Tokyo Olympics announces new start date following coronavirus postponement soranews24.com

Tokyo’s governor hopes having firm start date will allow athletes and organizers to better focus on preparing for the delayed Games.
Up until the middle of March, organizers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympi…

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Karaoke warning in Tokyo amid calls for Covid-19 state of emergency in Japan www.theguardian.com

“It’s not true that the government is planning on declaring a state of emergency from April 1,” Suga said.
Nishimura said he did not believe Japan had reached the point where a state of emergency was…

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Harsh, blurred and brilliant: the great Daidō Moriyama – in pictures www.theguardian.com

He is one of Japan’s most renowned photographers, a giant of the Provoke movement whose compelling images take a disturbing view of city life and the chaos of existenceAll photographs © Daidō Moriyama

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Learn how to cook staple Japanese dishes with actor Hiro Mizushima【Videos】 soranews24.com

Then why not learn together with Japanese actor and media personality Hiro Mizushima!
Rather, in his videos, he started from the very basics like cooking rice and making traditional Japanese dashi st…

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Kyoto hotel offers space for guest-artist exchanges english.kyodonews.net

The Kyoto Shimbun - Dec 20, 2019 - 19:41 | All, Lifestyle, ArtsA facility accommodating hotel rooms and artist residences has opened in Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto as a space for exchanges between hotel guest…

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From ‘I Told You So’ to Hopeful, Japanese People React To 2020 Olympic Postponement blog.gaijinpot.com

By Amelie Marie Nishizawa Mar 31, 2020 4 min readThe flame for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games arrived in Japan from Greece just in time to be extinguished.
This was the perfect opportunity to parody To…

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Mesh and paper-pulp partitions feature inside Nanjing's Shiwu store www.dezeen.com

Mesh panels dipped in paper pulp, polycarbonate and OSB timber merge to form the textured interior of this lifestyle store in Nanjing, China, designed by architecture studio CATS.
Panels of expanded …

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Line survey finds 7% of users in Tokyo have at least one coronavirus symptom www.reuters.com

FILE PHOTO: The logo of free messaging app Line is pictured on a smartphone in this photo illustration taken in Tokyo, Japan September 23, 2014.
REUTERS/Toru HanaiTOKYO (Reuters) - A survey of Line C…

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Man Makes Excellent Gundam Themed Masks kotaku.com

Screenshot : GekidanKotaku East East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond.
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In what must be the oddest Japanese corporate announcement ever, comedian Egashira 2:50 reveals that kotaku.com

Screenshot : SegaIn what must be the oddest Japanese corporate announcement ever, comedian Egashira 2:50 reveals that Sega Games and Sega Interactive are merging to become...Sega.
Egashira 2 :50 says…

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