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6 Issues To Do in Tokyo This Week: August 22-28

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The month of August is slowly however certainly flying previous our eyes. However fret not, the summer time spirit just isn’t going away anytime quickly. Benefit from the season as if it is your final with these cool summer time festivals, reside performances and extra.

1. Harajuku Omotesando Tremendous Yosakoi

The pageant will characteristic a crew efficiency dance contest consisting of 6,000 performers from round Japan competing for first place. There might be a parade alongside the avenue inside Yoyogi Park that hyperlinks the park to Shibuya from 10am to 6pm on each days and a parade down Omotesando Dori

Competitors Goals to Enhance Alcohol Consumption in Japan

21/08/2022samura

On this week’s information roundup, we have a look at the federal government’s marketing campaign to spice up alcohol consumption amongst younger individuals in Japan. Now we have the newest on the Olympic bribery scandal, Covid-19 and the Unification Church whereas additionally paying our respects to trailblazing designer Hanae Mori. In sport, Takefusa Kubo scores on his Actual Sociedad debut, Saki Baba wins the US Ladies’s Beginner golf championship and Shohei Ohtani hits extra house runs.

Younger Individuals Inspired to Drink Extra

The youthful technology in Japan is not as excited by ingesting booze as their dad and mom. Whereas

Journey information: Vacationers misbehave in Italy and drought reveals misplaced ruins in UK and Spain

20/08/2022samura

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(CNN) — In journey information this week: The continued drought has revealed misplaced ruins within the UK and Spain. Easter Island and Napoleon’s Atlantic exile of St. Helena have lastly reopened to guests. And there is extra misbehavior in Italy, as vacationers surf in Venice’s Grand Canal and journey scooters by way of Pompeii.

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International locations around the globe have

Highlight: Mika Yamamoto — The Tragic Story of a Heroic Journalist

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On today (August 20) 10 years in the past, Mika Yamamoto and her boyfriend and colleague Kazutaka Sato had been touring in a van with the Free Syrian Military in Aleppo, Syria’s second largest metropolis. The couple had been overlaying the civil conflict within the space for Nippon TV once they had been abruptly caught in the course of an armed battle between Syrian opposition and pro-government forces. Yamamoto was shot within the neck. Tragically, her loss of life was confirmed at a close-by hospital shortly after. She was simply 45.

“Mika was vastly respected amongst journalists

Recipe: Tuna Tataki And Mango Salad

19/08/2022samura

Who would’ve thought that tuna and mango would match this nicely?!

Tuna — the fish king and all-time favourite dish to all Japanese, is one addition to your day by day menu that makes a distinction each time you style it. However in summer time, it could exceed your expectations — and it simply wants a mango to cook dinner an awesome cooling-off salad, good for the new season.

That is certainly one of my favourite recipes to make in the course of the summer time season. It does not take lengthy to arrange so you do not have to

Flight delays plague summer season journey season from Milwaukee airport

18/08/2022samura

MILWAUKEE — Even because the summer season journey season begins to wind down, flight delays don’t seem like going wherever.

Individuals ready for flights at Milwaukee Mitchell Worldwide Airport say they bought artistic to attempt to keep away from being delayed. Ida Kamanda from Chicago determined to fly her niece and nephew out of Milwaukee on Wednesday due to the backups she handled flying them into O’Hare Airport.

Ida and neice and nephew.png — Ida Kamanda (heart) from Chicago determined to fly her niece and nephew out of Milwaukee on Wednesday.

“There was a giant delay in O’Hare,” mentioned Kamanda. “It was hours.”

Traci Merrill

TW Creatives: “The Lump” – A Quick Story by Suzanne Kamata

18/08/2022samura

Tokyo Weekender’s sequence TW Creatives options numerous works by Japan-based writers, photographers, videographers, illustrators and different creatives in a bid to offer one further platform for them to exhibit their expertise. The works submitted right here belong completely to the creators. TW solely takes satisfaction in being one in every of their most passionate supporters. This time, we introduce a brief story by Suzanne Kamata.

The Lump

When Lexie first observed the soreness in her left armpit, she thought that it was attributable to a pulled muscle – possibly from carrying that heavy bag of kitty litter – however after

Arienai Demo: Grassroots Protests for Trans Rights in Japan

17/08/2022samura

“They do not need you to have kids.”
“They need you to endure surgical procedure.”
“They need you to interrupt up along with your partner.”
“It is unbelievable, it is unbelievable.”

Non-binary activist Tanomi Yamamura started the Arienai Demonstration in December 2021 after Japan’s Supreme Courtroom upheld a ruling that meant transgender individuals with kids couldn’t legally transition.

“Certainly one of my buddies was closely affected by the legislation,” Yamamura says. “She’s a trans girl, married and has little children. She labored for a corporation with poor LGBTQ insurance policies whereas additionally present process hormone alternative remedy. She was depressed,