Tama Plaza TokyuLucky Bag Crowd Rush
A New Year fukubukuro promotion in Yokohama where shoppers surged forward at opening, causing people to fall over one another. The casualty figure and exact date remain disputed across sources.
Incident Overview
New Year Shopping Surge
The incident is described as a crowd rush or collapse during a New Year lucky-bag promotion at Tama Plaza Tokyu in Yokohama.
Sources describe shoppers surging forward when the sale or opening began, with people falling over one another in the movement.
The available research did not find a source linking any fatalities to this specific incident.
Location Detail
Tama-plaza, Yokohama
Venue: Tama Plaza Tokyu Shopping Centre / Tokyu Department Store Tama-plaza Store.
Address: 1-7 Utsukushigaoka, Aoba-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The official Japanese address is also given as 〒225-0002 神奈川県横浜市青葉区美しが丘1-7.
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Two details need caution: the reported injury count and the exact incident date. No need for detective cosplay — the sources simply do not fully agree.
Different sources clearly point to the same Tama Plaza Tokyu lucky-bag crowd incident, but they give different injury figures.
G. Keith Still’s gkstill.com incident pages and Guardian article report 10 injured.
The MediaTinker blog post reports six people injured.
Both source sets refer to the same incident context, but the count cannot be treated as settled from the available research.
The document records a user-supplied date of 08/01/2002, while the broader source trail points towards the New Year first-sale period.
G. Keith Still’s listings label the case “2002 (Jan 8th).”
The local retrospective ties the incident to 2 January, and the 4 January 2002 blog post had already reported the injuries.
The Jan 8 date may be a reporting or list-entry date, but that cannot be verified from the sources available here.
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