Note from the compiler:
Greetings and thank you to anyone who reads this weekly newsletter! I took another one-month break but we are back! I will keep at it and try to post every week.
I hope this is a helpful resource to stay abreast of the latest developments in Japan and an entertaining list of news that interests a wide range of readers. My aim has been to be both informative and professional in the way I compile the news every week.
Here is this week’s newsletter. It’s a special edition exclusively on former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo’s assassination. May he rest in peace.

As usual, the longer version has bookmarks so you can skip over sections that are not of interest.
The lineup:

–Rintaro Nishimura
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