07/19, Arts Culture Tourism from Tokyo

While Sumo suffers a wardrobe malfunction, 23 year-old Abdul Hakim Sani Brown becomes the first Japanese athlete to reach the Men's 100m sprint final at the World Athletics Championships. And with the release of Hong Kong documentary "Blue Island" by Chan Tze Woon at Shibuya's Eurospace exploring protests both past and present, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival which awarded Chan's first film the Shinsuke Ogawa Prize in 2017 screens a selection of documentaries on rural Japan this August in readiness for its next film festival in 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices