Cities
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Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as world’s most populous city, according to UN
The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisa…
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Tokyo offers toilet tours amid flush of excitement over Wim Wenders’s Oscar hopeful
Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect DaysJap…
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Low emission zones are improving health, studies show
Review of research finds particularly clear evidence that LEZs in cities reduce heart and circulatory problems…
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‘I’m afraid to have children’: fear of an older future in Japan and South Korea
As birth and fertility rates fall, there is official concern about the economic impact of a declining and agei…
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Tokyo’s state of emergency – in pictures
As Japan considers lifting state-of-emergency conditions in many regions this week and the country inches towa…
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Disabled people brew up a storm in Osaka’s former slum
Award-winning brewery start-up helps ex-addicts and other ‘unemployables’ change gear Building a brewery in an…
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‘The Lost Metropolis’: 1930s Tokyo street life – in pictures
Kineo Kuwabara captured these rich images of everyday life the city during the buildup to the second world war…
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Michael Wolf obituary
Photographer who concentrated on the high-density architecture of Hong KongAfter moving on from a successful c…