足尖鞋 (Pointe shoe)

Models show creations by Junko Koshino during Amazon Fashion Week in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters.

Dynamics of non-vertical lines

A woman rides an escalator as another woman walks by in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: AFP/Martin Bureau.

A Company of Swans

Dancers dressed as swans perform during the Sanja Festival (三社祭) in Asakusa district, Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images.

Playbox

A guest rests in his room at Nine Hours Shinjuku-North, a capsule hotel in the Shinjuku special ward of Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters.

Easy Go

The 2018 World Go Championship will take place at Nihon Ki-in in Tokyo, Japan from 17–19 March 2018. The winner will walk away with 20 million yen ($178,000) in prize money and a Nike award. The participants are as follows: 柯洁 (Kē Jié) (China), Park Junghwan (South Korea), Shin Jin-seo (South Korea), 井山 裕太 (Iyama Yūta) (Japan), 山下敬吾 (Yamashita Keigo) (Japan), and 王元均 (Wáng Yuánjūn) (Taipei).

An Agony in 4D

Visitors wearing virtual reality (VR) headsets try the VR Ride Theater in the Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd. booth during the 45th Tokyo Motor Show at 東京ビッグサイト (Tokyo Big Sight) in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images.

Coming of Age Day

東京 (Tokyo), Japan: Women ride a roller coaster after attending a ceremony marking 成人の日 (Coming of Age Day), at the としまえん (Toshimaen) amusement park. Photo: Kiyoshi Ota/EPA.

Instant poll

Tokyo, Japan: On-Art Corp unveils an eight-metre tall dinosaur-shaped robot, TRX03. Photo: Toru Hanai/Reuters.

Into the Jury Box

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo, Japan, has a special exhibition, Toilet!? – Human Waste & Earth’s Future that “invites visitors to get to know their poop, describing the types of excrement humans produce, creative ways to use toilets, how toilets work in space, ideas for recycling our waste and details of sewage systems”. Photo © National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan).

Triskelion

A woman poses in an art installation at a fashion and design trade show at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Photo: Franck Robichon/EPA.

Rapeseed

東京 (Tokyo), Japan: A woman in traditional clothing pauses during a wedding photo session at 浜離宮恩賜庭園 (Hamarikyū Gardens). Photo: Eugene Hoshiko/AP.

Window Cleaners

Tokyo, Japan: Window cleaners dressed as Father Christmas and a reindeer get into the festive sprit. Photo: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA.

The Odd Couple

Questa “strana coppia” è stata avvistata nel centro di Tokyo. Un uomo e la sua tartaruga gigante passeggiano (molto lentamente) senza fare caso a ciò che avviene intorno a loro. Le foto scattate dai passanti sono state pubblicate su Twitter e altri social. [Read more].

• Tokyo, ecco chi è l’uomo che vive con una tartaruga gigante, Corriere della Sera, 11 giugno 2015