With the coming of the dawn in Shibuya on the morning of Nov 1, the area resembled an urban waste dump. Strewn in the streets and sidewalks were beer cans and bottles, PET bottles and plastic bags ...

Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood is one of the most popular, and crowded, parts of the city. In particular the part of the district that stretches from Shibuya Station, across the world-famous Shibuya ...

Some of the muscle-bound participants of last year's garbage pick-up after Halloween in Shibuya are seen in this photo provided by Leverage Inc. TOKYO -- Mighty people of the world, unite! A ...

In a contest filled with trash talk, a British team won SPOGOMI World Cup 2023, the first international garbage-collecting competition, on Nov. 22 in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward. In the “sport,” which ...

The first-ever SpoGomi world championship featured 21 teams who combed the streets of Shibuya in a bid to pick up the most trash. Britain came out ahead of host Japan to claim the inaugural title.

I am writing this letter in response to the article in the Nov. 1 issue about garbage provisions at Halloween in Tokyo's Shibuya district ("Halloween revelers get litter bags"). I participated in this ...

TOKYO, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- Police in Tokyo's popular Shibuya shopping district are bracing for another raucous Halloween street party on Wednesday night with the build-up to the main event on previous ...

Volunteers are seen collecting garbage in Jack-o'-lantern trash bags in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on the morning of Oct. 31, 2016. A group organized by the Shibuya Ward office and residents clean up the ...

Like most people in Japan, Megumi Shibuya throws out her old paperback books in the garbage collection area where they will be picked up for recycling. But one book the 47-year-old woman disposed of ...