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Unraveling the Japanese episode of Netflix original series, My Love: Six Stories of True Love—a series featuring six different everlasting couples shot over the course of a year by film directors and crew based in the respective locations.

The founder of Freimeisterkollektiv sheds light on Berlin’s bar culture, which includes establishments with a long history and popular bars where artists and creators with colorful personalities get together. He also talks about the Japanese market.

In the Misaki area of Okayama, which has been selected as having one of the top 100 terraced rice fields in Japan, one Yamabushi (ascetics of Japan’s ancient mountain religion) is taking on the challenge of making natural wine. TOKION takes a closer look at the Yamabiko Winery, where winemaking is part of the ascetic practice.

A serial column in which a variety of creators speak about their own favorite items. The first installment introduces art director Kazunari Hattori’s “film cameras”which became sources for his design works.

Miyazaki’s first feature-length film Good-bye was shot while she was in college and was released in April. We talked to Miyazaki about her career and the film.

Novelist Ryo Asai reflects on his career as a writer and elucidates his outlook and process of writing a story.

In this series, we unravel the words of different intellectuals in regards to post-covid art. For the fifth volume, we invited Shinji Nanzuka, the owner of Nanzuka Underground, which launched on June 5th.

Yuma Abe, the frontman of Never Young Beach, has released his first solo album. Yusuke Monma, whose book Haruomi Hosono to Karera no Jidai was published last December, digs deeper into the creation and sonic universe of Abe’s new album, which features guitar by Devendra Banhart and mixing by Haruomi Hosono.

It’s not a well-known fact that Japanese people lived in Australia before the war. When we trace back the friendly relations between Australia and Japan today, we realize that it is thanks to the achievements of Japanese immigrants in the past.

Lawrence released his fourth album, Birds On The Playground, through mule musiq. Here, he talks about the influence of Japanese thought and culture on him.