Kyoto Journal, a non-profit quarterly established in 1987, reaches far beyond Japan's ancient capital to be your gateway to understanding and appreciating thought-provoking aspects of the lifestyles, cultures and societies of Japan and Asia.

Here (in addition to some books and gifts), you can access current and past issues, dating from 1987 to the present. Many are in print format, but some exist only in digital form, downloadable as PDFs.

Our present (post-Covid) publishing schedule includes one print and two digital issues per year.

Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 81

¥1,000

(US$4.50)
The Way of the Japanese Bath
Kyotographie’s Lucille Reyboz & Yusuke Nakanishi
Dancing with the Apartment Shaman in Seoul
Remembering Cid Corman
Film-making in Afghanistan

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Kyoto Journal Issue 80

Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 80

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Peace Mask Project
Hope for the East Asian Peace Process
Interview with Stomu Yamash’ta
Masaya Kushino: shoe designer

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Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 79

¥1,000

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Bernhard Kellerman's 19th century Japan
The Tohoku Futures Network
The fate of a tiny Kagoshima village
Talking to nuclear refugees

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Kyoto Journal Issue 78 Pilgrimage

Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 78

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Khumba Mela: the world’s largest human gathering
Satish Kumar on the Spirit of a Pilgrim
The Dhammayietra: A Path Seeking Peace and Non-Violence in Cambodia
Retracing Soseki’s Footsteps in Tokyo

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Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 77

Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 77

¥1,000

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Contemporary Asian film directors
Tsa’lam: The Nomadic Route of Salt
Writer Levy Hideo and the World in English
Environmental History of the Japanese Archipelago

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Kyoto Journal Issue 76

Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 76

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Remembering Gwangju
Urban Nomads in Mongolia
Gary Snyder on Endangered Wilderness
Jungle Hermit in Sri Lanka

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Kyoto Journal Issue 74

¥1,200

In the West, the Silk Road has since Roman times conjured an exotic, mysterious Orient…In the East, the Road itself is the more powerful metaphor. Every path of personal development, in martial or aesthetic arts, is a Way.

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Kyoto Journal Issue 72

¥1,200

(US$6.50)

Article 9 & Japan’s Future
Japan’s Peacemaker, Shidehara Kijuro
Post-War Art Under the Japanese Peace Constitution
The New Peace Museums

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Kyoto Journal Issue 68 (Sold Out)

¥980

(US$9)

Gen-Fukei – The Primal Landscape
In the House: A Foreign Wife in Rural Japan
The Ingenuity of Local Culture in the Cambodian Countryside
Of Singing Clams & Soccer Camp: Searching for Japanese Children’s Literature in English Translation

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Kyoto Journal Issue 64

¥1,200

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Perspectives on Japan’s Transgender Community
Butsudan Boys: The Photography of Saito Hiroshi
Gender & Sexuality Activism in Taiwan
Dynastic Female Political Power in Asia

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Kyoto Journal Issue 61

¥980

(US$9)

Yoko Tawada on “Is Europe Western?”
The World’s Leading Consumer
Japan’s Nuclear Nightmare
Night of the Bush Clover
Natsume Soseki’s 1903 Bicycle Diary

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Kyoto Journal Issue 41 (SOLD OUT)

¥980

Donald Richie on 50 years in Japan
The inspiration behind Princess Mononoke
Buddhism and poverty
Shima Spain Village

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Kyoto Journal Issue 35 sold-out

¥880

(US$8)

An Interview with a Chinese Dissident
Illuminating Atrocities: Nobel Prize Winner, Jose Ramos Horta
Concretizing the Japanese Dream: An Interview with Alex Kerr
Toynbee and Buddhism

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Kyoto Journal Issue 26 sold-out

¥880

(US$8)

The Builders of Kamagasaki
Interview with Director Oguri Ken’ichi
Aileen Mioko Smith on Japan’s Plutonium Future
Where Europe Begins
Holy Joe: An Adaptation of an Isse Ogata Play

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Kyoto Journal Issue 25 SOLD OUT

¥1,340

(US$12.20) SOLD OUT

Sacred Space in Japanese Religion
The Marathon Monks of Mt. Hiei
The Source of the Personification of Shiva
The Huangshan Photographs of Wang Wu-Sheng
Sacred Man-Made Mountains

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Kyoto Journal Issue 24 Sold-out

¥880

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Tourism, World Heritage & Sustainable Development
Kyoto Street Music
On Asia’s Lucrative Sex Trade
Drawings from China
Sonnets from Siam

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