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The Shibuya incident (Japanese: 渋谷事件, Hepburn: Shibuya jiken) was a violent confrontation which occurred in June 1946 between rival gangs near Shibuya Station in Tokyo, Japan. The years after World War II saw Japan as a defeated nation and the Japanese people had to improvise in many aspects of daily life.
This is a photo of Hachikō, a Japanese Akita dog remembered for his unwavering loyalty to his owner. Hachikō belonged to Professor Eizaburo Ueno who lived in Shibuya and taught at Tokyo Imperial ...
1995 Okinawa rape incident-Okinawa: A 12-year-old Japanese girl was kidnapped, raped and beaten by three U.S Servicemen. This incident caused public outrage to erupt in Japan and led to further debate over the continued presence of U.S. forces in Japan. 1995: Hachiōji supermarket murders: 3: Hachiōji, Tokyo
In 1946, they were involved in the Shibuya incident where they fought for control of the local black markets. The Sekine-gumi rapidly expanded, but in 1947 many members were arrested by US occupation authorities for firearms possession, resulting in the group's disbandment. Thereafter, remnants of the gang came together with the remnants of ...
Abe was born in 1905. [1] Her mother doted on Sada, who was her youngest surviving child, and allowed her to do as she wished. [9] She encouraged Abe to take lessons in singing and in playing the shamisen, both activities which, at the time, were more closely associated with geisha – an occasionally low-class profession – and prostitutes than with classical artistic endeavor. [10]
The Zama and Shibuya shootings were the double spree shootings in Japan on July 29, 1965, by Misao Katagiri (片桐 操, Katagiri Misao, April 15, 1947 – July 21, 1972), which left one police officer dead and 17 people injured, at the conclusion of which he was captured by police officers.
A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison, court ...
He moved to Tokyo in 1965 and, while working in Tokyo's Shibuya district, witnessed the Zama and Shibuya shootings. Nagayama killed four people with a handgun between October 11 and November 5, 1968. He robbed the last two victims of 16,420 yen (roughly equivalent in US currency to $46 at the time, or $150 now). [1]