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Laughs don’t get lost in translation at Tokyo Comedy Bar

The third-floor Tokyo Comedy Bar club near Shibuya Station in Tokyo includes a cramped bar serving craft beer and snacks, but the action happens in the room next door where comedians prowl in the darkness. The small venue means everyone is fair game for the performers, and there are shows in both Japanese and English.

Cracking the code of making old clothes new again

Tied to the arrival in the 1990s of fast fashion -- which for the uninitiated is essentially the ability to churn out new clothing lines at cheap prices -- the environmental destruction caused by discarded and disintegrating clothing cannot be understated. Attempts at reuse and recycling have only put a small dent in the worsening problem, hindered by a thorny set of technological obstacles to making old clothing new again.

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