Category Culture

Masayoshi Takanaka

An introduction to Masayoshi Takanaka through five early albums that helped establish his distinctive sound within Japanese jazz fusion.

Backrooms in Japan

A survey of Backrooms-like spaces in Japan, where ordinary infrastructure becomes strange through closure, inaccessibility and lost purpose.

MSCHF Contextual Works

Objects that entered circulation through the systems they reflect: auction, forgery, exhibition, scarcity, and belief.

Black Iwai Films

Behind Shunji Iwai’s softer image is a darker body of work shaped by psychological strain, alienation, and harsher social worlds.

Japan’s Strange KitKats

KitKat in Japan moved beyond the standard chocolate bar, with flavours shaped by souvenir culture, local specialties, and product experimentation.