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Tokyo police at a site where a woman had been stabbed while livestreaming in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Tuesday
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 12, 2025
Tokyo livestream murder victim stabbed over alleged debt dispute
The attack occurred at around 9:50 a.m. on Tuesday in Takadanobaba, Shinjuku Ward, while the 22-year-old woman victim was livestreaming.
Flowers are lain near the spot where Airi Sato was stabbed as she was live streaming in front of Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Tuesday. Sato died of her wounds later that day.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 12, 2025
Dozens of wounds found on Tokyo stabbing victim
Takano is suspected of stabbing Sato with a knife while she was live-streaming a video on a street in front of Takadanobaba Station in Shinjuku Ward.
Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police examine the scene where a woman in her 20s was stabbed on Tuesday morning in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 11, 2025
Man arrested after fatal stabbing of woman in Shinjuku Ward
The suspect is said to have approached the woman in her 20s near Takadanobaba Station and stabbed her without warning as she walked, apparently livestreaming, investigators said.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Food of my Former Homeland
Feb 1, 2020
Swe Myanmar: Sharing the flavors of home in Tokyo's 'Little Yangon'
The popular Swe Myanmar is one of many Myanmar restaurants in Tokyo's 'Little Yangon,' Takadanobaba. But one aspect makes it unique: Its owner, Than Swe, is a foreign national who was granted asylum in the 1990s.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 24, 2019
Double bubble, tapioca tea and garbage trouble
Food and beverage fads come and go. On frequent occasions, "Gatten," NHK's health-oriented Wednesday evening program, used to present evidence that eating this food or drinking that beverage achieved seemingly miraculous results, including weight loss, lower blood pressure or relief from constipation....
Japan Times
JAPAN / AT A GLANCE
Dec 1, 2015
Little Myanmar thrives in Tokyo as more residents arrive
In the hustle and bustle of Tokyo's Takadanobaba district there exists what might be termed Little Yangon, with a number of restaurants and shops catering to the growing community of residents from Myanmar.
Osaka Expo-linked spending expected to hit ¥1 trillion
The Osaka Expo site on Yumeshima island in December.
The North Korea taekwondo supremo that Austria can't kick
The entrance sign of the headquarters of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is pictured, on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, on March 5, 2025. While the sports organization has faced accusations of working for Pyongyang, ITF has denied "any wrongdoing," insisting the federation promotes taekwondo worldwide.
Amid labor shortage, Japan approves guidelines to upskill foreign workers
A Vietnamese worker harvests tomatoes at a farm in the city of Asahi, Chiba Prefecture, in 2018.
Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida to step down
Makoto Uchida, CEO of Nissan, will step down from the post at the end of this month.
Man arrested after fatal stabbing of woman in Shinjuku Ward
Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police examine the scene where a woman in her 20s was stabbed on Tuesday morning in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
‘We are not Ukraine’: Top Taiwan officials temper comparisons after U.S. U-turn
People hold a Ukrainian flag and a Taiwan flag during a protest to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Taipei on Feb. 23.
14 years after 3/11 disasters, Fukushima vies to become a startup hub
Aizawa Concrete employees work in the Namie factory in Fukushima Prefecture in January.
Tokyo’s vinyl experts say overseas buyers are ‘sustaining the scene’
Rintaro Sekizuka runs a record store in both London and Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward.
Slowly but surely, Osaka emerges from Kyoto’s fine-dining shadow
Bar Bota, the 37th-floor watering hole at the Four Seasons Osaka, looks out on a glittering cityscape better known for its cheap eats and drinks.
Cherry blossom season set to kick off on March 21 in Tokyo
A Weathernews forecast shows the cherry blossom season will begin on March 21 in Tokyo.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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