Simon Duncan 🇯🇵

Info for tourists + residents in Tokyo/ Japan. Articles in @TimeOutTokyo @kyotojournal etc. Living in Japan since 2000. Ex-Deputy Editor @khaosodenglish 日本語OK✌️

[Simon Duncan 🇯🇵 @DuncaninTokyo]

For fans of the @UNESCO World Heritage Gunkanjima island in Nagasaki: Gunkanjima Bar & Gunkan Higashi Shinjuku bldg, both in Tokyo. #世界遺産 #軍艦島 🚢

[RS @WeAreRSGroup]

ON THIS DAY | In 1985,Nintendo released Super Mario Brothers in Japan. It became the best selling video game for 20 years until it was surpassed by Wii Sports. #Mario #OnThisDay

[Conbini Boys 🐣🍗 @conbiniboys]

This took an unexpected turn.

[Simon Duncan 🇯🇵 @DuncaninTokyo]

Olympics to be held without spectators in Tokyo due to pandemic https://t.co/tVmG7bUWLv

[Kyodo News | Japan @kyodo_english]

JUST IN: Organizers could hold Olympics without fans if COVID worsens

https://t.co/0fWRqjMDRh

[TasteyFlav @TasteyFlav]

For the vending machine archeologists out there.

[None Of Them Knew @KnewNone]

Happy Birthday to John Goodman, who turns 69 today!!!

[Spoon & Tamago @Johnny_suputama]

A new species of jellyfish was discovered off the coast of Enoshima and was named "Wataboshi Kurage" after the wataboshi bridal hat worn during Japanese-style weddings
https://t.co/o3sS6yJqTO

[Simon Duncan 🇯🇵 @DuncaninTokyo]

Tokyo 2020: Naomi Osaka 'not sure' Olympics should happen amid rise in Covid-19 cases https://t.co/ZoHrubRxje

[Simon Duncan 🇯🇵 @DuncaninTokyo]

#MayThe4thBeWithYou

[デスカミナリ @zixz_zaxz]

私が作った焼きそバッカ見てください。

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Threats, spies and videotape: A grudge match has erupted in a 7-Eleven parking lot between one of Japan’s most powerful companies and, arguably, one of its most stubborn men. https://t.co/10oR8GU4Lk

[Simon Duncan 🇯🇵 @DuncaninTokyo]

Tokyo Olympics: North Korea to skip Games over Covid-19 fears https://t.co/UhcerrjT13

[Simon Duncan 🇯🇵 @DuncaninTokyo]

🇬🇧🇯🇵 British citizen arrested for dumping bento trash in mailbox https://t.co/HuNqbTY85T

[Mulboyne @Mulboyne]

Hiroshi Sasaki, Olympic opening ceremony creative director, has resigned after he suggested Naomi Watanabe appear as a pig. https://t.co/6HWdiPoMQY

[Simon Duncan 🇯🇵 @DuncaninTokyo]

Tokyo International Film Festival Begins Major Overhaul 🎬🗼 https://t.co/PcMvNklkVg

[TokyoReporter @tokyoreporter]

Jiji has some timelapse photo collections for #Tohoku. This one is Rikuzentakata. https://t.co/rrv1PCGMv6

[Stephen Wade @StephenWadeAP]

Report: No fans from abroad for postponed Tokyo Olympics (from @AP) https://t.co/v1fquMLfOa

[Alanna Durkin Richer @aedurkinricher]

Michael Taylor and his son Peter were transferred to Japanese custody early Monday. It ends their months-long battle to stop their extradition to Japan, where they will be tried on charges that they helped smuggle Carlos Ghosn out of the country in a box.

https://t.co/fSD44DUlMW

[Simon Duncan 🇯🇵 @DuncaninTokyo]

By more than 600

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Today is the Day of Remembrance, commemorating the day when FDR signed Exec. Order 9066, authorizing the mass incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans.

@InternetArchive & @DenshoProject present the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration:
https://t.co/gcNMCv0ZzO

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Like being in one of Tokyo’s famed museums--but without leaving your house! @InternetArchive is happy to announce its partnership w/ University of Tokyo General Library for expanded access & digital backup for some of the library’s most precious artifacts. https://t.co/bSj0D2J5F1