The Australian reckons that Japanese four-time Grand Slam singles champion
Naomi Osaka isn’t Japanese enough to light the Olympic torch at the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and can we yeet these fuckers like shot-put already?
In case you missed it, 23-year-old Japanese-born tennis queen Naomi Osaka took the Olympic stage last night as the final torchbearer of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Taking to Instagram shortly after the historic moment, she said it was “undoubtedly the greatest athletic achievement and honour I will ever have in my life.”
“I have no words to describe the feelings I have right now but I do know I am currently filled with gratefulness and thankfulness.”
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2022 Subaru Forester mid-size SUV is in line for its
mid-life facelift later this year – and it could be in Australian showrooms as early as July 2021.
Its first major update since its local launch in late 2018,
CarAdvice understands the facelifted Forester will
arrive in Australian Subaru showrooms in the third quarter of 2021 (July to September inclusive) –
pending any further delays related to semiconductor chip shortages, currently affecting the car industry.
Reports out of Japan suggest changes will be minor, headlined by a revised front end with a reshaped honeycomb grille, and adaptive LED headlights inspired by the new-generation Levorg.
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Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki speaks during a news conference held to announce his retirement from film in Tokyo, in this September 6, 2013.
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Forest sprites and witches, a pilot who is a pig, mythical princes, gods, dragons and children struggling against insurmountable odds – a cast of the good, the bad and the odd inhabit the movies produced by Studio Ghibli, and have helped make a relatively small animation studio famous around the world.
Titles such as My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and The Wind Rises are also synonymous with Hayao Miyazaki, the creative force behind the much-loved Japanese film company.