The Monocle Weekly [Monocle]

You can subscribe to Monocle from £75 per year, or buy individual back issues.

- Affairs
- Business
- Culture
- Design
- Edits

Tyler Brûlé and Andrew Tuck pay a visit to Tokyo for this week's show and are joined in the studios of J-Wave by Monocle's Asia editor Fiona Wilson. They talk about the extraordinary success of niche-interest manga and anime with Leo Lewis, Asia business correspondent for The Times and get a lesson on traditional Izakaya cuisine - known as the most friendly form of Japanese dining - by author and journalist Mark Robinson. Also in the studio is Verbal, one half of Japanese hip-hop group and firm Monocle favourite M-Flo, who plays us his favourite tracks of the moment and gives us an update on the big plans to celebrate M-Flo's 10th anniversary.

Download Edition 22 (mp3)

Edition 21
17 May 2009
Edition 20
10 May 2009
Edition 19
03 May 2009
Edition 18
26 April 2009
Edition 17
19 April 2009
Edition 16
12 April 2009
Edition 15
05 April 2009
Edition 14
29 March 2009
Edition 13
22 March 2009
Edition 12
15 March 2009

Click here to subscribe to The Monocle Weekly

The Monocle Weekly is a mix of smart discussion, previews, field reports and feature interviews. From our studio in London and our bureaux in Tokyo and New York, Monocle's editors focus on the horizon and explore the looming stories within the five areas that define our editorial agenda: global affairs, business, culture, design and consumer culture.

Hosted by editor in chief Tyler Brûlé, The Monocle Weekly also offers fresh angles on stories in the current issue and delivers in-depth follow-ups from past assignments. Culture editor Robert Bound is a regular with his weekly playlist of artists established and obscure.

Editor Andrew Tuck pulls in contributions from our correspondents in far flung corners and moderates debates. And from Tokyo and New York editors Fiona Wilson and Ann Marie Gardner deliver features and perspectives from Asia and the Americas.