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SPECTATOR vol.23■ First Feature: WILD WILD EAST!

First Feature: WILD WILD EAST! TAIWAN
Quiet Adventure: A Bicycle Journey Across Taiwan

If you think that Taiwanese cuisine and massages are the only highlights of Taiwan, you are mistaken. Surrounded by oceans, mountains, and forests, Taiwan is a treasure trove of nature, a primitive culture, and a spiritual worldview. This all-out feature article explores the natural charms of this “beautiful island,” which is close to us in terms of both history and distance, but is actually not well known.

Text by Franco and Yuka Aoki, Spectator editors
Illustrations by Akihiro Soma (Concorde Graphics)

Second Special Feature: Reconsidering: How to Live without a Job, Season 2

A sequel to the feature in the previous issue, which was very popular. We interviewed four workers who continue to work down-to-earth to build the “places” and “communities” they need.
Gen Nagashima (Cinema Amigo), Norio Kanzawa (Tojiba), JOTARO YOSHIDA (Locus Gear), Yasushi Manaka (SHOKU-YABO) (titles omitted)

…Other contents

Food Literacy “No Seeds

Interview with Isao Noguchi (Noguchi no Seed, Noguchi Seed Corporation)
Did you know that many of the vegetables we eat are the result of mass-production technology known as F1?　The truth about food that you need to know in order not to become a victim of runaway science or the strategies of major corporations.
Reporting and illustrations by David Duval-Smith
Composition and text by Mie Yun

CMWC2010 GUATEMARA 2 Wheels Age Go for The World

Bike messengers from around the world gathered in Guatemala, Central America, to participate in CMWC2010, a bike messenger event. This is a reportage on the “certain consciousness” that sprouts in their hearts as they ride through the times.
Text by Maya Fushimi, Photos by xray sexysushi

The “COM” Era: Recollections of a Manga Magazine, 1967-1973 Part 4
COM” was a legendary manga magazine that Osamu Tezuka continued to publish and produced many manga artists. Rare testimonies about the later lives of four groups of cartoonists who debuted through the “Gura・Kon” corner of the magazine.
Ganke Ommu, Agatsuma Hideo, Fukushima Masami, Suzuki Fishio, and Aoyagi Yusuke

In Search of the Spirit: 3rd (and final) installment in the series
An experimental series of interviews in which we attempt to make contact with spirits through dialogues with spiritual gurus. Conversation with Keiichi Ueno, acupuncturist, translator, and author.
Text by Yimasa Sekiguchi, Illustrations by Akihiro Soma (Concorde Graphics)

Apocalypse ’60s Kenji Kanesaka, Lucifer of the Underground, 4th in a series
A series of reportage on the man who ran through the turbulent 60s as an underground guru, filmmaker, photographer, and “ecstatic revolutionary” agitator.
Text by Natsune Kitazawa

SMALL TALK OF THE TOWN (column page)
Text by Kenichi Kato, ANANYA, Harpo, Daisaburo Sakamoto, Ryosuke Akashi, Makoto Moriyama, Kojiro Kato, Minoru Yamada, Ai Iwane, Yoshiaki Koshikawa, Takuo Asano, tintin

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