&Premium July 2026｜Work and Life

&Premium July 2026: Work and Life

&Premium July 2026 No.151 is a lifestyle issue dedicated to the relationship between work and the way we live. This issue looks at work not only as a job, income, or professional title, but as something closely connected to personal rhythm, values, relationships, health, creativity, and life choices.

This is not a magazine about simple career tips or success formulas. Instead, it asks a deeper question: how do people who live with emotional richness and work with energy create their own version of good work? Some have changed careers or locations to open a new path. Some have turned what they love into their work. Others continue to step into new worlds as they grow older. This issue is especially suitable for readers thinking about career direction, work-life balance, creative work, teamwork, and personal pace.

Highlights of This Issue

1. Ten Answers on What Matters for Good Work
This issue introduces 10 people from different fields who share what they value in order to do good work. The feature covers listening skills, team building, moving beyond fixed assumptions, continuing to work within traditional fields, and rethinking work at different stages of life. These are not abstract motivational statements. They are grounded reflections from real working lives.

2. Communication, Teamwork, and the Power of Listening
Good work is not created by individual ability alone. It also depends on how we work with others. This issue explores how to develop the ability to listen in an age that often emphasizes verbal expression, and how creators lead large teams made up of people with different skills. This section is especially useful for readers who manage projects, collaborate with others, communicate professionally, or lead teams.

3. Personal Rules for Working in Your Own Way
The issue features people who have built their own working rules through many turning points in life. They include a ceramic artist whose creative vision expanded through changes in environment, a pastry researcher who moved closer to nature and reconsidered her work rhythm, and a textile designer working overseas. Their stories show that there is no single correct way to work. Location, time, living environment, and personal feeling can all be rearranged into a work style that fits better.

4. Learning from Seniors How to Keep Working Well
How can we continue working for a long time without losing steadiness or passion? This issue includes conversations where younger creators visit senior figures to ask how they have continued their work. The discussions touch on career transitions, creative work, long-term commitment, and how to carry oneself when entering a new stage. This section is especially meaningful for readers facing turning points in life or work.

5. Balancing Work, Parenting, Focus, and Rest
The issue also addresses the difficulty of balancing work and parenting, as well as the importance of creating one’s own rhythm in busy daily life. It introduces ways to make time and space, to work well and rest well, and to move between deep focus and the need to pause and breathe. This section is practical for freelancers, founders, caregivers, and anyone who tends to push themselves too hard.

6. Lifelong Work and Ways of Living
This issue also includes a feature on an artist who continued her creative work with strong conviction over many years. It reflects on how a person can keep facing their own work and gradually build a unique world through daily accumulation. It reminds readers that meaningful work is not always about results that are quickly recognized. It can also be a long path shaped by persistence, revision, and quiet continuity.

7. Films That Make You Want to Work Again Tomorrow
The issue includes a special booklet introducing films that can make readers feel ready to work again. These are not simply workplace movies. Through characters, relationships, choices, and setbacks, they help readers think again about why they work, how they work, and how to keep sensitivity toward life within work.

Magazine Name: &Premium July 2026 No.151
Main Feature: Work and Life
Publisher: Magazine House
Release Date: May 20, 2026
Pages: 148 pages
Language: Japanese