Man admitted to Japan’s 2025 World Expo with 85-year-old ticket

found 2025 › May › 08 (Thu) @ 05:40 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Collector of Expo memorabilia had a ticket to the 1940 Grand International Exposition of Japan, which was postponed indefinitely due to the war

A man was admitted to the World Expo in Japan using a ti…

Tom Cruise beams as he joins chic co-star Hayley Atwell for Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning press conference in Tokyo

found 2025 › May › 07 (Wed) @ 14:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The Hollywood star, 61, looked dapper as he joined his co-stars to promote the highly-anticipated eighth film in the franchise at Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Tom Cruise is in high spirits as he joins glamorous Hayley Atwell for the Japanese premiere of Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning amid his new romance with Ana De Armas

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 17:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The Hollywood favourite, 62, was joined by co-stars Hayley Atwell and Simon Pegg for the red carpet at Tokyo's Metropolitan Government Building, ahead of the film's Cannes premiere on May 14.

F1 superfan 'found dead at Tokyo hotel after horror blaze' following the Japan Grand Prix - 'just hours before her flight home'

found 2025 › May › 06 (Tue) @ 12:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Amanda Borges da Silva, 30, had travelled to Japan from Brazil in order to watch the Grand Prix and had intended to fly home on the following Thursday evening.

We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild architectural world of Japan’s love hotels

found 2025 › May › 05 (Mon) @ 15:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks in

Do…

Snake on a train line: Japan’s busiest bullet train route brought to a halt

found 2025 › May › 01 (Thu) @ 03:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Outage occurred between Maibara and Gifu-Hashima stations after the snake appeared to have climbed an electricity pole

Japan’s busiest bullet train line was brought to a halt on Wednesday after a metr…

Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

found 2025 › Apr › 30 (Wed) @ 08:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal life

In Japanese writer Sayaka Murata’s fiction, characters do perverse thi…

No more ‘subway spaghetti’! New Yorkers adjust to first new transit map in 50 years

found 2025 › Apr › 28 (Mon) @ 12:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The first major overhaul since 1979 seeks to simplify the map’s old illegible squiggles – but faces opposition from change-averse New Yorkers

The New York City subway map has always been tricky to dec…

Team GB legend Paula Radcliffe, 51, opens up on emotional return as she sets sights on Six Star glory ahead of Boston Marathon

found 2025 › Apr › 20 (Sun) @ 14:55 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: A decade on, she has returned to the roads to chase down her remaining stars - crossing Tokyo off her list last month and now lining up in Boston on Monday.

Bog standard? Tokyo’s spectacular public toilets – in pictures

found 2025 › Apr › 19 (Sat) @ 16:35 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Public toilets are rarely thought of fondly – that is unless you’re talking about those in Tokyo’s Shibuya district. Commissioned in 2019, creatives including renowned architects Shigeru Ban and the …