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Siamo a Uguisudani, una stazione spesso ignorata dai visitatori nonostante si trovi a poche fermate da Ueno. È un quartiere residenziale e popolare, noto per la presenza di molti love hotel, ma soprattutto per una quotidianità che continua a esistere lontano dalle rotte turistiche.

In questa foto non c'è nulla di straordinario. Una piccola attività che prepara cibo da asporto, una bicicletta parcheggiata davanti all'ingresso, una scala che conduce agli appartamenti del piano superiore e le cassette della posta dei residenti.

È una scena normale. Proprio per questo mi interessa.

Qui commercio e abitazione convivono nello stesso edificio. Chi lavora nel locale probabilmente conosce chi vive sopra. Chi rientra a casa può fermarsi a prendere la cena a pochi metri dalla propria porta.

Una Tokyo semplice, funzionale e quotidiana. Quella che raramente compare nelle guide turistiche.

鶯谷は上野から数駅の場所にあるが、観光客があまり訪れない地域である。ラブホテル街として知られている一方で、実際には多くの人が暮らす生活の町でもある。

この写真に特別な出来事は写っていない。

持ち帰りの飲食店、自転車、上階へ続く階段、住人用の郵便受け。

ただそれだけである。

しかし、その普通さこそがこの場所らしさを表している。

店と住居が同じ建物にあり、働く人と住む人の日常が自然に重なっている。

観光地の東京ではなく、生活の東京である。

This photograph was taken in Uguisudani, a neighborhood only a few stops from Ueno but often overlooked by visitors. The area is known for its residential character and its concentration of love hotels, yet everyday life remains the dominant feature.

Nothing exceptional is happening here. A small takeaway restaurant, a bicycle parked outside, a staircase leading to the apartments above, and a row of resident mailboxes.

That normality is exactly what caught my attention.

The restaurant and the apartments share the same building. The people working downstairs and the people living upstairs are part of the same neighborhood ecosystem.

A simple, practical and ordinary side of Tokyo that rarely appears in travel brochures.

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Siamo a Uguisudani, una stazione spesso ignorata dai visitatori nonostante si trovi a poche fermate da Ueno. È un quartiere residenziale e popolare, noto per la presenza di molti love hotel, ma soprattutto per una quotidianità che continua a esistere lontano dalle rotte turistiche.

In questa foto non c'è nulla di straordinario. Una piccola attività che prepara cibo da asporto, una bicicletta parcheggiata davanti all'ingresso, una scala che conduce agli appartamenti del piano superiore e le cassette della posta dei residenti.

È una scena normale. Proprio per questo mi interessa.

Qui commercio e abitazione convivono nello stesso edificio. Chi lavora nel locale probabilmente conosce chi vive sopra. Chi rientra a casa può fermarsi a prendere la cena a pochi metri dalla propria porta.

Una Tokyo semplice, funzionale e quotidiana. Quella che raramente compare nelle guide turistiche.

鶯谷は上野から数駅の場所にあるが、観光客があまり訪れない地域である。ラブホテル街として知られている一方で、実際には多くの人が暮らす生活の町でもある。

この写真に特別な出来事は写っていない。

持ち帰りの飲食店、自転車、上階へ続く階段、住人用の郵便受け。

ただそれだけである。

しかし、その普通さこそがこの場所らしさを表している。

店と住居が同じ建物にあり、働く人と住む人の日常が自然に重なっている。

観光地の東京ではなく、生活の東京である。

This photograph was taken in Uguisudani, a neighborhood only a few stops from Ueno but often overlooked by visitors. The area is known for its residential character and its concentration of love hotels, yet everyday life remains the dominant feature.

Nothing exceptional is happening here. A small takeaway restaurant, a bicycle parked outside, a staircase leading to the apartments above, and a row of resident mailboxes.

That normality is exactly what caught my attention.

The restaurant and the apartments share the same building. The people working downstairs and the people living upstairs are part of the same neighborhood ecosystem.

A simple, practical and ordinary side of Tokyo that rarely appears in travel brochures.

The Trump administration released another large batch of government UAP records, including videos of glowing orb-like objects appearing to split and rejoin, witness accounts, illustrations, and decades-old investigative documents. Axios reports: The documents indicate that government agents have spent years monitoring, investigating and documenting suspected UAP incidents. At lease some of the sightings took place near sensitive government facilities, according to the reports. Videos showing red and yellow light-emitting orbs, some of which appear to split apart and then reattach as they fly across the sky. The videos were taken by witnesses whom the government deemed "credible."

Illustrations and videos showing reenactments of what observers saw, and the positions they were in when they viewed them.
Memos from government agents describing their experiences seeing flying objects.
An illustration of a grayish-white balloon-like object hovering above an area near Colorado Springs, Colo. An illustration depicting a series of incidents that took place in the "western United States" where government officials reported seeing UAPs in 2023.

There also are decades-old records documenting the government's involvement in investigating UAPs, including a 1949 letter then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote federal agents after receiving a message from an American citizen expressing their belief they'd seen a non-human-made flying object. The records released by the administration do not express any conclusions as to whether the government believes the UAPs represent the existence of alien life. They also do not indicate any conclusions as to whether UAPs represent a national security threat to the U.S.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Op het Heerenlaantje in Gorinchem is een motorrijder hard tegen de muur van een woongebouw aangereden. Hierbij raakte de bestuurder, een man, zwaargewond. Het slachtoffer is met een spoedtransport onder politiebegeleiding naar het ziekenhuis gebracht.

More than 100 UK lawmakers urge government to cancel London event, warning it is linked to land ‘stolen from Palestinians’

More than 100 UK lawmakers have called for the cancellation of an Israeli real estate event scheduled to take place in London on Sunday, which had appeared to advertise the sale of land in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

In a letter sent to the foreign secretary on Friday, 101 parliamentarians and members of the House of Lords, warned the event was “firmly embedded in Israel’s project of colonial expansion by facilitating the sale of land that has been stolen from Palestinians” and called on the government to take “all necessary steps” to stop the event from going ahead in the capital.

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Sinds het vertrek van Mark Rutte is er in de VVD een heftig debat aan de gang over de koers. Op het partijcongres werd een nieuw manifest omarmd, dat de vleugels in de partij dichter bij elkaar moet brengen.