Highlights:

• Jazzopolist: Toshizo Shiraishi
• Dream-scroller: Stewart Wachs
• Ikebana Ascetic: Sugita Kazuya
• Space Maker: Bubb
• Yakimonoist: Kato Takahiko

Highlights:

• John Gauntner
• Matsuzawa Shigefumi
• Artist: Yoheyy
• Peter Barakan
• Yakimono: Kimura Moriyasu

Highlights:

• Minagawa Tsukasa
• Steve Gardner
• Artist: Ema
• Hamp Denimuya
• Yakimono: Takiguchi Kazuo

Highlights:

• Rambling Steve Gardner
• Hashimoto Machiko
• Ogawa Yasuhiro
• Photohoku

Highlights:

• Jizue
• Yokoyama Naoki 横山直樹
• C.W. Nicol
• Photohoku

Highlights:

• Ally Band
• Arimoto Kûgen 有本空玄
• C.W. Nicol
• Saito Hisao

Highlights:

• The Crash Mustard
• Deai
• C.W. Nicol
• Inayoshi Osamu

Highlights:

• Nakagawa Kenzo
• Resist: Agonizing Answers
• C.W. Nicol

Highlights:

• Against Forgetting
• Aileen Mioko Smith
• C.W. Nicol
• Samm Bennett

Highlights:

• New Groove 2012
• Interview with Peter Barakan
• A New Era for Cro-Magnon
• Matsui Fuyuko

Highlights:

• Made for Japan
• Siiya Brown 椎谷ブラウン

Highlights:

• Arai Takashi: a Daguerreotypical Man
• Miyake Mai: Breaking Bad with Japanese Traditions
• Handling History in a Clay Vessel – Robert Yellin on Japanese pottery

Highlights:

• (Mod)ified Texts: an interview with Craig Mod on the future of publishing
• Ideas Worth Spreading… in Japan: an interview with Patrick Newell of TEDxTokyo
• A Few Words with Fuwa: Fuwa Daisuke on Shibusashirazu Orchestra

Highlights:

• Post 3-11: Japan’s earthquake and tsunami disaster
• Transparent Specimen: aquatic creatures in vivid colors
• The Filmwasters: an analog photography collective
• The Slip & The Barr Brothers: interview and concert photography

Koe #13 (May-June), is mostly comprised of material we were preparing to print on the day the Tohoku earthquake struck, March 11th. Given the uncertainty at the time, we decided to forgo publication for the March-April cycle. We appreciate your understanding.

Highlights:

• The New Groove 2011: Japan’s jam-band music scene revisited
• Suzuki Sayaka: genuine smile photographer
• Dragon 76: a local live painter with worldwide recognition

Highlights:

• Greatly expanded art section (10 pages total!)
• Interview with Japan’s first surf photographer, Yokoyama Taisuke
• Custom car culture in Japan

Highlights:

• Sakamoto Ryoma: Is Japan’s modern hero more man or myth?
• Soya Asae: Dimensional paintings alive with light and color Photography
• Hara Hisaji: Reinterpreting Balthus in B&W photography

Highlights:

• A Requiem for Ohno Kazuo, the guiding spirit of Butoh
• Photography in Iran by Shoji Mitsuhiro
• Diet member Komiyama on anti-smoking laws

Highlights:

• Interview with Jazz funk saxophone mastermind Motoharu from Soil & “Pimp” Sessions
• Interview with live painters “8g” and “djow” who tour Japan with grassroots and jam-style outdoor music festivals
• Photography workshop program founded by Moriyama Daido and Yoshinaga Masayuki where the focus is on developing personal style

Highlights:

• Feature-length article on Alex Kerr’s foundation in Kyoto that is restoring old buildings to use as cultural revival and education centers
• Interview with a young Noh actor who wants more mainstream appreciation of the art
• interview with and photo spread by Ikeya Tomohide who shoots Butoh dancers underwater
• beautiful art & photography only available in the print version

Highlights:

• Photo-rich feature on Japanese music with a focus on good live bands; mini features on leading rock and jam bands Nabowa, Dechambo, and Special Others
• interview with and photospread by Hosoe Eikoh, one of Japan’s legendary photographers
• traditional Japanese art motifs reinterpreted by illustrator fooRider
• interview with an Ubifrance director on French craft beer’s entry to Japan

Highlights:

• Interviews with Australian Magnum photographer Trent Parke, French photographer Emmanuel Smague, and art-photographer Ola Bell
• Gorgeous photospreads
• Feature on Japan ex-pat writer Alan Booth, including the out-of-print short story, Snow Devils,” translated for the first time into Japanese.
• Two travel sections: NSW Australia & Ise area, Japan

Highlights:

• Part 2 of the interview with Aileen Mioko Smith
• Interview and photospread with innovative landscape photographer Frank Grisdale
• An essay on Japan’s troubled immigration policy
• Expanded art section

Highlights:

• Aileen Mioko Smith: Between Photography and Protest
• The Death of Print: if print dies, do we as well?
• Kirin Beer – a company on the move
• Hakata Gion Yamakasa, Fukuoka’s greatest festival

Highlights:

• Interview with Soul Flower Union, one of Japan’s most innovative and socially conscious rock bands
• Restorative Justice: victims and perpetrators meeting face to face
• Horimyo, a living legend of irezumi (Japanese tattoos), wants to restore the ancient art
• Interview with Suzuki Shinya, the Pilsner Samurai

Highlights:

• Interview with photographer Herbie Yamaguchi (including his photo gallery of 1980s British music icons)
• Barack Obama: the 6th black president?
• Got Hops? Growing one of beer’s essential ingredients in Japan.