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Japan: Air Force One Carrying President Trump Departs Tokyo for South Korea 3

U.S. President Trump departed Haneda Airport aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, October 29, concluding his three-day schedule in Japan before heading to South Korea for the final leg of his Asian tour.

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Japan: Air Force One Carrying President Trump Departs Tokyo for South Korea 2

U.S. President Trump departed Haneda Airport aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, October 29, concluding his three-day schedule in Japan before heading to South Korea for the final leg of his Asian tour.

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Japan: Air Force One Carrying President Trump Departs Tokyo for South Korea

U.S. President Trump departed Haneda Airport aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, October 29, concluding his three-day schedule in Japan before heading to South Korea for the final leg of his Asian tour.

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Japan: Air Force One Lands in Tokyo for U.S. President Trump’s First Visit in 6 Years

U.S. President Donald Trump arrived at Tokyo Haneda International Airport aboard Air Force One on Monday, October 27, marking his first visit to Japan in six years.

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Japan: Fire Breaks Out at Tokyo Haneda Airport Old Hangar, Flights Unaffected 2

A large fire broke out at an old hangar undergoing demolition on the premises of Tokyo Haneda International Airport on Monday morning, September 29. Authorities have confirmed that the incident has not caused any delays or disruption to flight operations. This is a developing story.

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Japan: Fire Breaks Out at Tokyo Haneda Airport Old Hangar, Flights Unaffected

A large fire broke out at an old hangar undergoing demolition on the premises of Tokyo Haneda International Airport on Monday morning, September 29. Authorities have confirmed that the incident has not caused any delays or disruption to flight operations. This is a developing story.

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Japan: Fire Breaks Out at Tokyo Haneda Airport Old Hangar, Flights Unaffected 3

A large fire broke out at an old hangar undergoing demolition on the premises of Tokyo Haneda International Airport on Monday morning, September 29. Authorities have confirmed that the incident has not caused any delays or disruption to flight operations. This is a developing story.

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RECAP: Record Rain Batters Tokyo as Chiba Sees Tornado-Like Event

Heavy rain and thunderstorms caused extreme weather across the Kanto region on Thursday, September 11. In Tokyo, Setagaya Ward recorded 92.0 mm of rain and Ota Ward 88.5 mm in just one hour, with some central areas receiving over 100 mm. The intense downpours disrupted rail and airport services and caused rivers including the Yazawa and Tachiai to overflow. Meanwhile, in Chiba Prefecture, a tornado-like phenomenon was observed, prompting the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue a “Tornado Advisory” for the Tokyo area.

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Japan: Water Gushes Out of Manholes in Tokyo Amid Severe Rainfall 2

On Thursday, September 11, sudden thunderstorms hit the southern Kanto region, including Tokyo, causing rapidly changing weather and record-breaking rainfall in some areas. This video shows water gushing out of a manhole at a park in Ota Ward, Tokyo.

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Seven & i sells Ito-Yokado supermarket chain to U.S. fund

Photo taken on Sept. 1, 2025, shows an Ito-Yokado supermarket chain outlet in Tokyo's Ota Ward. Seven & i Holdings Co. said the same day it has completed the sale of some 30 retailers, including the struggling Ito-Yokado supermarket chain, to U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital so it can focus on its 7-Eleven convenience store business.

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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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Japan PM Kishida visits logistics company

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) speaks to reporters during his visit to a logistics company in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Sept. 28, 2023, ahead of an anticipated truck driver shortage in 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida visits logistics company

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) sits down to speak with logistics company officials in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Sept. 28, 2023, with an eye on an anticipated truck driver shortage in 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM Kishida visits logistics company

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front, L) visits a logistics company in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Sept. 28, 2023, ahead of an anticipated truck driver shortage in 2024. (Pool photo)

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2 Tokyo schoolgirls jump together from building

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 5, 2014, shows investigators at a condominium building in Tokyo's Ota Ward, after two girls in the sixth grade apparently jumped together from the building aiming to commit suicide. The police and other authorities said one of the two girls died while the other was seriously injured.

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Priests of different faiths forming groups across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 22, 2014, shows priests of Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity and other religions gathering for a regular meeting of their group at Ikegami Honmonji, a Buddhism temple of the Nichiren sect, in Tokyo's Ota Ward.

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Convenience store combined with karaoke box

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows "FamilyMart plus Karaoke DAM" store near JR Kamata Station in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 17, 2014, its opening day. It is the first hybrid store combining a convenience store and karaoke booths opened by FamilyMart Co. and karaoke business operator Daiichikosho Co.

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3-D printers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in November 2013 shows Mariko Obayashi, president of Smile Link, explaining the company's 3-D printer dubbed DS.1000 in Tokyo's Ota Ward. The venture launched the printer, jointly developed with Yokohama-based Division Engineering Co., in December 2013 at 183,750 yen for personal use.

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Restaurant-inspired meals on flights to Hawaii

TOKYO, Japan - Meals to be offered by Japan Airlines Co. on its flights to Honolulu from September 2013 -- (L) one jointly created by head chefs of popular casual dining chains "Ore no (my) Italian" and "Ore no French" and (R) sandwiches from Hawaiian-style hamburger restaurant Kua'aina -- are shown in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Aug. 26, 2013.

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Comic chat artist Maki dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Maruko Bridge over Tama River in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 29, 2013. Ukulele-strumming comic chat artist Shinji Maki died the same day after jumping into the river from the bridge in an apparent suicide, police said. He was 78.

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"Shitamachi" plants develop Japan's 1st bobsled

TOKYO, Japan - Developers of the "Shitamachi Bobsled," including Junichi Hosogai (R) and Satoshi Kosugi (2nd from R), watch it perform a test run at the Nagano Bobsleigh-Luge Park, known as Spiral, in Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, on Dec. 13, 2012. Young owners of some small factories in Tokyo's Ota Ward have developed the first made-in-Japan bobsled in the run-up to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

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Metropolitan expressway marks 50th anniv.

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Haneda Tunnel in Tokyo's Ota Ward on the Tokyo metropolitan expressway on Dec. 19, 2012. Metropolitan Expressway Co., the operator of the expressway, marked the 50th anniversary on Dec. 20, 2012, of the arterial route's opening.

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"Shitamachi" factory-made bobsled

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Hosogai (R) gets on a bobsled made by a group of small factory operators in one of Tokyo's "shitamachi" districts, at Tokyo Big Sight convention hall on Nov. 1, 2012. The bobsled is on display at the 26th Japan International Machine Tool Fair, with the group hoping it will be used at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Hosogai, owner of a metal-processing firm in Ota Ward, leads the shitamachi bobsled project.

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ANA hires Taiwanese cabin attendants

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Taiwanese women undergoing training as cabin attendants at an All Nippon Airways Co. facility in Tokyo's Ota Ward on July 29, 2012. ANA has hired Taiwanese cabin attendants to meet the needs of a growing number of travelers from Taiwan to Japan, and each of its flights between Tokyo and Taipei will have one Taiwanese attendant starting Aug. 12, 2012, according to the airline.

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Myanmar commerce minister in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar Commerce Minister Win Myint (R) is briefed by Park Young Kwang (L), president of EBM Corp., on medical equipment the company produces, at the company in Tokyo's Ota Ward on July 9, 2012.

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Quake debris from Miyagi Pref. arrives in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A truckload of debris from the quake- and tsunami-hit town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, arrives at a waste disposal facility in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Dec. 10, 2011.

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Tokyo begins disposing of debris from quake-hit Miyako

TOKYO, Japan - Workers measure the radiation level of debris from the quake-hit city of Miyako in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, at a crushing facility in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Nov. 3, 2011. Amid fears of contamination by radioactive substances leaked from the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo is the only municipality, aside from some in the northeast, that has so far stepped forward to accept rubble from areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami to help expedite reconstruction.

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Tokyo begins disposing of debris from quake-hit Miyako

TOKYO, Japan - Debris from the quake-hit city of Miyako in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is unloaded from a truck at a crushing facility in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Nov. 3, 2011. Amid fears of contamination by radioactive substances leaked from the crisis-hit Fukushima nuclear plant, Tokyo is the only municipality, aside from some in the northeast, that has so far stepped forward to accept rubble from areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami to help expedite reconstruction.

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Disaster drills in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A police officer talks to a driver on Sept. 1, 2011, on congested Route 15 in Tokyo's Ota Ward. The police held a large-scale drill that blocked about 100 highways in Tokyo to practice monitoring road traffic and ensuring the passage of emergency vehicles on the same day under a scenario of a major earthquake having occurred.

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Tokyo governor race

TOKYO, Japan - Miki Watanabe, head of restaurant chain operator Watami Co., speaks to reporters in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Feb. 15, 2011. He said he will run in the April 10 Tokyo gubernatorial race as an independent.

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Kan visits small factories in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) visits a thin coating factory in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Aug. 27, 2010. After discussing current economic conditions with owners of small firms the same day, Kan expressed hope the central bank will take flexible and agile policy measures to address the strengthening of the yen, which is increasingly damaging Japan's export-reliant economy. (Pool photo)

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Kan visits small factories in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoto Kan visits a grindery in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Aug. 27, 2010. After discussing current economic conditions with owners of small firms the same day, Kan expressed hope the central bank will take flexible and agile policy measures to address the strengthening of the yen, which is increasingly damaging Japan's export-reliant economy. (Pool photo)

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People without jobs, homes leave temporary shelter in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Unemployed and homeless people line up for a bus leaving from a temporary shelter in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Jan. 18, 2010. The last group of around 200 people left the shelter after the end of a Tokyo metropolitan government project to provide accommodation during the year-end and New Year holidays.

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2 women, girl die in Tokyo residential fire

TOKYO, Japan - The wooden, two-story house of Setsuko Sakuragi in Tokyo's Ota Ward was gutted by a predawn fire on Jan. 3, 2010. Two women and a girl -- believed to be Sakuragi, 82, her second daughter Hiroko, 48, and Hiroko's daughter Natsumi, 9 -- were killed in the fire.

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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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Retail gasoline prices rise to 180 yen at many gas stations

TOKYO, Japan - A signboard at a gas station in Tokyo's Ota Ward displays the price of regular gasoline at 182 yen per liter on July 1 after Japan's major petroleum companies hiked wholesale prices for gasoline and other petroleum products to be shipped in July by 8-10 yen per liter.

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Lead ship of whaling fleet returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The 8,044-ton Nisshin Maru, the lead ship of a Japanese whaling fleet, returns to Oi Marine Products Wharf in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 15 after completing a five-month research mission in the Antarctic Ocean. The six-vessel fleet caught a total of 551 whales during the mission, only 60 percent of an initially planned 900 whales due to acts of sabotage by anti-whaling activists.

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Experts to train young cooks to prepare for culinary Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Participants prepare dishes in Tokyo's Ota Ward in October in a contest to choose competitors for the World Culinary Olympics in Germany next year.

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Restaurants increasingly offer dog-friendly dining

TOKYO, Japan - Two Akita dogs wait for food at dog cafe ''Denen Sabo'' in the Denenchofu district of Tokyo's Ota Ward.

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Households increasingly turning to financial planners for advice

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways holds a life-planning seminar to provide its employees with advice on insurance and pension in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Sept. 25.

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Ono registered housekeeper as state-paid secretary until 1998

TOKYO, Japan - State minister and House of Councillors member Kiyoko Ono (in file photo) registered her housekeeper as a state-paid secretary for about 10 years up to 1998, sources close to the case said Sept. 22. Rather than working at Ono's office at the Diet office building, the housekeeper stayed at the lawmaker's home in Tokyo's Ota Ward preparing food, cleaning and doing other housework.

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(1)Several injured by knife-wielding men at railway station in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on June 24 shows Denen-Chofu Station in Tokyo's Ota Ward, where a station worker and several railway passengers were injured by a group of four or five knife-wielding assailants when they tried to prevent the group from robbing a woman.

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Incumbent Ota easily reelected as Osaka governor

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Fusae Ota celebrates victory at her election campaign office in Osaka's Chuo Ward on Feb. 1 after being elected for a second four-year term by beating Takenori Emoto, a retired baseball star, and three other rivals.

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Konica, Minolta to integrate operations

TOKYO, Japan - Fumio Iwai (L), president of Konica Corp., and Yoshikatsu Ota, president of Minolta Co., shake hands at a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Jan. 7 after announcing their agreement to integrate their businesses this summer under a holding company.

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Seal seen swimming in Tokyo's Tama River

TOKYO, Japan - A seal puppy is seen swimming in the Tama River near the Maruko Bridge in Tokyo's Ota Ward on Aug. 15. The seal, which is about one meter long, was first seen near the bridge about one week ago. An official at Kamogawa Seaworld in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, said the seal, which usually inhabits the Arctic, may have mistakenly gone south to seek food and strayed into the river.

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Koizumi visits high-tech factory in downtown Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (pool photo) bends an aluminum sheet at a Kitajima Sibori Seisakusho Co. factory in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 17. He visited the metal-processing plant with the aim of reflecting the experience in future measures to boost the small and midsize firms.

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(2)Repairs completed on oldest wooden pagoda in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Monks at the Ikegami Hommonji Temple in Tokyo's Ota Ward hold a ceremony April 3 to mark the completion of repair work on the oldest wooden pagoda in the Kanto region. The five story structure has not undergone major repairs since its construction in 1608.

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(1)Repairs completed on oldest wooden pagoda in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Repairs to the oldest wooden pagoda in the Kanto region, in Tokyo's Ota Ward, are completed April 3. The five-story pagoda in the Ikegami Hommonji Temple grounds had not undergone major repairs since its construction in 1608.

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Snow Brand Food head office, warehouse inspected

SAITAMA, Japan - Saitama Prefectural government officials walk into a meat processing facility of Snow Brand Food Co. to investigate alleged fraud over false labeling of beef. Investigators from the Tokyo government's food inspection team and public health officials also searched Snow Brand Food's head office in Chuo Ward and warehouse in Ota Ward the same day.