Japan's Meteorological Agency calls on people to brace themselves for heavy snow and a big drop in temperature while cabinet members call on Prime Minister Kishida to dissolve the Lower House within the National Diet and call a general election. In Ueno Park, the theatre director Daniel Kramer brings his modern take on Puccini's final opera “Turandot” to Tokyo next month as it opens at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan with sets designed by the Japanese collective TeamLab.

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