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The Yomiuri Shimbun A Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department investigator conducts an inspection on Thursday morning at the condominium where a fire broke out in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo.The Yomiuri Shimbun Firefighters fight the blaze at a condominium in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday evening.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
12:25 JST, November 28, 2024
Two people died in a fire that broke out at a lawmaker’s condominium in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, at around 7:10 p.m. on Wednesday, police said.
The condo is on the top floor of a six-story building in the Koishikawa district of the ward. One person was found dead in the unit, and another was confirmed dead after being transported to a hospital, the Tomisaka Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said. Upper house member Kuniko Inoguchi, 72, who lives in the condominium, is believed not to have been at home at the time.
According to a senior official at the police station, Inoguchi lives with her husband, Takashi, 80, a political scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, and their two daughters. Takashi and one of the daughters are said to have been unreachable.
