Japan
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‘Opening the hidden door within us’: how Exit 8 took a simple game to purgatory
Genki Kawamura’s eerie new film expands on a haunting video game that leaves players lost in endless subway tu…
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Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs – podcast
Endo Kazutoshi spent decades climbing to the top of the culinary world, only for a devastating fire to threate…
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Wildfires tear across northern Japan – video
Residents of hundreds of homes in Iwate, northern Japan, have been ordered to evacuate after wildfires broke o…
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Exit 8 review – Escher-esque subway station corridor leads to disquieting psychological mystery
A commuter’s entrapment provides a taut, unnerving and rare example of an adaptation that holds close to the v…
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Mud-rich coastline made 2011 Japan tsunami far more destructive, study finds
Analysis of video footage reveals how wave changed as it travelled over mud-rich rice paddies, exerting more f…
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‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution
Protests are growing against moves to change Japan’s ‘supreme law’, a document written by the US that is now b…
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George Ariyoshi, first US governor of Asian American descent, dies aged 100
Democrat led Hawaii from 1973 to 1986, coinciding with the party’s rise to power in the stateGeorge R Ariyoshi…
- Recycling, Wales, Japan, Environment, Australia news, Victoria, Plastics, Waste, Germany, Ethical and green living, UK news
One Japanese town sorts waste into 40 different categories. How does Australia’s recycling compare?
Kerbside wheelie bins have been used in Australia since the 1980s but the recycling rate is stuck at 44%. Will…
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Japan tsunami alerts downgraded following powerful earthquake off northern coast – as it happened
People in affected areas are still urged to evacuate after quake registering 7.7 magnitude Australian official…
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The Guardian view on Japan’s cherry blossom: when spring slips out of time | Editorial
A 1,200-year dataset shows the ‘peak bloom’ is arriving earlier. Global heating is unsettling nature’s rhythms…
- US-Israel war on Iran, Lena Dunham, Japan, Environment, Marine life, World news, Whales, Middle East and North Africa, Iran, Culture
Six great reads: Iran’s social media memes, an abandoned department store and a 1,200-year-old record of cherry blossoms
Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days C…
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‘How do I end a call?’: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones
Elderly people take advantage of courses on how to navigate mobile devices and avoid ‘analogue isolation’It’s …
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American Youtuber Johnny Somali sentenced to jail in South Korea over ‘comfort women’ statue stunt
Johnny Somali, 25, caused outrage after filming himself kissing a statue commemorating wartime sex slavesAn Am…
- Climate science, Japan, Environment, Climate crisis, Trees and forests, World news, Plants, Asia Pacific
After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death
Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate changeEven in his fin…
- Self-driving cars, AI (artificial intelligence), Japan, Technology, Automotive industry, Business, Nissan, World news, Technology sector, Manufacturing sector
Nissan turnaround plan pins hopes on ‘AI-defined vehicles’
Japanese carmaker will add self-driving abilities to 90% of cars in future and cut a fifth of its modelsBusine…
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Japan confirms release of more oil reserves as concern over energy crisis grows
It will be the second time Japan, which is heavily dependent on Middle East oil, has dipped into its strategic…
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New Zealand ‘comfort women’ statue could jeopardise diplomatic relations, Japan says
Planned statue symbolising the women forced by Japan into sexual slavery during the second world war has raise…
- Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Martin Scorsese, Japan, Culture, Religion, Film, Christianity
Silence took Martin Scorsese nearly 30 years to make – and it shows
The period drama set in feudal Japan is an epic of divine proportion, tackling grand questions of faith and co…
- Dating, Japan, Women, Marriage, Family, Life and style, Society, Inequality, World news, Asia Pacific
When Suzuki met Suzuki: why a Tokyo dating agency is matching couples with the same name
Japan’s ban on married couples having different surnames has prompted an event to highlight people’s reluctanc…
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The Guardian view on Japan’s hidden century: cheap money, global risk | Editorial
Ultra-low rates turned the yen into easy cash for bankers. But the carry trade now binds global markets to dec…