Osaka –

David Jack, the jazz and cricket-loving British founder of Kansai Time Out, died of a stroke on Sept. 17, according to family and friends. He was 83.

David Jack, seen here at a restaurant in Osaka in 2020, helped found Kansai Time Out, a magazine that gave many writers their start.
David Jack, seen here at a restaurant in Osaka in 2020, helped found Kansai Time Out, a magazine that gave many writers their start.

KTO, as the monthly magazine was known, was published between 1977 and 2009, and was one of the region’s most influential and detailed sources of information for the international community — and the only outlet to focus on Kansai specifically before the internet came around.