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The best looks from Tokyo Fashion Week SS24
Photographer Tanase captured models, stylists and buyers braving the late summer heat to attend Japan's fashion showcase.
i-D Staff
9.12.23
Photography

100 years of genre-defining Japanese photography magazines
A glorious new tome shows how magazines in Japan served as laboratories of radical ideas.
Alessandro Merola
7.11.23
Photography

Coco Capitán photographs the kids of Kyoto
The Spanish artist’s new photography exhibition, ‘OOKINI’, pictures skater boys, high schoolers, monks and maikos in the ancient city.
Alessandro Merola
5.5.23
Film

7 essential queer films from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Cambodia
Here's everything you need to watch from this year's Queer East Film Festival.
James Balmont
4.18.23
Film

How to get into… the avant-garde films of the Japanese New Wave
Thanks to online streaming platforms, a new generation are rediscovering the 1960s and 70s gems of Japan's Art Theatre Guild.
James Balmont
3.10.23
Photography

No one took selfies & cat pics like this Japanese photographer
As the first Japanese retrospective of Masahisa Fukase opens, we unpack his obsessive oeuvre.
Alessandro Merola
3.6.23
News

Actual Catbuses are coming to the Studio Ghibli theme park
Other attractions include recreations of iconic scenes from 'Spirited Away', 'My Neighbour Totoro' and more.
Douglas Greenwood
Tom George
2.13.23
Photography

A Japanese photographer’s unconventional family portraits
Masaki Yamamoto’s hotly-anticipated book, 'The Yamamotos', is a testament to a household’s unshakable sense of intimacy and affection.
Alessandro Merola
2.3.23
Photography

Photographing sex, subculture & self in Tokyo
Sly Morikawa’s new zine ‘24/7 Paradise’ features friends, acquaintances and fast cars, in the city that moves fast and doesn’t sleep.
Emma Russell
1.23.23
Photography

A photographer’s portrait of Japan’s most dangerous district
The final chapter in Chloé Jafé’s book trilogy muddles through the back alleys of Nishinari, documenting its poets, prostitutes and bandits.
Alessandro Merola
1.16.23
Photography

Photographing 25 years of everyday life in and around Tokyo
With ‘Small Myths’, Mikiko Hara offers another vision for street photography.
Alessandro Merola
12.19.22
Culture

Bala is the collective creating a new Tokyo culture, where anything goes
Five Y2K-inspired artists – musicians, a creative director and a 3D designer – are on a mission to change Japanese stereotypes.
Honoka Yamasaki
11.11.22
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