Gill Princen

Forging a community which explores a different, hidden side of Japanese culture. That’s the goal of Yokogao. After months immersed in Tokyo’s creative scene, Gill realized something crucial: the true depth of Japanese life and culture was missing from existing platforms. The lack of a media space and tight-knit community capturing Japan through a fresh, unconventional lens planted the first seed for what would become Yokogao Magazine.
Gill’s Latest Articles
Spotted at 13, YOSHI’s fashion legacy burns on in Tokyo.
Immersive sound, design, and cocktails converge at MOGO Milan.
How a department store’s ads hijacked Tokyo’s creative pulse for decades.
Underwater worlds and robotic fantasies.
Paul Tulett photographs concrete forms hiding in plain sight.
How one teacher made crying in class completely make sense.
How Japan’s charm culture keeps creating new trends.
Dazai turns quiet despair into something strangely sharp and readable.
The manga and anime that remember Japan’s biggest tragedy.
Shared in silence and steam, a guide to Japan’s bathhouse culture.
How PARCO made retail feel like culture instead of commerce.
Messy rooms scanned in 3D become love letters to chaos.
Denko Pluto brings Tokyo’s club sound to unexpected public spaces.
Streetwear’s silent coder, remixing chaos into something strangely coherent.
Ore sketches loose lines balanced between punk mood and manga.
Born in post-war Kobe, reborn on Tarantino’s blood-soaked set.
How Vagabond’s detailed facial expressions shape its emotional value.
EZ blurs body and machine until fashion becomes emotional armor.
Yazawa’s manga wears its heart out loud, stitched in Westwood’s tartan.
A city that builds itself while everything else falls apart.
Inside the Godzilla suit, Haruo Nakajima became a legend.
When the internet decided to turn Street Fighter into reality.
Hasui painted the kind of calm most people miss.
Mount Fuji’s perfect form captured silently from orbit over decades.
A cockpit, a cherry blossom, and a one-way ticket to oblivion.
A Miike film is chaos, carnage, and comedy in equal measure.
Your own rusty kei truck and the endless countryside—Honcho is pure Showa charm.
Masa weaves Japanese soul into Venetian plates.
Yutaro Saito captures the quiet confidence of aging in fashion.
The teenage photographer who rewrote Japan’s youth visually.