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Japanese crown prince and his son

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (C, R) and his son Prince Hisahito (C, L) visit a facility of Tamagawa University in Machida, Tokyo, on April 6, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japanese crown prince and son

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (R) and his son, Prince Hisahito (C), visit an insect research facility at Tamagawa University's College of Agriculture in Machida, Tokyo, on April 6, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Onishi sprints in women's T42 100m dash

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Onishi (2nd from L) takes part in the T42 class of the women's 100 meter dash at the Kanto track and field championship for the disabled held in Machida, Tokyo, on July 5, 2014. She won the race.

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Used adult diapers get new life as fuel

TOKYO, Japan - Super Faiths Inc. of Tokyo has installed a machine called the SFD system at a hospital in Machida, Tokyo, to turn used diapers into solid fuel. The photo was taken around September 2005.

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Flu outbreak affects 101, kills 3 at Tokyo hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters covering the flu outbreak at Tsurukawa Sanatorium Hospital in Machida, Tokyo, wear masks as they attend a news conference at the hospital on Jan. 17.

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Police burst into Tokyo apartment, arrest armed man

TOKYO, Japan - Paramedics carry out Yuji Takeshita, a member of a gang affiliated with the Kyokuto-kai underworld syndicate, from an apartment in Machida, Tokyo, on April 21. Takeshita shot himself in the head after holing up in the apartment and firing shots from a window. The stand-off ended after about 15 hours when a squad for police officers fired tear gas and burst in.

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Man fires 9 shots from apartment after shooting gangster to death

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers seal off a road that leads to an apartment in Machida, Tokyo where a man armed with a handgun barricaded himself on April 20. He had allegedly shot a gangster to death before fleeing into the apartment and fired nine shots out into the open from the apartment. One of the shots hit a police car, but otherwise no one was hurt and no hostages appear to have been taken, the police said.

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Armed man holed up in apartment, parents collect children from school

TOKYO, Japan - Parents collect their children from an elementary school located in the neighborhood of an apartment in Machida, Tokyo where a man armed with a handgun barricaded himself on April 20. He had allegedly shot a gangster to death before fleeing into the apartment and fired nine shots out into the open from the apartment. One of the shots hit a police car, but otherwise no one was hurt and no hostages appear to have been taken, the police said.

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Man locks himself in building in Tokyo suburb, fires outside

MACHIDA, Japan - A photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 20 shows the apartment on the Tokyo suburb of Machida where a man locked himself and fired nine shots toward the outside. The man is believed to have shot another man in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, just before he came to Machida, police said.

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Tokyo police retrieve 268 10,000 yen bills floating on river

TOKYO, Japan - Some of the 268 10,000 yen bills displayed at the Machida police station in Machida, Tokyo that police officers retrieved from a river bordering Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture on march 28. Police say 15 police officers spent two hours to retrieve the bills, which were found floating on the river by a woman on her way to work in the morning. The money will go to the state treasury if the owner does not turn up to claim it within six months.

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Politician arranged meeting of gov't official, real estate firm head

MACHIDA, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Kosuke Ito speaks with reporters outside his residence in Machida, Tokyo, on Nov. 26. Ito, who served as chief of the former National Land Agency, admitted that he arranged a meeting between an official at the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry and the president of Huser Ltd., a condominium developer, two days before the ministry disclosed the firm had built buildings using falsified quake-resistance data.

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16-yr-old boy nabbed for allegedly killing girl from same school

TOKYO, Japan - Police investigate an apartment in Machida, western Tokyo, on Nov. 12, where a 15-year-old girl was found stabbed to death the previous day. Police arrested a 16-year-old boy Nov. 12 on the suspicion he murdered the girl who attended the same high school.