Shibuya Ward in Tokyo announced the cancellation of its traditional New Year’s countdown event, which typically attracts hordes of revelers to the famed scramble crossing near the station, for the fourth consecutive year.
The Tokyo District Court sentenced a 74-year-old member of a Japanese radical group that was active in the 1970s and ’80s to 20 years in prison over a 1971 riot in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward that left a police officer dead.