ILEA000134831: Muddy sports event in Japan

Drill for multiple nuclear accidents in Japan

Local residents take part in a two-day evacuation drill for multiple nuclear accidents in Oi, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 25, 2018. The drill is aimed at simultaneously testing established evacuation plans for residents around the Oi and Takahama nuclear power plants under the scenario that both facilities lose power to cool reactors due to a powerful quake. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

First woman qualified to become fighter jet pilot in Japan

1st Lt. Misa Matsushima sits in a fighter jet at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 23, 2018. She is the first woman to qualify as a fighter jet pilot in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

33rd anniversary of JAL crash

Shingo Tabuchi and his wife make an offering to the grave marker of their three daughters erected at the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash on Osutaka Ridge in Gunma Prefecture on Aug. 12, 2018, the 33rd anniversary of the accident. The Tabuchis lost their daughters in the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history, which claimed the lives of 520 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

33rd anniversary of JAL crash

Mitsuru Hayasaka (far L), his wife Yuriko (far R) and Kuniko Miyajima (center R) blow bubbles at the site of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash in Gunma Prefecture on Aug. 12, 2018, the 33rd anniversary of the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. The accident claimed the lives of 520 people, including Miyajima's 9-year-old son Ken. The Hayasakas lost their 18-year-old daughter Kaoru in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Protest against U.S. base transfer in Okinawa

People take part in a rally in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Aug. 11, 2018, in protest against the controversial relocation of a U.S. air base within the southern Japan island prefecture. The banners read "Prefectural residents don't give up." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo