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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: Storms Hit Tokyo and Surrounding Areas, Causing Floods and Power Outages 8

Heavy rain hit Tokyo and surrounding areas on Thursday, September 11, flooding streets, cutting power to thousands of homes, grounding flights, and prompting emergency alerts for floods and landslides.

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Japan: Voting Begins For Lower House General Election

Voting in Japan's general election took place on Sunday, October 27, following the early dissolution of the Lower House by new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

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Setagaya Shinkin Bank signage and logo

Setagaya Shinkin Bank signage and logo=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Setagaya Shinkin Bank signage and logo

Setagaya Shinkin Bank signage and logo=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Japan: Tropical Storm Shanshan Brings Torrential Rains To Kanto Region 4

Tropical Storm Shanshan has brought torrential rains to Kanto region Thursday, August 29 through Friday, August 30 as it slowly moved across western Japan.

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Japan: Earthquake Jolts Tokyo Area

A strong earthquake struck the Kanto region Friday evening, August 9. According to reports, the magnitude is 5.3. Shaking was also felt in Tokyo.

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Nihon University's American football ground

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the American football ground at Nihon University in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Nov. 29, 2023.

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Nihon University's American football ground

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the American football ground at Nihon University in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Nov. 29, 2023.

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(2)Snow in central Tokyo on New Year's Eve

TOKYO, Japan - Traffic slows to a crawl on a main street in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward due to snowfall on Dec. 31.

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(2) Another fire breaks out at Don Quijote outlet

TOKYO, Japan - People watch as smoke belch up from an outlet of major discount store chain Don Quijote Co. in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward early Dec. 26. Police suspect the possibility of arson as a man and a woman who first found the fire said smoke had been coming from the lower half of a jacket on sale in the clothing section on the second floor of the outlet.

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Emperor, Empress at vocational center for disabled

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko speak to trainees at the Setagaya ward government's vocational training center for people with intellectual disabilities in Tokyo on Dec. 8, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo's Setagaya Ward honors 'local hero' Godzilla

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo's Setagaya Ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka (R) presents an actor in a "Godzilla" suit with a certificate at Toho Studios in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2014, the 60th anniversary of Godzilla's screen debut. Twenty eight of the 30 Godzilla movies including the first were made at the studios in the ward.

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Commemorative photo taken with 'Godzilla'

TOKYO, Japan - A child poses with an actor in "Godzilla" suit for a commemorative photo at Toho Studios in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Nov. 3, 2014, the 60th anniversary of Godzilla's screen debut.

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Postwar model train magazine publishes 800th edition

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 16, 2014 shows Haruo Ishibashi, editor in chief of the monthly magazine "Tetsudo Mokei Shumi" (model railway hobby), at the office of its publisher Kigei Publishing Co. in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. Launched in 1947, the magazine issued its 800th edition in January 2014.

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"Karaoke" systems in demand at facilities for elderly

TOKYO, Japan - Seniors exercise together with an instructor as they watch a video screened on an online karaoke system on Oct. 4, 2013 at Day Home Akatsutsumi, a day-care center for the aged in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. (Photo partially modified to conceal private information)

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Thunderstorm in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A parking lot is flooded in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward after heavy rain on July 23, 2013.

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Woman stabbed to death in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People gather in a residential area of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward where a woman was found bleeding on Oct. 10, 2012. The woman, 62, was confirmed dead while the 86-year-old man believed to have attacked her also died from apparent suicide.

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Karzai in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) receives flowers from Rie Tanaka, a Japanese gymnast set to compete in the London Olympics, after receiving an honorary doctorate from Nippon Sport Science University at the university in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on July 9, 2012.

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Piece of A-bomb-scorched clothing

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken at the Ground Self-Defense Force Medical School in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward shows a piece of clothing (bottom) scorched in the shape of diamond patterns by the heat rays of the 1945 atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima, and an explanatory text about it (above). The item was apparently brought back to Tokyo from Hiroshima by a research team of the former imperial Japanese army that was sent to the western Japanese city immediately after the bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, according to school officials.

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Comic character's hair plucked from its statue

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 22, 2012, shows the bronze statue of Namihei, a well known Japanese cartoon character of a man in his 50s, but without his trademark lone hair on top of his bald head, in the Sakurashimmachi area of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. Someone plucked his hair made of wire in early May, and after local people fixed it using a spare hair, it disappeared again on May 20.

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Trial of former DPJ leader Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on the morning of March 19, 2012, shows former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa leaving his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. In their closing statement the same day at his trial at the Tokyo District Court, his defense lawyers reiterated their contention that the veteran lawmaker is not guilty of conspiring with three of his former aides over false reporting of political funds.

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance.

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Gov't raid on AUM splinter group

TOKYO, Japan - Officials from the Justice Ministry's Public Security Intelligence Agency walk into a facility of Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light), a splinter group of the AUM Shinrikyo cult known for its sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 3, 2012. The inspection of the group led by former senior AUM member Fumihiro Joyu was based on the law allowing the government to put groups that have been involved with an indiscriminate mass murder under surveillance.

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People in Tokyo walk home after March 2011 disaster

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 11, 2011, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward shows people walking to their homes after the massive earthquake paralyzed the public transportation systems in the capital area. Some 34 percent of people walked home from their workplaces or schools in Tokyo's 23 wards without waiting for the resumption of public transportation services, a survey by the Railway Technical Research Institute showed Jan. 28, 2012.

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Season's 1st snow in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a residential area in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward slightly covered with snow as the season's first snow fell in the capital on Jan. 20, 2012.

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Ozawa attends court hearing

TOKYO, Japan - Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa, who faces a political fund scandal, leaves his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward to attend a hearing of his trial at the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 10, 2012. He underwent questioning at the court.

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Work to reduce radiation in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Workers measure radiation levels at a blocked road beside the premises of a supermarket in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Nov. 15, 2011, before an operation to lower the levels. The high radiation levels in the area are apparently not related to an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, as a buried bottle containing radium was removed at the supermarket site earlier in the month.

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Search for radiation source in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Workers unload metallic drums from a truck on Nov. 1, 2011, as part of the process to discover and remove radioactive material believed to be buried underground near a supermarket in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. High levels of radiation have been detected at the site but the source is unlikely to be related to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, according to the science ministry.

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Search for radiation source in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Workers begin the process around a supermarket in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Nov. 1, 2011, to discover and remove radioactive material believed to be buried underground. High levels of radiation have been detected at the site but they are unlikely to be related to the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, according to the science ministry.

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Radioactive bottles removed from Tokyo house

TOKYO, Japan - Drums containing bottles with radioactive substances are loaded into a vehicle beside a house (L) in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Oct. 14, 2011. Several dozen bottles deemed to be the source of high levels of radiation detected in the area were found under the floor of the house by government officials. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is almost certain the powder inside the bottles is radium, easing public anxiety that the radiation could have been related to the nuclear crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant over 200 kilometers away.

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High levels of radiation detected in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - An expert measures radiation in a residential area of Tsurumaki in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, on Oct. 13, 2011. Airborne radiation of up to 3.35 microsieverts per hour, exceeding readings in some evacuation zones around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, was detected at a height of 1 meter in the area in the measurement commissioned by the ward office.

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High levels of radiation detected in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - An expert measures radiation in a residential area of Tsurumaki in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, on Oct. 13, 2011. Airborne radiation of up to 3.35 microsieverts per hour, exceeding readings in some evacuation zones around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, was detected at a height of 1 meter in the area in the measurement commissioned by the ward office.

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High levels of radiation detected in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 13, 2011, shows part of a sidewalk in a residential area of Tsurumaki in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, where airborne radiation of up to 3.35 microsieverts per hour, exceeding readings in some evacuation zones around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, was detected the same day. Road cones have been placed around the site by the ward office, as the sidewalk is used as a route to a nearby elementary school.

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Antinuke mayors

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Nobuto Hosaka (L), newly elected mayor of Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, and Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, shake hands in Minamisoma on April 29, 2011. Hosaka was elected pledging to campaign for an end to reliance on nuclear power. Sakurai was picked by TIME magazine in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world after criticizing the Japanese government's response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis via the video-sharing site YouTube.

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Walking home

TOKYO, Japan - People walk home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward after train services halted due to a devastating earthquake that struck Japan earlier in the day.

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Walking home

TOKYO, Japan - People walk home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward after train services halted due to a devastating earthquake that struck Japan earlier in the day.

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Scandal-hit Ozawa likely to avoid prosecution

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, scandal-hit kingpin of Japan's ruling party, leaves his house in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Feb. 4, 2010. Speculation was growing that the secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan would likely to avoid prosecution over a political funds scandal.

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Scandal-hit Ozawa stays away from parliament

TOKYO, Japan - Ichiro Ozawa, scandal-hit kingpin of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, leaves home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Jan. 21, 2010. The DPJ secretary general is expected to be questioned by prosecutors over a funds scandal.

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Ozawa's office searched over money scandal

TOKYO, Japan - This Jan. 7, 2010, photo shows an apartment building in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward for the families of secretaries to ruling Democratic Party of Japan power broker Ichiro Ozawa that was built on land purchased by Ozawa's fund management body. Prosecutors searched an office of the country's kingpin Jan. 13 over an alleged mishandling of political funds by his former aide.

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Ozawa's office searched over money scandal

TOKYO, Japan - This Jan. 7, 2010, photo shows an apartment building in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward for the families of secretaries to ruling Democratic Party of Japan power broker Ichiro Ozawa that was built on land purchased by Ozawa's fund management body. Prosecutors searched an office of the country's kingpin Jan. 13 over an alleged mishandling of political funds by his former aide.

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Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa found dead at Tokyo home

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki responds to questions from reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 4, 2009, over the death of former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa. Nakagawa, an LDP member, was found dead at his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward earlier in the day.

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Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa found dead at Tokyo home

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows then Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa replying to questions from the floor at a House of Councilors session in February 2009. Nakagawa was found dead at his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Oct. 4, 2009.

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Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa found dead at Tokyo home

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Oct. 4, 2009, shows the home of former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. Nakagawa was found dead at his home earlier in the day.

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Ex-Finance Minister Nakagawa found dead at Tokyo home

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who was found dead at his home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Oct. 4, 2009. Nakagawa's political career went downhill after a press conference in Rome in February 2009, at which he appeared to be drunk.

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Window falls from police helicopter over Tokyo's Setagaya Ward

TOKYO, Japan - This photo shows an empty window frame on the Metropolitan Police Department helicopter Otori after the glass pane fell off while it was flying some 600 meters above Tokyo's Setagaya Ward in the afternoon of June 9. The glass pane, which weighed 2.25 kilograms, has not been found. (Photo courtesy of the MPD)

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Gov't launches 'eco-point' system to spur sluggish economy

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai (L) is shown a television included in the ''eco-points'' program at an electronics store in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on May 15. The government kicked off its economic stimulus program the same day to spur spending, giving incentives in the form of eco-points for the purchase of eco-friendly home electronic appliances.

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7 killed in fires in Tokyo, Nara, Osaka

TOKYO, Japan - Ambulance crews transport one of the residents rescued from a fire at the home of Kazuyuki Tanabe, 45, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Jan. 7. The 5:20 a.m. fire killed four people, including two children.

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7 killed in fires in Tokyo, Nara, Osaka

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters battle a fire at the home of Kazuyuki Tanabe, 45, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Jan. 7. The 5:20 a.m. fire killed four people, including children.

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Curtain falls on 'monster storehouse' of SFX production company

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuho Mitsuta (L), a special adviser of Tsuburaya Productions Co., reminisces about the movie and TV production company's heyday at its ''monster storehouse'' in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.