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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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'Green curtain' movement in vogue to save energy

'Green curtain' movement in vogue to save energy

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Students at municipal Takashima No. 5 Elementary School in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward assemble at a flower bed to look after cucumbers and gourd-shaped loofahs.

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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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Buddhist monastery of Myanmar in Tokyo

Buddhist monastery of Myanmar in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The building housing a Buddhist monastery of Myanmar nationals residing in Japan in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward is photographed on May 6, 2014. People from Myanmar in Japan often gather there and ask for advice.

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Hot weather in Japan

Hot weather in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Children play in a fountain at a park in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as high temperatures continue in many areas of Japan on Aug. 7, 2013. Risshu, which marks the beginning of fall in the traditional East Asian calendar, fell on the same day.

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Algeria hostage crisis

Algeria hostage crisis

TOKYO, Japan - The coffin of one of the Japanese victims of a recent hostage crisis in Algeria arrives at a funeral hall in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Jan. 25, 2013. A government plane carrying seven Japanese survivors and the bodies of nine Japanese victims of the hostage standoff arrived at Tokyo's Haneda airport earlier in the day.

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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage pass by local residents holding a banner that reads, "Thank you for helping the disaster-hit area. But don't conduct military training in urban areas," in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage march in an urban area of Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

Armed GSDF troops march in Tokyo for drill

TOKYO, Japan - Rifle-carrying Ground Self-Defense Force troops in camouflage march in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward as part of their training as rangers on June 12, 2012. It was the first time in 42 years for armed GSDF troops to march through urban areas of Tokyo, with the last such occasion taking place in 1970, according to the GSDF.

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Empress Michiko visits museum

Empress Michiko visits museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Empress Michiko arrives at a museum in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward to see a picture book exhibit on March 9, 2012, with people (crouching) who have evacuated from areas affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami greeting her. (Pool photo)

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Convenience store cuts electricity use

Convenience store cuts electricity use

TOKYO, Japan - The entrance of a convenience store in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward is dark on March 14, 2011, as the store reduced use of lighting to save electricity. Electricity supply is short for Tokyo and its vicinity after the March 11 devastating earthquake crippled nuclear power plants run by Tokyo Electric Power Co.

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DPJ Tokyo assembly member offers to resign over drunk driving

DPJ Tokyo assembly member offers to resign over drunk driving

TOKYO, Japan - Mito Kakizawa, a Tokyo metropolitan assembly member from the Democratic Party of Japan, announces his resignation at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12. Kakizawa was allegedly driving drunk when he crashed his car into the median strip on the Metropolitan Expressway No. 5 route in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Feb. 9.

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Drumming in a circle helps emotionally distressed kids

Drumming in a circle helps emotionally distressed kids

TOKYO, Japan - Children attend a ''drum practice'' class at the Takashima No. 5 Elementary School in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on May 27.

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Children getting lessons in cooking, appreciation

Children getting lessons in cooking, appreciation

TOKYO, Japan - Children cut vegetables at the Kids Cooking class in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on April 23.

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Scattering loved ones' ashes in sea getting popular

Scattering loved ones' ashes in sea getting popular

TOKYO, Japan - Toda Funeral Parlor Co. in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward develops a remains-pulverizing machine.

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4 stabbed to death in Tokyo bar

4 stabbed to death in Tokyo bar

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers gather outside the bar New Sohara in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on March 30, where four people were found stabbed to death. Emiko Oshima, the 41-year-old owner of the bar, was found dead by her husband, along with a woman and two men who were believed to be customers.

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Boy kidnapped, but released safely in Tokyo

Boy kidnapped, but released safely in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Seto (R) and his wife Miho, whose son Yuta was released safely Oct. 15 about seven hours after he was kidnapped in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, leave their home in the same ward to head for the Itabashi Police Station. Yuta, a 7-year-old elementary school boy, was released at Tokiwadai Station on the Tobu Tojo Line and recovered at around 4:05 p.m. near Oyama Station on the same line.

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Friends weep at Mayuko Ogawa's funeral

Friends weep at Mayuko Ogawa's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - Friends of Mayuko Ogawa, a 19-year-old student who was stabbed to death in Tokyo's Taito Ward on April 30 by a man in his 20s or 30s, weep in sorrow at her funeral held in Itabashi Ward on May 6.

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Boy kidnapped, but released safely in Tokyo

Boy kidnapped, but released safely in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Seto (R) and his wife Miho, whose son Yuta was released safely Oct. 15 about seven hours after he was kidnapped in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, leave their home in the same ward to head for the Itabashi Police Station. Yuta, a 7-year-old elementary school boy, was released at Tokiwadai Station on the Tobu Tojo Line and recovered at around 4:05 p.m. near Oyama Station on the same line.

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Children getting lessons in cooking, appreciation

Children getting lessons in cooking, appreciation

TOKYO, Japan - Children cut vegetables at the Kids Cooking class in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on April 23. (Kyodo)

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DPJ Tokyo assembly member offers to resign over drunk driving

DPJ Tokyo assembly member offers to resign over drunk driving

TOKYO, Japan - Mito Kakizawa, a Tokyo metropolitan assembly member from the Democratic Party of Japan, announces his resignation at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 12. Kakizawa was allegedly driving drunk when he crashed his car into the median strip on the Metropolitan Expressway No. 5 route in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Feb. 9. (Kyodo)

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Imperial couple visit quake evacuees

Imperial couple visit quake evacuees

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L, facing) and Empress Michiko (standing next to the emperor) visit a public housing complex in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, on Aug. 8, 2011, to encourage people who evacuated from Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures due to the March earthquake and tsunami and subsequent nuclear emergency. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Convenience store cuts electricity use

Convenience store cuts electricity use

TOKYO, Japan - The entrance of a convenience store in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward is dark on March 14, 2011, as the store reduced use of lighting to save electricity. Electricity supply is short for Tokyo and its vicinity after the March 11 devastating earthquake crippled nuclear power plants run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (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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New coronavirus

New coronavirus

Photo taken April 28, 2020, shows a shopping arcade in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, with its roof opened to let in fresh air to help prevent coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

New coronavirus

Photo taken April 28, 2020, shows a shopping arcade in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward, with its roof opened to let in fresh air to help prevent coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house election

Japan's upper house election

People listen to a politician speaking in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on July 8, 2019, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house election

Japan's upper house election

People listen to a politician speaking in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on July 8, 2019, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's upper house election

Japan's upper house election

People listen to a politician speaking in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on July 8, 2019, ahead of the July 21 House of Councillors election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Defense minister suggests SDF support candidate in Tokyo election

Defense minister suggests SDF support candidate in Tokyo election

Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada makes a campaign speech for a ruling Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Tokyo metropolitan assembly election during a rally in the capital's Itabashi Ward on June 27, 2017. Inada called on voters to cast ballots for the candidate, saying that the request came from "the Defense Ministry, the SDF, the defense minister and the LDP." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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4 stabbed to death in Tokyo bar

4 stabbed to death in Tokyo bar

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers gather outside the bar New Sohara in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on March 30, where four people were found stabbed to death. Emiko Oshima, the 41-year-old owner of the bar, was found dead by her husband, along with a woman and two men who were believed to be customers. (Kyodo)

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Kidnapped boy goes to school with father

Kidnapped boy goes to school with father

TOKYO, Japan - Yuta Seto, the first-grader at an elementary school in Tokyo who was kidnapped and released unharmed Oct. 15, leaves his home in Tokyo's Itabashi Ward on Oct. 16 for school with his father Mamoru Seto (2nd from L).

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Friends weep at Mayuko Ogawa's funeral

Friends weep at Mayuko Ogawa's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - Friends of Mayuko Ogawa, a 19-year-old student who was stabbed to death in Tokyo's Taito Ward on April 30 by a man in his 20s or 30s, weep in sorrow at her funeral held in Itabashi Ward on May 6.

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