Popeye Magazine Japan January 2026 Issue 945 | Girlfriend Issue

Popeye Magazine's 2026 Girlfriend Issue
What does it mean to like someone, now?
Not in a dramatic way.
Not in a social-media way.
But in the everyday sense, walking together, sharing meals, choosing clothes, listening to music, killing time.
This year’s Girlfriend Issue isn’t about romance as spectacle.
It’s about how relationships quietly shape the way we live, dress, think, and move through the city.
We talked to couples who don’t post about each other.
We followed girlfriends with strong opinions and good taste.
We looked at how two people influence one another, without trying.
This issue is about proximity.
And how spending time with someone slowly changes everything.
 
In This Issue
How Couples Actually Spend Time Together
Walking, shopping, eating, watching movies
The rhythm of ordinary days
Girlfriends with Good Taste
Women who choose what they like, not what’s popular
Style that comes from living, not styling
What We Borrow From Each Other
Clothes, music, habits, ways of seeing
Why influence matters more than matching
Shared Closets & Separate Opinions
What couples really share—and what they don’t
Personal space as part of intimacy
Cities Seen Through Two Perspectives
Neighborhoods, cafés, bookstores, parks
How places feel different when you’re not alone
Talking, Not Explaining
Conversations that don’t need conclusions
Being comfortable with silence
 
Details:
Japanese Language Only
POP×EYE
The City I’m With You In
Girlfriend Issue
Ordinary Days Together
Girlfriends with Good Taste
Borrowing from Each Other
Shared Closets, Separate Opinions
Talking Without Explaining
Walking Side by Side
Rooms & Distance
Food We Share
Music That Becomes Ours
Letters Never Sent
Being Alone Together
Fashion
Winter Clothes Chosen by Girlfriends
Borrowed Looks
Couples Who Don’t Match
Culture
People with the Same Pace
Conversations Without Conclusions
Shared Habits
POPEYE Journal
Faces This Month
Seiko Ito & Jun Miura
Three Music Stories
At the Park
POP-EYE Cinema
Stay-Home Shopping
How to Be a Good Man
PUPPET SUNSUN
Music Phenomenology
Let’s Be Adults
Supplemental Reading
New York You Can Hear
Regulars
20 Things I Want
Old Clothes Broadcast
Sing in Me
Drinking & Walking Notes
My Best 3 Dishes
Listen to T-Shirt
Jobs I Didn’t Know Existed
Poetry of Youth
Photography Basics
Grooming Guide
New Takes on Classic Dishes
Flavorful Shops
A Room with a Groove
Tokyo Collage
Age 20
Science on the Table
How to See
superrrrrrr ART WALL
City Boy’s Melancholy
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