is greeted by his family Friday at the Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, after renewing his provisional release.

Tension was high as he entered the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward after two other Kurdish asylum-seekers -- Ahmet Kazankiran and his son Ramazan -- were detained and quickly deported back to Turkey earlier this week.

Our Planet

A worker sorts plastic waste for recycling at Minato Resource Recycle Center in Tokyo in 2019. Japan has been criticized by environmental groups for its strategy on plastics, which is heavily reliant on recycling instead of reduction.
Are microplastics hurting our fertility?

Longform

Construction equipment sits idle in a park near Shiba Toshogu shrine in Tokyo's Minato Ward. While Japan has a history of treating its trees with reverence, green coverage is said to be lacking in most of the major cities.
Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?