Japan
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Shinzo Abe’s killer sentenced to life in prison over shooting of Japanese former PM
Abe was killed by Tetsuya Yamagami in 2022 while campaigning in the city of Nara, a shooting that shocked Japa…
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Cosmic Princess Kaguya! review – trippy anime adapted from Japanese folk dives into virtual reality popworld
Emojis explode all over the screen in this hyperactive adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a princess who…
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Chinese tourists shun Japan in wake of Taiwan invasion row
Number of high-spending Chinese tourists visiting Japan halved last month after PM said an invasion of Taiwan …
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Japan’s prime minister calls snap election as approval ratings ride high
Sanae Takaichi tells senior figures in ruling Liberal Democratic party she plans to dissolve lower house on 23…
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15 years after Fukushima, Japan prepares to restart the world’s biggest nuclear plant
A return to nuclear power is at the heart of Japan’s energy policy but, in the wake of the 2011 disaster, resi…
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Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser seeks meaning in pointless Japanese role-play drama
Fraser plays a hapless Tokyo-based actor working for a firm that offers bespoke therapeutic role-play services…
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Cymbal of unity? South Korea and Japan leaders bash out K-pop hits after summit talks
South Korean president Lee Jae Myung had his work cut out, picking up his drumsticks alongside Japanese PM San…
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Escape review – notorious Japanese revolutionary tells story of country’s most wanted criminal
Director Masao Adachi – formerly of the Japanese Red Army – on the infamous Satoshi Kirishima, who went on the…
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‘Yamagata is ramen’: Japan’s city of noodle fiends revels in ‘capital’ status
Noodle dish is nation’s favourite comfort food and source of civic pride – but it has health risksThe road to …
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‘Tuna King’ pays record £2.4m for 243kg giant bluefin at Tokyo auction – video
The head of the sushi restaurant chain Sushizanmai bid 510.3m yen (£2.4m) for a single bluefin tuna, the highe…
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Sega co-founder David Rosen dies aged 95
Rosen, who led Sega from the 1960s into the 90s and who died on Christmas Day, was a hugely important figure i…
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‘Tuna King’ pays record £2.4m for giant bluefin at Tokyo auction
Kiyoshi Kimura will turn prized 243kg fish into sushi rolls selling for £2.4o at his restaurant chainA sushi e…
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‘A place of darkness and light’: the uninhabited Japanese island that became a rabbit paradise
Once host to a poisonous gas research facility, Okunoshima is now an Instagram-friendly tourist destinationThe…
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Female MPs in Japan seek to flush out sexism with call for more toilets
PM Sanae Takaichi joins petition asking for better facilities for women to match improved representationNearly…
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Demon Slayer economics: how the anime juggernaut became a saviour
Once underground art form now props up slumped box office sales and is used by governments to build soft power…
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‘People are wrestling with the burden’: Japan pivots to focus on nuclear power ‘maximisation’ alongside renewables
Post-Fukushima nuclear closures of dozens of reactors forced the country to rely heavily on imported fossil fu…
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Bells and whistles: how our reporter prepared for visiting bear hotspot – video
The town of Osaki has been making the headlines as a bear hotspot as Japan reels from a year of record ursine …
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SoftBank to acquire DigitalBridge for $4bn in move to deepen ties to AI
Acquisition would further expand SoftBank’s investments in artificial intelligence as it tries to center itsel…
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Japanese town reeling from year of record bear encounters
Bears are becoming a growing problem in some of Japan’s urban areas as they are forced to venture further in s…
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Boy, 5, killed after arm trapped in ski resort travelator in Japan
Hinata Goto reportedly fell as he was trying to get off the 30-metre-long walkwayA five-year-old boy has died …