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Justin McCurry

Justin McCurry is the Guardian's Tokyo correspondent.

April 2025

  • Donald Trump raising his fist in the air

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

  • Visitors watch a water and light display during a media preview of the 2025 Osaka Expo in Japan last week.

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

  • A cup of matcha tea

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

  • Two people smiling and embracing as others hold up their arms and cheer, some holding flags

    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

February 2025

  • A price chart on the Bybit website for the cryptocurrency Ethereum is seen on a computer screen in New York on Friday evening, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

    North Korea behind $1.5bn hack of crypto exchange ByBit, says FBI

  • A South Korea woman with her baby on her lap.

    South Korea birthrate rises for first time in nine years amid surge in marriages

  • Kim Sae-ron

    ‘Like a giant Squid Game’: soul searching in South Korea after latest celebrity suicide

  • Yoon Suk Yeol seated in court wearing a suit

    Martial law was Yoon Suk Yeol’s answer to ‘legislative dictatorship’, insurrection trial hears

  • Three resort workers die in suspected gas poisoning near hot spring in Japan

  • Japan releases 200,000 tonnes of emergency rice stockpile as prices soar

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