Yuko Kishida, wife of the Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, met the U.S. First Lady Jill Biden on Monday in Washington. A young women died in the early hours of Sunday morning after a tree fell on her tent. Later that same day, 11 festival goers were injured after the four-wheeled, wooden ‘Danjiri’ festival float they were pulling overturned in Sakai, just south of Osaka. In mainland China, takings for the Japanese animation film "Suzume" have exceeded those in Japan less than a month after its release in March. And NOTEBOOK leaves Tokyo for the day to visit Kyōto, the Kyōto Gyoen National Garden and Kyōto's Imperial Palace. — Substack: notebookpodcast.substack.com Instagram: @notebook_pod Twitter: @notebook_pod — Get in touch: notebook.podcast@gmail.com Leave a message: speakpipe.com/notebook —