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03/24, Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo (Edoverse, part 1)
Parts of Fukushima will have their evacuation orders lifted while a new group advocating Japanese LGBTQ comes together ahead of the annual G7 summit in Hiroshima this May. Carmaker Toyota discontinues sales of its popular Camry sedan, while a man is on the run for injuring the manager of a sushi restaurant during a robbery but not before injuring himself with a machete. A Hokusai ukiyo-e print fetches $2.8m dollars at an auction house in New York. And having already sold an Andy Warhol print from 1963 for ¥2.3 billion last year, Shinwa auction house in Tokyo is now developing its own virtual marketplace which Shinwa's president Yoichiro Kurata describes in Part 1 of our recent conversation.
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2023.03.24|00:10:30
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