01/16, Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo

The car maker Toyota outlined its conversion from fossil fuels to electric motors at last week's Tokyo Auto Salon, while the Japanese government is considering to lift the request to wear masks indoors, a policy change that may come into effect this spring. In parts of Hokkaido Spring is also making an earlier than usual appearance with unseasonable weather causing avalanches on Mt. Yotei last Friday which took the life of one foreign skier. The weekend also bid farewell to Yukihiro Takahashi, legendary drummer with YMO, the Yellow Magic Orchestra, who sadly passed away at weekend aged 70. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices