Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Myojo 56 building fire. The Myojo 56 building fire (明星56ビル火災, Myōjō Gojū-Roku Biru Kasai) was a structural fire that began at about 01:00 local time on September 1, 2001 in the Myojo 56 building, located in the Kabukichō section of Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. The fire, the fifth-deadliest in post-war Japanese history, [1] burned for ...
Canecão Mineiro nightclub fire: Belo Horizonte: Brazil 2001 7: 197 pyrotechnics Myojo 56 building fire: Kabukicho, Shinjuku: Japan 2001 44: 3 suspected arson Fifth-deadliest fire in post-war Japanese history Club La Guajira fire: Caracas: Venezuela 2002 47: 28 Christmas decoration Bouncer delayed exit asking patrons not to leave without paying
The Sennichi Department Store Building fire occurred in Sennichimae, Minami-ku (now Chuo-ku ), Osaka, Japan on May 13, 1972. [1] The fire killed at least 118 people and injured another 78. [2] It was the deadliest department store fire in Japan. The building that housed the department store also contained various other businesses, including a ...
Air raids on Japan. During the Pacific War, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military ...
100 [a] Non-fatal injuries. 230. The Station nightclub fire occurred on the evening of February 20, 2003, at The Station, a nightclub and hard rock music venue located at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick, Rhode Island, United States, killing 100 people and injuring 230. During a concert by the rock band billed as "Jack Russell's Great White ...
Kanabō. Samurai holding a kanabō. The kanabō (金砕棒) (literally "metal stick" or "metal club") is a spiked or studded two-handed war club used in feudal Japan by samurai. Other related weapons of this type are the nyoibo, konsaibo, [1] [2] tetsubō (鉄棒), and ararebo. [3] Related solid iron weapons with no spikes or studs are the ...
Fire. On 17 December 2021, at 10:20 a.m. local time, a fire broke out at an eight-story building in Kita, a ward of Osaka, Japan. The fire broke out in a psychiatric clinic that is located on the fourth floor, [8] called Nishi Umeda Kokoro to Karada no Kurinikku (西梅田こころとからだのクリニック, Nishi Umeda Clinic for the Mind ...
(ISTANBUL) — A fire engulfed a popular Istanbul nightclub Tuesday during renovations, trapping workers and employees inside and killing at least 29 people, officials and reports said.