heads for a meeting with Nago Mayor Yoshikazu Shimabukuro in Tokyo on Sunday.

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According to the mayor, the city called on the central government to ensure that U.S. military planes would not fly over four districts of the city, including Henoko and Toyohara.

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?

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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?