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Couche-Tard drops $47 bil. bid to buy Seven-Eleven parent company

Photo taken on July 17, 2025, shows a Seven-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. said on July 16 that it has withdrawn its $47 billion buyout proposal for Japanese rival Seven & i Holdings Co., the operator of the convenience store chain, following a year of talks.

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Fatal stabbing of young woman on Tokyo street

TOKYO, Japan, May 15 Kyodo - A cross mark on the map shows the site of a fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old woman near JR Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. A 42-year-old man, Kenichi Takano, was arrested on March 11, 2025, over his alleged stabbing of Airi Sato while she was livestreaming on a street earlier in the day. The man was quoted by investigative sources as saying the woman had failed to repay debts to him.

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Sony's The Tokyo Matrix entertainment facility

Photo shows Sony Group Corp.'s The Tokyo Matrix entertainment facility in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on March 17, 2025.

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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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Tighter Halloween crowd control in Shinjuku

Security guards patrol in Tokyo's bustling Kabukicho district on Halloween night on Oct. 31, 2024, as Shinjuku Ward introduced a ban on alcohol consumption in the area from 5 p.m. Oct. 31 to 5 a.m. Nov. 1.

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General election in Japan

Voters cast their ballot in Japan's general election at a polling station in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 27, 2024.

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General election in Japan

Voters cast their ballot in Japan's general election at a polling station in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 27, 2024.

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JAPAN-TOKYO-BONES RELATED TO WAR-MEETING

(240722) -- TOKYO, July 22, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Kazuyuki Kawamura, a former Shinjuku ward councilor, speaks during a meeting marking the 35th anniversary of the discovery of human bones from a Japanese army medical school, in Tokyo, Japan, July 20, 2024. The gathering was organized by the Association Demanding Investigation on Human Bones Discovered from the Site of the Army Medical College. TO GO WITH "Feature: Truth awaits for 'bones related to war'" Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Japan: Major Flooding After Severe Thunderstorm With Torrential Rain Hits Central Tokyo 2

A severe thunderstorm hit central Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday evening, July 20. The storm brought lightning strikes and torrential rains, prompting warnings for heavy rain and flash flooding. In the Okubo area, Shinjuku Ward, a taxi was stranded under a flooded overpass.

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Japan: Major Flooding After Severe Thunderstorm With Torrential Rain Hits Central Tokyo

A severe thunderstorm hit central Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday evening, July 20. The storm brought lightning strikes and torrential rains, prompting warnings for heavy rain and flash flooding. In the Okubo area, Shinjuku Ward, a taxi was stranded under a flooded overpass.

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Snow in Tokyo

A woman walks beside a closed Metropolitan Expressway entrance in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on the morning of Feb. 6, 2024, after snowfall peaked in the capital.

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Isetan department store in Tokyo

File photo taken on May 24, 2023, shows Isetan department store in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

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Giant 3D cat billboard in Tokyo

Photo taken on May 24, 2023, shows a giant 3D calico cat appearing on an 8-by-19-meter digital billboard near JR Shinjuku Station's east exit in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

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Godzilla head statue in Tokyo

Photo taken on May 24, 2023, shows a life-size Godzilla replica from the neck upwards peering down from a skyscraper in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

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Tokyu Kabukicho Tower

Photo taken on April 14, 2023, shows the Tokyu Kabukicho Tower amusement and entertainment complex that opened the same day in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. The 225-meter tower houses a theater, eight-screen cinema house, game facilities and two hotels.

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Tokyu Kabukicho Tower

A tape-cutting ceremony is held to celebrate the opening of the Tokyu Kabukicho Tower amusement and entertainment complex in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 14, 2023. The 225-meter tower houses a theater, eight-screen cinema house, game facilities and two hotels.

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Famed Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto dies

Photo taken on April 3, 2023, shows a section earmarked for the late Japanese musician Ryuichi Sakamoto at a Tower Records store in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. A world-renowned musician and composer, Sakamoto, also the keyboardist of the legendary electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, known as YMO, died of cancer at 71 in late March 2023.

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Products of traditional Japanese dyehouse

TOKYO, Japan - A range of products using Futaba Inc.'s dyed fabrics are displayed in a shop adjacent to its workshop in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 28, 2011. (Clockwise from L) The products are a clock, a mirror, a lampshade, chopstick holders, sandals and accessories.

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Mitsukoshi, Isetan agree to combine operations next spring

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Isetan department store in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. Isetan Co. and Mitsukoshi Ltd. have reached a basic agreement to integrate operations next spring under a joint holding company in a move that would create Japan's largest department store, informed sources said Aug. 17.

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Mystery theme park in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2017 shows the building of Tokyo Mystery Circus, Japan's first mystery theme park, set to open in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 19.

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Mystery theme park in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2017 shows the inside of Tokyo Mystery Circus, Japan's first mystery theme park, set to open in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 19.

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Mystery theme park in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2017 shows the inside of Tokyo Mystery Circus, Japan's first mystery theme park, set to open in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 19.

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Mystery theme park in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 26 Kyodo - Photo taken on Dec. 14, 2017 shows the inside of Tokyo Mystery Circus, Japan's first mystery theme park, set to open in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 19.

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Fans bid farewell to movie theater in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Fans throng the Shinjuku Milano-za movie theater in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 31, 2014, the last day of its operation, to see the American film "E.T.," chosen for the last screening. The movie theater, one of the largest in Japan with 1,064 seats, opened in December 1956.

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Fans bid farewell to movie theater in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Fans await the screening of the American film "E.T." at the Shinjuku Milano-za movie theater in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 31, 2014, the last day of its operation. The movie theater, one of the largest in Japan with 1,064 seats, opened in December 1956.

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Fans bid farewell to movie theater in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the Shinjuku Milano-za movie theater in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 31, 2014, the last day of its operation. The movie theater, one of the largest in Japan with 1,064 seats, opened in December 1956.

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Japan ruling bloc assured of victory in lower house election

TOKYO, Japan - Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, smiles at the ruling party's headquarters in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on the night of Dec. 14, 2014, after all the party's nine candidates in the single-seat constituencies secured victory in the lower house election.

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DPJ leader Kaieda loses lower house seat

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters throng the election campaign office for Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward before dawn on Dec. 15, 2014, after he lost his seat in the House of Representatives election the previous day. The defeat marks the first time since 1949 that the leader of the largest opposition party in Japan has lost his or her seat in the lower house election.

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Ruling bloc to win stable majority in lower house

TOKYO, Japan - Natsuo Yamaguchi, leader of the Komeito party, receives the results of the lower house election at the party's headquarters in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on the night of Dec. 14, 2014. The ruling bloc of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Komeito party will secure a stable majority in the election, according to Kyodo News exit polls and projections.

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Campaigning for Dec. 14 general election begins

TOKYO, Japan - Voters listen to a speech by a candidate running in the Dec. 14, 2014, lower house election in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Dec. 2, the first day of official campaigning for the election. The opposition camp is aiming to break the dominance of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party, which held nearly 300 of the 480 seats in the House of Representatives before it was dissolved.

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Snow-capped Mt. Fuji in back of Tokyo skyscrapers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from Bunkyo Ward in central Tokyo shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a layer of snow, seen in the back of skyscrapers towering over Tokyo's Shinjuku district in the morning on Nov. 27, 2014.

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Snow-capped Mt. Fuji in back of Tokyo skyscrapers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from Bunkyo Ward in central Tokyo shows Mt. Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, covered with a layer of snow, seen in the back of skyscrapers towering over Tokyo's Shinjuku district in the morning on Nov. 27, 2014.

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Nobel winner Nakamura extends olive branch to former employer Nichia

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, one of the three Japan-born scientists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles during a press conference in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Nov. 3, 2014. The 60-year-old professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said he wants to rebuild ties with former employer Nichia Corp., despite launching a lawsuit against the chemical maker over patent rights to his groundbreaking blue light-emitting diode technology. "My Nobel Prize was made possible because Nichia led the world in LEDs," Nakamura said.

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Nobel winner Nakamura extends olive branch to former employer Nichia

TOKYO, Japan - Shuji Nakamura, one of the three Japan-born scientists awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, holds a press conference in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Nov. 3, 2014. The 60-year-old professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said he wants to rebuild ties with former employer Nichia Corp., despite launching a lawsuit against the chemical maker over patent rights to his groundbreaking blue light-emitting diode technology. "My Nobel Prize was made possible because Nichia led the world in LEDs," Nakamura said.

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Man who traveled from W. Africa tests negative for Ebola

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 28, 2014, shows the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward, to which a man, who traveled from West Africa and showed elevated body temperature upon arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport, was admitted the previous day. The Canadian journalist tested negative for the Ebola virus but will remain hospitalized and under observation for a few more days, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

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Former death row inmate attends meeting against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (R), a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, and his sister Hideko, attend a civic meeting seeking an end to the death penalty, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 11, 2014. Hakamada, a 78-year-old former professional boxer, was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1966, but was freed after the Shizuoka District Court approved DNA test results that showed blood found on five items of clothing said to have been worn by the culprit was not Hakamada's.

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Former death row inmate attends meeting against death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (R), a former death row inmate who was freed in March 2014 after nearly 48 years in prison following a court decision to reopen his case, and his sister Hideko, attend a civic meeting seeking an end to the death penalty, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Oct. 11, 2014. Hakamada, a 78-year-old former professional boxer, was sentenced to death for the murder of four members of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1966, but was freed after the Shizuoka District Court approved DNA test results that showed blood found on five items of clothing said to have been worn by the culprit was not Hakamada's.

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Tokyo gov't building lit in blue for abductee rescue

TOKYO, Japan - The facade of the Tokyo metropolitan government's main building No.1 in the capital's Shinjuku Ward is illuminated blue, the color symbolizing hope for the rescue of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, on Sept. 12, 2014.

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More women interested in freezing eggs for future pregnancy

TOKYO, Japan - Noriko Kagawa, head of Repro Self Bank, explains about the decline in egg quality at a seminar held by the private operator of an egg-freezing business, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on July 15, 2014.

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Kinokuniya's expanded foreign language book section

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 29, 2014, shows the expanded foreign language book section of Kinokuniya Co.'s Shinjuku South Store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The renovated section opened the same day.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a copy of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Murakami's new short story collection

TOKYO, Japan - Women hold copies of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's latest work, a collection of short stories entitled "Onna no Inai Otokotachi" -- which can be translated as "Men Without Women" -- at the Kinokuniya bookstore in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 18, 2014, soon after its release at midnight. Publisher Bungeishunju Ltd. said 300,000 copies have already been printed due partly to the strength of pre-orders.

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Japan's consumption tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - A worker at a McDonald's outlet in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward hands change in 1 yen coins to a customer on April 1, 2014, after Japan's consumption tax rate was raised to 8 percent.

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Japan's consumption tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Menus are switched at a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 1, 2014, after Japan's consumption tax rate was raised to 8 percent.

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Japan's consumption tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Menus are switched at a McDonald's restaurant in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in the early hours of April 1, 2014, after Japan's consumption tax rate was raised to 8 percent.

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Finale of TV variety show "Waratte Iitomo"

TOKYO, Japan - People flock in front of the Studio Alta building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on March 31, 2014, whose exterior screen shows the on-air finale of Fuji Television Network's popular variety show "Waratte Iitomo." The show has lasted for about 32 years.

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Finale of TV variety show "Waratte Iitomo"

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyoshi Morita (C), better known as Tamori, enters the Studio Alta building in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward to host Fuji Television Network's popular variety show "Waratte Iitomo" on March 31, 2014, the day of its final live broadcast. Tamori has hosted the program for about 32 years.

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Anne Frank's book vandalized in Tokyo libraries

TOKYO, Japan - An official of a public library holds a picture book on Anne Frank, with some pages ripped out, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Feb. 22, 2014. Tokyo police are investigating the vandalizing of more than 300 copies of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank and related books at public libraries in Tokyo.

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Tokyo Marathon

TOKYO, Japan - Runners fill Yasukuni Dori street during the Tokyo Marathon in the capital's Shinjuku Ward on Feb. 23, 2014. (Pool photo)