ILEA000015243: Japanese completes internship at U.S. air base

Aerology Labs' hybrid drone prototype, the AeroRange Pro.

Aerology Lab (Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture) announced on April 14 that it has developed a prototype of a "purely Japanese" flying robot (drone), "AeroRange Pro" (photo), which consists entirely of parts made in Japan. In general, drones rely on parts made in China for most of their components. The company aims to start mass production in small lots by December. (Minato Ward, Osaka City), which operates an open innovation base, Kobashi Robotics (Minami Ward, Okayama City), which supports mass production, and Liberace (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo), which comprehensively supports venture businesses from trial manufacture to mass production. The company is promoting speedy manufacturing in cooperation with town factories in Kansai and other regions. The hybrid drone combines an engine and an electric motor. It is said to be the industry's first purely domestic product in this field. Photo taken on May 14, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Whale meat for school lunch

Students are served whale meat at Wakaura Elementary School in Wakayama on July 3, 2019, under the school lunch program that began in fiscal 2017 in the western Japan prefecture hosting a well-known whaling town. Earlier in the day the students learned about the ecology of whales and whaling history in Japan from an official of the Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research, who visited the school as part of its efforts to deepen people's understanding of whaling following Japan's resumption of commercial whaling on July 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Prime Minister Abe attends air review ceremony

OMITAMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R in front) inspects a MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps during an annual air review at Japan's Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri Air Base in the city of Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 26, 2014. The ceremony was held to mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of Japan's Self-Defense Forces.

U.S. military Ospreys take part in disaster drill

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - People walk to a MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps during a tsunami disaster drill in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Oct. 19, 2014. Two Ospreys from the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa took part in the disaster drill simulating a massive earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough off central and western Japan.

Hamamatsu Photonics wins IEEE Milestone prize

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Akira Hiruma, president of Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., meets reporters in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Oct. 15, 2014, following a decision by the U.S.-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to award the IEEE Milestone prize to the Japanese optical sensor manufacturer for its development of a 20-inch photomultiplier tube, placed next to him.

Air tanker parks at U.S. base in Iwakuni, western Japan

IWAKUNI, Japan - A U.S. KC-130 aerial refueling plane parks at the U.S. Marine Corps' air station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 28, 2014, after its transfer from the Futenma air station in Ginowan in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

Boat carries people against U.S. Marine base relocation

NAHA, Japan - A boat (2nd from L) carrying people opposing the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station from Ginowan to Nago's Henoko district, both in Okinawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan, sails close to a Japan Coast Guard vessel on Aug. 11, 2014, amid the start of work to rebuild a makeshift floating pier in the district.

Osprey to fly to Camp Fuji via Atsugi air base

GINOWAN, Japan - Photo taken on July 15, 2014, shows U.S. Marie Corps MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft deployed at the Futenma Air Station in Ginowan, Japan's southwestern prefecture of Okinawa. An Osprey is scheduled to fly to Camp Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture on the day via the U.S. Navy's Atsugi air base in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. It will be the first Osprey flight to the Tokyo metropolitan area.

U.S. military transfers 1st air tanker to Iwakuni from Okinawa

IWAKUNI, Japan - People stage a rally on July 15, 2014, against the transfer of a U.S. military KC-130 air refueling tanker at the Iwakuni base in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi in the first transfer under a bilateral agreement to reduce the disproportionate burden of hosting U.S. bases on Okinawa.

Osprey about to land at Atsugi base

YAMATO, Japan - An MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft from the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture is about to land at Atsugi base in Kanagawa Prefecture on July 15, 2014.

Japanese completes internship at U.S. air base

NAHA, Japan - Kaori Kudaka (R), 19, a second-year student at a town-run language institute in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture, has recently completed an internship on the U.S. Kadena Air Base to experience working in an American setting. Eleven fellow students also had similar experiences there. (Kyodo)

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