Fishermen demand halt to Isahaya Bay reclamation project

TOKYO, Japan - Fishermen from Fukuoka Prefecture hand over to Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshio Yatsu at the ministry in Tokyo on March 1 a petition signed by 122,000 people, demanding the government halt a state-run land reclamation project and open water gates in Isahaya Bay. They believe the project and the 1997 closure of the water gates have caused this year's poor seaweed crops.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001083412

Registered date
2001/3/01 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2001 Kyodo News

Media size
1864 × 1713 pixel

Resolution
dpi

Deployment size
1.21(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Floodgates at Isahaya Bay

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 13, 2019, shows the floodgates of a dike at Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture. Japan's Supreme Court scrapped the same day a lower court ruling and sent back a case involving the floodgates, in what has been a protracted legal battle over a state-run land reclamation project in southwestern Japan. With the decision, the Fukuoka High Court will conduct further hearings between the central government and local fishermen in their contentious court battle over whether to open the gates. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese official visits near Chernobyl nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Handout photo shows Takashi Shinohara (R), Japanese senior vice minister of agriculture, visiting a site near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine on April 22, 2011, to learn about a soil decontamination method through growth of rapeseed crops. The ministry plans to launch an experiment of absorbing radioactive substances through growth of sunflower and rapeseed crops around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Fukushima Prefecture. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries)

Isahaya Bay dike to be opened

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2010. Kan announced that the government has decided not to appeal against a Fukuoka High Court order to open two drainage gates of the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture.

Isahaya Bay dike to be opened

ISAHAYA, Japan - Photo shows part of Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture divided by a long dike (R) on Dec. 15, 2010. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said the same day that the government has decided to open two of the dike's drainage gates following a Fukuoka High Court order.

Fishermen demand the opening of Isahaya Bay dike

TOKYO, Japan - Protestors, mostly from the fishing industry, sit in front of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry in Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2010, demanding that the government swiftly open the Isahaya Bay dike in Nagasaki Prefecture. The Fukuoka High Court ordered the state to open the dike's drainage gates the previous day, in support of the fishermen, acknowledging the closure of the gate has damaged the local fisheries industry.

Environment disputes over Japan bay

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fishermen line up their boats in Isahaya Bay in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 10, 2010, staging a ''sea rally'' to urge the government to reopen the gates on the dike (back). Fishermen, farmers and other residents around the bay have been split over whether to reopen the gates on the 7-kilometer-long dike, which the government closed in 1997 for farmland reclamation and disaster prevention.

Maehara visits Yamba Dam site

NAGANOHARA, Japan - Land minister Seiji Maehara (R) visits the construction site for the Yamba Dam in the town of Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2009. A recent announcement by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government that it is canceling the 57-year-old project to build a dam in the area has drawn strong opposition by local people.

Land minister Maehara visits Yamba Dam site

NAGANOHARA, Japan - Land minister Seiji Maehara (C) visits one of the relocation sites for residents affected by the aborted Yamba Dam project in the town of Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo on Sept. 23, 2009. His recent announcement that Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's government is canceling the 57-year-old project to build a dam in the area has drawn strong opposition from local people.

Gov't holds 1st online public tender for state-run project

TOKYO, Japan - Land, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Chikage Ogi operates a personal computer during the first government-sponsored online public tender for a public works project. The ministry plans to hold about 100 such online tenders in the current fiscal year and some 2,000 in fiscal 2002 to stem bid-rigging and cut construction costs.