Just to be organized.

The whole magazine is now translated, finally!

Oh and the articles are not in order, I divided them up by categories, and ordered them by when I translated them.


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Crosstalk

Inagaki Goro and Urasawa Naoki

What is the happiness of a job that continuously illustrates people’s dreams?

Inagaki Goro visited the Manga master Urasawa Naoki in his house/office. Standing at the site that gave birth to famous Mangas and getting in touch with the unknown world of Manga, gave Goro a moment to feel moved and ( Read more... )

Cross Talk: Katori Shingo and Thom Browne

Talking about the styles men should have.

This person is someone Katori Shingo wants to meet-fashion designer Thom Browne. Ever since he bought Thom Browne’s design in New York’s Bergdorf Goodman department store for the first time, he has fallen in love with Browne’s unique sense of aesthetics. ( Read more... )

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Cross Talk: Kusanagi Tsuyoshi and Kagawa Teruyuki

An Actor’s Way of Life

“An actor’s job is not to act.” “Acting is self satisfaction.”

These zen-like answers were shared between Kusanagi Tsuyoshi and Kagawa Teruyuki. It has been six years since they have acted together in the movie “Hotel Venice.” This is the first time since then that ( Read more... )

Who’s Bag?  Goro

“I end up using the same bag all the time. I have likes and dislikes, but I am not too particular about them.”

Goro: What? You really want to see what’s inside my bag? How should I do this? What do I mean? I am a privacy idealist (laugh). I like bags a lot and I think I have around 20 bags. But in the end I always use the ( Read more... )

Nakai Masahiro and Yanai Tadashi TALK

‘The mutterings of two men striving at the top”

We have Yanai Tadashi who leads the world famous fashion brand “Uniqlo,” and Nakai Masahiro who became a member of the group SMAP when he was 15 years old. For the two of them who rose to the very top in the nation in their respective fields, what do they ( Read more... )

Special Essay by Hayashi Mariko

“Stars are those who exist faraway to be loved by us.”

When it comes to SMAP, people usually think of them as the extraordinary stars. Of course that is true, but I have a stronger impression of them as “professionals.”

People who have been to a SMAP concert will probably understand, as a form of ( Read more... )

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