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The Monocle Weekly team head to Tokyo this week and get a full briefing from Professor Koichi Nakano on Japan-US relations in the wake of the ongoing dispute over the Futenma air base. Also around the table is Monocle's regular Asia business correspondent Kenji Hall, who reveals how Japanese retailers are faring, and we explore life in Japan beyond the frontiers of Tokyo with Gwen Robinson from the Financial Times and Monocle's Asia bureau chief, Fiona Wilson.

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Hosted by editor in chief Tyler Brûlé, The Monocle Weekly is a mix of smart discussion, previews, field reports and feature interviews. From our studio in London and our bureaux in Tokyo and New York, Monocle's editors focus on the stories shaping the week ahead.

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