Unattended Suitcases Alarm Tokyo Police

Four suitcases left unattended Monday on a sidewalk near Japan’s Imperial Palace prompted police to mobilize 200 riot officers, a traffic cordon and a bomb squad. The suitcases turned out to contain women’s clothing, police said.

But the incident alarmed police, who are mobilizing 30,000 officers daily in an unprecedented security operation for the 60th anniversary today of Emperor Hirohito’s reign today and the May 4-6 economic summit of industrial nations.