Taylor Swift, we need you in the Super Bowl crowd — please don’t get injured. During Swift’s show in Tokyo Friday, the singer tripped and almost fell while singing from atop the Folklore house of her Eras Tour set. Before performing “Betty,” she addressed the incident, joking her “life flashed …
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Horrible crimes have been committed amid Tokyo’s shadowy nightlife, and a young Western woman is in the middle of it. So are the police and the media, each handling things as they’ve been taught, which doesn’t endear them to each other. No, it’s not another season of HBO’s Tokyo Vice, …
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