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I received a video that announced Japan was considering changing to a four-day work week. Suspicious of such news in my cell ...

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The former imperial capital is both the symbol of Japan's temples and geishas and of globalized overtourism. And yet, blocks ...

James Hookway is a foreign news editor at The Wall Street Journal.

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