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magazinesSince there seems to be a demand for it, I’ve decided to start taking orders for the Japanese magazines I mention on this site (or any Japanese magazine for that matter). If interested, contact me with what you want, and your postal address, and I’ll let you know how much it’ll cost, and send it as soon as I get a PayPal payment (which you can do by clicking on the PayPal icon in the sidebar). I’ll charge the cover price of the magazine, plus the exact shipping (for example, an issue of ART iT sent to North America or Europe is 960 yen), and a 400 yen on top of that (for my trouble, cost of envelope, and whatever I lose in the exchange and PayPal transfers).

Update: I’ve just realized that PayPal takes a cut of every transfer made to me, so I’m going to have to add 600 yen to the cost of the magazine and shipping to make it work. Also, here’s a link to the Japanese post office page with all the info on shipping costs.

Note: The magazine service has been temporarily suspended.

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Composite

coverAnother magazine I picked up today (with the previously mentioned new issue of ART iT) is the newly relaunched COMPOSITE. Now partly bilingual (English texts for the features appear at the end), the revamp (issue #0) launches with a feature called “Shanghai Contemporary.” Very nice magazine in general, although I wish it was completely bilingual.

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ART iT 4

04photoThe fourth issue of ART iT has just been released, and the theme is manga as art (or MangArt, as they refer to it). Very nice cover.

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3www

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3www is a new directory of events happening in Tokyo. It’s in Japanese only, but you can make out most of the listings. There’s a paper version also, available for 100 yen. Link via Click Opera.

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Massage

dfe30ed6While at Tower Records in Shibuya today, I picked up the first issue of a new magazine/newspaper (launched a few days ago) by the Gas people, called MASSAGE. Although the main website is just in Japanese, the newspaper (giant-sized, think WEST EAST magazine, and non-stapled) itself is bilingual.

Here’s a blurb describing the new endeavour:

‘Massage,’ derived from the book first published in the 60’s, ‘The Medium is the Massage’ by Marshall McLuhan. With the word ‘massage,’ McLuhan implies that in the near future, as technology advances, media would have a more direct and tactile existence. Our aim is to make a medium that contains raw and alternative expressions and deliver it directly to people around the world. The first medium born from Massage is the newspaper, which will come out in JULY. Using the most basic medium, newspaper, Massage delivers expressions in the realm of art, culture, music and society contributed by artists, journalists, musicians, fashion designers, graphic designers, etc. Contributors (first issue): ECD, Nigel Cooke, Marok, Will Sweeney, Sven Fortman, Meikyoshisui, Ojas, Abake, Zon Ito, Hiroshi Egaitsu, Oliver77, KIEF and more.

Also, make sure to check out the Gas site for the online version of the first issue of GAS PRESSING, a bi-monthly free magazine that spotlights various artists/designers.

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Axis 110

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The new issue of AXIS is out (110), and the main feature takes a look at up and coming creators, from the point of view of prominent designers.

Designers active at the frontlines of design are first to notice the potential of new talent and to inspire them. Perhaps they find something in those young designers that they themselves do not possess. Or perhaps they see a younger version of themselves. We asked seasoned designers who have on numerous occasions graced the pages of AXIS to recommend an individual in any field that has the greatest potential to become a next-generation talent.

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Uzi

UZI is a new Swedish “photographic magazine about popular culture” that will soon launch its first issue, a Tokyo special. Among other things, you’ll find coverage of Bitman, Bottlemail, Complete Finesse, Cosmic Smash, Electronic Insect Collecting Kit, Final Home, Frognation, Groovision, Kekkou Kamen, Kennicam, Manga City, PAPERO Personal Robot, Son of a Loud #7, Spectacle Magazine, Suburban Happiness, Tokyo Designers Block Central East, Tokyo Style, Video Hack/and/Slash/Mixer, and Video-Jockey Yasunori Ikunishi.

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TSiG Magazine Exhibition

PRESS RELEASE

TOKYO STYLE IN GOTHENBURG 2004
Magazine Exhibition

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For Tokyo Style in Gothenburg we will arrange a Japanese magazine exhibition, showing and promoting different Japanese magazines we like. The exhibition will take place at the cultural building Röda Sten (www.rodasten.com) in Gothenburg, in the huge main room which holds 12 meters to the roof. You can find some pictures of the venue here.

A chance to exhibit in Sweden
Since we are a low budget independent festival organized by a network of young creative people in Gothenburg, who all works for free, we were hoping you would like to sponsor us with some magazines for this exhibition. We will promote each magazine and provide information how to subscribe or buy it outside of Japan. If you are interested in helping out please send us as many magazines as you like to the address below, and we will be ever grateful.

We would like:
Magazines

Sent to the address:
Kulturprojekt Röda Sten
c/o Tokyo Style in Gothenburg
Röda Sten 1
414 51 Göteborg
SWEDEN

Deadline:
We need your magazines before the 10th of august 2004

We arrange this festival out of love and fascination for Japan and its contemporary culture, and are hoping this is something you want to support. If you have any questions regarding the festival or magazine exhibition feel free to contact us at: info@tsig.se

I’m helping out with this exhibition, so any publisher can also get directly in touch with me if they want to participate in this.

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OK FRED Raps

Issue 4 of OK FRED is coming soon, and it’ll be the “hip-hop” issue. That would explain why Robert pointed this out to me a while back.

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Minimix 17

I also picked up the latest issue of MINIMIX (17), although it looks like I’m quite late as it’s the Winter 2003 issue. Seems like their website is hopelessly out of date, listing issue 14 as the latest. I think I’ve missed the ones in between. I wonder if they’re having trouble with distribution, because this latest issue was certainly not there a few weeks ago, and it’s been a huge while since I’d seen an issue there. The last time I saw some anywhere was probably at the Aoyama Book Center, where they were selling a stack of back issues. I’ve always thought of it as a cute little zine, with a format that I like.