Like Braces on Bloodied Teeth: MoJ agrees to include Sexual Consent in the Penal Code
By MISHA CADE In a breakthrough victory for the #MeToo movement in Japan last week, the Ministry of Justice has agreed to include “sexual...
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- Mar 3
- 9 min
An Ordinary Day
By SUYOG GARG To a majority of us, it is a known fact that some days are actually longer than a day. The day in question, however,...
- Apr 30, 2022
- 3 min
11:05
By MOE KINOSHITA Hi, I’m Moe and I am a Tokyo-based, Berlin-born hobby singer-songwriter. I have been playing music for almost my entire...
- Apr 29, 2022
- 6 min
FURUSATO
Words & Photos by PRIYA MU 2020, Late July Remote mountain village in Japan It had been three weeks since I moved to Yamagata from Tokyo...
- Apr 27, 2022
- 3 min
MIXING BODIES: LESSONS ON SEXUAL CONSENT FROM THE OCEAN
Words by MISHA CADE Illustration by YASHA LAI On the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, there are two bodies of water that...
- Apr 25, 2022
- 6 min
DISTANCE
Words by GU YUE Illustration by YASHA LAI What do you feel at the age of 20? I feel pain. To be exact, I first felt a silence... And...
- Apr 22, 2022
- 4 min
STUDYING WHILE MUMMYING
Words by CHARISIA ONG As a child, time is dictated by your parents. “15 more minutes and it’s lights out.” “Curfew is 11pm. Be home by...
- Apr 20, 2022
- 1 min
AN OPEN LETTER TO A
By YUKO ITATSU Dear A, Had I known you as a teenager, my life would have been different. You would have been the perfect buddy. Someone I...
- Apr 18, 2022
- 11 min
A POLYPHONY OF OUR TIMES
Words by THE KOMABA TIMES & POLYPHONY Illustrations by YASHA LAI Layout by ZEFAN SRAMEK Polyphony Student Journal is the first...
- Apr 11, 2022
- 1 min
BUREAUCRACY | NON-RESIDENT
Words & Artwork by YASHA LAI Yasha Lai (b.1999) | Bureaucracy non-resident, 2022 Komaba Times issues 9 & 10 on banking documents Yasha...
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
NEIGHBOUR
Words by MIZUKI IGATA Layout by YASHA LAI Here is an excerpt from an investigation report on 379 candidate planets in the Exoplanet...
- Jun 29, 2020
- 5 min
An Evening with Tokyo’s Finest
By CHOI JIWOONG
- May 20, 2020
- 6 min
Darkest Day: The Oct 6, 1976 Massacre In Bangkok, Thailand
By PONGADISORN JAMERBSIN
- May 13, 2020
- 5 min
Cambodia: The Bittersweet Smile of Khmer
By MUDI WANG
- Nov 19, 2019
- 5 min
Theater the Ineffable
By MINGHAO XU
- Nov 12, 2019
- 2 min
The Games After the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
By SAYUMI TAKE
- Nov 4, 2019
- 6 min
Sexism in the Age of the “Shining Woman”
By EMI YASUDA, EXCHANGE STUDENT AT UTOKYO (2018-2019)
- Oct 28, 2019
- 6 min
I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes
By ALEXINE CASTILLO YAP (PEAK JEA, Y3)
- Oct 8, 2019
- 5 min
Learning to Write My Name
By ERIKA YAMAUCHI, EXCHANGE STUDENT AT UTOKYO (2018-2019).
- Feb 1, 2019
- 3 min
Discussing Hate Speech
By YISAC PARK
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