29 June 2020 Thank you all for supporting us at this difficult time. Kyoto Journal is a small, all-volunteer team and the lack of a regular funding, as well as the challenges of reaching a readership of which 99% are located outside Japan, has been hugely exacerbated by the pandemic. Distributors collapsed, a third of…

11 October 2020 shipping updates Thank you for supporting our work at this difficult time. KJ ships the majority of orders from Japan and some from within the USA. Japan Post imposed a ban on international airmail to 150+ countries in April 2020, which has partially lifted. As of today, from Japan, we CAN ship…

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