As the Sanrio mascot turns 50, we look at how she’s come to figure in underground culture, from punk feminism to scene kids, emos and goths
Jan 22, 2024
The late musician’s friend and collaborator Todd Eckert discusses his role in the creation of the new immersive experience at Camden’s Roundhouse, Kagami
Jan 10, 2024
An exhilarating new book compiles the complete set of photo stories the Japanese photographer made for Shashin Jidai, the radical and experimental 1980s photo magazine that rode a fine line between photography and pornography
Dec 19, 2023
Following last week’s Boiler Room set, the Shibuya rapper gives us a glimpse inside his u-ha party series, featuring some of the city’s hottest names
Dec 18, 2023
From Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s long-awaited Evil Does Not Exist, to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘absolute masterpiece’ Monster
Dec 12, 2023
As the J-metal trio embark on their world tour, we sent photographer Daisy Davidson to capture the colourful fashion of fans outside their sold-out London show
Nov 30, 2023
Published in full for the first time, the Japanese photographer’s series reveals how fantasy intervenes in every attempt to see and be seen
Oct 20, 2023
‘Shooting images as if he had a machine gun’: a major retrospective at The Photographers’ Gallery in London explores the work of the groundbreaking image-maker
Oct 03, 2023
Blending fashion, beauty, and anime with traditional Japanese women’s wrestling, Sukeban brings together terror-filled IRL battles and cute costumes
Sep 27, 2023
Photographer Kido Mafon documents emerging Tokyo subcultures and frenetic nightlife on her Instagram account @ifucktookyo
Sep 12, 2023
Shot on film in her mother’s Japanese hometown, Everything Reminds Me of You is an evocative study of ‘love, melancholy, ecstasy, loneliness, anxiety, boredom, calm’
Aug 24, 2023
Japanese filmmakers Kinji Fukasaku, Takashi Miike, and Sion Sono are depicting the thrills of the deadliest survival games
Aug 08, 2023
Taking over a cinema in Tokyo, the show continues the narrative of Galliano’s Americana-tinged psycho-drama Cinema Inferno
Jul 31, 2023
The 90s Japanese subculture has found a new home online, where a growing number of Black TikTokers are adopting the trend for themselves
Jul 25, 2023
Imogen Wilson’s debut photobook DREAMS is a meditation on identity, time and the enduring magic of girlhood
Jul 14, 2023
