Evacuation from quake-hit island

TOSHIMA, Japan, July 6 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2025, after strong earthquakes hit the island, part of Toshima village, over the past week. (Kyodo)

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

TOSHIMA, Japan, July 4 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents and visitors boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21. (Kyodo)

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

TOSHIMA, Japan, July 4 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a ferry carrying evacuating residents and visitors sailing out of Akuseki Island, part of Toshima village, in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island the day before. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21. (Kyodo)

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a ferry carrying evacuees leaving Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2025, after strong earthquakes hit the island, part of Toshima village, over the past week.

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a ferry carrying evacuees leaving Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2025, after strong earthquakes hit the island, part of Toshima village, over the past week.

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2025, after strong earthquakes hit the island, part of Toshima village, over the past week.

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2025, after strong earthquakes hit the island, part of Toshima village, over the past week.

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Evacuation from quake-hit island

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2025, after strong earthquakes hit the island, part of Toshima village, over the past week.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a ferry carrying evacuating residents and visitors sailing out of Akuseki Island, part of Toshima village, in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island the day before. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a ferry carrying evacuating residents and visitors sailing out of Akuseki Island, part of Toshima village, in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island the day before. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows a ferry carrying evacuating residents and visitors sailing out of Akuseki Island, part of Toshima village, in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island the day before. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents and visitors boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents and visitors boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents and visitors boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken from a Kyodo News plane shows residents and visitors boarding a ferry to evacuate from Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan on July 4, 2025, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village. Over 1,000 tremblors have been felt there since June 21.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Strong quake shakes southwest Japan islands

Photo taken on July 3, 2025, from a Kyodo News plane shows Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit the island, part of Toshima village.

Japan: Strong Winds Blow Signboard Off Building In Ikebukuro, Tokyo

A winter low-pressure system brought strong winds to the Kanto region on Tuesday, February 27, with high waves hitting coastal areas, gusts knocking down streetlights and causing walls to topple over in Tokyo. The video shows winds blowing signboard off a building in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and firefighters at site dealing with the incident.

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

TOKYO, Japan - Striking workers represented by a labor union at Japanese department store operator Sogo & Seibu Co. march in the streets of Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Aug. 31, 2023. Store workers are opposing plans by parent Seven & i Holdings Co. to sell the 10-store chain to a U.S.-based investment fund.

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Sogo & Seibu labor union chief Yasuhiro Teraoka (C) is surrounded by reporters during a union rally in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Aug. 31, 2023. Workers at the Seibu Ikebukuro department store went on strike the same day protesting a planned sale of their company, a first for a Japanese department store in around 60 years.

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Striking workers represented by a labor union at Japanese department store operator Sogo & Seibu Co. march in the streets of Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Aug. 31, 2023. Store workers are opposing plans by parent Seven & i Holdings Co. to sell the 10-store chain to a U.S.-based investment fund.

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2023, shows a notice placed at Seibu department store's flagship Ikebukuro location in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, announcing its forced closure due to a labor strike.

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Seibu Ikebukuro workers strike

Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2023, shows the Seibu Ikebukuro department store in Tokyo's Toshima Ward. Store workers staged a strike the same day, opposing plans by parent Seven & i Holdings Co. to sell the 10-store Sogo & Seibu chain to a U.S.-based investment fund.

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Anti-terrorism drill in Tokyo

Anti-terrorism drill in Tokyo

Police officers take part in a joint security exercise led by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Tokyo's Toshima Ward simulating a knife attack on a bus on May 9, 2023, ahead of a Group of Seven summit later this month in the western Japan city of Hiroshima.

Anti-terrorism drill in Tokyo

Anti-terrorism drill in Tokyo

Police officers take part in a joint security exercise led by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Tokyo's Toshima Ward simulating a knife attack on a bus on May 9, 2023, ahead of a Group of Seven summit later this month in the western Japan city of Hiroshima.

SDP picks new leader

SDP picks new leader

TOKYO, Japan - Tadatomo Yoshida (L), a House of Councillors member, shakes hands with Taiga Ishikawa, an assemblyman in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, after Yoshida beat Ishikawa in a two-candidate race to choose the leader of the small opposition Social Democratic Party in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 2013.

Bic Camera to acquire Kojima

Bic Camera to acquire Kojima

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on May 11, 2012, shows the headquarters of home electronics discount chain operator Bic Camera Inc. in Tokyo's Toshima Ward. Bic Camera decided the same day to acquire its competitor Kojima Co.

KDDI, Softbank face off over iPhone 4S sales

KDDI, Softbank face off over iPhone 4S sales

TOKYO, Japan - People form a line outside KDDI Corp.'s outlet in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Oct. 7, 2011, to make reservations for Apple Inc.'s iPhone 4S smartphone. KDDI and Softbank Mobile Corp. unveiled retail handset prices and subscription plans the same day for the iPhone 4S a week before it goes on sale, both offering plans that require no payment at the time the device is purchased.

Tokyo starts radiation checks at 100 locations

Tokyo starts radiation checks at 100 locations

TOKYO, Japan - An employee of the Tokyo metropolitan government (front) measures radiation levels at a park in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on June 15, 2011. The local government on the same day kicked off a weeklong program to measure radiation levels in the air at 100 locations in the metropolis in a bid to address fears over the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

LDP's Koike narrowly secures reelection

LDP's Koike narrowly secures reelection

TOKYO, Japan - Former Defense Minister Yuriko Koike of the Liberal Democratic Party bows in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Aug. 31 after narrowly securing reelection to the House of Representatives in the general election the previous day. Koike lost in the capital's No. 10 single-seat constituency but regained a seat in the proportional representation block.

LDP's Koike narrowly secures reelection

LDP's Koike narrowly secures reelection

TOKYO, Japan - Former Defense Minister Yuriko Koike of the Liberal Democratic Party bows in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on Aug. 31 after narrowly securing reelection to the House of Representatives in the general election the previous day. Koike lost in the capital's No. 10 single-seat constituency but regained a seat in the proportional representation block.

Japan's jobless rate hits 6-year high of 5.4% in June

Japan's jobless rate hits 6-year high of 5.4% in June

TOKYO, Japan - Job seekers sit in front of computer screens as they look for jobs at a job center in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on July 31. The government announced the same day that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate reached a six-year high of 5.4 percent in June.

Eclipse watcher soldiers on in bad weather

Eclipse watcher soldiers on in bad weather

TOSHIMA, Japan - A tourist looks into a camera despite the rain during the total solar eclipse on Akuseki Island in the Tokara island chain, southern Japan, at 10:32 a.m. on July 22. If the weather had remained good, people on the island would have been able to observe the eclipse for 6 minutes and 25 seconds from 10:53 a.m., the longest duration for an inhabited area this century.

Man holds perforated board as eclipse obscured by cloud

Man holds perforated board as eclipse obscured by cloud

TOSHIMA, Japan - A man holds up a perforated board for a commemorative photo during the solar eclipse on Nakanoshima Island in the Tokara island chain, southern Japan, at noon on July 22. Many enthusiasts in the area were unable to see the first total solar eclipse over Japan in 46 years due to bad weather.

Japan braces for 1st total eclipse in 46 yrs

Japan braces for 1st total eclipse in 46 yrs

TOSHIMA, Japan - This July 18 photo from a Kyodo News-chartered helicopter shows Akuseki Island south of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima. A total solar eclipse can be observed on the island on July 22 for 6 minutes and 25 seconds, which will be the world's longest duration of the space show seen from an inhabited area in this century. The total eclipse will be the first in 46 years that can be seen from Japanese territory.

Japan braces for 1st total eclipse in 46 yrs

Japan braces for 1st total eclipse in 46 yrs

TOSHIMA, Japan - A child hangs a number of ''teruteru bozu'' paper dolls praying for fine weather following a practice in Japan on Akuseki Island south of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on July 19, three days before the first total solar eclipse in 46 years that can be seen from Japanese territory.

Japan braces for 1st total eclipse in 46 yrs

Japan braces for 1st total eclipse in 46 yrs

TOSHIMA, Japan - A group of tents are seen under a starry sky in a field of an elementary and junior high school in Akuseki Island south of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on July 18, four days before the first total solar eclipse in 46 years that can be seen from Japanese territory.

Japan braces for 1st total eclipse in 46 yrs

Japan braces for 1st total eclipse in 46 yrs

TOSHIMA, Japan - A woman checks a telescope in a field of an elementary and junior high school in Akuseki Island south of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima on July 19, three days before the first total solar eclipse in 46 years that can be seen from Japanese territory.

Monument to manga artists' apartments draws fans

Monument to manga artists' apartments draws fans

TOKYO, Japan - Women look at a monument to the Tokiwa So apartment building which was unveiled in a park in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on April 4. The local government set up the monument to commemorate the now-demolished apartments which provided a home for many Japanese manga greats in the 1950s.

Idea for Chinatown in Ikebukuro draws negative reaction

Idea for Chinatown in Ikebukuro draws negative reaction

TOKYO, Japan - A number of Chinese shops and restaurants are located around JR Ikebukuro station in Tokyo's Toshima Ward.

Princess Aiko finishes kindergarten

Princess Aiko finishes kindergarten

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Aiko (C) poses for photos with her parents, Crown Prince Naruhito (L) and Princess Masako (R), after a ceremony to finish Gakushuin Kindergarten in Tokyo's Toshima Ward on March 15. The 6-year-old princess will enter Gakushuin Primary School in the capital's Shinjuku Ward in April, according to the Imperial Household Agency. (Pool photo)