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New #Tokyo subway line to open in 2040s. Because this rail map isn't complex enough asahi.com/ajw/articles/1…
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I found this hanging from a tree in the middle of a forest on a mountain, way off the main trail. Written in #haiku form, it says, loosely:
If I could but go back
to that day you proposed
I would say no
大文字山の獣道で発見。不思議。
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"We did everything we could." An ambulance crew in Hyogo returned a man with a broken leg to the scene of a traffic accident and left him there because he tested positive for coronavirus mainichi.jp/english/articl…
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The revelation about the Olympics' director making a Holocaust joke reminded me that in 2016, Sony apologized for Nazi-style uniforms worn by one of its bands. The band's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, is still an executive board member for #Tokyo2020 bbc.com/news/world-asi…
Bylines @TIME @nytimes @Nature @CNBC @kinfolkmag @AGU_Eos Author, Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots; Songwriter soundcloud.com/tokyotim