Shinichi Ito
Expo 48: Golf state
South Korea has created a golf culture that leaves other nations in a sandy bunker. Monocle visits the country’s top clubs and meets their quirky members and attentive staff.
Chairs and graces
Fascinated with furniture design, Noritsugu Oda bought his first chair in the 1970s and now has 1,200. But he isn’t precious about his priceless collection, as Monocle discovers.
Korean Golf
With membership fees in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, clubhouses designed by star architects and troupes of attentive young female caddies - golf is the ultimate statement of wealth in South Korea -…
Expo 32: Life in miniature
In studios around the world, model-makers sit with scalpels and glue creating everything from mini cities to shrunken ships, all to secure budgets to build the real thing. Monocle meets these skilled artisans.
Expo 28: Space awareness
Japan's cosmic focus is not vain flag-planting but research and exploration. This strategy has led to them developing a rocket vastly superior to the American model, despite politics and cost preventing a manned mission.
The shopping forecast
A special report on the state of global retail and how to go about fixing it.
Power of three
Beyond Copenhagen and Barcelona, which design cities are on the rise? We predict three lesser-known metropolises that are set to become the next global design hubs thanks to investment and organisation.
Bread winner
After 40 years of selling Danish pastries in Japan, Andersen has opened in Denmark. The firm is giving rivals a run for their money using only the best natural ingredients.
Yubari: Ghost town
Featuring the haunting photographs of Shinichi Ito, our Asia bureau chief, Fiona Wilson, reports from Yubari, the Japanese coal city that lost 90 per cent of its residents after its mines closed and the…
