Man detained after eight-hour standoff at building in Warabi and earlier shooting at nearby hospitalJapanese police have captured a suspected gunman who holed up at a post office and have rescued a member of staff who was held hostage, NHK television r…
もっと読む »Photographer Julie Glassberg has been documenting the misunderstood alternative culture based around brightly-coloured and neon-lit decorated trucks in JapanThere is often a distorted image built in people’s minds because the reality is unknown. For th…
もっと読む »Amid lack of acorns and beechnuts in natural habitats, bears have injured 158 people and killed two since AprilExperts in Japan have warned that bear attacks are rising at an unprecedented rate, as the animals struggle to find food in their natural hab…
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もっと読む »The operator Tepco says the workers came in contact with the wastewater when a hose came off accidentally and have been taken to hospital as a precautionFour workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant were splashed with water containing radioactive materia…
もっと読む »Robert Walls salutes Japan’s high-speed trains and says they have the edge over travel by carCathy Swann says that it may not be appropriate to have a high-speed rail network in our “small and densely populated island” (Letters, 19 October). The world’…
もっと読む »Judges reject requirement for trans people to remove reproductive organs for state-recognised gender changeA law requiring transgender people in Japan to undergo sterilisation surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional, the …
もっと読む »The rise in nuisance influencers comes as tourism numbers in Japan near their pre-pandemic levelsA rise in the antics of nuisance influencers in Japan, who are accused of duping train ticket collectors and pretending to be homeless to get cash, has cau…
もっと読む »Sofia Coppola’s idiosyncratic 2003 film made a huge impression on the young Johny Pitts. Two decades on, the writer and artist revisits the movie and the people who made it to investigate its enduring appeal and place in the early millenniumIf you’re a…
もっと読む »Ōizumi has welcomed foreign workers and boasts everything from Brazilian supermarkets to Turkish kebab shopsAn unassuming industrial town in Japan, far from the busy tourist hubs of Tokyo and Kyoto, is in the middle of an unprecedented social transform…
もっと読む »Booming resale market for cards featuring Pikachu in style of Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait With Grey Felt HatThey are more commonly associated with pop concerts or football matches than art exhibitions. But rows of ticket touts have become a familiar sight…
もっと読む »Concerns over fuel capacity with wrestlers onboard led to national carrier taking the ‘unusual step’ of transferring sumo rikishi to another flightJapan’s flagship carrier has been forced to lay on an extra flight at short notice after concluding that …
もっと読む »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 …
もっと読む »Also, a newly restored first world war masterpiece and a 400-year-old portrait of one of the world’s first professional female artists – all in your weekly dispatchJapan: Myths to MangaSomething genuinely innovative – a proper art historical show for t…
もっと読む »Move comes after assassination of former PM Shinzo Abe and growing criticism of fundraising activitiesJapan’s government has asked a court to strip the Unification church of its status, amid growing criticism of the group’s fundraising activities after…
もっと読む »Young V&A, LondonJapan’s rich folklore has hugely influenced movies, manga, anime and video games, as this intriguing show proves. Children will love it – but adults should bring kneepadsAn hour into this enchanting exhibition, I could have done wi…
もっと読む »Invented by the Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, the rainproof overcoat first went on sale in Glasgow in 1823On 12 October 1823 a shop in Glasgow sold the very first rainproof overcoat made of a new material. Previously waterproof clothing had been …
もっと読む »Kyoto to sell its obsolete manhole covers in a bid to cash in on the public’s fascination with the decorated piecesThey are heavy disks of wrought iron that separate us from our subterranean sewage, but in Japan, they are also highly coveted works of a…
もっと読む »The enigmatic Japanese photographer, who took some of the 20th century’s most compelling images, is finally getting his first retrospective in the UK. ‘Yes, it’s a bit late,’ he tells our writerIt isn’t easy to get to know Daidō Moriyama. The Japanese …
もっと読む »Official calls for use of hunting guns in towns to be made legal amid rise in number of marauding bearsThree bears that snuck into a tatami mat factory in northern Japan and were holed up inside for nearly a day have been captured and killed, according…
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