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(File photo) Tokyo, Japan. Akasaka Palace garden stands at the entrance, as a policeman walks nearby. The palace is located near where a man stabbed  a woman in the Akasaka district, where many bars and restaurants are located. Photo by: Ramiro Vargas / chilanga.com Tokyo once again finds itself wrestling with a crime that unsettles the delicate balance between public safety and institutional trust. A Ground Self-Defense Force member, 43-year-old Yoichiro Otsu, was arrested f

A Firefighter stops to regroup as flames reignite among plastic rolls during a fire in Kashiwa Japan on November 7, 2025. Photo: Ramiro Vargas / chilanga.com By the time the sun began to dip behind Tokyo’s skyline, an orange haze rose from the direction of Chiba Prefecture. The flames that broke out in Kashiwa City could be seen even from Haneda Airport—an inferno of plastic, brush, and dry earth consuming the horizon. For hours, the fire raged across an industrial area surro