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UK: Widespread Flooding Hits Greater Manchester Forcing Hundreds To Evacuate 4

Heavy rain caused severe flooding across Greater Manchester on New Year's Day forcing at least 13,000 people to evacuate. Emergency services declared a major incident.

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Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

TOKYO, Japan - Striking workers represented by a labor union at Japanese department store operator Sogo & Seibu Co. march in the streets of Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Aug. 31, 2023. Store workers are opposing plans by parent Seven & i Holdings Co. to sell the 10-store chain to a U.S.-based investment fund.

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Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Sogo & Seibu labor union chief Yasuhiro Teraoka (C) is surrounded by reporters during a union rally in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Aug. 31, 2023. Workers at the Seibu Ikebukuro department store went on strike the same day protesting a planned sale of their company, a first for a Japanese department store in around 60 years.

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Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Striking workers represented by a labor union at Japanese department store operator Sogo & Seibu Co. march in the streets of Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Aug. 31, 2023. Store workers are opposing plans by parent Seven & i Holdings Co. to sell the 10-store chain to a U.S.-based investment fund.

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Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2023, shows a notice placed at Seibu department store's flagship Ikebukuro location in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, announcing its forced closure due to a labor strike.

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Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2023, shows the Seibu Ikebukuro department store in Tokyo's Toshima Ward. Store workers staged a strike the same day, opposing plans by parent Seven & i Holdings Co. to sell the 10-store Sogo & Seibu chain to a U.S.-based investment fund.

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Seibu operate Harry Potter train service from Ikebukuro

Before the opening of the theme park of the popular movie "Harry Potter" in June on the site of the former amusement park "Toshimaen" in Nerima Ward, Seibu Railway announced on the 16th that the full-wrapped train "Studio Tour" featuring the main cast members The Tokyo Express has started operating.

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Man arrested over shooting wife dead

Man arrested over shooting wife dead

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on the night of July 6, 2014, shows a cafe of a hotel in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district, shortly after a man allegedly shot his wife dead there. The man, a 54-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, was seized by cafe employees and arrested at the scene by police.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a disaster drill, acting as people who have become unable to return home due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, are led into the Isetan department store in Shinjuku Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The drill, in which 10,000 people took part, was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro.

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Idea for Chinatown in Ikebukuro draws negative reaction

Idea for Chinatown in Ikebukuro draws negative reaction

TOKYO, Japan - A number of Chinese shops and restaurants are located around JR Ikebukuro station in Tokyo's Toshima Ward.

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Namco opens healing park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro

Namco opens healing park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro

TOKYO, Japan - Officials cut the tape during the opening ceremony July 15 for the ''Riraku no Mori'' healing park operated by Namco Ltd. at the company's Namja Town amusement facility in Tokyo's Ikebukuro Ward. The park has eight stores to provide Taiwanese, Indian, Thai and other healing therapies and sell items such as health food.

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(1)New steps developed against bikes left around stations

(1)New steps developed against bikes left around stations

TOKYO, Japan - A ward official removes a bicycle from in front of the west exit of JR Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on May 26.

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Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike inspected the Ikebukuro Public Health Center, Komagome Hospital, and other institutions and organizations that are responding to the new coronavirus (COVID-19). The photo shows the inspection of the Ikebukuro Public Health Center. The governor is on the far left in the middle of the photo. (May 14, 2020, Toshima Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike visited the Ikebukuro Public Health Center, Komagome Hospital, and other institutions and organizations that are responding to the new coronavirus (COVID-19). The photo shows Tokyo Governor Koike (far right) being welcomed by officials upon his arrival at Komagome Hospital. (May 14, 2020, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike visited the Ikebukuro Public Health Center, Komagome Hospital, and other institutions and organizations that are responding to the new coronavirus (COVID-19). The photo shows a question-and-answer session at Komagome Hospital. (May 14, 2020, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike inspected the Ikebukuro Public Health Center, Komagome Hospital, and other institutions and organizations that are responding to the new coronavirus (COVID-19). The photo shows the inspection at the Ikebukuro Public Health Center. The governor is on the left. (May 14, 2020, Toshima Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Koike inspects a medical facility responding to the new corona.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike visited the Ikebukuro Public Health Center, Komagome Hospital, and other institutions and organizations that are responding to the new coronavirus (COVID-19). The photo shows Governor Koike (center) repeatedly thanking the officials after the visit to Komagome Hospital. (May 14, 2020, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Namco opens healing park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro

Namco opens healing park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro

TOKYO, Japan - Officials cut the tape during the opening ceremony July 15 for the ''Riraku no Mori'' healing park operated by Namco Ltd. at the company's Namja Town amusement facility in Tokyo's Ikebukuro Ward. The park has eight stores to provide Taiwanese, Indian, Thai and other healing therapies and sell items such as health food. (Kyodo)

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(1)New steps developed against bikes left around stations

(1)New steps developed against bikes left around stations

TOKYO, Japan - A ward official removes a bicycle from in front of the west exit of JR Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on May 26. (Kyodo)

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Idea for Chinatown in Ikebukuro draws negative reaction

Idea for Chinatown in Ikebukuro draws negative reaction

TOKYO, Japan - A number of Chinese shops and restaurants are located around JR Ikebukuro station in Tokyo's Toshima Ward. (Kyodo)

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Man stabs 8 people in Tokyo

Man stabs 8 people in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A man stabs eight people at random in a bustling district of Ikebukuro in Tokyo's Toshima Ward (in the photo) on Sept. 8, killing two persons and seriously injuring another. The assailant, identified as Hiroshi Zoda, 23, told police he had become jobless and wanted to kill someone.

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Major disaster drill in Tokyo

Major disaster drill in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Participants in a disaster drill, acting as people who have become unable to return home due to a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that has paralyzed Tokyo's public transportation system, are led into the Isetan department store in Shinjuku Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The drill, in which 10,000 people took part, was conducted simultaneously in areas surrounding three of the Japanese capital's major train stations -- Shinjuku, Tokyo and Ikebukuro. (Kyodo)

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Man arrested over shooting wife dead

Man arrested over shooting wife dead

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on the night of July 6, 2014, shows a cafe of a hotel in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district, shortly after a man allegedly shot his wife dead there. The man, a 54-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, was seized by cafe employees and arrested at the scene by police. (Kyodo)

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