editor’s letter

empire of signs
by Roland Barthes

cover #1 takashi murakami
interview by Jérôme Sans

takashi murakami
interview by Jérôme Sans

ryoko sekiguchi
interview by Mark Alizart and Olivier Zahm

cover #2 motoko ishibashi

motoko ishibashi
interview by Aleph Molinari

atsuko tanaka

sexual assault breaking the silence
by Karyn Nishimura-Poupée

juergen teller and nobuyoshi araki

chiho aoshima

hajime sawatari

suwa nagano
by Stéphane Sednaoui

fetish magazines
by Katerina Jebb

tadanoori yokoo
text by André Michel

kazumi asamura hayashi

keiichi tanaami

fumihiro hayashi
text by Olivier Zahm

nobuyoshi araki
portrait by Chikashi Suzuki

tomoo gokita
interview by Olivier Zahm

cover #4 tomoo gokita

loewe s/s 2025
photography by Suffo Moncloa

hajime sorayama

my father
by Rick Owens

announcement to humanity
by Ryoko Sekiguchi

cover #3 katerina jebb

cover #5 loewe s/s 2025
photography by Suffo Moncloa

masahisa fukase

hajime kinoko
interview by Olivier Zahm

raiki yamamoto

cover #6 masahisa fukase

kunichi nomura
text by Aaron Rose

aya takano

tomoyo kawari

masaru hatanaka
interview by Aleph Molinari

why japan?
by Urs Fischer, Ramdane Touhami, Stéphane Sednaoui

cover #8 esther rose-mcgregor in valentino s/s 2025
photography by Hart Lëshkina

why japan?
by Helmut Lang

minoru nomata

in praise of shadows
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

best of the season s/s 2025
photography by Takashi Homma

purple beauty nails
by Mei Kawajiri

ryūichi sakamoto

valentino s/s 2025
photography by Hart Lëshkina

nobuyoshi araki

cover #10 bottega veneta
photography by Nikolai von Bismarck

balenciaga s/s 2025
photography by Juergen Teller

kazuo ohno

cover #7 prada s/s 2025
photography by Takashi Homma

butoh the dance of darkness
photography by Nikolai von Bismarck

cover #9 balenciaga s/s 2025
photography by Juergen Teller

tomihiro kono
photography by Joe Lai

cover #12 comme des garçons s/s 2025
photography by Ola Rindal

comme des garçons s/s 2025
photography by Ola Rindal

cover #11 nobuyoshi araki

chanel s/s 2025
photography by Chikashi Suzuki

the japanese lessons we refuse to learn
by Daido Moriyama

dualité by brioni and lalique
photography by Olivier Zahm

pink eiga

cover #18 sakura andō in chanel s/s 2025
photography by Chikashi Suzuki

noritoshi hirakawa

tomo koizumi
photography by Chikashi Suzuki

trails
by Takashi Homma

koji kimura
by André Michel

cover #13 dualité by brioni and lalique
photography by Olivier Zahm

daido moriyama

erotica
by Olivier Zahm

purple story

takuro kuwata

cover #16 saint laurent by anthony vaccarello s/s 2025
photography by Takashi Homma

setsuko klossowska de rola

cover #15 paul & joe
photography by Olivier Zahm

why japan?
by Coco Capitán

alejandro garcia contreras

casablanca s/s 2025
photography by Keizo Motoda

why japan?
by Stefano Pilati

saint laurent by anthony vaccarello s/s 2025
photography by Takashi Homma

why japan?
by André

best of men s/s 2025
Photography by Kejichi Nitta

kei ninomiya
interview by Olivier Zahm

anders edström

zen gardens
by Takashi Homma

wabi-sabi spiritual values
by Leonard Koren

wim wenders
interview by Olivier Zahm and Aleph Molinari

miu miu s/s 2025
photography by Coco Capitán

ruth asawa

kazuyo sejima

waves
by Takashi Homma

jun takahashi
interview by Aleph Molinari

cover #14 casablanca s/s 2025
photography by Keizo Motoda

kumiko
by Anna Dubosc

yōko yamanaka
interview by Olivier Zahm

mariko mori

cover #17 miu miu s/s 2025
photography by Coco Capitán

the tokyo toilet
by Koji Yanai

ann lee in anzen zone
by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

young designers s/s 2025
Photography by Dasom Han

kenshu shintsubo

why japan?
by Setsuko

the original hotel okura
by Valerie Sadoun

kyoto international conference center
by Sachio Otani

tadashi kawamata
interview by Aleph Molinari

purple beauty make-up
photography by Eamonn Zeel Freel

self-portrait
Takashi Homma

kids
by Takashi Homma

hideaki kawashima

yoshitomo nara

yasujirō ozu

the isamu noguchi garden museum

yoko and john in karuizawa
by François Simon