Consortium including company that runs Tokyo’s renowned metro system to take over from China’s MTR in MayBusiness updates – liveThe company behind Tokyo’s renowned metro system has won a deal to take over the operation of London’s Elizabeth line, repla…
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum whose radical ideas and management style put her in the cultural firing lineInvited to appear on Desert Island Discs in October 1991, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, who has died aged 85, spoke with the cautious air of…
Sampuru are a restaurant staple – a 3D version of menus. And such is the precision craftsmanship in their creation, they cost far more than the real thingThe silver-stripe round herring is a delicate fish with a metallic band along its flanks. It can o…
Politicians and planners are allowing the Thames to become an urban canyon – greed always seems to win out A Japanese developer has announced it will demolish a new tower of luxury flats in Tokyo it was weeks from completing. The reason? The 10-storey …
Six airports put UK capital ahead of Tokyo and Dubai, with Heathrow second-worst global airport for climate impactThe planes taking off and landing at London’s six airports expose the city’s inhabitants to the equivalent of 3.23m cars’ worth of harmful…
Evil Does Not Exist, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, is about community’s fight against ‘glamping’ developmentA Japanese eco-drama about a lakeside community’s resistance to a corporate “glamping” development in their beautiful unspoilt village has won …