Sources: Japan Times
The Japan Meteorological Agency reports that Tokyo recorded ten consecutive days of temperatures at or above 35 C, the longest streak since observations began in 1875. 2025-08-27
Families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago hold a rally in Tokyo to call on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to return their relatives to Japan. 2025-05-24
The Tokyo District Court sentences Kyota Hattori to 23 years in prison for attempted murder and arson on a train in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan, in October 2021. 2023-07-31
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, the BBC's Tokyo correspondent, was detained in North Korea before being expelled by the government for "speaking very ill of the system". 2016-05-9
A man self-immolates aboard a "Nozomi" Shinkansen train running from Tokyo to Osaka; the man and another passenger die. Eleven others were reported injured. 2015-06-30
The composite-bodied Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its first commercial flight with All Nippon Airways, flying between Tokyo and Hong Kong. 2011-10-26
Japanese anti-nuclear protests following the Fukushima I nuclear accidents: Hundreds of farmers protest against Japan's atomic crisis, outside the TEPCO head office in Tokyo. 2011-04-26
Japan defends dumping of water with low level radiation from the accidents in the Pacific Ocean following criticism from South Korea and Russia. 2011-04-5
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