HESO Magazine is a quarterly culture magazine based in Tokyo. Every issue is loosely centered around a theme, and features the work of famous photographers, interviews and articles on positive-thinking and forward-moving individuals and organizations, music and concert reviews, great outsider art, fiction and of course, beer.

Founded in Fukuoka in 2004 by Manny Santiago, initially Heso (臍 in Japanese means navel) grew from a self-printed, hand-folded, stapled zine to its current full-color format.

Heso is known for regularly featuring NPOs and NGOs, interviews with prominent people (Japanese Parliament members Tsurunen Marutei & Kawada Ryuhei, Musicians Cornelius, Beardyman, Scroobius Pip, Damian Taylor, Deerhoof and the incomparable Peter Barakan), photographers, poets and artists working all over the world.

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