Porn star Kazuya Sawaki battling cancer: ‘This year will decide my fate’
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Sawaki: 'When I was a middle school student, I wanted to be a police officer'
Tokushima: Handyman called to change lightbulb finds corpse
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Results of an autopsy indicated that the son died due to illness, police said
Chiba: Man fatally stabs mother, sister in Nagareyama
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Man was holding a bloodstained knife when he visited a police box after the incident
Woman’s corpse found at home after husband dies in traffic accident
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Police believe the husband killed his wife before taking his life in the accident

Porn star Kazuya Sawaki battling cancer: ‘This year will decide my fate’
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Sawaki: 'When I was a middle school student, I wanted to be a police officer'
Industrialists, celebrities mingled at opening of Roppongi’s TSK.CCC in 1973
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
The infamous Celebrity Choice Club was the centerpiece of the empire of gangster Hisayuki Machii
Setagaya family murders 20 years on: ‘It’s a case that must be solved’
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Mother of one of the victims says, 'It's painful'
‘Pickpocket eyes’ give away elderly man in theft
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Suspect said, ‘I did it for money’

Ayumi Hamazaki performance cancelled after performer tests positive for coronavirus
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Hamazaki has taken a PCR test but the result is not yet known
SKE48’s Nao Fukushi tests positive for coronavirus, 15 other members close contacts
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Nao Fukushi tested positive for the novel coronavirus on December 25
Oedo Line to reduce service after 15 drivers test positive for coronavirus
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
All of the infected drivers report for work at an office in Koto Ward

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Kyosho jutaku: Living large in small spaces

By Tokyo Reporter Staff on March 29, 2008

Architects are taking small slivers of land and turning them into unique housing structures

Brazil: Missing Japanese woman’s corpse found in forest
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
An examination of Hitomi Akamatsu’s body showed signs of strangulation
Thailand: Man suspected of posing as woman to swindle Japanese men…again
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
For Uthai Nanthakhan, it’s about getting even.
Thailand: Japanese national suspected of producing cannabis oil
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Police seized about 100 marijuana plants, growing equipment and chemicals and packing boxes from a building in Chiang Mai
Cambodia: Japanese man handed 25-year prison term for smuggling stimulant drugs
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Luggage of Shunichi Nonaka was found to contain about 1.7 kilograms of methamphetamine on February 15

Oedo Line to reduce service after 15 drivers test positive for coronavirus
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
All of the infected drivers report for work at an office in Koto Ward
Director of clothing brand Supreme accused of possessing stimulant drugs
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Ken Omura told police that he possessed the drugs for his ‘own use’
Tokyo police: Ex-accountant, 46, used embezzled funds on brand-name clothes
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Suspect created fictitious expenditures to account for the misappropriated funds, police said
Ex-Yamato employee in custody after stabbing leaves 1 dead, another injured
By Tokyo Reporter Staff
Ex-employee used his vehicle to ram a patrol car after the incident