Sources: Japan Times
A Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 aircraft collides with a Japan Coast Guard Dash 8 aircraft and bursts into flames at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. All 379 occupants aboard the Japan Airlines flight are evacuated, while five of the six occupants aboard the Coast Guard aircraft are killed. 2024-01-2
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology in Kharkiv, which holds a neutron generator, has been destroyed by Russian shelling. The IAEA says that no radiation release has been detected from the facility, which housed a "small inventory of radioactive material". 2022-03-7
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike announces that establishments that serve alcohol and karaoke parlors in the capital will be asked to close at 10:00 p.m. local time between November 28 and December 17 as part of measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will provide ¥400,000 in financial compensation to each business that complies with the voluntary request. 2020-11-25
Tokyo reports a new single-day record of 493 new cases, surpassing the previous record set in August and bringing the cumulative number of cases in the prefecture to over 35,000. 2020-11-18
The world's first autonomous taxi service begins operating in Tokyo, Japan. The pilot project will run until September 8, with full commercial operations expected to start in 2020, when the city hosts the 2020 Summer Olympics. 2018-08-28
"Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" is released in Japan as fans of Haruki Murakami queue at midnight outside Tokyo bookshops. 2013-04-12
Newly-appointed Japanese ambassador to China, Shinichi Nishimiya, is found collapsed on a street in Tokyo and hospitalized. 2012-09-13
North Korea is reported to be on a state of high alert for radiation from the Fukushima I accidents. 2011-03-29
A rise in radiation levels in Tokyo leads to panic buying and some residents leaving the capital. 2011-03-15
Tokyo's "oldest woman" cannot be located, casting doubts upon her claim to the title. 2010-08-3