The first issue of
Tokyojin was published in January 1986. Until the June 2001 issue it was published by the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture (, Tōkyō-to Rekishi Bunka Zaidan). The non-profit, non-commercial backing meant that the magazine stayed independent of the preoccupation with shopping and other consumption shared by the huge majority of Japanese magazines, and
Tokyojin could concentrate on substantive issues of urban design and so forth. From July 2001 the magazine was published by Toshi-Shuppan (), a commercial publisher; it has increasingly moved in the direction of a guide to culture, leisure and eating out in Tokyo for the middle-aged and retired, although it still has plenty of material of substance, and also of interest to other demographics. In early 2007, its advisory editors were
Saburō Kawamoto,
Hidenobu Jinnai, and
Mayumi Mori. The March 2007 issue, as an example, is a special issue titled "Edo Yoshiwara", about the
Yoshiwara entertainment area of
Edo: of the total of 162 pages (rather few of which are devoted to advertising, either overt or, as is common in Japanese magazines, covert), seventy-six pages are devoted to Yoshiwara. The contributors include
Shōichi Ozawa and
Makoto Takeuchi; features include a six-page interview with a very active and alert eighty-eight-year old
geisha. ==Notes==