age of 78. the french born confectioner spent 27 years, serving five united states presidents. now on bbc news, the bbc s mariko oi travels across japan to see what impact new funding may have on tech and explores whether it has the potential to be asia s silicon valley. home of nintendo and the bullet train, japan was once a pioneer in innovation, but then fresh global competition emerged. i m heading home to meet the next generation of entrepreneurs across a country where starting your own business wasn t always seen as an ideal career choice. for many areas, start ups have kind of disadvantages injapan, but from now it ll be changed. the government is putting its weight behind this and has tapped into its huge pension fund, worth $1.5 trillion, hoping to increase the number of starters by ten fold over the next five years. they want to encourage a spirit of enterprise in every corner of the land. i ve come to tokushima. it s a bit of a backwater, and hasn t got a reputatio
marking the official launch of the nottingham. the last few days of summer with a dry story. if you shower cropping up here you can see parts of bingen, rural parts, temperatures dropping 26-27 c. rural parts, temperatures dropping 26 27 c. double figures to start your tuesday morning. the best of the morning sunshine in england and wales. parts of east anglia southeast and a few showers in recent days. the odd isolated shower through scotland towards the isle of man but cloud breaking up through. even with the breeze, we will see temperatures around 23 24 c. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. nasa postpones the launch of the artemis space rocket on its mission to the moon, due to last minute technical issues. the next opportunity for the launch is on friday. the head of the institute for fiscal studies labels some of liz truss s tax cutting policies as worrying and inadequade for dealing with rising energy costs. the ukrainian military has begun its long awaited offen
we re starting our run with a 72 seconds silence. just in terms of the rest of carnival, what is the feeling amongst people at the moment here? this is the first time carnival has been on the streets since 2019. it means a heck of a lot for people. i grew up in west london and i remember coming to carnival every year and dad carrying me on my shoulders and my sister on my uncle so we have roots connected to carnival so the fact it is back in the first time in three years is incredible and the atmosphere here is electric and i feel the energy. people want to come down here on a sunday morning. there are people coming at 8:30. it has been an amazing experience. thank you for speaking to us. this is just the start of the days, there will be musicians to show and we will be giving updates at the day. the prince of wales has guest edited a special edition of the british african caribbean newspaper, the voice, to mark its 40th anniversary. it carries interviews with baroness doreen
this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. home of nintendo and the bullet train, japan was once a pioneer in innovation, but then fresh global competition emerged. i m heading home to meet the next generation of entrepreneurs across a country where starting your own business wasn t always seen as an ideal career choice. for many areas, start ups have kind of disadvantages injapan, but from now it ll be changed. the government is putting its weight behind this and has tapped into its huge pension fund, worth $1.5 trillion, hoping to increase the number of starters by ten fold over the next five years. they want to encourage a spirit of enterprise in every corner of the land. i ve come to tokushima. it s a bit of a backwater and hasn t got a reputation of being a thriving area. but it has been trying to reinvent itself as a place for start ups, and in recent years a local company has h
Kyoto s renowned Gion Festival, particularly its highlight event, the Yamahoko Junko parade, will offer premium viewing seats priced at up to 200,000 yen.