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'Fashion power': Zarny, the Myanmar refugee turned Tokyo designer Interview by @EtienneAFP france24.com/en/live-news/2…


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INTERVIEW: Takeshi Kitano makes his comeback at Cannes next week with a new samurai epic, but the cult Japanese filmmaker tells @AFP that he strives to remain "indifferent" to success u.afp.com/iEqK

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Japan, land of the hybrid car, takes slowly to EVs u.afp.com/iB9h ✍️@EtienneAFP @AFP

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Fossil fuel pledges divide G7 in 'critical decade' for climate. Story ahead of this weekend's talks in Sapporo, by myself and @EtienneAFP sg.news.yahoo.com/fossil-fuel-pl…


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Japan's has the world's third largest geothermal resources, but also one powerful industry opposed to developing them: hot springs, or onsen. Interesting @AFP story from @EtienneAFP: sg.news.yahoo.com/hot-spring-bat…


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Sakhalin exception: the Russian energy Japan can't quit. By @EtienneAFP news.yahoo.com/sakhalin-excep…


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"Nous devons être motivés" : jeunes professionnels du nucléaire au Japon, un profil à contre-courant #AFP ➡️ u.afp.com/iYbD ✍️ @EtienneAFP

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Japanese food is famously paired with sake, but winemakers near Mount Fuji are on a mission to prove their bottles go just as well with crispy tempura and delicately sliced raw fish. Lovely feature by @EtienneAFP rfi.fr/en/business-an…


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Life after sumo. Athletes in many sports can struggle to reinvent themselves after retirement, but the challenge is acute for sumo wrestlers. Wrestlers are often recruited young and their formal education ends when they move into the training stables u.afp.com/wXHR

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Athletes in many sports can struggle to reinvent themselves after retirement, but the challenge is acute for sumo wrestlers.

Wrestlers are often recruited young and their formal education ends when they move into the training stables

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Athletes in many sports can struggle to reinvent themselves after retirement, but the challenge is acute for sumo wrestlers.

Wrestlers are often recruited young and their formal education ends when they move into the training stables

u.afp.com/wXHR
AFP's tweet image. Life after sumo.

Athletes in many sports can struggle to reinvent themselves after retirement, but the challenge is acute for sumo wrestlers.

Wrestlers are often recruited young and their formal education ends when they move into the training stables

u.afp.com/wXHR

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Solar farms along tsunami-ravaged coastlines, green energy 'micro-grids' and the experimental production of non-polluting hydrogen: 11 years after its nuclear nightmare, Japan's Fukushima region is investing in a renewable future news.yahoo.com/fukushima-regi…

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Renewables accounted for 43 percent of Fukushima's energy consumption in 2020, up from just 24 percent in 2011. But obstacles remain, from the higher cost for consumers to lingering concern over contamination. Feature by @EtienneAFP and Harumi Ozawa: news.yahoo.com/fukushima-regi…


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'If I cancel my plans to work in Japan, then my six years of studies there will have been for nothing. So I'm waiting and waiting.' Story by @EtienneAFP and myself with help from @TomohiroOsaki: ph.news.yahoo.com/nightmare-work…


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Thanks for the article 🙏🏼 @EtienneAFP @katieforster #japantravelban

Married couples separated, students taking classes at 3am, and high-level researchers abandoning Japan for other countries: the government says the entry ban has helped keep cases down, but business leaders call the rules 'out of touch' france24.com/en/live-news/2…



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Paralympian, nurse, musician: Manami Ito, Japan's show-stealing violinist u.afp.com/UVMn #Paralympics

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'Far from fragile': the battering rams of wheelchair rugby #AFP #Tokyo2020 #Paralympics news.yahoo.com/far-fragile-ba…


Le casse-tête des sponsors japonais face aux #JO de Tokyo #Olympics #Tokyo2020 #AFP

Tokyo 2020 was supposed to be a marketing bonanza, but public opposition and a potential ban on spectators over virus fears have left some Japanese sponsors with an Olympic headache. jtim.es/7vkT50EZE6C



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