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Stock market today:

Shares are mostly lower in Asia, with Tokyo's markets closed for a national holiday

The Independent UK

Protesters demand that Japan save 1000s of trees by revising a design plan for a popular Tokyo park

Dozens of demonstrators against a divisive plan to redevelop a beloved Tokyo park are forming a human chain outside the Japanese Education Ministry to demand a revision

The Independent UK

Tokyo's threatened Jingu Gaien park placed on 'Heritage Alert' list by conservancy body

Tokyo’s Jingu Gaien park area has been placed on a “Heritage Alert” list by a conservancy body that assesses international monuments and historic sites

The Independent UK

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Britain’s Olympic success will be judged on athlete happiness – not just medals – at Paris 2024

Great Britain won 64 medals and finished fourth in the medal table at the Tokyo Olympics

The Independent UK

India fencer Bhavani Devi’s Parisian dream

Bhavani Devi, India's first Olympic fencer, turns 30. She is training in France under Christian Bauer, a world-renowned coach. She has won gold at the Commonwealth championships and bronze at the Asian championships. She is motivated by her peers and is determined to do better at the Paris Olympics. She…

The Hindu

Evil Does Not Exist review – Ryu Hamaguchi’s enigmatic eco-parable eschews easy explanation

Venice film festival: Compositional quirks and unhurried direction turn this tale of a Tokyo company buying up land near a pristine lake into a complex and mysterious drama

The Guardian - UK

Japan wrestles with its views on ‘outside people’ amid population crisis

Low birthrate and ageing population pose ‘an urgent risk to society’, but can opening its borders to skilled overseas workers fix the problem?

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Japan marks 100 years since the devastating Great Kanto Quake, with disaster drills nationwide

Japan's prime minister has staged a televised a disaster drill in which he declared a fictional state of emergency based on a real-life earthquake that devastated the capital region a century ago

The Independent UK

Tokyo braces for another ‘big one’ on 100th anniversary of deadly quake

Japan has learned key lessons from the 1923 earthquake that killed 105,000 people, but rapid growth of the capital has raised the stakes

The Guardian - UK

Tokyo Story review – Yasujiro Ozu’s exquisite family tale stands the test of time

An elderly couple visit their grownup children in this stunning work of art from 1953, now re-released for its 70th anniversary

The Guardian - UK

Japan's PM visits fish market, vows to help fisheries hit by China ban over Fukushima water release

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has sampled seafood and talked to workers at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market on a visit to assess the impact of China’s ban on Japanese seafood in reaction to the release of wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi plant

The Independent UK

Lily Miyazaki hopes US Open main draw qualification shows she belongs at the top

The Tokyo-born Brit had a wild card for Wimbledon last year, but has now reached the main draw of a grand slam under her own steam for the first time.

The Independent UK

100-year-old ginkgo trees could get the axe under disputed plan for Tokyo's Jingu Gaien park

A few hundred have turned out to protect historic century-old ginkgo trees that are likely to be chopped down under a controversial redevelopment for a beloved Tokyo park district

The Independent UK

Behind the scenes with Sofia Coppola: memories from a life in film

The director shares the inspirations and experiences that shaped films from Lost in Translation to her forthcoming biopic, Priscilla

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‘We’ll go to the promised land’: how Patty Mills inspired Boomers bronze age

A moving new documentary tells how inspired leadership and vibrant team culture helped end the Australian men’s basketball team’s 65-year medal drought

WEKU

Worries over seafood safety mount as Japan releases Fukushima water into the Pacific

Local fishermen and the government of neighboring China are among the critics of Japan's decision to release water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean.

Radio France Internationale

Pacific neighbours slam Japan ahead of Fukushima wastewater discharge

Opposition is gathering pace against Japan's environmental policy in the Pacific, as Tokyo prepares to release wastewater from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean.

USA Today Sports Media Group

PHOTOS: Best images from Australia’s 78-74 exhibition win over France

The best photos from Australia's 78-74 exhibition win over France.

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Inside the travelling exhibition celebrating 125 years of luggage brand Rimowa

From celebrity suitcases to rare special editions, Rimowa’s ‘Seit 1898’ exhibition catalogues over a century of the German luggage brand, making stops in Tokyo, New York, Shanghai and Cologne

Al Jazeera

Leaders of US, South Korea and Japan hail summit as ‘turning point’

Countries pledge to deepen partnership at historic Camp David talks, while condemning actions of China and North Korea.

Guitar World

For 30 years, this Japanese guitarist has dedicated his life to becoming Jimmy Page – watch the first trailer for Mr. Jimmy, a documentary about his incredible story

See the remarkable tale of Akio Sakurai, who recreated Led Zeppelin concerts note-for-note in small Tokyo clubs, until a meeting with Page changed his life forever

Evening Standard

Room with a view: the world’s greatest hotel suites

At these sublime hotels, the main event isn’t what’s inside your room. Rather, it’s the magnificent outdoors — ready for savouring straight from bed...

The Guardian - UK

‘Monster koi carp surface like scaly whales’: how I holidayed in Japan – without leaving London

Why travel 6,000 miles to visit a Kyoto garden or a Tokyo diner? Britain’s capital has it all

Cycling Weekly

Changing of the guard: Meet the Great Britain track cycling coaches chasing gold medals

British Cycling replaced all four track head coaches last year. Here's how they're masterminding a path to Olympic titles

The Independent UK

Tom Pidcock wins mountain bike cross-country at World Championships

Pidcock adds the world mountain bike title to the Olympic crown he took in Tokyo and the cyclo-cross world title he won in 2022.

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