Sources: Japan Times
Three men are stabbed and injured on a train at Akihabara Station in Tokyo, Japan. 2024-01-3
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces that the Go To Travel campaign will be suspended nationwide from December 28 to January 11. He also says that Tokyo and Nagoya will be removed as eligible destinations for the campaign. 2020-12-14
A car plows into New Year's celebrators in Tokyo, Japan, injuring eight. A ninth person was assaulted by the driver after he got out of the vehicle. Police believe the incident to be intentional. 2019-01-1
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
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
Voters in the Japanese capital of Tokyo elect Yoichi Masuzoe to replace former Governor Naoki Inose, who resigned on December 24, 2013. [http:--the-japan-news.com-news-article-0001017889 ("Yomiuri Shimbun")]date=April 2020 2014-02-9
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
A rise in radiation levels in Tokyo leads to panic buying and some residents leaving the capital. 2011-03-15