Sakura Murakami
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Joined November 2018
"His job has taken him to a park with a person who wanted to play on a see-saw. He has also beamed and waved through a train window at a complete stranger" w/ @tomb8man and @MaruyamaRikako . Dream job: the Japanese man who gets paid to do nothing
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Shoji Morimoto has what some would see as a dream job: he gets paid to do pretty much nothing.
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At the #Beijing2022WinterOlympics local staff are barred from seeing loved ones as they work inside a “closed loop.” One couple managed to steal a kiss on the edge of that loop:.
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RT @MinamiFunakoshi: When I came out as #nonbinary, I thought all the time about pronouns. Getting used to telling strangers I use they/the….
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RT @slodek: With @juminism, @sakmurak, @BillyMallard & @Krolicki for the last time, with feeling:
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A Japanese former politician who campaigned to bring billions of dollars of investment from some of Japan’s top companies to Myanmar has urged Japan to endorse its military regime, saying the...
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RT @martfack: A decade after Fukushima, Japan has restarted only a third of its 33 operable nuclear reactors. The reason isn't a rejection….
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Debate over whether to restart more reactors in Japan is highly charged, with 40% of the population opposing the move.
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RT @washingtonpost: How does it feel to lose at the Olympics? Elite athletes describe the heartache.
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RT @gabrielletf: Belarusian athlete enters Polish embassy in Tokyo after refusing to return home #Tokyo2020.
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RT @mbmelodies: Folks, I thought. I don't have to talk about the Olympic Opening Ceremony anymore. it's done, it's over, let's move on. ….
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RT @juminism: Here's the story: .Japanese boxing nurse has Olympic dream crushed by COVID
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Japanese nurse Arisa Tsubata has trained around her work shifts for over a year to prepare for a final Olympic boxing qualifier in the hope of making it to the Tokyo Games this summer.
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So Sato, a deaf and transgender pole vault athlete, has cautious hopes that #Tokyo2020 Could be a catalyst for social change. His story:
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日本語でも出しました。.「阿出川さんとサーフィンの町は、東京五輪に対する日本の夢と、それが覚めた後のやるせなさを象徴するかのようだ。」.
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日本サーフィン界の先駆者として知られる阿出川輝雄さんは、五輪に大きな希望を抱いていた。だが新型コロナウイルスのパンデミックの前に、その期待はしぼみつつある。
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Much of Japan once had high hopes for what the #Tokyo2020 Olympics could be, but the pandemic has changed it into something unrecognizable. A story about that loss with @saitomri
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A godfather of modern Japanese surf culture had high hopes for the Games, but the pandemic had other ideas. Even his torch relay was canceled.
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A portrait of the city, a month before the Olympics. Photos by @KimKYUNGHOON4, words by @reuters_shiraki, @emlies16, and me. Postcards from Tokyo: light and shadow ahead of pandemic Olympics .
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The Tokyo Tower and other landmarks were lit in special Olympic colours in April to mark 100 days before the Summer Games opened, but were shrouded in clouds of mist when rain enveloped the Japanese...
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