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World newsBlood ties: Yakuza daughter lifts lid on hidden hell of gangsters' familiesUnexpected bestseller reveals Tokyo underworld of drugs, abuse and tattoosIn pictures: the yakuza It is only when Shoko Tendo removes her tracksuit top that you appreciate why, even on a hot day, she prefers to remain covered up in public. Outwardly she is much like any thirty-something you would be likely to encounter on a Tokyo street. Her hair is of the dark-brown hue favoured by many Japanese women her age, her greeting is accompanied by a well-executed bow, and her voice seems to be pitched a little on the high side, a common affectation in the company of strangers.

Unexpectedly charming … Axl Rose and Slash of Guns N' Roses performing their epic set on Saturday night. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/ShutterstockUnexpectedly charming … Axl Rose and Slash of Guns N' Roses performing their epic set on Saturday night. Photograph: Anthony Harvey/ShutterstockGlastonbury 2023ReviewArctic Monkeys, Fred Again, Raye, Lana Del Rey and Guns N’ Roses all astounded. And if everyone knew Foo Fighters would turn up, just who might share the stage with Elton John was the stuff of rumours

The music essayMusicIt’s easy to laugh at hardcore patriots misunderstanding Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA, but such appropriation is increasingly widespread – and dangerously twisting the truth “Did you know that Born in the USA is actually an anti-Vietnam war anthem?” Since Donald Trump embraced the 1984 Bruce Springsteen song during rallies, the lyrics have prompted so much explanation it now borders on cliche. Yet it’s no less unsettling for it, becoming a prime example of a startlingly widespread trend for the right wing to co-opt music about struggle and progress.

OpinionIndia This article is more than 13 years oldWomen suffer from Gandhi's legacyThis article is more than 13 years oldMichael ConnellanMohandas Gandhi held India back when it came to women's rights – and his own behaviour around them could be bizarreMohandas Gandhi, whose death anniversary falls on Saturday, was an amazing human being. He led his country to freedom and helped destroy the British Empire. Little wonder India worshipped him, and still worships him, as the Mahatma – "

Armistead Maupin'A friend rang me and said how could I do that to such a beautiful, beautiful man?'Armistead Maupin tells Patrick Gale how he took the rap for outing Rock HudsonIn 1976, Armistead Maupin had fallen in with Jack Coates, who had been Rock Hudson's lover for four or five years. Coates took Maupin and a group of friends to the San Bernadino Playhouse to see Hudson in a stage production of John Brown's Body.

La vie en rose: 40 years of Pierre et Gilles – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email From Boy George crossed with Krishna to Serge Gainsbourg as an imprisoned Santa, a new book traces four decades of brilliant images from the photographer and painter couple Pierre and Gilles Main image: Funny Balls (2012) Model: Marc Jacobs Created for Man About Town magazine Jacques-Antoine Granjon collection, Paris Photograph: Pierre et Gilles/Courtesy Galerie Templon, Paris and Brussels Fri 17 Feb 2017 07.

Chilean police at the Metropolitan Zoo in Santiago after a man climbed into the lion enclosure and was severely mauled. Photograph: PDI ChileChilean police at the Metropolitan Zoo in Santiago after a man climbed into the lion enclosure and was severely mauled. Photograph: PDI ChileChile This article is more than 7 years oldMan mauled by lions in Chilean zoo is recovering, say authoritiesThis article is more than 7 years oldMetropolitan Zoo in Santiago fends off criticism for shooting two lions as details emerge of its poor safety record and delusions of man who stripped naked in pen

OpinionRace This article is more than 8 years oldWhy the fuss over a white woman having a black hairstyle?This article is more than 8 years oldSede AlongeI see it as a welcome cultural export, not pernicious appropriation. The politics of hair is becoming another issue that exacerbates the racial divide Hair is not an easy thing for a woman to manage, day to day. And tangles aren’t our only trouble. In recent times, hairstyles have increasingly become a politicised, racialised issue that women are expected to have a stance on.

Chris Riddell: highlights from my laureate log – in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email When Chris Riddell was crowned children’s laureate in June he began his campaign to get everyone drawing and doodling every day. To inspire us Chris has been publishing his daily drawings on his laureate log, and here he shares some of the highlights including meetings with Wise Wizard Gaiman – and drawing on the walls of libraries and bookshops