Keeping TOKYOPUNK Alive

I started TOKYOPUNK with Asumi because Japan is constantly producing these wild things—music, art, videos, street style, pure cultural weirdness—that die the moment they don’t leave the border. Someone should be translating that into German. Someone should be showing people. That someone was us.

It was supposed to work out. We’d find the stuff, post it, things would grow. But Asumi has school and a real job and the kind of life that doesn’t leave room for a side project. I’ve got my own chaos. So TOKYOPUNK’s been slowly suffocating, and I hate that.

I still believe in it. The work being done in Japan right now is too good to ignore. So I’m looking for people who understand that—Japanese or connected to Japan somehow, doesn’t matter where they live—who want to keep this alive. The deal is straightforward: you find or write about something from Japan, we post it, we split whatever ad money comes in. It’ll be pennies at first, maybe forever, but that’s not really why anyone does this.

The content can be anything: music, art, design, fashion, books, events, whatever’s happening there that’s worth noticing. Write in English if you want—I’ll translate. Just write like you mean it. That’s all that matters.

I’m throwing this out because I don’t want to watch this die because we got too busy. If you’re interested, reach out. If you know someone, tell them. We’ll figure out the rest.