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Justin McCurry

Justin McCurry is the Guardian's Tokyo correspondent.

July 2024

  • Members of Ara Style Senior breakdancing club at a recent class in Tokyo, Japan.

    Japanese seniors pop and lock to breakdancing beats in latest sport tailored to ageing population

  • Rieko Hirosawa performs the music of the goze – itinerant blind and visually impaired Japanese women who earned a living playing the shamisen

    Playing for survival: the blind Japanese woman keeping a music tradition alive

  • People sit under parasols on a bench in Tokyo, Japan, amid extreme heat that has seen authorities issue ‘danger’-level safety alerts.

    Japan adds ‘most severe’ category to its heatstroke index amid deadly summer

  • A person walks on the street protecting herself from the sun with a parasol and using a handheld fan in the late of afternoon on 5 July 2024, in Tokyo, Japan. The capital of Japan is swept by intense heatwave with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius in Tokyo.

    Heatstroke alerts issued across Japan as heatwave leads to four deaths

  • Man who spent 45 years on death row in Japan hopes for chance to clear name

  • Court orders Japanese government to pay damages over forced sterilisations

  • Life at the heart of Japan’s lonely deaths epidemic: ‘I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried’

June 2024

  • South Korean soldiers patrol near a barbed wire fence along the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea.

    ‘The scariest place on earth’: inside the DMZ as tensions between North and South Korea rise

  • Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy pictured in Brussels in February.

    Ukraine war live
    Russia-Ukraine war: EU to open enlargement talks with Ukraine and Moldova next week – as it happened

  • The Russian president, Vladimir Putin (left), and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, smile after talks in Pyongyang

    US ‘incredibly concerned’ over Putin’s threat to supply weapons to North Korea after Asia tour

  • Candidates for the Tokyo gubernatorial election, Yuriko Koike (L) and member of the House of Councillors Renho.

    Tokyo election: demographic crisis the top issue as two women vie for job of governor

  • Russia and North Korea sign mutual defence pact

  • Ukraine war live
    Putin in Pyongyang: Russia and North Korea claim strategic pact is ‘peaceful and defensive’ – as it happened

  • Putin and Kim keep quiet on details of mutual aid agreement

  • Vladimir Putin receives warm welcome in North Korea

  • Russia and North Korea: what can they do for each other?

  • North Korea troop ‘casualties’ reported after landmine explosions in DMZ

  • How North Korea’s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions

  • US and South Korea sound warning amid reports Putin is headed to North Korea

  • Jin from BTS wraps up military service to the strains of K-pop hit Dynamite

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