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Justin McCurry

Justin McCurry is the Guardian's Tokyo correspondent.

October 2024

  • People walk past shops in the popular shopping area of Ueno in Tokyo

    Tokyo cracks down on ‘kasuhara’ amid rise in customers abusing staff

    A wave of abusive consumers has prompted authorities to introduce the country’s first ordinance to protect service industry employees
  • ‘It was like reliving everything’ … Shiori Ito in Black Box Diaries (2024)

    ‘Editing it was like exposure therapy’: Shiori Ito, the reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement

    After reporting a high-profile journalist for sexual assault, Ito was championed and vilified. She relives that night and the aftermath in her documentary Black Box Diaries
  • Hideko Hakamada (C) holds a banner reading "innocent man, not guilty verdict" to support her brother Iwao Hakamada, as she arrives to the Shizuoka District Court on September 26, 2024. The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was freed last month after nearly 50 years on death row.

    After freeing a man who spent half a century on death row, will Japan keep using the death penalty?

    Police fabricated key evidence that led to the conviction of Iwao Hakamada in 1968, but capital punishment still has popular support

September 2024

  • Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party holds a press conference in Tokyo.

    Japan’s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba to call snap election – reports

  • A sleek white bullet train passes in front of snow-capped Mount Fuji, against a deep blue sky

    Japan’s magic bullet: 60 years of the train that helped rebuild the idea of a country

  • Yumiko Ukon holds a plate with three rice balls

    How Japan’s humble onigiri took over lunchtimes around the world

  • Shigeru Ishiba waves to supporters

    Who is Japan’s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba?

  • Japan’s ruling party picks Shigeru Ishiba to become next PM

  • Japanese man who spent 46 years on death row cleared of murders

  • Japanese fighter jets fire flares at Russian aircraft for first time in airspace violation

  • Japan floods: six dead after rain pounds region still recovering from earthquake

  • Taiwan questions president of pager company linked to Hezbollah explosions

  • Middle East crisis live
    IDF says it has destroyed more than 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers in Lebanon – as it happened

  • Tokyo demands answers over fatal stabbing of 10-year-old Japanese boy in China

  • Japan has just 13 female CEOs among top 1,600 companies, survey shows

  • Who will Japan’s next PM be? A policy wonk, ultra-conservative or surfer making the climate fight ‘sexy’

  • Inside Japan’s biggest prison: home to yakuza… and hundreds of old men

  • From spy cams to deepfake porn: fury in South Korea as women targeted again

  • ‘I couldn’t say no’: anger grows over topless medical exams in Japan schools

  • North Korea may have executed officials over flood response, reports say

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