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Pompo: The Cinephile review – a cliched manga love letter to movie-making
Takayuki Hirao’s animated feature is set in the fictional Nyallywood, where a B-movie producer in pigtails and…
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Naoya Inoue wants Paul Butler fight in bid to unify world bantamweight titles
Japanese boxer wants to fight Briton ‘any time and anywhere’Inoue is currently the best pound-for-pound boxer …
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Weather tracker: Japan swelters as ‘heat dome’ pushes up temperatures
Trapped warm air and high pressure result in country recording temperature of 40C for first time in the month …
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Japanese told to turn off lights to save energy amid Tokyo heatwave
Extreme temperatures forecast for capital this week after premature end to rainy seasonJapan’s government has …
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「書き出し」で読者の想像力や興味をそそることができなければ、読まれない小説となる。それがどんな高い評価をうけても。
文学作品がこの世でいちばんニュースになる機会は芥川賞だと思う。 と、書くと、「誰かの小説の書き出し？ 」 と考える人もいるはず。 そうです、そう思ったあなたは文学に精通している方です。 この文章、吉本ばななの「キッチン」…
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Garbage island no more: how one Japanese community triumphed over a toxic waste dump
Teshima – site of Japan’s worst case of illegal dumping of industrial waste – was saved by locals who fought r…