Both Japan and the United States signed an agreement Friday to send a Japanese astronaut to Gateway, a lunar-orbiting space station to be built by NASA. Closer to home, Japanese documentary filmmaker Toru Kubota returned to Japan last Friday after being released from a Myanmar prison the previous day. And screenplays written by Akira Kurosawa are on display at the National Film Archive of Japan in Kyobashi, a display of artefact and historical record with scripts written for other directors and rediscovered unscreened screenplays that combined reveal the secrets of Akira Kurosawa, the screenwriter.

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