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Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

By Krishna N. Das, Aftab Ahmed, Shivangi Acharya, Laurie Chen, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Shaun McKenna, Alex K.T. Martin, Moeka Iida and Yukana Inoue

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Japan’s summer music festivals are feeling the heat in more ways than one

By Shaun McKenna and Patrick St. Michel

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Tokyo underground: The city beneath our feet

By Shaun McKenna and Alex K.T. Martin

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The sweaty pleasure of Japan’s inconvenient art

By Shaun McKenna and Thu-Huong Ha

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What does climate change sound like in Okinawa?

By Shaun McKenna and Chris Russell

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[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

By Shaun McKenna and Oscar Boyd

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Sakura stories revisited: Getting in the mood for hanami

By Shaun McKenna, Jason Jenkins and Alyssa I. Smith

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A lawsuit puts alleged racial profiling by police on trial in Japan

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[Rebroadcast] Traveling Okinawa with a broken heart

By Lance Henderstein and Shaun McKenna

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A young 3/11 survivor and her vow to protect the ocean

By Mara Budgen and Miku Narisawa

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Tokyo Stock Exchange wants stocks to be affordable for the average investor

The Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Nihonbashi. The exchange wants companies to lower the entry cost of investing in their shares.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

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