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BUNKYO WARD

More Chinese families are clustering in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, a district renowned for having the finest educational environment in Japan.
JAPAN / Society
May 29, 2025
Chinese parents are fueling Tokyo’s education race
International schools in Tokyo are already witnessing an influx of children from the newly arrived, highly involved Chinese households.
Yoshitaka Toda, the suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, leaves a police station in the Japanese capital the same day for a pre-detention medical examination.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 12, 2025
More details emerge about stabbing near Tokyo University metro station
Yoshitaka Toda, 43, claimed he stabbed a student to show how academic pressure could push a child off course.
Yoshitaka Toda is escorted out of a police station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Friday to be sent to prosecutors.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 9, 2025
Suspect in Tokyo Metro stabbing chose station to highlight ‘educational abuse’
Yoshitaka Toda, 43, said he struggled with mental health issues as a result of his parents’ expectations for him to excel academically.
Police outside Todaimae Station on the Namboku Line on Wednesday evening after a knife attack at the station  
JAPAN
May 8, 2025
Man held after two injured in Tokyo Metro knife attack
The suspect remained silent during interrogation after being arrested at the scene, investigative sources have said.
Takashi Inoguchi
JAPAN
Dec 1, 2024
Victims of fire at LDP lawmaker's home identified
The cause of the fire has not been determined, but the possibility of a crime is low, and it is suspected to be accidental, according to the police.
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 28, 2024
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
The lawmaker's husband and eldest daughter, who were captured on security camera footage entering the building earlier, remain unaccounted for.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jan 5, 2019
Japan Times 1969: Police battle students at Tokyo University
Radical students holed up in Tokyo University's Yasuda Auditorium withstood a 10-hour siege by riot police who seized control of 16 other buildings held by the students on the university's Hongo campus.

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