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Guardian Tokyo week

A week-long series exploring Tokyo's strange dual nature as the world’s riskiest city and one of its most resilient

16 June 2019

  • How has life changed for Tokyoites?

    Your thoughts on Guardian Tokyo Week

  • Akira

    The 'year of Akira': the film's vision of 2019, compared with today's Tokyo – in pictures

15 June 2019

  • @Masaunti and his wife in matching clothes in Harajuku, Tokyo

    'We think it's cute': the Tokyo husband and wife who match outfits

  • A young woman hovers in the doorway of one of Kabukicho’s information centres, which give recommendations for bars and sex shops.

    Schoolgirls for sale: why Tokyo struggles to stop the 'JK business'

14 June 2019

  • A man walks down the street in Sanya.

    The Tokyo neighbourhood where people come to disappear

  • M A Joy Tokyo manga

    'Then I saw RuPaul's Drag Race': coming out as X-gender in Tokyo – a manga

  • ‘Commuter hell’ ... people on the Tokyo subway.

    Game of thrones: commuter sells seat on crowded Tokyo train

  • Tokyo

    Has Tokyo reached ‘peak city’?

13 June 2019

  • four megarivers that converge on the city: the Arakawa, Sumidagawa, Edogawa and Tamagawa

    A city built on water: the hidden rivers under Tokyo's concrete and neon

  • Yumi Ishikawa, a 32-year-old actress and writer, wears a pair of blue New Balance sneakers while posing for photos Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Tokyo. As the world enters the #MeToo era, Japanese women are saying, "No," to high heels in the rising #KuToo movement, a play on the words for "shoes" and "agony." Ishikawa, who started the movement, handed the labor ministry a petition in protest this week. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

    'There are almost no women in power': Tokyo's female workers demand change

12 June 2019

  • A warden stands in a solitary cell area in Tokyo detention centre.

    Carlos Ghosn's former home: inside Tokyo's notorious detention centre

  • Student demonstrators and Tokyo riot police do a tug of war over a demonstrator as police try to take him into custody in Shinjuku, October 1969.

    Can 'guerrilla picnics' end Tokyo's 50-year war on public space?

  • A coffee shop owner in her late 80s. She opens her cafe in Jashumon, Ogikubo, most days

    Senior staff: Tokyo's oldest workers – in pictures

  • Blank 3D illustration brochure or magazine isolated on gray.<br>Guardian Weekly Cover 14 June

    Tokyo dawn – is the world’s biggest city finally opening up? Inside the 14 June edition of Guardian Weekly

  • これは”もしも”の話じゃない－100年に一度の震災に備える東京

  • 'This is not a "what if" story': Tokyo braces for the earthquake of a century

11 June 2019

  • Depthscraper – an ‘underground skyscraper’ designed to address the issue of earthquakes in Japan, published in 1931.

    Unbuilt Tokyo: 'depthscrapers' and a million-person pyramid

  • An elderly man walks home at the Atago public housing complex after getting off the bus.

    How Tokyo's suburban housing became vast ghettoes for the old

  • Corporate culture in Japan involves strict hierarchy and long hours that have led to cases of death from overwork – so some 'salarimen' started an underground rap battle to let off steam, express themselves ... and say things to each other they never could in the office

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    Salariman rap battle: where Tokyo businessmen say what they really think of each other – video

  • 日本語、英語、中国語、韓国語で観光客に娯楽を提示したり、道案内をしたり、観光地を推薦することができるヒューマノイドロボットのArisa

    ロボットと復興：東京2020大会は1964年の東京オリンピックを上回れるか

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