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.

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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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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

¥700

(US$6.50 ex shipping)

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

(US$8)

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

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Kyoto Journal Issue 19

¥880

(US$8 ex shipping)

Transformations of the Field
Successful Outsiders
December 7 1941: The Sneak Attack on the American
Constitution
A Friday Night in Osaka

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