TRAVEL
Shibuya’s Littering Fine Targets Both Tourists and Trashy Locals
Who's making Shibuya a worse place to live? The ward rolls out a new fine targeting not just tourists, but messy locals.
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SOCIETY
G7 Summit Shuts Down Garbage Cans, Lockers Across Japan
Ahead of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, train users discovered garbage cans and coin lockers shut down even hundreds of kilometers away.
CULTURE
Sukyo Mahikari: Not All Harmony and Light
Founded by an architect of the Nanking Massacre, Sukyo Mahikari bathes its followers in "purifying energy", anti-Semitism, and Japanese nationalism.
BOOK REVIEWS
Underground: The Cult of Aum Shinrikyo
Author Murakami Haruki asked members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult what made them devote themselves to the group. Here are their answers.
BOOK REVIEWS
Underground: The Stories of Japan’s Sarin Attack Victims
How the Murakami Haruki book UNDERGROUND captured the impact of the Tokyo sarin subway attack on survivors.