ILEA001091592: (2)Okinawa marks 57th anniversary of end of local battle

New business park in Osaka

Photo taken on Sept. 6, 2024, shows Umekita Park, a new business complex directly connected to JR Osaka Station in the western Japan city. The 45,000-square-meter park, opening as part of the Grand Green Osaka project ahead of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, will house offices of major companies and hotels as well as facilities for startup firms, with 50 million people expected to visit in fiscal 2027, when the park is scheduled to be completed.

150th anniv. of 1st railway in Kansai region

People celebrate the 150th anniversary of the launch of the first railway in the Kansai western Japan region during a ceremony at JR Kobe Station in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on May 11, 2024. The first railway in the region was operated between Osaka and Kobe in 1874.(Kyodo)

Groundbreaking ceremony for Italian pavilion for 2025 Osaka expo

(From L) Hiroyuki Ishige, secretary general of the Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, Mario Vattani, commissioner general for Italy at Expo 2025 Osaka, and Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the Italian pavilion at the expo site on Dec. 19, 2023, on an artificial island in Osaka Bay in the western Japan city of Osaka.

Prince Hotel's Okinawa debut

Takashi Goto (3rd from L), president of Seibu Holdings Inc., and Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki (3rd from R) attend a ceremony in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Ginowan, southern Japan, on April 6, 2022, to celebrate the opening of Prince Hotel Okinawa Ocean View Ginowan.

TakaraTomy's Plarail 60th Anniversary Exhibition

During the summer vacation, parents and children of all ages can enjoy the Showa, Heisei and Showa-Japanese Plarail models. The "Plarail 60th Anniversary Exhibition," which is being held by TOMY at the Railway Museum (Omiya-ku, Saitama City) untilSeptember 1, is a great success. It has become so popular that 60% of the visitors to the museum also visit the exhibition. In addition to the diorama of the E5 Series Shinkansen Hayabusa, more than 150 items of Plarail are on display. Visitors can learn about the history and manufacturing process of Plarail. The exhibition is open to the public only with the admission fee to the Railway Museum. Plarail was launched in 1959 as a toy made of plastic, the latest material at the time, when metal and wooden toys were the mainstream. As of the end of January 2007, a cumulative total of about 1,480 types and more than 169 million units have been sold in Japan. The Railroad Museum in Omiya Ward, Saitama City, July 18, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Prime Minister Abe attends air review ceremony

OMITAMA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R in front) inspects a MV-22 Osprey aircraft of the U.S. Marine Corps during an annual air review at Japan's Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri Air Base in the city of Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 26, 2014. The ceremony was held to mark the 60th anniversary of the launch of Japan's Self-Defense Forces.

Ceremony held to mark launch of new bus/tram operator

KOCHI, Japan - A ceremony is held in Kochi on Oct. 1, 2014, to mark the foundation of a new company operating buses and trams, Tosadenkotsu Co., through the merger of two deficit-ridden firms, Tosa Electric Railway Co. and Kochiken Kotsu KK, both based in the city on the western Japan main island of Shikoku.

Kintetsu store in Abeno Harukas marks 30 mil. visitors

OSAKA, Japan - People visit a food section of the Kintetsu department store inside Japan's tallest building Abeno Harukas in Osaka City on June 5, 2014. The number of visitors to the department store reached approximately 30 million as of the end of May since the partial opening in June 2013.

People take shinkansen simulation ride at Railway Park

NAGOYA, Japan - Visitors are seated in a real shinkansen bullet train car displayed at a special exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the train's operation start at the SCMAGLEV and Railway Park in Nagoya, central Japan, on May 21, 2014.

Half-Japanese Filipina meets Japanese kin

DAVAO CITY, Philippines - Tsuyoshi Miyazato from Okinawa, Japan, and his Filipino-Japanese aunt, Conchita Miyazato Basilan, shake hands after their first meeting at Davao airport on Mindanao Island, the Philippines, on May 16, 2014. Basilan is the daughter of a Japanese national who came to the Philippines in 1929 and engaged in abaca farming.

(2)Okinawa marks 57th anniversary of end of local battle

ITOMAN, Japan - People pray for the victims of the battle of Okinawa during a ceremony at Peace Memorial Park in the city of Itoman, southern Okinawa Island, to mark the 57th anniversary of the battle's end.

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