Last month, several human rights groups and LGBTQ+ organisations sent a letter to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan, calling for the introduction of new legislation that prohibits discrimination on the grounds of gender identity […]
Refugee team to compete at Tokyo 2020
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that a team of six refugees will be sent to compete in the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Boxing Officials Banned From Tokyo
Image credit- Tokyo 2020 All thirty six referees which were involved in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil have been banned from officiating at the Olympics in Tokyo next year. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) made […]
Ottomondi and Dada J.W. Ford storm the Tokyo Runway
Katherine Corcoran gives her round up of recent Tokyo Fashion Week. Hyper-modern streetwear took centre stage at Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo’s Spring/Summer 2019 shows, a testament to the cosmopolitan metropolis that is the Japanese capital. […]
Campus Watch: A.I. don’t cry
A Japanese robot with artificial intelligence has recently failed the entrance exam to the prestigious University of Tokyo for the fourth year in a row. The robot, Torobo-Kun, scored almost the same as it did […]
In The Middle Introduces: Red Bull Music Academy
Few in the music game will be able to name many prospects more enticing than the opportunities offered by Red Bull’s yearly music academy. Since its inception in Berlin 17 years ago, RBMA has proved […]