRIFICED (MASARU KONUMA, 1974)

    An introduction to Japan’s Roman Porno cinema in 5 films

    As the infamous softcore cinema line celebrates its 50th anniversary, we dive into its strange world of serious, stylish sex stories

    Film & TV

    Feb 06, 2024

    James Balmont
    Art & PhotographyGraphic Thought Facility (1990, UK). Playing dress

    This major new exhibition explores the subversive phenomenon of cuteness

    ‘Cute’s potential to change our way of being could be more radical than we might ever have imagined’: Somerset House’s new exhibition, Cute, explores the potent and intoxicating power of cuteness

    Art & Photography

    Jan 24, 2024

    Alyshea Wharton
    Life & CultureHello Kitty Paris Hilton 2004

    Hello Kitty at 50: how the ultra-cute mascot took over youth culture

    As the Sanrio mascot turns 50, we look at how she’s come to figure in underground culture, from punk feminism to scene kids, emos and goths

    Life & Culture

    Jan 22, 2024

    Felicity Martin
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    A new London show brings Ryuichi Sakamoto back to life 

    The late musician’s friend and collaborator Todd Eckert discusses his role in the creation of the new immersive experience at Camden’s Roundhouse, Kagami

    Music

    Jan 10, 2024

    Louis Almond
    Art & Photography6Let2

    Daido Moriyama’s long-lost series from a cult 80s erotic mag

    An exhilarating new book compiles the complete set of photo stories the Japanese photographer made for Shashin Jidai, the radical and experimental 1980s photo magazine that rode a fine line between photography and pornography

    Art & Photography

    Dec 19, 2023

    Alessandro Merola
    Musicu-ha in Tokyo

    Tohji’s tour of Tokyo’s rave scene through six key artists

    Following last week’s Boiler Room set, the Shibuya rapper gives us a glimpse inside his u-ha party series, featuring some of the city’s hottest names

    Music

    Dec 18, 2023

    Günseli Yalcinkaya
    Film & TVDazed 2023 Review 16

    The best East Asian films of 2023

    From Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s long-awaited Evil Does Not Exist, to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘absolute masterpiece’ Monster

    Film & TV

    Dec 12, 2023

    James Balmont
    MusicBABYMETAL tour London

    In pictures: the ultra-cute, J-metal style of BABYMETAL fans

    As the J-metal trio embark on their world tour, we sent photographer Daisy Davidson to capture the colourful fashion of fans outside their sold-out London show

    Music

    Nov 30, 2023

    Alyshea Wharton
    Art & PhotographyMasahisa Fukase, From Window (1973)

    Masahisa Fukase’s tale of obsessive love, shot through an apartment window

    Published in full for the first time, the Japanese photographer’s series reveals how fantasy intervenes in every attempt to see and be seen

    Art & Photography

    Oct 20, 2023

    Alessandro Merola
    Art & PhotographyDaido Moriyama, “Kanagawa” (1967). From A Hunter

    Celebrating 60 years of Daido Moriyama’s visionary street photography

    ‘Shooting images as if he had a machine gun’: a major retrospective at The Photographers’ Gallery in London explores the work of the groundbreaking image-maker

    Art & Photography

    Oct 03, 2023

    Marigold Warner
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    The fierce girl gang style of Sukeban wrestling takes New York

    Blending fashion, beauty, and anime with traditional Japanese women’s wrestling, Sukeban brings together terror-filled IRL battles and cute costumes

    Fashion

    Sep 27, 2023

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