The Tokyo Fire Department held its annual New Year drills on Jan. 6 at Tokyo Big Sight in the capital's Koto Ward, with more ...

Members of a traditional firefighting preservation group performed ladder stunts and other activities during an annual fire ...

Over recent years, the chewy rice cakes have killed and hospitalized hundreds of people in Japan, where it is eaten to ...

A young couple died in Japan after they were left trapped in a private sauna room which caught fire. Masanari Matsuda, a 36-year-old beauty salon owner, and his 37-year-old wife, Yoko Matsuda, a nail ...

Private saunas are very popular in Japan [file image] [AFP via Getty Images] A husband and wife have died after being trapped in a private sauna room that caught fire in Japan on Monday. Tokyo police ...

A husband and wife have died after being trapped in a private sauna room that caught fire in Japan on Monday. Tokyo police are investigating whether a faulty doorknob trapped the couple inside the ...

Metropolitan Police Department investigators inspect the sauna facility where a couple died in a fire, in Tokyo's Minato Ward, Dec. 16, 2025. (Mainichi/Yuka Asahina) TOKYO -- In the deadly fire at a ...

TOKYO – The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has found that power to the emergency button receiver had been switched off in the office of a private sauna located in the Akasaka district, Tokyo, ...