Toby Reynolds

Okada Kisara has been assiduously photographing Tokyo for more than a decade. Her latest collection of work, Tokyo Over, captures a city addled, embracing, sighing, toiling, and relaxing through a pandemic and its Olympics.

Aiko Masubuchi, a curator, producer, and translator based in New York and Tokyo, discusses the future of Japanese film.

Constant Practice, a finely curated instagram page and archival fashion store, has amassed a considerable audience for its seemingly niche items. Owner and buyer Zeke Hemme walks TOKION through the store’s history.

The author of the historical book on men’s fashion reprinted last year in Japan, Nik Cohn, and Japan-based fashion journalist David Marx talk about fashion and culture.

Nik Cohn and W. David Marx, writing generations and countries apart, have demanded the same answers from fashion. TOKION brought the two together to meet for the first time, and discuss the essential ideas of their books.

Gutevolk released the new song Mezameru Wakusei on July 7th— we talked with them about their history and identity, spanning Hirono Nishiyama’s debut under her own name to Gutevolk’s most recent work.

The wave of Japanese music now termed city pop has broken international ground in recent years, and its mass appeal continues to reach new ears. Mark McNeill, a producer at Seattle label Light In The Attic, shares some of his view on the genre and its future with Tokion.