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How the Great Fire of 1657 shaped modern Tokyo Mar. 5 06:24 am JST Mar. 5 | 06:24 am JST TOKYO Take a stroll around modern Tokyo and the city appears to be the epitome of orderly peace and calm. It’s hard to believe that it was destroyed not once but twice in the course of the 20th century, first by earthquake and fire in 1923, and then by American bombs in 1945. Those are not the only times Tokyo has met with calamity. In the days when the city was known as Edo, it was a city of wood and thatch. Fire was a perennial hazard and Edo was razed to the ground on many occasion...

A 55-year-old woman and her 76-year-old husband were found dead in their home in Honjo, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday, in what police believe was an apparent murder-suicide. According to police, a caregiver found the bodies at around 2:30 p.m. and called 110, Fuji TV reported. She found the woman hanging…

Saitama: Woman found hanged, husband stabbed in residence By Tokyo Reporter Staff on February 25, 2021 SAITAMA (TR) – Saitama Prefectural Police launched an investigation after the discovery of the bodies of a woman and her husband inside their residence in Honjo City, reports the Sankei Shimbun (Feb. 24). At around 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, a female care worker visiting the residence alerted police. “A [man] living here is collapsed in a corridor,” she said. Emergency personnel arriving at the residence confirmed the 76-year-old man, who had suffered multiple stab wounds to the chest, d...

U.S. President Joe Biden marked 500,000 U.S. lives lost from COVID-19 with a moment of silence and candle-lighting ceremony at the White House. The nation passed the grim milestone on Monday, just over a year after the first confirmed U.S. fatality of the pandemic.

Vietnamese technical intern trainees in Japan have celebrated the Lunar New Year at a Buddhist temple north of Tokyo.