Toshimaen fans bid final farewells to a 94-year-old Tokyo institution
"We loved Toshimaen because it was uniquely Japanese,” one fan wrote on Twitter. “Now it's going to be just another imported theme park."
Tokyo's Toshimaen amusement park ends 94-year run to make way for Harry Potter
Most of the 22-hectare site will be purchased by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, which plans to build a park there.
'Making of Harry Potter' film-studio park to open in Tokyo in 2023
With an area of approximately 30,000 square meters, the theme park will display film sets, costumes and props used in the movies based on the popular novels.
Former top Japan farm ministry official admits to murdering reclusive son in first day of trial
A former top bureaucrat at the farm ministry admitted Wednesday to killing his socially reclusive son, during the first day of his high-profile trial in Tokyo. Hideaki Kumazawa, 76, who once served as vice minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, is on ...
Tokyo's Nerima Ward office has stepped up security measures in response to a message on an Internet message board threatening to detonate a bomb at the building Monday, but no explosive has been found so far, sources said Sunday. The sources at the ward and ...
The knife attack in Tokyo's Nerima Ward underscores the difficulty in preventing the realization of parents' worst nightmare when they let their kids walk to school.
Students at Oizumi Daiichi Elementary School are met by police officers as they arrive for classes a day after a terrifying knife attack in Nerima Ward.
