A 15-hour blaze in a building adjacent to the Tsukiji fish market was extinguished Friday morning after damaging five stores inside, but no injuries were reported, Tokyo firefighters said. The fire damaged roughly 935 sq. meters of the three-story building, which started at around 4:50 ...
Hoping to generate an Olympic buzz at home and overseas, Tokyo's 2020 organizers kicked off the countdown to the games on Monday — exactly three years before the opening ceremony — by releasing the lyrics for a promotional theme song and summer dance. But the ...
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike backs off a vow to clean up the toxic water under Toyosu and says the Tsukiji fish market might reopen there next spring.
Yuriko Koike's plan to relocate the capital's Tsukiji wholesale market to the new site in the Toyosu waterfront area — while also redeveloping the Tsukiji site in five years without selling it off as scheduled— seems to raise more questions than answer
An innovative distribution method has made it possible to bring fish to consumers in Tokyo on the day they were caught, not via the controversy-mired Tsukiji or Toyosu markets, but through Haneda airport. At 10:20 a.m. one day in late May, a container of fresh ...
Fishery wholesalers voiced concern about the future of the Tsukiji market, saying Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike’s plan announced Tuesday is unclear about redevelopment efforts at the famed site.
New Toyosu site will serve as the main wholesale market and distribution center, but the timing of the move remains unclear.
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has decided to move the famous Tsukiji fish market to the Toyosu waterfront district in Koto Ward after additional safety measures are taken to ease pollution concerns, sources familiar with the matter said. Koike is expected to announce the decision early ...
A Tokyo Metropolitan Government panel advises placing additional pollution control measures on the replacement for the Tsukiji fish market.
A special investigation committee of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly confirmed Wednesday that a former deputy governor gave false testimony in March about his role in the Tsukiji fish market relocation plan. The committee approved the judgment of perjury for Takeo Hamauzu with the backing of ...
Major political parties remain divided over how to tackle the stalled relocation of the Tsukiji wholesale market in Tokyo as they prepare for the upcoming metropolitan assembly election early this summer, a poll showed Wednesday. Gov. Yuriko Koike is seeking to secure a majority for ...
Cancer-causing Benzene has been detected in gas in soil under the Tsukiji wholesale food market, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said. But the metro government said no health hazards are expected to be found because the ground is covered with concrete and other foundation materials. In any ...
