• Tokyo Rattled By Quake, No Tsunami Warning

    Buildings shook in Tokyo and emergency phone alarms went off when a magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck near the capital on Friday morning, with no tsunami warning issued.

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    Inside Tokyo’s oldest onigiri restaurant

    By Maggie Hiufu Wong and Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — A short walk from Sensoji, the oldest temple in Tokyo, sits another aging classic – Onigiri Asakusa Yadoroku. Founded in 1954, it’s believed to be the city’s oldest onigiri (Japanese rice ball) restaurant. “The reason why my family started this business is simple,” says Yosuke

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    Inside Tokyo’s oldest onigiri restaurant

    By Maggie Hiufu Wong and Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — A short walk from Sensoji, the oldest temple in Tokyo, sits another aging classic – Onigiri Asakusa Yadoroku. Founded in 1954, it’s believed to be the city’s oldest onigiri (Japanese rice ball) restaurant. “The reason why my family started this business is simple,” says Yosuke

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    Inside Tokyo’s oldest onigiri restaurant

    By Maggie Hiufu Wong and Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — A short walk from Sensoji, the oldest temple in Tokyo, sits another aging classic – Onigiri Asakusa Yadoroku. Founded in 1954, it’s believed to be the city’s oldest onigiri (Japanese rice ball) restaurant. “The reason why my family started this business is simple,” says Yosuke

  • Tokyo Fashion Week FW24 Street Style

    Tokyo Fashion Week began hot off the heels of Paris Fashion Week. As the

  • Man arrested after elbowing commuter on Tokyo subway

    Police in Tokyo have arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting a man in his 30s who was sitting next to him in a subway car. The incident occurred at around 9:50 p.m. on Thursday, Kyodo News reported. According to police and witness reports, Yoichi Kaneki, an engineer at

  • Complaints against foreign go-kart drivers increase in Tokyo

    During the pandemic, Japan closed its borders to international travel, which meant go-kart operators in Tokyo, who usually lead fleets of foreign visitors down public roads, found themselves without customers, leading one to start up a “Save the Street Kart” campaign to stay in business. Now that the country has reopened its

  • Japan GSDF resumes Osprey flights near Tokyo

    Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force resumed Thursday flights of its Ospreys near Tokyo, almost four months after suspending them due to a deadly crash of a U.S. military Osprey off a southwestern Japanese island. The move came a week after U.S. forces resumed Osprey operations in Japan following their lifting of

  • M5.3 earthquake hits Tokyo, nearby areas

    An earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 hit areas near Tokyo on Thursday, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of casualties, the weather agency and local authorities said. The quake struck around 9:08 a.m., with its focus in southern Ibaraki Prefecture in eastern

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    Japan: 5.3 magnitude earthquake north of Tokyo

    A medium-sized earthquake, with its epicenter north of Tokyo, has rattled buildings in Japan. No tsunami warning was issued in the aftermath.

  • Kei Sasuga Launches Tokyo R.I.P. Manga

    Paranormal manga debuts on Manga Box on March 23 // The Twitter account for DeNA's Manga Box app announced on Friday that Kei Sasuga will launch a new series

  • Best Footwear Trends at Tokyo Fashion Week FW24

    This Fall/Winter 2024 season in Tokyo Fashion Week saw some of the most