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Displaced kids get a helping hand in Toyoko area of Shinjuku

For the past several years, many young people with nowhere else to go have hung out in the Toyoko area of the Kabukicho nightlife district in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, where they are sometimes entangled in violence and sexual assault.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Oct 22, 2022

Yen Falls To 32-Year Low Against The Dollar

It’s one of the many effects of the rise in interest rates in the United States: The Japanese yen has fallen to a 32-year low versus the dollar. The government in Tokyo will not allow its 10-year yield to rise above 0.25% — it’s a government finance policy mandate —…

Benzinga · Oct 22, 2022

Japan's wine tipplers see glass half empty as weak yen pushes prices higher

The weak yen forced Suzy Iwamoto to raise prices on imported wines at her bar and bottleshop in Tokyo by about 10% last month, and she fears more hikes may be inevitable after the yen plumbed levels this week that were last seen 32 years ago.

Reuters · Oct 21, 2022

Peter McGrail out to address 'unfinished business' in Japan after Tokyo fight confirmed

Peter McGrail has secured a place on the undercard of the huge undisputed showdown between Naoya Inoue and Paul Butler in Tokyo

Liverpool Echo · Oct 18, 2022

'A Turning Point': Japanese Fashion after Kenzo, Miyake

At Tokyo's prestigious Bunka Fashion College, students concentrate in silence that is broken only by the sound of scissors and sewing machines as they strive to emulate the global success of alumni like Kenzo. The loss of greats Kenzo Takada and Issey Miyake heralds the end of a fashion era,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 18, 2022

Many happy returns

Overseas tourists and other visitors walk along Nakamisedori street in the Asakusa district of Tokyo on Sunday. The area bustled on the first weekend following the easing of border control restrictions imposed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, with people snapping photographs in front of Sensoji temple's Kaminarimon gate and…

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Oct 17, 2022

Japan leader sends offerings to controversial Tokyo shrine

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has donated religious offerings to a Tokyo shrine viewed by Chinese and Koreans as a symbol of Japanese wartime militarism, though he did not visit it in person

The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2022

Tokyo-style racing circuit with fast electric go-karts to open in UK

The £2 million attraction is the first of its kind in the north of England

Wales Online · Oct 16, 2022

4th bribery-related arrest warrant looming for 2020 Games exec

Prosecutors plan to serve a fourth arrest warrant on Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive board member of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, on new allegations that he took a bribe related to sales of stuffed toys of the 2020 Games' mascot characters, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

The Japan News/Yomiuri · Oct 16, 2022

Revolutionary Manga ‘The Rose of Versailles’ Turns 50

Japanese manga "The Rose of Versailles" features elaborate outfits, palace intrigues and passionate romances set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, but it also has its own revolutionary credentials. The series, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with events including an exhibition currently on in Tokyo, was…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 14, 2022