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.

In a Rocket Made of Ice

¥1,680

(US$15.30)

Uniting prose and photography that are equally indelible, Gail Gutradt’s memoir “In a Rocket Made of Ice” is her personal story of life at a visionary community for children growing up with AIDS in rural Cambodia.

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Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 88

¥500

(US$4.50)
Kyoto’s Entrepreneurial Women
Supporting victims of unexploded ordinance bombs in Laos
Debuting a Noh play about Elvis
Occupation-era Haiku

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Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 87

¥500

(US$4.50)
Contemporary Art and Photography in Kazakhstan
Interview with a Kyoto Noh actor
Alex Kerr’s latest book, Another Kyoto
Surfing in North Korea

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Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 86

¥500

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Saying farewell to Hotel Okura
Kyoto’s firelight Takigi Noh
The Successes of the Setouchi Triennale
Translating Japanese children’s fiction

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Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 85

¥500

(US$4.50)
Toutosha: A House Living with Tea
Okada Torajiro on sitting
Poetry from a Chinese factory
Japanese “proletariat literature”

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Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 84

¥500

(US$4.50)
An Apprentice Boatbuilder in Japan
Yoko Inoue on Art, Flags and TPP
Beyond the Eye with Naoyuki Ogino
A Photographic Journey to Kham
Ikebana Power

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Kyoto Journal Issue 83

Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 83

¥500

(US$4.50)
Food pervades every area of our existence. It sustains us. It inspires us. It enslaves us. It educates us. It may kill us. It allows us to communicate with the Gods.

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Kyoto Journal Issue 82

Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 82

¥500

(US$4.50)
Ashoka’s Edicts: Messages for All Time
Feminist Pioneer Kato Shidzue
Contemporary Katazome Dyeing Artists
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale & Satoyama
Taoist Photo-Artist Yasu Suzuka
Poetry: Remembering Viet Nam
The Museum of Forbidden Art

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Kyoto Journal Digital Issue 81

¥500

(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

¥500

($4.50)
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

¥500

(US$4.50)
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

¥500

(US$4.50)
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

¥500

(US$4.50)
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

¥500

(US$4.50)
Remembering Gwangju
Urban Nomads in Mongolia
Gary Snyder on Endangered Wilderness
Jungle Hermit in Sri Lanka

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Kyoto Journal Issue 74 Cover

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

¥730

(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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