Justin McCurry
@justinmmccurry.bsky.social
Guardian Japan & Korea correspondent. Wolves fan. Author of War on Wheels: Inside Keirin and Japan's Cycling Subculture. 競輪大ファン。
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Japan has a prized home-grown rice industry but as @justinmmccurry.bsky.social explains, with skyrocketing prices, the future is uncertain for a culturally and politically significant crop. He takes us through the whys & what next. @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Japan’s rice crisis - podcast
Reged Ahmad speaks to the Guardian’s Japan and Korea correspondent, Justin McCurry, in Osaka about why a home-grown grain shortage is putting pressure on consumers and politicians, leading many Japane...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Japan has a prized home-grown rice industry but as @justinmmccurry.bsky.social explains, with skyrocketing prices, the future is uncertain for a culturally and politically significant crop. He takes us through the whys & what next. @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Just finished this tremendous book by @justinmmccurry.bsky.social on Japanese keirin racing.
Informative and beautifully written by someone whose vast cycling and cultural knowledge shone through.
It’s only increased my desire to go and watch a meet live when I (eventually) get to Japan.
Informative and beautifully written by someone whose vast cycling and cultural knowledge shone through.
It’s only increased my desire to go and watch a meet live when I (eventually) get to Japan.
June 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Just finished this tremendous book by @justinmmccurry.bsky.social on Japanese keirin racing.
Informative and beautifully written by someone whose vast cycling and cultural knowledge shone through.
It’s only increased my desire to go and watch a meet live when I (eventually) get to Japan.
Informative and beautifully written by someone whose vast cycling and cultural knowledge shone through.
It’s only increased my desire to go and watch a meet live when I (eventually) get to Japan.
Guardian photographer David Levene and I travelled to Okinawa a couple of months ago to make this video/text/photography package to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa. A real team effort that would not have been possible without colleagues in Okinawa, London and Sydney.
Okinawa was the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war. 80 years on, are the dead being betrayed?
A quarter of Okinawan civilians died during the US invasion, some after being told to kill themselves. But today the legacy of the war dead is being complicated by the presence of tens of thousands of...
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June 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Guardian photographer David Levene and I travelled to Okinawa a couple of months ago to make this video/text/photography package to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa. A real team effort that would not have been possible without colleagues in Okinawa, London and Sydney.
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Our Tokyo correspondent, the wonderful Justin McCurry, spent a day living only on the food and drinks sold at Japan's konbini stores - the result, and the video, is delightful
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Coffee, sandwiches, underwear, beer: a day in the life of Japan’s beloved konbini stores
Convenience stores are a neat and functional retail institution in Japan, where customers can access the daily essentials
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November 11, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Our Tokyo correspondent, the wonderful Justin McCurry, spent a day living only on the food and drinks sold at Japan's konbini stores - the result, and the video, is delightful
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...