Casa BRUTUS Vol.317 - Septiembre 2026: ZOO & AQUARIUM 2026

Casa BRUTUS Vol.317 (カーサ・ブルータス 2026年9月号) - ZOO & AQUARIUM 2026 is the September 2026 issue of Casa BRUTUS, devoted to Japanese zoos and aquariums and to what can be learned in them today.

The starting point is that these places have stopped being somewhere you merely look at animals: animal welfare, species conservation and habitat design are now part of the visit. The magazine tours newly refurbished facilities and others built from scratch, giving each animal a section of its own. Published by Magazine House.

In this issue

• Koalas: Taronga Zoo and the Currumbin sanctuary, with the singer Aimyon travelling to Australia to see them.
• Japanese macaques: six months following Punch, the infant at Ichikawa zoological and botanical garden who drew attention worldwide for clinging to a stuffed orangutan in order to fit into the troop.
• Asian elephants: the largest open enclosure in Japan, at Nonhoi Park in Toyohashi, designed so the herd can develop its social life.
• Jellyfish: the refurbishment of the Kamosui aquarium, a world reference in the field.
• Polar bears: Momota, newly introduced at the GAO aquarium in Oga.
• Pufferfish: close to a hundred species at the Kaikyokan in Shimonoseki.
• Giraffes: the glass-walled enclosure at the Saitama children's zoo, which lets you see them from head to foot.
• Sharks: the Churaumi aquarium in Okinawa, in a special instalment of Sho Sakurai's architecture series.
• Design: new ways of displaying living creatures at Chiba zoo, AOAO SAPPORO and the Itabashi children's zoo.
• Regular columns: Takashi Homma, Princess Akiko, Kashiyuka, Tomomi Nagayama, Keiko Kodera, Yoriko Hoshi's cat Nekomura and Chill CARS.
• 170 pages.

Original Japanese edition, without furigana.