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Trying to stop amid the stream of commuters at Tokyo's Shibuya station - through which 2.3 million people pass every day - can be a risk. Even stepping out of the flow to grab a paper at one of the station's many convenience stores can be a struggle. But as of Monday, there's a new reason for Tokyoites to take a detour from their well-worn paths: revered Japanese artist Taro Okamoto's Asu no Shinwa ("Myth of Tomorrow") now has a permanent home near the Keio Inokashira line in the Shibuya station...
...allow him to do that more freely. When Myth of Tomorrow was commissioned, his secretary and life partner, Toshiko Okamoto, questioned his decision to represent such destructive imagery. "He told her, 'Because it is Mexico, this will work,' " says Akiomi Hirano, Toshiko's nephew and the producer of the Shibuya mural project for the Taro Okamoto Memorial Foundation. The Mexican hotel developer who commissioned the mural, Manuel Suarez, immediately took to the concept. "Taro wanted the Japanese to surmount the misery of the past rather than to retract inwardly - to blossom outward and look ahead. That was a radical concept...
...market. Same-store sales for H&M worldwide were down 2% in September, but overall sales were up 10%. The brand opened its first Asia stores in Shanghai in April 2007 and in Hong Kong in March 2008. In Tokyo, a 2,800 sq-ft full concept store in Shibuya and a shop in Shinjuku are slated to open next fall, helping keep the company's pace of expanding stores by 10% to 15% annually worldwide...
Perhaps the most amusing time to take the metro is very early on weekend mornings from Roppongi or Shibuya. These areas, generally known for their nightclubs, tend to produce an exhausted group of dressed up young people who close the clubs in the morning and then fall asleep on the platforms while waiting for the trains...
...Despite the cleanup stalling over the corruption scandal, Japanese officials claim Tokyo can still fulfill its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention to remove and destroy all such munitions left in China by 2012. Minoru Shibuya, the Japanese ambassador to the Netherlands, where the convention is enforced by the Organization for the Prohibition for Chemical Weapons in the Hague, said that "the government of Japan continues to attach top priority" to the project. According to an Organization spokesperson, Japan has reported "no foreseen delays" to meeting its cleanup deadline. But Japan's record does not leave critics confident: The current...