Tempura Magazine

Tempura Magazine

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A biannual French magazine dedicated to Japanese culture and trends, Tempura goes beyond clichés to explore lesser-known paths. In-depth reports, investigations into subcultures, exclusive interviews and profiles, original storytelling, visual portfolios...

Issue N°21 Japanese Countryside. If Japan's cities are the receptacle for all our desires for shopping and late-night outings, it's the Japanese countryside that makes our hearts swing. Just spend a few minutes browsing social media to realise it: videos worthy of a Miyazaki film; pastel-colored photos of septuagenarian farmers picking daikon; young neo-rural couples walking their Shiba among the rice fields... Let's face it: the Japanese countryside makes us all dream.

Does that mean we should quit our job and go in search of one of the many akiya, those empty houses that can be bought for a song? Won't the rural exodus eventually see this image of Epinal collapse? And will these young urbanites who are giving up everything for a better, gentler life, closer to nature, be enough to save the countryside? The answer is in this new format 196-page issue!

  • N°21 Spring/Summer 2025
  • Bilingual (English/French)
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Tempura Magazine
Tempura Magazine
Tempura Magazine
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