Troublemakers #2

Quiet and calming, Troublemakers is a Tokyo-based, fully bilingual (En/Ja) independent magazine that paints an affectionate but carefully critical picture of life in contemporary Japan. Its strapline is ’embracing misfits’, and it shines a light on people who have chosen to live in unconventional ways, appreciating their individuality in a strictly ordered, hierarchical society.

In this issue:

- Literary scholar Fukuko Kobayashi reflects on a lifetime of radical feminism.
- Genders slip under pressure from social media in Female Degeneracy, Li Kotomi’s surreal short story.
- A Cambodian American woman tells the unconventional love story that brought her to Japan. 
- A British man encounters Kurdish workers on a Japanese building site.
- And step inside Kabe to Tamago, the Tokyo neighbourhood cafe and beloved haven for misfits.