Issue 11 | The Komaba Times

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

NEIGHBOUR

Words by MIZUKI IGATA Layout by YASHA LAI Here is an excerpt from an investigation report on 379 candidate planets in the Exoplanet...

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...

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...