Welcome to Tokyo Weekender Vol. 2, 2025. In this issue, we wanted to bring together a range of voices and perspectives from both Tokyo and across Japan. Japanese culture is layered, ever-evolving and impossible to define in any singular way — and the people and places featured here reflect that. We wanted to spotlight the individuals shaping contemporary culture, whose careers and lives can show us new ways of being, loving, creating, identifying and seeing the world.