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It took a decade of noise, trash and at least one tourist defecating on a resident’s lawn for the town of Fujiyoshida to declare a crisis. This small city at the base of Japan’s Mt. Fuji made international headlines earlier this year when it cancelled its annual cherry blossom festival …

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution in Paris is crumbling from within. The spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, …