A four-year-old boy fell to his death from an apartment building where he lived in Tokyo’s Edogawa Ward on Saturday.
According to police, a resident called 119 at around 4:30 p.m. and said a boy had fallen from the 14-story municipal apartment building and was lying on the 2nd-floor roof covering the entranceway, Kyodo News reported. The boy was taken to hospital where he died about 90 minutes later.
Police said that prior to the incident, the boy was seen playing with friends near the building entrance and that lobby surveillance camera footage showed him getting into the elevator by himself. They believe that after getting off the elevator on the 12th floor, the boy somehow fell from the corridor or stairwell.
Man injures 3 junior high school children with bamboo sword
Japan Today – Oct 20
Police in Hidaka, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 37-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of assault and trespassing after he entered the grounds of a junior high school and injured three students with a bamboo sword.

Japan’s Empress Emerita Michiko turns 88
NHK – Oct 20
Japan’s Empress Emerita Michiko turned 88 on Thursday.
The Empress Emerita moved in April from a temporary dwelling to her current residence in the Akasaka Estate in Tokyo’s Minato Ward, where she lived when she was Crown Princess.

The Dark Side Of “Unification Church” in Japan
Japanese Comedian Meshida – Oct 17
After the assassination, it was revealed many conservative politicians have a connection to the Unification Church and it has become a big problem. So today I’ll talk about the Unification Church and the politicians who are related to the Unification Church.

Why Japan’s porn industry may go away soon
Nobita from Japan – Oct 14
In 2016 around, media picked up an incident that a woman was tricked into porn which drew people’s attention a lot as a serious social issue of Japan.
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