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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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Tokyo detention center

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 30 Kyodo - Photo taken in July 2018 shows the Tokyo detention center in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward.

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Film director Yamada's bust unveiled at museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese film director Yoji Yamada smiles by his bust unveiled at the Yamada Yoji Museum in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Nov. 8, 2014.

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Tora-san Museum welcomes 4 millionth visitor

TOKYO, Japan - A ceremony is held to celebrate the 4 millionth visitor to the Tora-san Museum in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on Nov. 8, 2014. The museum is dedicated to Tora-san, a kind-hearted vagabond in popular movie series "Otoko wa tsurai yo" directed by Yoji Yamada. From L: actor Gajiro Sato, Yamada, and museum visitors Kenji Aoyagi and his wife Eriko.

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'Captain Tsubasa' creator stands by statue of Taro Misaki

TOKYO, Japan - Yoichi Takahashi, creator of the popular "Captain Tsubasa" manga series, stands by a newly completed statue of Taro Misaki, a teammate of main character Tsubasa Ozora in the football manga and anime series, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 16, 2014. It is one of the seven "Captain Tsubasa" statues erected in the ward, where Takahashi lives.

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Bargain vegetable sales

TOKYO, Japan - Discount vegetables are displayed at an outlet of Ito-Yokado Co. in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on July 17, 2013, as the supermarket chain began a nationwide six-day bargain sale of vegetables amid rising prices stemming from tight supply due to unfavorable weather conditions.

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Discount veggies

TOKYO, Japan - Customers buy discount vegetables at an Ito-Yokado supermarket in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Jan. 9, 2013, as the supermarket chain began vegetable discounts at its shops across Japan amid rising vegetable prices due to the cold weather.

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Museum decidated to works of film director Yoji Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese film director Yoji Yamada (2nd from L) visits a museum dedicated to his works, which opened in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Dec. 15, 2012. Yamada's works include the hit series "Otoko wa Tsuraiyo" (It's Tough Being a Man).

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Museum dedicated to works of film director Yoji Yamada

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese film director Yoji Yamada (C) attends a ceremony marking the opening of a museum dedicated to his works, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, on Dec. 15, 2012. Yamada's works include the hit series "Otoko wa Tsuraiyo" (It's Tough Being a Man).

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Terrestrial TV digitalized in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People visit a support center for local residents in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on July 24, 2011, as Japanese broadcasters completely digitalized terrestrial TV broadcasting at noon the same day, ending analog transmission after more than half a century except in areas hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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New Narita-Tokyo railway launched

TOKYO, Japan - Narita Sky Access runs in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward with Tokyo Sky Tree in the background on the left on July 17, 2010. The new high-speed railway line was launched that day linking central Tokyo with Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture in 30-plus minutes.

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after Ishikawa was released on bail of 12 million yen. Ishikawa, who became a House of Representatives member after serving as Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's secretary, was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds.

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SMAP's Katori flying high as police station chief

TOKYO, Japan - Shingo Katori of the pop group SMAP poses wearing a sash saying ''One-Day Chief'' in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on July 31 after being named as the special chief of the Kameari Police Station.

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(1)Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001.

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'Visa' marriage up, gov't steps up inpsections

TOKYO, Japan - ''Gina,'' a Filipina in her mid-20s, works at an ethnic food shop in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. Gina has been living in Japan for about three years in a visa marriage with a 40-year-old Japanese construction worker. By Hirotaka Imaizumi

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Cardboard robot kit "M-Bot

Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, has signed a memorandum of understanding with TOMY and NTT DoCoMo regarding programming education in elementary schools, etc. The "e-Craft Series embot," a cardboard robot kit developed by NTT DoCoMo and manufactured and sold by TOMY, will be used in classes. It will be introduced to elementary schools and special needs schools in the ward after 2020, when programming education in elementary schools will become compulsory. The ward has allocated 14 million yen for the purchase of the kit and other expenses in the third supplementary budget plan for fiscal 2007. The classes using the kit are for 5th graders. During the fiscal year 2007, lessons for teachers and preliminary lessons will be held at some elementary schools. The results of the classes will be used as feedback for future product development. The ward plans to collaborate with the two companies in fields other than programming education. Photo taken on November 21, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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(1)Court releases 2 defendants over political donation scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiyuki Takigawa, who was in charge of accounting for the Liberal Democratic Party's faction formerly led by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Sept. 27 after being released on bail of 6 million yen. Takigawa was indicted on charges of failing to declare 100 million yen in political donations from the Japan Dental Association to the faction. (Kyodo)

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Aides to LDP Diet member Sakai held over undeclared donations

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Aki Shionoya, a state-paid policy secretary of Takanori Sakai, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 4. Shionoya and another aide to Sakai were arrested on suspicion of failing to list in official documents donations worth more than 10 million yen a year for four to five years until around 2001. (Kyodo)

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(2)Court releases 2 defendants over political donation scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Sadao Usuda, who formerly headed the Japan Dental Association, leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Sept. 27 after being released on bail of 20 million yen. Usuda was indicted on charges of violating the Political Funds Control Law in connection with donations to a Liberal Democratic Party faction, formerly led by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo detention center

Photo taken in July 2018 shows the Tokyo detention center in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Court interpreter's job is no easy task

TOKYO, Japan - Keiko Kawashima, a Persian-language court interpreter, poses in front of the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward. Kawashima receives requests to serve as an interpreter in trials involving Persian-speaking people from district courts in Tokyo, Chiba, Shizuoka and Kofu as well as other courts in Nagano Prefecture and Hokkaido. (Kyodo)

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Man acquitted of trespassing to post Communist Party fliers

TOKYO, Japan - Yosei Arakawa (R) speaks at a press conference after the Tokyo District Court acquitted him on Aug. 28 on a charge of trespassing onto a private housing estate in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward to distribute Japanese Communist Party leaflets. (Kyodo)

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Man acquitted of trespassing to post Communist Party fliers

TOKYO, Japan - Yosei Arakawa (R) reacts in joy after the Tokyo District Court acquitted him on Aug. 28 on a charge of trespassing onto a private housing estate in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward to distribute Japanese Communist Party leaflets. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Livedoor head Horie released after over 90 days in detention

TOKYO, Japan - Former Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward by car after being released on April 27. Horie has been indicted for corporate accounting fraud and had been in detention since his arrest on Jan. 23. (Kyodo)

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Economist indicted for groping bailed out after 4-month detentio

TOKYO, Japan - Economist Kazuhide Uekusa, once a well-known TV commentator who is on trial for groping a schoolgirl, walks out from the Tokyo Detention Center in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward after being freed on bail on Jan. 22. (Kyodo)

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Terrestrial TV digitalized in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People visit a support center for local residents in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on July 24, 2011, as Japanese broadcasters completely digitalized terrestrial TV broadcasting at noon the same day, ending analog transmission after more than half a century except in areas hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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New Narita-Tokyo railway launched

TOKYO, Japan - Narita Sky Access runs in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward with Tokyo Sky Tree in the background on the left on July 17, 2010. The new high-speed railway line was launched that day linking central Tokyo with Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture in 30-plus minutes. (Kyodo)

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Radiation in Tokyo water

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a water purification plant in the Kanamachi district of Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 23, 2011. The Tokyo metropolitan government warned the same day that infants should not drink tap water as radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them was detected in water at the purification plant. (Kyodo)

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Radiation in Tokyo water

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a water purification plant in the Kanamachi district of Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on March 23, 2011. The Tokyo metropolitan government warned the same day that infants should not drink tap water as radioactive iodine exceeding the limit for them was detected in water at the purification plant. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Takanori Okubo, incumbent state-paid secretary for Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa, leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after being released on bail of 7 million yen. Okubo was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Takanori Okubo (L), incumbent state-paid secretary for Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa, leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after being released on bail of 7 million yen. Okubo was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsutomo Ikeda, former private secretary to Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa, leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after being released on bail of 3 million yen. Ikeda was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa gets into a car after being released from the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, on bail of 12 million yen. Ishikawa, who became a House of Representatives member after serving as Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's secretary, was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa (C) leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after being released on bail of 12 million yen. Ishikawa, who became a House of Representatives member after serving as Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's secretary, was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa bows after being released from the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, on bail of 12 million yen. Ishikawa, who became a House of Representatives member after serving as Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's secretary, was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after Ishikawa was released on bail of 12 million yen. Ishikawa, who became a House of Representatives member after serving as Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's secretary, was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after being released on bail of 12 million yen. Ishikawa, who became a House of Representatives member after serving as Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's secretary, was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa (C) leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after being released on bail of 12 million yen. Ishikawa, who became a House of Representatives member after serving as Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's secretary, was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds. (Kyodo)

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Film director Yamada's bust unveiled at museum

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese film director Yoji Yamada smiles by his bust unveiled at the Yamada Yoji Museum in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Nov. 8, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Tora-san Museum welcomes 4 millionth visitor

TOKYO, Japan - A ceremony is held to celebrate the 4 millionth visitor to the Tora-san Museum in Katsushika Ward, Tokyo, on Nov. 8, 2014. The museum is dedicated to Tora-san, a kind-hearted vagabond in popular movie series "Otoko wa tsurai yo" directed by Yoji Yamada. From L: actor Gajiro Sato, Yamada, and museum visitors Kenji Aoyagi and his wife Eriko. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo scenes

Photo taken on Nov. 16, 2020, shows Metasequoia trees in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward.

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Tokyo scenes

Photo taken on Nov. 16, 2020, shows a reservoir in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward.

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Tokyo scenes

Photo taken from a river bank in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Nov. 16, 2020, shows Mt. Fuji around sunset.

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Tokyo scenes

Photo taken on Nov. 16, 2020, shows a bird sanctuary in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward.

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Knife attack at Tokyo police box

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 30, 2020, shows a police box in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward where a member of staff was attacked by a knife-wielding man earlier in the day. The assailant, a 57-year-old unemployed man, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The victim did not sustain life-threatening injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Knife attack at Tokyo police box

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 30, 2020, shows investigators inspecting a police box in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward where a member of staff was attacked by a knife-wielding man earlier in the day. The assailant, a 57-year-old unemployed man, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The victim did not sustain life-threatening injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Knife attack at Tokyo police box

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 30, 2020, shows investigators inspecting a police box in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward where a member of staff was attacked by a knife-wielding man earlier in the day. The assailant, a 57-year-old unemployed man, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The victim did not sustain life-threatening injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Knife attack at Tokyo police box

Investigators inspect a police box in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on April 30, 2020, where a member of staff was attacked by a knife-wielding man earlier in the day. The assailant, a 57-year-old unemployed man, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The victim did not sustain life-threatening injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Knife attack at Tokyo police box

Investigators inspect a police box in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on April 30, 2020, where a member of staff was attacked by a knife-wielding man earlier in the day. The assailant, a 57-year-old unemployed man, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The victim did not sustain life-threatening injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Knife attack at Tokyo police box

Investigators inspect a police box in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on April 30, 2020, where a member of staff was attacked by a knife-wielding man earlier in the day. The assailant, a 57-year-old unemployed man, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The victim did not sustain life-threatening injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo