ILEA000025766: Students join ''white project'' for peace in Hiroshima

May Day gathering in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, April 27 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Tomoko Yoshino, president of the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, known as Rengo, makes a speech at a May Day gathering in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park on April 27, 2024. (Kyodo)

3D printer made by SLM Solutions, Germany

Aichi Sangyo (Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo) and Shibaura Institute of Technology have started a joint research project to manufacture mass-produced products using metal 3D printers. Aichi Sangyo (Shinagawa, Tokyo) and Shibaura Institute of Technology have started a joint research project to manufacture mass-produced products using metal 3D printers. Overseas, mass production using metal 3D printers has already started, but in Japan, it is still in its infancy. In Japan, 3D printers are mostly used for prototyping and development, but not for mass production, because of the risk of internal problems during molding and the low accuracy of surface finish. Measurement and evaluation methods for processed materials have not been established in Japan. Therefore, through joint research, they will try to solve these problems. Photo taken on July 9, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Ueno Park in Tokyo

File photo taken on July 4, 2019, shows the entrance to Ueno Zoo in Tokyo's Ueno Park. The park, which opened to the public in 1873 as one of Japan's first Western-style parks, is home to many museums, including the Tokyo National Museum and the National Museum of Western Art, in addition to the zoo. It is also famous for its cherry blossoms in spring. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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

Mechanical watches made in Japan by Mirco

In May, Mirco launched its first product, TYPE-02, a mechanical wristwatch with a chronograph function inspired by the 1970s, priced at 250,000 yen, excluding consumption tax. About 100 units were produced and sold out immediately. The customer base was split 50/50 between Japan and overseas. President Hiraoka and Tatsuya Watanabe, director of the company, were close friends who worked hard together in their high school American football team. When they were students, they talked about the appeal of watches, and President Hiraoka went to work for Orient Watch (now Seiko Epson) and Director Watanabe went to work for a watch specialty store. Nowadays, the number of Japanese craftsmen who have the skills to manufacture mechanical watches is decreasing, pushed by quartz watches. Feeling a sense of crisis that Japanese technology was being lost, he accumulated funds and know-how to establish the company. Photo taken on February 18, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Afghan school kids collect waste paper for heating

TOKYO, Japan - Two elementary school students shoulder big bags full of waste paper collected before going to school as burning it serves as an important energy source at home without electricity nor gas in Afghanistan's Bamiyan district in this file photo taken on Oct. 21, 2012. (Photo by Hiromi Yasui)

USJ mulls relisting on TSE in FY 2015

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in March 2014 shows the Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka City. At top is a new area with attractions reproducing the world of the Harry Potter stories. USJ Co., which operates the theme park with attractions based on popular Hollywood movies in the western Japan prefecture, is considering relisting on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the next financial year starting April 2015, sources close to the matter said on July 9, 2014. (Kyodo)

Spring Japan to sell indigenous products

TAKAMATSU, Japan - The Japanese unit of Chinese low-cost airline Spring Airlines Co. shows local specialties which the airline plans to sell on its flights at Takamatsu Airport in Kagawa Prefecture on July 8, 2014. Local products will be sold on three routes connecting Narita with Takamatsu, Hiroshima, and Saga airports.

Peter Kuznick in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - U.S. historian Peter Kuznick is interviewed by Kyodo News in Hiroshima on Aug. 5, 2013, during his trip to Japan to attend a series of peace events commemorating the 68th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9.

U.S. documents show Britain supported atomic bombing of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in July 2013 shows copies of documents declassified by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. The documents show Britain expressed support for the use of atomic bombs by the United States against Japan in World War II about a month before the first one was dropped on Hiroshima.

Students join ''white project'' for peace in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Primary and high school students join a ''white project'' art gathering at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park July 31, hanging about 350 plaster pieces symbolizing prayers for peace. (Kyodo)

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