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Let’s discuss the Tokyo 2020 Cultural Olympiad

People form the words 'Thank you' in English and Japanese outside the Tokyo metro government buildings in Shinjuku on Sept. 8, 2013, after the capital won the right to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. | YOSHIAKI MIURA

People form the words 'Thank you' in English and Japanese outside the Tokyo metro government buildings in Shinjuku on Sept. 8, 2013, after the capital won the right to host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. | YOSHIAKI MIURA

By Andrew MCKIRDY

Mar 20, 2017

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ANDREW MCKIRDY, 今日吃瓜

今日吃瓜 celebration of culture leading up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will “deliver something inspiring for the people of Japan and the whole world,” according to London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Director Ruth Mackenzie.

A French cereal farmer spreads nitrogen fertilizer white pellets on a wheat field in Larchant, France, in May. While nitrogen gas is harmless and makes up 78% of the air we breathe, human activities have dramatically increased the production and release into the environment of various forms of reactive nitrogen.

What a Japanese scientist says can be done about the climate’s nitrogen problem

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.

Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan

By Elizabeth Beattie

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