Asahi Shimbun reporters walked around downtown areas around Tokyo on Halloween night to determine ... sign boards saying “No drinking” in both Japanese and English. As many as 200 police ...

At a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 7, Shibuya Ward Mayor Ken Hasebe announced that there will be no Halloween events on the ...

The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it was looking into what it said were possible violations of terrorism laws during protests over the Gaza war at Columbia University, putting fresh ...

Halloween has apparently gained equal status to Valentine's Day and Christmas among Japanese youngsters. In recent years, the famous scramble crossing in front of Tokyo's Shibuya Station and ...

Halloween this year After sunset on October 31, the crossing was crowded with people dressed in costumes garish and ghoulish. Hundreds of police officers were deployed as partygoers reveled until ...