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Square Enix announces Final Fantasy XIV 6.5 release date

Square Enix announced the Final Fantasy XIV 6.5 release date during the MMO game’s Tokyo Game Show live letter, and the date is pretty close

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Opponents of a controversial Tokyo park redevelopment file a petition urging government to step in

A growing movement opposing a highly controversial redevelopment of a historic Tokyo park has submitted a fresh petition in its campaign to get the national government to intervene and revise the plan to save more trees

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Stock market today: Asian shares mostly lower after Wall St has its worst week in 6 months

Shares in Asia are mostly lower, with only Tokyo advancing, after Wall Street wheezed to more losses with its worst week in six months

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Kim Kardashian wears Chanel Barbie necklace in new Super Bowl ad with Usher

The Skims founder bought the Chanel necklace from their 1995 spring/summer collection in Tokyo

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17 photos of pandas proving that they are just the cutest

Pandas are the most adorable creatures. There, we said it.

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Shane Kelly buoyed by Australian track cycling growth

After the disaster of the Tokyo Olympics, the Australian track cycling program is showing promising signs ahead of 2024's Paris Games.

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Japan swelters through ‘abnormal’ autumn, with warnings of more heat to come

After experiencing a record-breaking number of ‘extremely hot’ days in summer, the unusually high temperatures are due to continue

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Japan calls on China to remove buoy near disputed islands

Japan and China have been in a long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands that Beijing calls the Diaoyu.

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Japanese crown prince to visit Vietnam to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations

Japanese Crown Prince Akishino, the younger brother of Emperor Naruhito, is on his way to Vietnam to mark the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries, as Tokyo pushes to deepen ties with developing and emerging nations to tackle regional and global challenges

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Gachaco Announces Battery Sharing Trial Campaign In Tokyo

Gachaco has announced a battery sharing trial campaign in Tokyo, wherein 30 participants will get to use the Honda Benly e: and EM1 e:.

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Stock market today:

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

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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

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

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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…

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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

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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

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The Guardian - 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

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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

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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.

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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 Guardian - 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

The Guardian - AU

‘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

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