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07/13, Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo
Mt Fuji opens for the summer season to climbers and Aomori schoolchildren get ready for the annual Nebuta festival, both happening for the first time in almost 3 years. And while Kishio Kisho Kurokawa's iconic metabolist building the Nakagin Capsule Tower is almost gone, slowly demolished since last month, his other buildings in Tokyo suggest some of that spirit lives on in a different form.
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