A 24 year-old man hurled a homemade pipe bomb at the current Prime Minister Fumio Kishida over the weekend as he spoke in public at Wakayama's fishing port. In Tokyo, the 225-meter-tall Tokyu Kabukicho Tower opened in Shinjuku’s Kabukicho district the very same day. Meanwhile, the theme music to Nintendo’s classic video game Super Mario Bros. is being archived by the American Library of Congress as part of its permanent collection. And amid the noise of campaigning politicians ahead of the upcoming nationwide local elections, we walk through Ikebukuro and Shinjuku to the sound of heavy rain and shopping tourists.

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