Journal
Stories from across Asia
Essays, interviews and long reads on the culture, design and food shaping contemporary Asian cities.
Why Coffee Conquered Tokyo
Why Coffee Conquered Tokyo
The Return of the Kissaten
The Return of the Kissaten
The New Shape of Asian Minimalism
Across Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai, a younger generation of designers is rewriting what "less" means — warmer, local, and unmistakably lived-in.
Read Story →City & Sake: The Other Side of Urban Culture
New Japan's oldest drink becomes the lens through which younger generations rediscover regional identity.
Why Coffee Conquered Tokyo
The unlikely rise of the single-origin pour-over and why Tokyo did it best.
Shanghai's Quiet Galleries
Away from the megamuseums, a network of small spaces is shaping the city's creative conversation.
The Return of the Kissaten
Japan's retro coffee houses were supposed to fade away. A new generation had other ideas.
Hong Kong's Rooftop Hour
The best window between work and night when the vertical city is at its most cinematic.
Inside Beijing's Hutong Revival
A generation of designers is moving back into the grey brick lanes and quietly rewriting them.