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Tokyo Weekender

Tokyo WeekenderJapanOsaka’s Iconic Glico Running Man Will Close Next Month Osaka’s famous Glico Running Man is going to take a little run break: On November 30 its lights will turn off at midnight in preparation for its first major renovation in over 12 years.

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Tokyo WeekenderJapanYokohama’s Mayoral Race Includes a Pritzker-Winning Architect and Scandal-Hit Former Mayor With the Yokohama mayoral election days away, early voting is running about 30% ahead of the same point in last year’s race.

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Tokyo WeekenderJapanModel and Runner Likou Alex Pellier’s Perfect Day in Tokyo In our Perfect Days column, we ask notable Tokyoites to share how they’d spend an ideal day in their home city.

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A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo