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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 15
- 1 min
IN PASSING, I REFLECT ON THE MEMORIES OF MY PREVIOUS SELF
Photos by ZEFAN SRAMEK No. 7 No. 3 No. 6 Zefan Sramek is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate School of Engineering. THE KOMABA TIMES ISSUE...
- Apr 13
- 6 min
JUST SO YOU KNOW...
Words by ADIT AMOD GURJAR Illustrations by YASHA LAI Hey there. So, you’ve received your acceptance letter, maybe even a scholarship....
- Apr 11
- 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 11
- 1 min
BUREAUCRACY | 070/080/090
Words & Artwork by YASHA LAI Yasha Lai (b.1999) | Bureaucracy 070/080/090, 2022 Komaba Times issues 9 & 10 on MacBook Air screen Yasha...
- Apr 8
- 4 min
HOW TO FIGHT THE CLIMATE CRISIS IN YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE
Words by VEDANT AGRAWAL and JENNA STALLARD Illustration by LEAH HAN According to an article published in the September 2021 edition of...
- Apr 6
- 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...
- Apr 4
- 4 min
REALITY SHIFTING
Words by NAOMI HADISUMARTO Illustrations by YASHA LAI Have you ever read that book? Yes, that book, or watched that movie, or played that...
- Apr 1
- 2 min
EDITORS' NOTE | ISSUE 11
Words by THE EDITORS Photo by CHARISIA ONG On January 6, 2022, we had a snowstorm in Tokyo. The city transformed into something magical...