Rituals and origin stories across Japan’s southern islands
Land art, mythic stones, Shikoku pilgrims, and contemporary architecture as seen by photographer Laurence Ellis for Document’s Spring/Summer 2024 issue
Daichiro Shinjo, a calligraphy artist seeking Zen amidst our existing chaos
Photographer Markn captures the artist's contemplative and explosively kinetic process.
‘Sakura Lust’ celebrates the ephemeral beauty of Japanese love hotels
Casper Kent spent a year photographing his friend in Japanese ryokans and love hotels for his new book 'Sakura Lust.'
Suicides reach 30-year high among Japanese youth
New figures released by the government revealed that last year alone, 250 youth took their own lives in Japan.
Colorblind in a heatwave
Japan is applying its progressive design ethos to heatmaps that can be visible to those with colorblindness.
Hunting for Kit Kats in Japan
One writer discovers that a mission to find every last of the whacky, weird Kit Kat flavors native to Japan can easily become an unstoppable...
The Document Agenda: “Looking into a portable funhouse mirror”
Japan rebuts cannibalistic fake news, satire could actually, maybe, be a political motivator, and selfies are warping self-perception.
