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Japan: Massive Train Disruption Impacts Hundreds of Thousands in Tokyo Area 7

Tokyo's main JR Yamanote Line and JR Keihin-Tohoku Line suspended service on Friday, January 16, after a power outage caused by overnight construction work near Tamachi Station. The disruption caused widespread chaos for morning commuters, with some passengers forced to evacuate from a stranded train by walking along the railroad tracks.

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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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Torrential rain

The Tachiai River overflows in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Sept. 11, 2025, due to torrential rain.

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Japan: Storms Hit Tokyo and Surrounding Areas, Causing Floods and Power Outages 3

Heavy rain battered Tokyo and surrounding areas on Thursday, September 11, flooding streets, cutting power to over 7,000 homes, grounding flights, and triggering emergency alerts for floods and landslides.

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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Japanese TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada are pictured during a press conference on April 11, 2007, after the Supreme Court repealed in March a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court finalized Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the 2003 births of the boys.(Kyodo)

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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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Crane topples at Tokyo construction site

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mobile crane that toppled and hit nearby cars at a construction site in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on May 16, 2023. A man died and another was injured, according to police and firefighters.

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Crane topples at Tokyo construction site

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mobile crane that toppled and hit nearby cars at a construction site in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on May 16, 2023. A man died and another was injured, according to police and firefighters.

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Crane topples at Tokyo construction site

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a mobile crane that toppled and hit nearby cars at a construction site in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on May 16, 2023. A man died and another was injured, according to police and firefighters.

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Crane topples at Tokyo construction site

Rescuers work at a construction site in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward after a mobile crane toppled and hit nearby cars on May 16, 2023. A man died and another was injured, according to police and firefighters.

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Crane topples at Tokyo construction site

Rescuers work at a construction site in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward after a mobile crane toppled and hit nearby cars on May 16, 2023. A man died and another was injured, according to police and firefighters.

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JR East studying building new station on Yamanote Line

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 4, 2012, shows a part of the Yamanote commuter rail loop line between JR Shinagawa and Tamachi stations, both in Tokyo's Minato Ward. East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, envisions building a new station between those two stations, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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JR East studying building new station on Yamanote Line

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 4, 2012, shows a part of the Yamanote commuter rail loop line between JR Shinagawa (bottom) and Tamachi stations, both in Tokyo's Minato Ward. East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, envisions building a new station between those two stations, sources familiar with the matter said the same day.

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Train with pictures of Tokyo Station's 100 years to run

TOKYO, Japan - A JR Yamanote Line train, displaying pictures of the 100-year history of Tokyo Station instead of advertisements, is shown to the press in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 17, 2014, ahead of its operation on the loop rail line from the following day through New Year's Day. The special train will run to commemorate the station's centennial on Dec. 20.

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Train with pictures of Tokyo Station's 100 years to run

TOKYO, Japan - A JR Yamanote Line train, displaying pictures of the 100-year history of Tokyo Station instead of advertisements, is shown to the press in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 17, 2014, ahead of its operation on the loop rail line from the following day through New Year's Day. The special train will run to commemorate the station's centennial on Dec. 20.

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Japan Basketball Association leaders to resign over sanctions

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Maruo, the Japan Basketball Association's acting chairman, holds a press conference in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 3, 2014, after the JBA's directors decided earlier in the day to resign following the International Basketball Federation's decision to ban Japan from international competition for the JBA's failure to merge its two competing leagues.

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Group plans business school for working mothers

TOKYO, Japan - Saori Osu (far R) and other working mothers discuss marketing strategies during a class held in December 2013 in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. Osu established a working mothers' group in September 2013 to create Japan's first business school for working mothers by working mothers.

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Multitude of ideas behind packaging designer's success

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 22, 2013 in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward shows Kentaro Ito, a packaging art director for cosmetics maker Pola Inc., with the company's aromatic soap dubbed KOU in the packaging he designed. The packaging won a total of seven awards in design competitions in Japan and abroad.

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Starbucks to reach 1,000 stores in Japan by end of 2013

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on May 10, 2013, shows the inside of a Starbucks Corp. store set to open the next day in the building housing the new headquarters of the company's Japanese unit in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. Starbucks Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said on May 10 that the number of the company's coffee stores in Japan will reach 1,000 by the end of the year.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries HQ

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the headquarters of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. in Tokyo's Minato Ward on June 4, 2012. The high-rise building was built on empty lots of the former Japanese National Railways in the Shinagawa district.

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Aeon supermarkets open at 7 a.m. for power-saving

TOKYO, Japan - People shop at an outlet of Aeon Co. in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward just after 7 a.m. on June 1, 2012. Japan's largest retailer the same day started to open most of its supermarket outlets across the country at 7 a.m., two hours earlier than usual, in response to calls by consumers who want to shop in the cooler hours of the morning amid nationwide efforts to save power during the summer.

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Namco game producer

TOKYO, Japan - Ken Nakadate, who heads the development team of ''Taiko no Tatsujin'' at Namco Bandai Games Inc., poses with drumsticks in front of the game machine at the company headquarters in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 5, 2011. Nakadate said he is constantly thinking about how to create fun game machines.

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Taxi falls onto railway track in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A taxi lies on a railway track of East Japan Railway Co. after falling from a road and being clipped by an oncoming train in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in the evening of Oct. 24, 2011. The taxi driver died early the following morning.

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Taxi clipped by train after falling from overpass

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the site of an accident in which a taxi fell onto a railway track from an overpass and was clipped by an oncoming train in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward at 9:05 p.m. on Oct. 24, 2011. None of the some 1,500 train passengers were injured in the accident, which occurred at around 7:50 p.m., but the taxi's driver and passenger were seriously injured with bone fractures.

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'Healthy' mahjong popular among elderly

TOKYO, Japan - People play ''healthy'' mahjong at a parlor in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 28, 2010. The new type of mahjong has been gaining popularity among elderly people in Japan because of its ban on betting, smoking and alcohol.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of Japan Airlines Corp. leave the company's headquarters building in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 12, 2010, the day when Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - Officials of Japan Airlines Corp. leave the company's headquarters building in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 12, 2010, the day when Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen.

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Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection

TOKYO, Japan - The headquarters building of Japan Airlines Corp. is silhouetted against the early evening sky in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 19, 2010. Japan's top air carrier filed for bankruptcy protection the same day with group liabilities totaling over 2 trillion yen in the biggest nonfinancial corporate failure in Japan's postwar history.

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JAL heads for court-backed bankruptcy

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows the headquarters of Japan Airlines Corp. in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 9, 2010. The government is seeking to turn around the troubled airliner through court-backed bankruptcy.

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JAL heads for court-backed bankruptcy

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows the headquarters of Japan Airlines Corp. in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Jan. 9, 2010. The government is seeking to turn around the troubled airliner through court-backed bankruptcy.

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JAL to seek revival under state direction

TOKYO, Japan - This Oct. 29, 2009 photo shows the headquarters of struggling Japan Airlines Corp. in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. JAL said the same day that it will seek to turn itself around under state direction.

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JAL's headquarters in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - The Sept. 9, 2009 photo shows the headquarters of Japan Airlines Corp. in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. JAL President Haruka Nishimatsu said Sept. 15 that the company plans to conclude capital tie-up talks with multiple foreign airlines by mid-October.

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Moguls queen Uemura, Alpine skier Minagawa get married

TOKYO, Japan - Aiko Uemura, Japan's moguls queen and a medal hopeful at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, laughs at a press conference in Tokyo on June 11. Uemura and alpine skier Kentaro Minagawa spoke to reporters after filing their marriage registration at the Shinagawa Ward Office.

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Moguls queen Uemura, Alpine skier Minagawa get married

TOKYO, Japan - Alpine skier Kentaro Minagawa (L) and Aiko Uemura, Japan's moguls queen and a medal hopeful at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, show their wedding rings during a press conference in Tokyo on June 11 after filing their marriage registration at the Shinagawa Ward Office.

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Moguls queen Uemura, Alpine skier Minagawa get married

TOKYO, Japan - Alpine skier Kentaro Minagawa (L) and Aiko Uemura, Japan's moguls queen and a medal hopeful at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, show their wedding rings during a press conference in Tokyo on June 11 after filing their marriage registration at the Shinagawa Ward Office.

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Moguls queen Uemura, Alpine skier Minagawa get married

TOKYO, Japan - Alpine skier Kentaro Minagawa (L) and Aiko Uemura, Japan's moguls queen and a medal hopeful at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, show their wedding rings during a press conference in Tokyo on June 11 after filing their marriage registration at the Shinagawa Ward Office.

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Skiing: Moguls queen Uemura marries Alpine skier Minagawa

TOKYO, Japan - Aiko Uemura (R), Japan's moguls queen and a medal hopeful at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and Alpine skier Kentaro Minagawa (L) pose for photographers near the Shinagawa Ward Office on June 11 after filing their marriage registration at the office.

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Aso visits elementary school in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso introduces himself in English to a 6th grade class at an elementary school in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Feb. 14 during a visit to the school. (Pool photo)

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Teen attacks 5 with kitchen knives in street rampage in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police cordon off part of a shopping street in front of Togoshiginza Station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward, where a 16-year-old boy armed with kitchen knives attacked five people on Jan. 5, injuring two of them.

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Fujiya products back on Lawson shelves

TOKYO, Japan - Products of confectionary maker Fujiya Co. are put on shelves at an outlet of convenience store operator Lawson Inc. in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on April 17. Lawson resumed selling Fujiya products nearly three months after pulling them from the shelves over revelations the confectioner had used ingredients whose use-by dates had expired.

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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan - Files photos show TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada. The Supreme Court on March 23 repealed a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court's No. 2 petty bench finalizes Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the births of the boys, now aged 3.

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Tokyo Monorail link to Haneda airport resumes

TOKYO, Japan - A maintenance vehicle of the Tokyo Monorail Co. gets stuck in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Nov. 24 due to brake trouble. The services of the monorail, which links JR Lines in central Tokyo and Haneda airport, were suspended for eight hours, affecting some 54,000 passengers.

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Beaujolais Nouveau released to usual fanfare

TOKYO, Japan - Women toast to each other at the Epson Aqua Stadium aquarium in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward at five minutes past midnight on Nov. 15 as this year's Beaujolais Nouveau was released with the usual fanfare in Japan. Japan is one of the first countries able to enjoy the wine each year due to time differences.

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Met. gov't, JR East in conflict over hike on property tax

TOKYO, Japan - Stores are jammed with customers at ''Ecute (cute station) Shinagawa'' in JR Shinagawa Station in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

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2,100 law school grads take new national bar exam

TOKYO, Japan - Graduates from university law schools sit for the new national bar exam in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on May 19. About 2,100 graduates took the four-day exam in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Sendai and Fukuoka, the national bar examination commission said.

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Environment Minister Koike discharged from hospital

TOKYO, Japan - Environment Minister Yuriko Koike smiles while leaving a hospital April 14 in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. Koike was hospitalized March 29 for acute pneumonia.

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Women given opportunities to develop goods from their viewpoints

TOKYO, Japan - Female workers at Sony Corp.'s head office in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward lead the development of its ''Happy Vega,'' a liquid crystal TV set which was marketed in February.

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Ethnic media outlets cater to foreign residents

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the editorial room of International Press in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward that publishes a weekly newspaper in Portuguese. The company also publishes a Spanish-language newspaper and magazine.

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Transport minister begins safety checks of rail, air transport

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kazuo Kitagawa (L) inspects an operation control center at Japan Airlines Corp.'s head office in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on May 2. Kitagawa began safety inspections of rail and air transport systems in the wake of a series of accidents and mishaps, including the fatal train derailment in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 25.

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Premier's renovated official residence opens for preview

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) addresses a ceremony to preview the renovated prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on April 11. Koizumi plans to move into the renovated four-story building by the summer from his temporary quarters in a state-owned residence in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. (Pool photo)