Akihabara, Tokyo has transformed over the years. In its present form Akihabara emerged from the ruins of a devastated Tokyo after World War 2 when the entire district was burnt to the ground.

He was 25 when he drove a truck into a lunch-time crowd of pedestrians at Akihabara shopping district, killing three people. He then stabbed passers-by with a dagger, killing four and wounding eight.

Akihabara, Japan, is famous for its streets filled with colorful animation ads and bustling shopping centers, hence its nickname Electric Town. The district near central Tokyo is a welcoming ...

Akihabara Crash! 123 Stage + 1 will launch for Switch on November 29 in Japan, developer Dorasu announced. The theme song will be performed by cross-dressing female AI unit Royce and Geek.

So there are a couple of ramen restaurants in Tokyo’s otaku district of Akihabara where you can regularly see long lines of foreign tourists waiting to get in. Several of them, like Kyushu Jangara in ...

Jump into the fascinating universe of Akihabara, a Tokyo district that celebrates Japanese pop culture, from video games to ...

but a variety of merchandise based on fictional characters.

Most of the kits found on the toy floor of the Akiba Yodobashi aren't even cars; if you seek to build a room-sized diorama of, say, the Battle of Tsushima, this place offers all the ship kits you'd ...

On June 8 exactly 15 years ago, seven people died and 10 others were injured when a truck rammed pedestrians in Tokyo’s Akihabara district and the driver jumped out and started stabbing people ...

A small, brightly lit shop a short walk from the bustling center of Akihabara offers mechanical keyboard enthusiasts a chance to take their obsession to the next level. For the uninitiated ...

The Japanese government this week confirmed that the death sentence handed down to a man who went on a stabbing spree in Tokyo back in 2008 has been carried out. Kato Tomohiro, then 25, rammed a ...

He was convicted of murdering seven people by driving into them or stabbing them in a random attack in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in 2008. Yoshihisa Furukawa was justice minister at the time of ...