For a big city, Tokyo is pretty safe. Crime rates are low and there isn't much of a reputation for pickpocketing (compared to Europe). Japan as a whole is considered to be one of the safest ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the postwar U.S. occupation of Japan had dominated and sprawled across the places locals walk past every day. It proved to ...

A research institute has released a 3-D geological map showing the underground structure of Tokyo's 23 wards designed ... During the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011, soil liquefaction ...