Every Sunday afternoon, rain or shine, a group gathers at a park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district, where Japanese studying Chinese and Chinese living in Japan can engage in lively conversation. The gathering is a Chinese-language circle called Hanyu Jiao, which translates as "Chinese chat session." ...
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a 38-year-old man to eight years in prison on Friday for killing a pedestrian and injuring six others in Tokyo in 2014 after inhaling a so-called kiken (dangerous) drug. Prosecutors had sought a 10-year term for Keiji Nagura on the ...
A doctor who allegedly plowed his car into a crowded sidewalk near Tokyo's Ikebukuro Station, leaving one person dead and four injured, has epilepsy, and police suspect he may have blacked out following a seizure.
A woman is killed and four people are injured when a car driven by a doctor ran across a sidewalk and struck an apparel shop outside JR Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo.
A man fatally shot his wife Sunday night in a cafe in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo, apparently in a fit of anger during a quarrel. The suspect, whom police believe is a 54-year-old Chinese resident of Itabashi Ward, was collared on the street in ...
A man under the influence of quasi-legal herbs drove a speeding car into pedestrians Tuesday evening in the bustling Tokyo district of Ikebukuro, leaving one person dead and seven people injured. The driver, Keiji Nagura, a 37-year-old restaurant manager from Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture, was arrested ...
A man under the influence of quasi-legal herbs slammed his car into pedestrians Tuesday evening in Tokyo's bustling Ikebukuro district, injuring seven people, police said. Three of the victims sustained serious injuries, while a woman was thrown into a state of cardiac arrest. The driver was ...
To Yukio Takano, Mayor of Toshima Ward, Tokyo: I urge you to dismantle the new tobacco industry-funded smoking area in the crowded center of our ward. Please instead respect Toshima Ward's commitment as a World Health Organization-certified Safe Community and our nation's obligations under the ...
