Tokion
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Tokion is a New York-based magazine covering art, fashion, music and film. It publishes separate US and Japanese editions. Tokion also produces the annual Creativity Now Conference, a weekend-long seminar of panel discussions with speakers from across the creative spectrum.
[edit] History
Tokion was started in 1996 by Adam Glickman and Lucas Badtke-Berkow, two American ex-patriots living in Japan, and was originally intended to be a cultural bridge between Japan and the United States. In 2001 Badtke-Berkow left Tokion to begin publishing Paper Sky and Mammoth Magazines in Japan, and Glickman began publishing both the Japanese and US editions of the magazine. In 1998 Tokion opened an American office in Los Angeles. In 2000 Tokion moved into a retail space/office in New York City, while maintaining a retail space/office in Tokyo. While in New York, the magazine's focus shifted from the mainly Japanese-influenced content to a middle period street culture aesthetic, and finally to a more global view, with a Q&A-style format in interviews with recognizable artists such as Lou Reed, Richard Prince, James Brown, Francesco Clemente, Roger Corman, Ed Ruscha and Jeff Koons, while continuing to cover up-and-coming artists such as Harmony Korine, Miranda July, Cory Arcangel and Simone Shubuck.
In 2005 the Japanese edition was sold to Infas Publishing Company. In 2006 the American edition was sold to independent publisher Larry Rosenblum.
