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Discover quality writing from Asia in our award-winning magazine. Stimulating interviews and profiles; excerpts of works translated from Asian languages; fiction, poetry and book reviews, as well as a fresh look at the city KJ calls home.

Kyoto’s Suburban Rice-fields

Thirty-One Views of Japan

Resisting Democracy’s Death by a Thousand Cuts

Meeting the Challenges of One’s Times

Insights from Sixteen Creative Japanese Ceramicists

Poetic Eyes

Shopping for Children’s Books in Asia

An Activist for Translated Children’s Literature

Portrait of Eroshenko

My Father-in-Law the Japanese Radical

Haenyeo – The Sea Women of South Korea

Dogen in a Hammock

Nowhere To Go

No Plan B Dream Villanelle

Kyoto Thrills

Poet between Reality and Dream

KYOTOGRAPHIE 2022 “One”

Seeing with Dragonfly Eyes

Japanese Religion Through the Lens of Water

Nanzen-ji

Ink Dreams and the Space of Effusion

Feeling the trees shivering: endangered environmental knowledge in northern Kyoto

Lost in Tokyo

An Addict’s Memories

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Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1986, reaches far beyond Japan’s ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Asia. Made with heart in Kyoto, Japan.

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Recipient of the Commissioner’s Award of the Japanese Cultural Affairs Agency 2013