3.25pm Tokyo

I’m working today in a 4th floor office facing Shibuya, which is half a mile away. For the past half hour there have been increasing numbers of helicopters (six of them now, hired by TV companies, I assume) circling Shibuya at low altitude, and sirens audible. A friend, who is on the ground there, says it’s like Apocalypse Now, and describes columns of police cars moving up Dogenzaka hill. The TV news speaks of an explosion in a women’s spa in Shoto, which is adjacent to Shibuya.

Nothing on the news agencies yet, and NHK just has some old duffers in the Diet.

I’ll update when there’s more …