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| Editor / Founder | Manny Santiago |
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| Categories | Newsmagazine, Regional |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Circulation | 1,000 quarterly |
| Publisher | Manny Santiago |
| First issue | November 2004 |
| Company | DM Media |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | English |
| Website | hesomagazine.com |
HESO Magazine is a quarterly, culture magazine based in Tōkyō (Kantō). Every issue has a theme, and features the work of famous photographers, interviews, music, art, poetry and articles of social and cultural interest.
Founded in Fukuoka in 2004 by Manny Santiago[1], initially Heso (臍 in Japanese means navel) grew from an occasional self-printed, hand-folded, stapled zine to a bimonthly, bilingual (English/Japanese) free paper in its current full-color format.
Heso is known for regularly featuring NPOs Nonprofit organizations and NGOs Non-governmental organizations, interviews with prominent Japanese House of Councillors members (the Finnish-born Tsurunen Marutei & Ryuhei Kawada), and musicians (Cornelius, Beardyman, Scroobius Pip, Damian Taylor, Deerhoof, Peter Barakan), filmmakers (Louie Psihoyos, Sebastián Cordero), photographers (Charlotte Østervang, Snjezana Josipovic), poets and artists working all over the world.
As of March 2009 HESO changed its frequency to quarterly and dropped all Japanese translations.