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A Tokyo neighbourhood wants to cancel Halloween. That’s a mistake
A widely celebrated spooky-season fest has received an eviction notice.
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Shibuya is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an information campaign aimed at dissuading people from coming at all.
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Gearoid Reidy
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Tokyo’s Shibuya was once the centre of raucous Halloween celebrations. But revellers are about as welcome this year as a box of healthy raisins in an elementary school student’s trick-or-treat candy haul.
For the past decade, Tokyo’s youth flocked to the district’s streets to drink, party and gawk at costumed zombies, Marios and Pikachus.
