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Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo: E-sports event cancelled after threats to staff and spectators

Splatoon 3 World Championship and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Online Challenge Final Stage at Nintendo Live have been postponed as well

Evening Standard

Nintendo Live 2024 in Tokyo has been canceled due to staff and attendees receiving threats ahead of the event

Several Mario Kart 8 and Splatoon 3 tournaments have also been postponed

GamesRadar

Megacities: life in the cities home to more than 10 million people – photo essay

From Tokyo to Cairo, 10 photographers around the world have captured a snapshot of life in their cities for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial

The Guardian - AU

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Tokyo taxi driver arrested, accused of running over pigeon

Atsushi Ozawa accused of using car to kill common pigeon, which vets said died of traumatic shock

The Guardian - AU

SI:AM | Another Star QB Goes Down

Trevor Lawrence is the latest high-profile quarterback to be injured this season.

Sports Illustrated

Tokyo Olympics sullied by bid-rigging, bribery trials more than 2 years after the Games closed

The bid-rigging trial around the Tokyo Olympics is playing out in a Japanese courtroom — more than two years after the Games closed — with advertising giant Dentsu and five other companies facing criminal charges

The Independent UK

China's government can't take a joke, so comedians living abroad censor themselves

Standup comedy is booming in China, and Chinese people living around the world are setting up local Mandarin-language comedy clubs as far afield as Tokyo, Madrid and New York

The Independent UK

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We Dare to Dream review – Waad al-Kateab’s uplifting portrait of Olympic refugee team

The For Sama director’s documentary follows the IOC Refugee Olympic Team to the Tokyo Games, and finds athletes as charismatic as they are courageous

The Guardian - UK

Shiro Kuramata’s multilayered cosmos on view in Tokyo

‘The Work of Shiro Kuramata: A Microcosmos of Memory’ is on view at Setagaya Art Museum until 28 January 2024

Wallpaper

Australia set to field record 12 boxers at Paris Games

Tokyo Olympics boxing bronze medallist Harry Garside will chase Australia's first gold medal in the sport after earning qualification with a Pacific Games win.

AAP

Tom Gale’s fall from Olympic dream to 766 days of injury hell

The Team GB high jumper reached the Tokyo 2020 Olympic final but that was his last competition for more than two years

The Independent UK

Six pack crack Paris boxing berths in Games gold rush

Six Australians have secured Paris Olympic boxing berths and they could be joined by six more after a bountiful Pacific Games campaign in Honiara.

AAP

We Dare to Dream review – powerful study of what refugee athletes did at the Olympics

This film from the Oscar-nominated director of For Sama follows athletes at the Tokyo Games and looks at how they’ve escaped persecution to reach sport’s top table

The Guardian - UK

A moment that changed me: I avoided mirrors – until I fell in love with clothes

In a department store in Tokyo, I realised buying stuff wasn’t the point. The thrill was in choosing the person you might become

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The Independent UK

Tom Daley targets Paris 2024 as he returns to British Swimming’s World Class Programme

The four-time Olympic medallist took two years out following the Tokyo Olympics

AAP

Garside opens Pacific Games boxing campaign with win

Tokyo Olympic boxing bronze medallist Harry Garside has qualification for Paris 2024 in sight after winning his quarter-final at the Pacific Games.

The Independent UK

Swap spring cherry blossom for autumn leaves for the most Insta-worthy Japan holiday

Tourists may flock in their millions in spring, but they’re missing a trick – fall foliage hits harder than the famous pink blooms, finds Chantelle Pattemore

Wallpaper

Olafur Eliasson inaugurates Azabudai Hills Gallery in Tokyo

Olafur Eliasson marks launch of Azabudai Hills Gallery, in Tokyo’s major new district, with a show of elemental strength

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Cinemablend

I Know Wonka Is Coming Out, But Somehow I Didn’t Have Timothée Chalamet Singing The Oompa Loompa Song On My Bingo Card

Timothée Chalamet quoted 1971's Charlie And The Chocolate Factory's "Oompa Loompa" song while attending the Tokyo Wonka premiere.

Fortune

Japan's new tallest skyscraper is also fat

Tokyo's Azabudai Hills, which formally opens Nov. 24, combines office, residential, hotel, and green spaces.

Wallpaper

Heatherwick Studio’s Azabudai Hills district launches as Tokyo’s newest city-in-a-city

Tokyo welcomes the Azabudai Hills district, designed by Heatherwick Studio and constructed as a city-in-a-city after over three decades of planning

The Hindu

India and Japan Converge in Southeast Asia

The conditions are prime for India and Japan to operationalise their shared vision for the Indo-Pacific

Louder

"Hardly likely to convert Dylan doubters, but it's an interesting curio all the same": Bob Dylan: The Complete Budokan 1978

Dylan's 1979 live album Bob Dylan At Budokan expanded, featuring two full shows from the famed Budokan arena in Tokyo

The Independent UK

Mallory Franklin: Kayak cross unknowns add to excitement ahead of Olympic debut

The 29-year-old won an Olympic silver medal for Team GB in Tokyo in the canoeing C1 event.

The Independent UK

A car struck a barricade near the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo. Police reportedly arrested the driver

Reports say Japanese police arrested a man whose vehicle crashed into a temporary barricade near the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo

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