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Jun 21, 2024 |
asia.nikkei.com | Elaine Lies
TOKYO -- When Tokuji Ito quit his job as an oil trader to run the family bathhouse, he was not sure he could keep the business going. The facilities were aging and its location in western Tokyo, far from a train station, less than ideal. Worse, customers were drifting away as the overall popularity of public baths, or sento, plunged.
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Feb 8, 2024 |
flipboard.com | Elaine Lies
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Dec 10, 2023 |
businesslive.co.za | Elaine Lies
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Pedestrians walk past restaurants at night in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan.
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Dec 10, 2023 |
businesslive.co.za | Elaine Lies
Support our award-winning journalism. The Premium package (digital only) is R30 for the first month and thereafter you pay R129 p/m now ad-free for all subscribers. Pedestrians walk past restaurants at night in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo, Japan.
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Dec 7, 2023 |
gaytimes.co.uk | Elaine Lies
Life Melvin Muranaka long wanted to open a bar in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ni-chome LGBTQIA+ district, where he first felt free to be himself as a gay man, and with the ebbing of the coronavirus pandemic he thought his chance had come.
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