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10th anniv. of fatal Tokyo subway accident marked

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Tokyo Metro Co. bow to a monument near the tracks of the subway operator's Hibiya Line in Tokyo on March 8, 2010, the 10th anniversary of a derailment accident involving two subway trains which killed five passengers.

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10th anniv. of fatal Tokyo subway accident marked

TOKYO, Japan - People who lost their relatives in a subway accident in 2000 offer prayers before a monument near the tracks of Tokyo Metro Co.'s Hibiya Line in Tokyo on March 8, 2010, the 10th anniversary of the derailment accident involving two subway trains in which five passengers died.

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Temp workers given shelter, appeal for aid for unemployed

TOKYO, Japan - Temporary workers who have lost their jobs and places to live in the current economic slump and other homeless workers line up to apply for new shelters offered by the government in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Jan. 5 after their ''tent village'' in Tokyo's Hibiya Park was closed.

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Tent village in central Tokyo draws some 400 homeless people

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people line up to get a meal at a temporary tent village in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo on Jan. 4. The tent village has drawn around 400 people without jobs or homes since it was set up by volunteers on New Year's Eve for the New Year holiday period.

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Population of tent village for homeless tops 250

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people form a long line to get a free meal at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Jan. 2. The ''year-crossing temp worker village'' was launched in Hibiya Park in Tokyo to provide free food and shelter for homeless people including laid-off temporary workers who have been forced to leave accommodation provided by their employers.

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Population of tent village for homeless tops 250

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people line up to get a free lunch at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Jan. 2. The ''year-crossing temp worker village'' was launched in Hibiya Park in front of the Imperial Hotel, one of the country's most luxurious hotels, to provide free food and shelter for homeless people including laid-off temporary workers who have been forced to leave accommodation provided by their employers.

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(4)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

TOKYO, Japan - More than 4,000 people line up at Hibiya Park on Feb. 27 to get tickets to the Tokyo District Court. The court is to hand down a ruling later in the day on Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult after an eight-year trial.

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Tokyo subway workers mark 8th anniversary of AUM gas attac

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo subway workers pray at Kasumigaseki Station of the Hibiya Line on March 20 to mark the eighth anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin gas attack on the subway system that killed 12 people and injured thousands.

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Tokyo subway workers mark 7th anniversary of AUM gas attack

TOKYO, Japan - Station workers at Kasumigaseki Station on the Hibiya Line of Teito Rapid Transit Authority offer a silent prayer at the station in central Tokyo on March 20 for the 12 victims of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the subway.

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Subway staff remember victims of 1995 AUM gassing

TOKYO, Japan - Subway staff in Tokyo on March 20 mark the sixth anniversary of the 1995 gas attack on the capital's subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult, which killed 12 people in one of Japan's worst incidents of terrorism. About 30 employees observed 30 seconds of silence in front of a flower-covered plate set up in memory of the dead at Kasumigaseki Station on the Hibiya Line at 8 a.m., the time of the attack.

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Subway head resigns over March derailment

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Terashima, president of Teito Rapid Transit Authority, operator of a Tokyo subway network, bows at the Transport Ministry on June 27 after apologizing and announcing his resignation over the March 8 derailment of a subway train near Nakameguro Station on the Hibiya Line. The derailment left five passengers dead and 36 others injured.

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Toranomon Hills Station opened to the press.

Tokyo Metro will tentatively open a new station, Toranomon Hills (photo), on the Hibiya Line between Kasumigaseki and Kamiyacho on March 6. This is the first new station on the Hibiya Line in 56 years, since the entire line opened in 1964. The new station will be built in tandem with urban development of the surrounding area, which is becoming an international business and exchange hub. Kunio Sakurai, general manager of the Urban Renaissance Agency, which is in charge of the project, expressed his hope that the new station will serve as infrastructure to support the entire region. The new station, which has been under construction in time for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics to be held this summer, is scheduled to open for business in 2023. June 2, 2020, Minato Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Tokyo subway workers mark 7th anniversary of AUM gas attack

TOKYO, Japan - Station workers at Kasumigaseki Station on the Hibiya Line of Teito Rapid Transit Authority offer a silent prayer at the station in central Tokyo on March 20 for the 12 victims of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the subway.

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Tokyo subway workers mark 8th anniversary of AUM gas attac

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo subway workers pray at Kasumigaseki Station of the Hibiya Line on March 20 to mark the eighth anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's sarin gas attack on the subway system that killed 12 people and injured thousands. (Kyodo)

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Ex-baseball star Kiyohara to receive sentence for drug use

People line up at Tokyo's Hibiya Park to draw tickets for attending a trial on retired baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara at the nearby Tokyo District Court on May 31, 2016. The court will later in the day sentence the 48-year-old, who pleaded guilty to possession and use of illegal drugs and faced a 30-month imprisonment demand. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-baseball star Kiyohara to receive sentence for drug use

People line up at Tokyo's Hibiya Park to draw tickets for attending a trial on retired baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara at the nearby Tokyo District Court on May 31, 2016. The court will later in the day sentence the 48-year-old, who pleaded guilty to possession and use of illegal drugs and faced a 30-month imprisonment demand. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-baseball star Kiyohara to receive sentence for drug use

People line up at Tokyo's Hibiya Park to draw tickets for attending a trial on retired baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara at the nearby Tokyo District Court on May 31, 2016. The court will later in the day sentence the 48-year-old, who pleaded guilty to possession and use of illegal drugs and faced a 30-month imprisonment demand. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st hearing for ex-baseball star Kiyohara's drug charges

People line up at Tokyo's Hibiya Park to draw tickets for the first hearing of former baseball star Kazuhiro Kiyohara to be held at the nearby Tokyo District Court on May 17, 2016. The 48-year-old has been indicted for alleged drug possession and use in February and was released on 5 million yen ($45,000) bail in March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Smoke at station disrupts Tokyo subway operations

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2016, shows crowds at Ginza Station of the Tokyo subway's Hibiya Line, where smoke was seen pouring from a ceiling duct. No injuries were initially reported. Subway operations between Kasumigaseki and Higashiginza stations, both in central Tokyo, were temporarily suspended. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Smoke at station disrupts Tokyo subway operations

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2016, shows crowds at Ginza Station of the Tokyo subway's Hibiya Line, where smoke was seen pouring from a ceiling duct. No injuries were initially reported. Subway operations between Kasumigaseki and Higashiginza stations, both in central Tokyo, were temporarily suspended. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Smoke at station disrupts Tokyo subway operations

Photo taken Jan. 26, 2016, shows firefighters deployed at Ginza Station of the Tokyo subway's Hibiya Line, as smoke poured out of a ceiling duct. No injuries were initially reported. Subway operations between Kasumigaseki and Higashiginza stations, both in central Tokyo, were temporarily suspended. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Temp workers given shelter, appeal for aid for unemployed

TOKYO, Japan - Temporary workers who have lost their jobs and places to live in the current economic slump and other homeless workers line up to apply for new shelters offered by the government in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Jan. 5 after their ''tent village'' in Tokyo's Hibiya Park was closed. (Kyodo)

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Tent village in central Tokyo draws some 400 homeless people

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people line up to get a meal at a temporary tent village in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo on Jan. 4. The tent village has drawn around 400 people without jobs or homes since it was set up by volunteers on New Year's Eve for the New Year holiday period. (Kyodo)

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Population of tent village for homeless tops 250

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people line up to get a free lunch at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Jan. 2. The ''year-crossing temp worker village'' was launched in Hibiya Park in front of the Imperial Hotel, one of the country's most luxurious hotels, to provide free food and shelter for homeless people including laid-off temporary workers who have been forced to leave accommodation provided by their employers. (Kyodo)

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Population of tent village for homeless tops 250

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people form a long line to get a free meal at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Jan. 2. The ''year-crossing temp worker village'' was launched in Hibiya Park in Tokyo to provide free food and shelter for homeless people including laid-off temporary workers who have been forced to leave accommodation provided by their employers. (Kyodo)

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Cherry trees at Shiba Park

The front gate of Zojoji Temple at Shiba is visible on the far left. The Tokyo City Railway Mita-Hibiya Line opened here in June 1904, but no train tracks are visible in this photograph. The photographer, Herbert George Ponting, visited Japan once in 1896 and again in 1903. The caption on the lower right saying Copyright 1904 indicates that he took this photograph during the second visit. This photograph was also used as a motif for picture postcards.==Date:1904, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐76‐0]

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Tokyo subway trains collide, 3 killed, 31 hurt

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigate the derailment of a Tokyo subway train on an above-ground track March 8. The train collided with another running on the opposite track, killing three passengers and injuring 31. The collision occurred at 9:01 a.m. about 150 meters northeast of Nakameguro Station in Tokyo's Meguro Ward, on the Hibiya Line operated by Teito Rapid Transit Authority, also known as Eidan. The tail car of the southbound eight-car train, which was about to arrive at the terminal station on the line, derailed on a curve just after leaving a tunnel.

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Ex-DPJ leader Ozawa found not guilty

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 26, 2012, shows people in Tokyo's Hibiya Park waiting in line for a drawing at the nearby Tokyo District Court to select those who can attend the court to hear a ruling given on former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa over charges of false political funds reporting. He was found not guilty. (Kyodo)

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10th anniv. of fatal Tokyo subway accident marked

TOKYO, Japan - People who lost their relatives in a subway accident in 2000 offer prayers before a monument near the tracks of Tokyo Metro Co.'s Hibiya Line in Tokyo on March 8, 2010, the 10th anniversary of the derailment accident involving two subway trains in which five passengers died. (Kyodo)

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10th anniv. of fatal Tokyo subway accident marked

TOKYO, Japan - Executives of Tokyo Metro Co. bow to a monument near the tracks of the subway operator's Hibiya Line in Tokyo on March 8, 2010, the 10th anniversary of a derailment accident involving two subway trains which killed five passengers. (Kyodo)

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Pop singer Aska's trial begins

TOKYO, Japan - People line up at Tokyo's Hibiya Park for a lottery to be eligible for a seat in the trial of pop singer Aska ahead of its first hearing at the nearby Tokyo District Court on Aug. 28, 2014. Aska, 56, one-half of the well-known duo Chage and Aska, was indicted on suspicion of possessing and using illegal stimulant drugs in June and was freed on 7 million yen bail in July. (Kyodo)

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New subway station in Tokyo

A new TH Liner express train arrives at the newly opened Toranomon Hills Station on Tokyo Metro's Hibiya subway line. The station, which opened the same day, is located among a complex of high-rise buildings, including 52-story skyscraper Toranomon Hills Mori Tower, becoming the first new station on the Hibiya line since its full launch in 1964. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New subway station in Tokyo

Photo taken June 6, 2020, shows the newly opened Toranomon Hills Station on Tokyo Metro's Hibiya subway line. The station, which opened the same day, is located among a complex of high-rise buildings, including 52-story skyscraper Toranomon Hills Mori Tower, becoming the first new station on the Hibiya line since its full launch in 1964. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(4)AUM founder Asahara to face verdict

TOKYO, Japan - More than 4,000 people line up at Hibiya Park on Feb. 27 to get tickets to the Tokyo District Court. The court is to hand down a ruling later in the day on Shoko Asahara, founder of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult after an eight-year trial. (Kyodo)

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Subway staff remember victims of 1995 AUM gassing

TOKYO, Japan - Subway staff in Tokyo on March 20 mark the sixth anniversary of the 1995 gas attack on the capital's subway system by the AUM Shinrikyo cult, which killed 12 people in one of Japan's worst incidents of terrorism. About 30 employees observed 30 seconds of silence in front of a flower-covered plate set up in memory of the dead at Kasumigaseki Station on the Hibiya Line at 8 a.m., the time of the attack.

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Subway head resigns over March derailment

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Terashima, president of Teito Rapid Transit Authority, operator of a Tokyo subway network, bows at the Transport Ministry on June 27 after apologizing and announcing his resignation over the March 8 derailment of a subway train near Nakameguro Station on the Hibiya Line. The derailment left five passengers dead and 36 others injured.

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Police examine wrecked subway train car

TOKYO, Japan - Police examine on March 9 a subway train car that collided with another car on the Hibiya Line in Meguro Ward, Tokyo the previous day, leaving four dead and 33 injured. The inspection was being held at a subway company's train inspection facility in Tokyo's Arakawa Ward.

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Workers begin clearing the track

TOKYO, Japan - Workers begin clearing the track of the train that had derailed and collided with another running on the opposite track on Tokyo's Hibiya Line on March 8. Three passengers were killed and 32 others injured in the accident.