Tokyo Journal

Tokyo Journal is an international English-language quarterly magazine about Tokyo and Japan, which was started in 1981. As of the December 2012 issue, Tokyo Journal is published quarterly, and retails for 800 yen / US$10/ €8.

Initially selling for 200 yen, Tokyo Journal was owned and operated by Yohan, a major English book distributor with 120 employees and $80 million in revenue. Its first editor-in-chief was Don Morton, who served in that position for four years prior to stepping down and becoming a movie reviewer for Tokyo Journal and then Metropolis magazine. Subsequent editors included Glenn Davis and Greg Starr.

The magazine was later sold to Tokyo-based publishing and translation company Nexxus Communications K.K. in 1997. In 2001, the magazine went from being a monthly to a quarterly. Nexxus owned and operated the magazine for 15 years. Ownership was officially transferred from Nexxus Communications K.K. to the current owner Tokyo Journal International, Inc. in late 2012, with the magazine's first publication under the new ownership being December 2012 Issue 270.

Its sections include Trends & Society, Travel & Food, Fashion & Design, Business & Technology, Movies, Music & Entertainment, Art & Culture, Manga & Anime, Sustainability & Green Living, Sports & Leisure, Language & Education, Commentary, Translation & Subtitling, Parenting, Tokyo Photography, and Music Gallery.

Tokyo Journal has featured articles on many aspects of Japanese society, including geisha, travel, business, sumo, traditional Oriental medicine, butoh, martial arts, Japanese ghosts, ikebana, onsens, Japanese history, the Japanese far right, kimono, yakuza, philosophy, tattooing, Zen, Japanese female wrestling, kabuki, Japanese baseball, architecture, love hotels, samurai, modern ninja, politics, the sex industry, robots, interracial marriage, manga and anime, the Japanese freemasons, Aum Shinrikyo, education, the homeless, the Japanese dimension of 9-11, and otaku. Among those interviewed by the magazine have been Livedoor founder Horie Takafumi, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn, architect Kisho Kurokawa, ikebana expert Shogo Kariyazaki, Hawaiian sumo wrestler Konishiki, yokozuna Akebono, photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara, fashion designer Issey Miyake, inventor Dr. Yoshiro NakaMats, artist Fuyuko Matsui, Japan nuclear expert Hiroshi Tasaka, film subtitler Natsuko Toda, Pritzker Architecture Prize Recipient Toyo Ito, Japanese cinema and culture expert Donald Richie, film Director Nagisa Oshima, fashion designer Junko Koshino, and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Henry Kissinger.