Overview
- The blaze started around 4 a.m. at a three-story confectionery factory with residential space in Adachi Ward’s Higashi-iko area.
- About 30 square meters of the third-floor living area burned before firefighters extinguished the fire roughly two hours later.
- Shodai Kataoka Kamezo, 64, was found on a futon in a third-floor room in cardiopulmonary arrest and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
- A man in his 60s who lives in the building and is an acquaintance of the actor was hospitalized for smoke inhalation but was able to speak when rescued.
- The building houses the factory owner and his brother, with the owner unharmed as police and the Tokyo Fire Department investigate the cause of the fire.