Fukushima gov't making pitch for product safety

Participants in a tour designed to facilitate exchanges between consumers in the Tokyo metropolitan area and farm producers in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, visit a tomato farm in Iwaki on March 28, 2015, as part of a local government campaign to erase safety concerns over Fukushima products stemming from the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA000071180

Registered date
2015/6/11 17:13:08

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source

Media size
3704 × 2596 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
1.54(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Japan gov't kicks off safety campaign for pending Pokemon Go launch

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga acknowledges concerns over the "Pokemon Go" smartphone game's impact on public manners and safety during a press conference in Tokyo on July 21, 2016. The government has begun a public awareness campaign ahead of the impending domestic release of the game, which has been linked to injuries and trespassing incidents in countries where it is already available. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Gov't resumes offshore survey in Okinawa for base relocation

A drilling survey is resumed off the Henoko area in Nago in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa on Nov. 12, 2015, after the central government imposed a temporary injunction against Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's withdrawal of his predecessor's approval of a land reclamation plan for relocation to the area of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station from a densely populated part of Ginowan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Gov't resumes offshore survey in Okinawa for base relocation

A drilling survey (back, R) is resumed off the Henoko area in Nago in Japan's southernmost island prefecture of Okinawa on Nov. 12, 2015, after the central government imposed a temporary injunction against Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga's withdrawal of his predecessor's approval of a land reclamation plan for relocation to the area of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma air station from a densely populated part of Ginowan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Latin American music fiesta in Fukushima Pref.

Cosquin en Japon, regarded as Japan's largest Central and South American music festival, begins on Oct. 10, 2015, in the town of Kawamata, part of which is still designated as an evacuation area, Fukushima Prefecture, following the 2011 disaster in the northeastern Japan region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Lawyers caution tighter gov't grip on information control under new law

Japanese lawyer Yutaka Kato (R), a member of the Okinawa Bar Association, speaks during a gathering hosted by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations in Tokyo on Aug. 31, 2015, to discuss issues related to "War and the Special Secrecy Law." Lawrence Repeta (L), a law professor at Meiji University, also took part in the discussion, during which speakers raised concerns that the government will step up information control if it successfully pushes a controversial set of security bills through parliament. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Fukushima gov't announces results of tourism promotion blitz

Fukushima Gov. Masao Uchibori speaks to reporters in the city of Fukushima on Aug. 24, 2015, about the results of the April-June "Fukushima Destination Campaign" to attract tourists to the northeastern Japan prefecture. Uchibori said 13.32 million people visited the prefecture during the period, up 12.2 percent from the same quarter of 2014 and the largest since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Antinuclear world conference participants protest in Fukushima Pref.

Participants of an annual world conference held by the Japan Congress Against A- and H-Bombs, or Gensuikin, and others stage an antinuclear march on Aug. 1, 2015, in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Owner of new Tokyo restaurant shows tomatoes from Fukushima's Iwaki

Kenji Suzuki shows tomatoes from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, at his restaurant, 47 Dining, in Tokyo's Ikebukuro district on July 2, 2015, on the eve of its opening. The new restaurant serves meals using materials from Japan's 47 prefectures, especially those in the northeastern region of Tohoku ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Elderly evacuee plods along in temporary housing alley

An elderly evacuee plods along in an alley in a temporary housing area in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, in March 2015. The government unveiled a plan on June 12 to lift evacuation orders in areas affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster by the end of fiscal 2016 except in highly contaminated no-go zones. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Evacuee from nuke crisis-hit town sees little hope of homecoming

A 70-year-old woman living in temporary housing in Iwaki after evacuating her hometown of Futaba, both in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, following the 2011 earthquake that caused the nuclear disaster says on May 27, 2015, it is practically impossible for her to return there despite a government plan to lift evacuation orders by the end of fiscal 2016 except in highly contaminated no-go zones. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo