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Japan: Massive Crowding at Stations After Knife Scare on Saikyo Line

17-year-old boy was arrested on Friday, January 23, following reports of a man armed with a knife on a Saikyo Line train in Tokyo’s Kita Ward. While no injuries were reported, several train lines were suspended, forcing some passengers to walk along the tracks and causing massive crowding at stations as commuters were left stranded.

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Japan: Teen Arrested Over Knife on Tokyo Train as Passengers Evacuate onto Tracks

A 17-year-old boy was arrested on Friday, January 23, following reports of a man armed with a knife on a Saikyo Line train in Tokyo’s Kita Ward. While no injuries were reported, several train lines were suspended, forcing some passengers to evacuate onto the tracks and walk to the nearest station.

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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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[Breaking News]Bread featuring Japan's new banknotes

A woman shows three slices of bread resembling Japan's new banknotes at a food and sundry goods maker and retailer in Tokyo's Kita Ward on July 2, 2024, on the eve of their issuance. The bread was made by Shibusawa Ippinkan, named after Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," and represents (from top to bottom) a 10,000 yen note, a 5,000 yen note and a 1,000 yen note, featuring Shibusawa, educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931), respectively.(Kyodo)

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CORRECTED: Bread featuring Japan's new banknotes

A woman shows three slices of bread resembling Japan's new banknotes at a food and sundry goods maker and retailer in Tokyo's Kita Ward on July 2, 2024, on the eve of their issuance. The bread was made by Shibusawa Ippinkan, named after Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), widely known as the "father of Japanese capitalism," and represents (from top to bottom) a 10,000 yen note, a 5,000 yen note and a 1,000 yen note, featuring Shibusawa, educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), and physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931), respectively.

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N. Koreans in Japan mourn Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - A woman (front) cries as she and other mourners offer red carnations during a memorial service for North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il, held by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a North Korean-affiliated organization known as Chongryon, at a hall in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Dec. 29, 2011.

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N. Koreans in Japan mourn Kim Jong Il

TOKYO, Japan - A memorial service for North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il is held by the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, a North Korean-affiliated organization known as Chongryon, at a hall in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Dec. 29, 2011.

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Record high temperature of 40.9 C marked in Saitama, Gifu

OSAKA, Japan - An electronic signboard in Osaka's Kita Ward indicates a high temperature of 40 C at 2:32 p.m. on Aug. 16. The temperature in Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, and Kumagaya, Saitama Prefecture, climbed to a record high of 40.9 C on the same day, breaking the previous record of 40.8 C marked in Yamagata Prefecture in 1933.

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Housewife issues own newsletter for 25 yrs

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo taken in Sapporo's Kita Ward on July 24, 2013 shows Minako Higuchi, a housewife from Ebetsu, Hokkaido, holding copies of the newsletter Ginga Tsushin she has been issuing for 25 years.

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Bolt in Tokyo vicinity

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Tokyo's Kita Ward shows a bolt of lightning over Saitama Prefecture on July 8, 2013.

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Amputee runners find 'god' in 57-year-old man

TOKYO, Japan - Prosthetist Fumio Usui (far L) runs along with amputee runners of his track and field club on May 19, 2013 at the Tokyo metropolitan government's athletic center for the disabled in Kita Ward.

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Japan eases import restrictions on U.S. beef

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. beef is sold at a discount price in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Feb. 1, 2013. Japan the same day eased beef import restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of mad cow disease, paving the way for increased beef imports from countries such as the United States.

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Shinto adapting to era of globalization

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsutaka Inui (C), a Shinto priest at Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto City's Kita Ward, poses for photos at the shrine with tourists from Israel at their request after providing them with explanations about Shinto and shrine buildings in English on Dec. 7, 2012.

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Seiyu CEO Dacus

TOKYO, Japan - Steve Dacus, chief executive officer of supermarket chain operator Seiyu GK, is interviewed in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Aug. 22, 2012.

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Keene granted Japanese nationality

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene (L) receives a bouquet from an employee of Tokyo's Kita Ward government at the municipal hall on March 8, 2012, after he was granted Japanese nationality.

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Keene granted Japanese nationality

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene shows Japanese characters spelling his name during a press conference at Tokyo's Kita Ward government hall on March 8, 2012, after he was granted Japanese nationality.

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London Olympic organizing committee chairman Coe

TOKYO, Japan - Sebastian Coe, chairman of the organizing committee of the London Olympic Games, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Feb. 28, 2012.

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Markdown of Nintendo 3DS

OSAKA, Japan - People form a line to buy Nintendo 3DS portable game consoles at a branch of Yodobashi Camera Co. in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug. 11, 2011. Nintendo Co. started selling the consoles the same day at stores across Japan for 15,000 yen, 10,000 yen cheaper than the original price.

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Winter illuminations light up Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - People hold an outdoor concert in front of an illuminated Osaka City Central Public Hall in the city's Kita Ward on Dec. 11, 2010.

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Winter illuminations light up Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - People walk on a street lit up by winter illuminations in Osaka's Kita Ward on Dec. 11, 2010. The illumination event runs through Jan. 16, 2011.

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Pro-Pyongyang Koreans hold triennial Tokyo confab

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan hold a triennial plenary convention in Tokyo's Kita Ward on May 22, 2010. Some 2,000 people backing North Korea took part in the event, while permanent Korean residents supporting South Korea staged a protest rally outside the venue over the sinking of a naval ship.

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JAL employees distribute messages cards promising recovery

OSAKA, Japan - A Japan Airlines Corp. employee offers a message card to a pedestrian in the downtown area of Osaka's Kita Ward, Jan. 25, 2010. About 40 employees, including flight attendants and mechanics, distributed cards with hand-written messages including promises of corporate recovery and warm services near JR Osaka Station, as part of an event organized by the company after it filed for bankruptcy protection on Jan. 19.

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Kirin, Suntory eye merger in April 2011

TOKYO, Japan - July 2009 file photo shows the headquarters of Suntory Holdings Ltd., in Kita Ward, Osaka. The beverage maker and its rival Kirin Holdings Co. are reportedly arranging to merge around April 2011, in what would create one of the world's largest food and beverage makers.

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DPJ's Aoki beats key ruling camp lawmaker

TOKYO, Japan - Ai Aoki, a Democratic Party of Japan candidate, cries with joy in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Aug. 30 after winning a House of Representatives seat by beating Akihiro Ota, head of the New Komeito party, the junior partner of the Liberal Democratic Party in the ruling coalition, in the No. 12 single-seat constituency in Tokyo.

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DPJ's Aoki beats key ruling camp lawmaker

TOKYO, Japan - Ai Aoki, a Democratic Party of Japan candidate, cries with joy in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Aug. 30 after winning a House of Representatives seat by beating Akihiro Ota, head of the New Komeito party, the junior partner of the Liberal Democratic Party in the ruling coalition, in the No. 12 single-seat constituency in Tokyo.

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Voters cast votes at polling station

OSAKA, Japan - Voters cast ballots at a polling station in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug. 30, 2009. Voting opened at polling stations nationwide in the House of Representatives election the same day.

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Fukushima makes last ditch effort for voter support

OSAKA, Japan - Mizuho Fukushima, head of the minor opposition Social Democratic Party, makes a last ditch effort in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug, 29, 2009, to attract votes in the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election.

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Kirin, Suntory in merger talks, to become Japan's top beverage firm

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows Suntory Holdings Ltd. headquarters in Kita Ward, Osaka City, July 13.

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Japan's oldest boat-shaped wooden coffin excavated in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 21 shows part of what is believed to be Japan's oldest boat-shaped coffin which was excavated in the Hiratecho ruins in Nagoya's Kita Ward. The city's Board of Education said the coffin is believed to be made some 2,000 years ago, or in the latter period of the mid-Yayoi Era. The 2.8-meter-long, 80-centimeter-wide ''boat'' is placed with its bow facing northwest. Hisao Suzuki, who heads the board's cultural assets conservation section, said it is presumed that the bow faced the sunset as ancient people thought the coffin was a vehicle to take the deceased person to the afterlife.

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Seiyu to launch aggressive price-cutting campaign to spur sales

TOKYO, Japan - Ed Kolodzieski, chief executive officer of supermarket operator Seiyu Ltd., speaks during an interview with Kyodo News at Seiyu's headquarters in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Nov. 28. Kolodzieski said his company is aiming to extend 24-hour operations from 80 percent of its stores at present to all of its stores nationwide.

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Emperor, empress visit sports facility for handicapped people

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (seated, 2nd from L) and Empress Michiko (seated, 3rd from L) watch a game of ''Target Bird Golf'' as they visit a sports facility for physically handicapped people in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Dec. 2.

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Street dance jumps onto cultural front stage

OSAKA, Japan - Children learn street dance at the dance studio Soul and Motion in Osaka's Kita Ward.

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5 file candidacies for Osaka gubernatorial election

OSAKA, Japan - Sadatoshi Kumagai, 63, a former Osaka University Graduate School professor recommended by the Democratic Party of Japan, the Social Democratic Party and the People's New Party makes his campaign speech in Osaka's Kita Ward on Jan. 10 after filing his candidacy in the Jan. 27 Osaka gubernatorial election.

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DPJ-backed Hiramatsu wins Osaka mayoral election

OSAKA, Japan - Kunio Hiramatsu (C) celebrates his win in the Osaka mayoral election at his campaign office in Osaka's Kita Ward on Nov. 18. Hiramatsu, supported by the leading opposition Democratic Party of Japan, beat incumbent Mayor Junichi Seki, who was endorsed by the Liberal Democratic Party, and three other candidates.

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Sony's PlayStation 3 goes on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A notice put up at a discount shop in Osaka's Kita Ward on Nov. 11 tells shoppers that Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game console has sold out.

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Executed killer Nagayama had background of poverty

TOKYO, Japan - A photo session is held at the site of an Indonesian and Latin American music concert in Tokyo's Kita Ward in late July this year.

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Competition to sell thin TV sets overheating

OSAKA, Japan - Some 250 thin TV sets are on display at Yodobashi Camera Co.'s Multimedia Umeda store in Osaka's Kita Ward.

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Permanent 'rakugo' theater opens in Osaka, 1st since WWII

OSAKA, Japan - Rakugo performer Katsura Sanshi, head of the Kamigata Rakugo Kyokai, pulls a rickshaw carrying Katsura Harudanji III during a ceremony held to mark the opening of the Temma Tenjin Hanjo Tei, a theater dedicated to ''rakugo'' comic storytelling, in Osaka's Kita Ward on Sept. 15. It is the first permanent rakugo theater to open in Osaka since World War II.

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26 injured in Tokyo tram rear-end collision

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers investigate two trams involved in a collision on the Arakawa Line in Tokyo's Kita Ward on June 13 after a single-car tram carrying passengers (L) plowed into the rear of another tram that was on a trial run.

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26 injured in Tokyo tram collision

TOKYO, Japan - A single-car tram carrying passengers (L) crashed into the rear of another tram that was on a trial run on the Arakawa Line in Tokyo's Kita Ward on June 13. Twenty-six people were injured in the accident.

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Political party leaders make last appeal to voters

TOKYO, Japan - Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka, who heads the newly formed New Party Nippon, stumps in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Sept. 10, one day before the House of Representatives election.

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Hydrangeas in full bloom in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Hydrangeas are in full bloom at Asukayama Park in Tokyo's Kita Ward on June 11. Visitors can see some 2,000 hydrangeas at the park.

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Agent Orange victim visits Japan to seek support

OSAKA, Japan - Nguyen Duc, 24, leaves a meeting at the Osaka City Chuo Public Hall in Osaka's Kita Ward on March 24.

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Many employees take nap during lunch break

OSAKA, Japan - A relaxation lounge of Club Baccano on the 22nd floor in the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka's Kita Ward.

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(2)Fire at Tokyo hot spring drilling site begins to subside

TOKYO, Japan - Fire fighters try to put out a fire Feb. 11 that started the previous evening at a hot spring drilling site in Tokyo's Kita Ward. The fire began to subside around noon. Nobody has been injured.

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(1)Fire at Tokyo hot spring drilling site begins to subside

TOKYO, Japan - Fire fighters try to put out a fire Feb. 11 that started the previous evening at a hot spring drilling site in Tokyo's Kita Ward. The fire began to subside around noon. Nobody has been injured.

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(2)Players' strike averted for this weekend

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuya Furuta, a catcher of the Central League baseball club Yakult Swallows who heads the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association, briefs reporters at Osaka International Convention Center in Osaka's Kita Ward, on Sept. 10 about the players' decision not to go on strike on Sept. 11 and 12.

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(1)Players' strike averted for this weekend

OSAKA, Japan - Baseball club managers and players meet at Osaka International Convention Center in Osaka's Kita Ward on Sept. 10 to discuss a merger between the Orix BlueWave and Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and planned walkouts by players. The Japan Professional Baseball Players Association decided to avert a strike set for Sept. 11 and 12 having planned to go on strike every weekend in September.

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(4)4 dead, 7 injured in nuke plant steam leak accident

OSAKA, Japan - Kansai Electric Power Co. President Yosaku Fuji bows in apology at the outset of a press conference at the company's head office in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug. 9. Earlier in the day, four works died and seven others were injured after high-temperature steam leaked from one of the reactors at the company's Mihama Nuclear Plant in Fukui Prefecture.

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(1)4 dead, 7 injured in nuke plant steam leak accident

OSAKA, Japan - Hiroshi Matsumura (R), managing director of Kansai Electric Power Co., briefs reporters about a steam leakage accident at the company's Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture at the company's head office in Osaka's Kita Ward on Aug. 9. Four workers died and seven others were injured after high-temperature steam leaked from one of the reactors at the plant.