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Justin McCurry

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Justin McCurry is the Guardian's Tokyo correspondent

April 2026

  • Firefighter rescues woman from destroyed building after Israeli airstrike in Beirut

    Middle East crisis live
    Trump vents frustation with Nato – as it happened

  • Wedding table setting with place cards, glassware, and floral arrangement.

    When Suzuki met Suzuki: why a Tokyo dating agency is matching couples with the same name

  • People queue to refill their empty gas cylinders in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India.

    A day in the life of Asia’s fuel crisis

  • Child pushing a pram alongside their mother walking down a street

    Japan allows divorced couples to negotiate joint custody of children for first time

March 2026

  • Taketoshi Niina walks up a ramp from a dock carrying a basket of oysters

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Something out of the ordinary’: why are Japan’s oysters dying en masse?

  • Japan's prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a meeting with ministers on the situation in the Middle East at the prime minister's Office in Tokyo

    Japan to begin biggest-ever oil release from national reserves as Middle East energy crisis bites

  • Donald Trump speaks about Iran during a White House press conference.

    Middle East crisis live
    UAE reopens airspace after Iran attack – as it happened

  • Tankers sail in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz in a file photo

    Trump steps up pressure on European allies to help protect strait of Hormuz

  • A young girl is knocked over at Tokyo crossing – what’s behind Japan’s ‘bumping’ trend?

  • Hasty redeployment of US missiles from South Korea to Middle East leaves Seoul rattled

  • Middle East crisis live
    Vance and Hegseth attend dignified transfer ceremony – as it happened

  • Trump’s Iran war will reinforce North Korea’s view that nuclear weapons are the only path to security

  • The half-abandoned Japanese island at the heart of tensions with China

  • Social climber: Punch the monkey starts to outgrow his Ikea plushie

February 2026

  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pictured with his daughter Kim Ju-ae

    North Korea’s ‘most beloved’ child: what the key congress revealed about Kim Jong-un’s succession plans

  • An aerial view shows Yonaguni island

    Japan to deploy missiles to island near Taiwan by 2031, says defence minister

  • Emma Raducanu announced as latest Uniqlo ambassador.

    ‘Resilience is the biggest lesson’: Emma Raducanu is ready for revival after setbacks

  • Tourists visit Toshogu Shrine in Tokyo during winter

    Chinese tourists shun Japan over lunar new year holiday as rift deepens

  • Japan seizes Chinese fishing boat inside its economic zone amid Beijing rift

  • Sanae Takaichi’s conservatives cement power in landslide Japan election win

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