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‘Cult of convenience’: how Tokyo’s retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification

18 juillet 2025 à 03:32

Across Japan covered shopping arcades are in a losing battle against property developers, depopulation and consumer culture

Tsutomu Nishiwaki raises the shutters of his store, the rattle marking the start of a new day at a shopping arcade in Tokyo. He wheels a display case into the foreground and stands behind the counter, framed by a sign proclaiming that this is a family-run noodle store.

It is a ritual Nishiwaki has been performing almost daily for 60 years. But like the fresh noodles its owner makes every morning, the store has a limited shelf life: in a few years from now, the 80-year-old will pull down the shutters for the last time.

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© Photograph: Justin McCurry/The Guardian

© Photograph: Justin McCurry/The Guardian

© Photograph: Justin McCurry/The Guardian

A Timeline of What We Know About Trump and Epstein

18 juillet 2025 à 03:26
Donald Trump was friendly for at least 15 years with Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.

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Donald J. Trump and Melania Knauss, his girlfriend and future wife, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2000.

‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Is Being Canceled by CBS

18 juillet 2025 à 03:21
The show will end in May, the network said, calling it “a purely financial decision.”

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CBS said its decision to cancel “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” was not related to “the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” the network’s owner.

Skydive pioneer Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from edge of space, dies in paragliding accident

18 juillet 2025 à 03:19

The Austrian daredevil, who was 56, lost control of his motorised paraglider over central Italy

Austrian extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner, famed for a record-breaking 2012 skydive from the edge of space, has died in a paragliding accident in central Italy, local police said.

Baumgartner, who was 56, lost control of his motorised paraglider while flying over Porto Sant’Elpidio in Italy’s central Marche region on Thursday and fell to the ground near the swimming pool of a hotel. The reasons for the accident were unclear.

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© Photograph: Ross Franklin/AP

© Photograph: Ross Franklin/AP

© Photograph: Ross Franklin/AP

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