Fully typeset in both Japanese and English, this issue of THE NEAT REVIEW prods its stick at what could be seen as a cliché: it’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.

Through the lives and work of several of Japan’s best magicians, we explore cultural effects on the practice of and appreciation for sleight of hand. We visit these artists in their studios and discuss their worlds with interviews, sleights, tricks and essays.

Issue Three is about magic and sleight of hand, of course, but it is also about language, culture, aesthetics. Issue Three is about people:

• Cyril Takayama
• Hide Yamamoto
• Akira Fujii
• Shimpei Katsuragawa
• Ponta the Smith
• Takeshi Taniguchi
• Ben Daggers
• Tomoya Horiki
• Kyohei Tatsukawa
• Takuma Suzu