Heso. Your navel. Center of your body. In Japanese culture, location of the soul. Beyond the center? The edges. The periphery. The marginalized. The neglected. The forgotten. But the periphery is also a place where art thrives. Where the truth survives. Heso Magazine strives to draw attention to people and topics outside the mainstream. To put it all front and center. In this issue, especially, we celebrate the periphery.

All this plus peripherally necessary images from French photographer Séverine Cousot, a Pictorialization of living through the 3-day cleanest Festival in the world: Fujirock, amazing art from Taniho Reina and Sugarplumwine, the fun and informative Yokohama and Fukuoka Spotlights and of course Little Prigdoms. Check out our expanded Music Section, the Brew & A Flick column, and a book review on Nakagami Kenji’s The Cape. All this is of course available on the site but to see the expanded version, to go behind the scenes, to get the full monty you’ve got to order the magazine HERE

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