ILEA000178115: Takarazuka Music School graduation ceremony

College entrance ceremony amid coronavirus pandemic

Incoming students wearing face masks attend an entrance ceremony at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on April 5, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Successful applicants for Takarazuka Music School

Successful applicants to enter the Takarazuka Music School are pictured in Takarazuka in Hyogo Prefecture, on March 30, 2021, after the school announced those who passed the annual test. The institution in the western Japan city trains young women for two years to become actresses in the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theater troupe.

Takarazuka Revue trainee school scraps harassment-like rules

Photo taken Sept. 12, 2020, shows Takarazuka Music School, which trains teenage girls to become actresses in the all-female Takarazuka Revue in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture. The western Japan school abolished rules observed for decades by students, including bowing to a train that may be carrying senior-class students.

New coronavirus

Photo taken Feb. 29, 2020, shows Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, east of Tokyo. Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea will extend their closure until early April to contain the spread of the new coronavirus in Japan in line with a government request, operator Oriental Land Co. said March 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo