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Culture

Tune in and work out

In Japan, if you're not doing ‘Rajio Taiso’ you're either dead or you've slept in. Millions of Japanese rise early every morning to get together and do radio exercises – the rest do them…

  • Film
Japanese workers exercising
Affairs

Pack leaders

A photographer, a war artist, a special correspondent and a writer for ‘The New Yorker’ reveal what kit they take with them to the world’s conflict zones and how they work.

  • Issue #56
  • 8 min read
War photographer Sebastian Meyer poses with arms crossed against a weathered whitewashed brick wall.
Culture

Aerial assault

Conscripts spin chart-toppers by day and safety jingles by stealth: inside Galgalatz, the Israeli army's hit radio station where military discipline meets prime-time pop appeal.

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  • 10 min read
Sergeant Omer Yardeni in the presenter’s chair
Culture

A war of words

Germany's armed forces magazine, ‘Y’, holds the line on its independence while meeting the remit of a military publication. With a staff of civilians and soldiers, it’s a lively, and unique, setting.

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  • 6 min read
Chief reporter Ronald Rogge (right) and interns during an editorial meeting
Culture

Culture

A Japan military media special, Bollywood's war films, and the "Cairo Year One" exhibition in London.

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  • 5 min read
Traditional Japanese six-panel folding screen artwork depicting a crowded military scene with Mount Fuji in background, displayed in a wooden frame on gallery wall.
Business

Observation

Alongside London’s world sporting showcase and its potential for growth, our editor in chief Tyler Brûlé considers Monocle’s very own expansion plans for this summer.

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  • 5 min read
Observation
Food & Drink

Vaughan Smith

Vaughan Smith is a veteran war cameraman who set up Frontline News TV in London. He shares a meal with Monocle at the Frontline Club restaurant.

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  • 5 min read
Vaughan Smith
Arts

Arles Photography Festival

What Cannes is to film and Venice is to architecture - Arles is to photography. Our Monocle film crew headed down to the South of France for the opening week of Les Rencontres d'Arles…

  • Film
guy on street and poster
Books

Culture

Films, books, music and our culture editor's monthly column.

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  • 9 min read
A man with reddish hair and beard wearing headphones around his neck, holding a knife, with an anxious expression.

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