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Justin McCurry

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Justin McCurry is the Guardian's Tokyo correspondent

January 2026

  • Snow piles up in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

    Snow and freezing cold may shape outcome of Japan’s snap general election

  • A view through a window of a classroom, with books on desks. Trees can be seen reflected in the glass

    The aftermath
    The Fukushima towns frozen in time: nature has thrived since the nuclear disaster but what happens if humans return?

  • A Panda eating bamboo

    Black and white and sent back over: end of panda diplomacy as Japan returns bears to China

  • Tetsuya Yamagami

    Shinzo Abe’s killer sentenced to life in prison over shooting of Japanese former PM

  • Chinese tourists shun Japan in wake of Taiwan invasion row

  • Japan’s prime minister calls snap election as approval ratings ride high

  • 15 years after Fukushima, Japan prepares to restart the world’s biggest nuclear plant

  • ‘Yamagata is ramen’: Japan’s city of noodle fiends revels in ‘capital’ status

  • ‘A place of darkness and light’: the uninhabited Japanese island that became a rabbit paradise

December 2025

  • Tokyo, Japan, with carbon emissions graph line in the skyline

    The big emitters
    ‘People are wrestling with the burden’: Japan pivots to focus on nuclear power ‘maximisation’ alongside renewables

  • A bear warning sign in Akita, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan.

    Japanese town reeling from year of record bear encounters

  • Snow-covered trees in Japan's northern Hokkaido prefecture

    Boy, 5, died after arm trapped in ski resort travelator in Japan

  • Japan PM Sanae Takaichi smiles and holds an award.

    Japan PM’s pledge to ‘work, work, work, work, and work’ wins catchphrase of year

November 2025

  • A bear warning sign in Japan. Local media have reported that a man fought off a bear in a public toilet.

    Bear attacks man in public toilet in Japan

  • People in Jakarta

    Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as world’s most populous city, according to UN

  • Japan's prime minister Sanae Takaichi during the opening plenary session at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa

    Japan PM fails to achieve breakthrough in row with China – but polling shows public backs her

  • An aeroplane approaching Tokyo’s Haneda airport last year

    Chinese travellers cancel hundreds of thousands of trips to Japan amid rising tensions

  • China and Japan are in a war of words over Taiwan – what happens next?

  • China travel warning for Japan sends shares in tourism and retail companies plunging

  • China sends coast guard to Senkaku islands amid row with Japan

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