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Japan’s Empress Masako is elegant as she marks 100th anniversary of Tokyo’s Meiji shrine 

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Japan’s Empress Masako is elegant in a face mask and white ensemble as she takes part in a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine Japan’s Empress Masako, 56, visited the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on Wednesday  The wife of Emperor Naruhito was sombre in an all-white ensemble The Meiji Shrine was … Read more

Birds Of Tokyo’s Ian Kenny reveals painful divorce and mental health spiral inspired song Good Lord

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‘I wasn’t in the best shape’: Birds Of Tokyo’s Ian Kenny reveals painful divorce and mental health spiral led him to write hit song Good Lord By Monique Friedlander For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:38 BST, 3 May 2020 | Updated: 01:39 BST, 3 May 2020 Birds Of Tokyo frontman Ian Kenny has revealed the … Read more

MARTIN SAMUEL: Without the athletes Tokyo’s race was run

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It was in the Sky Banquet rooms on the 47th floor of the Keio Plaza hotel in Shinjuku last October that British visitors became fully acquainted with the Japanese concept of shoganai. Eddie Jones, coach of England’s rugby team, used the word numerous times to explain the local attitude to the incoming typhoon. Shoganai, roughly … Read more

Coronavirus Japan: Tokyo’s bid to avoid embarrassment is behind reluctance to cancel the Olympics

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2020 OLYMPIC GAMES   The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more