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Justin McCurry

Justin McCurry is the Guardian's Tokyo correspondent.

April 2025

  • Cityscape with Mount Fuji in the background

    Student rescued from Mount Fuji twice in one week

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un shake hands during their meeting in Vladivostok, Russia, on April 25, 2019.

    Putin and Kim confirm for first time North Koreans fought for Russia in Ukraine war

  • Cards from the game

    ‘It’s done wonders’: trading card game featuring middle-aged men revives Japanese town

  • Russian drone and missile strike in Kyiv<br>An explosion of a ballistic missile is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 24, 2025. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

    From ammunition to ballistic missiles: how North Korea arms Russia in the Ukraine war

  • Two US marines investigated over alleged rape at military base in Okinawa

  • Rice crisis: Japan imports grain from South Korea for first time in more than 25 years

  • Re-arm, reassure and spend big: how the Asia Pacific is responding to a new era under Trump

  • Japan’s World Expo: a positive vision of the future for our divided world?

  • ‘Skyrocketing’ demand for matcha raises fears of shortage in Japan

  • South Koreans are celebrating Yoon’s impeachment, but the saga is far from over

  • South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office after court upholds impeachment

  • South Korea ‘at breaking point’ ahead of ruling on President Yoon’s impeachment

March 2025

  • Sonai, the largest of three villages on Yonaguni, a Japanese island about 100km from Taiwan that is in the evacuation zone in the event of a conflict in the region.

    Japan unveils first plan to evacuate 100,000 civilians from islands near Taiwan in event of conflict

  • Korea Forest Service personnel watch a wildfire from the side of a road in Andong, South Korea, early on Thursday

    South Korea wildfires become biggest on record as disaster chief points to ‘harsh reality’ of climate crisis

  • aerial view of new cars in a lot

    Donald Trump announces new 25% tariffs on cars from overseas

  • historical &amp; fine arts<br>Bombing Of Tokyo in 1945. (Photo by: Prisma Bildagentur/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

    Eighty years since the Tokyo firebombing, survivors are still awaiting recognition

  • The Ukrainian refugee fighting to become the first European sumo grand champion

  • Fighter jet accidentally bombs village, injuring 15, during South Korea military drill

  • ‘I’m truly happy’: 108-year-old takes record for world’s oldest female barber

  • Largest wildfire in decades rages in Japan as authorities warn it could spread

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