Price of Fukushima peaches tumbles

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Women pack peaches into boxes in the town of Iizaka, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2011, during the shipping peak of harvested peaches. The average wholesale price of peaches harvested in the prefecture, the No. 2 producer in Japan, fell about 55 percent from its year-earlier level in August amid the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001162317

Registered date
2011/9/03 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2011 Kyodo News

Media size
1259 × 1889 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
691.74(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

15-year-high gasoline prices in Japan

A price board at a gas station in Nagoya, central Japan, shows regular gasoline at 175 yen ($1.23) per liter on Aug. 2, 2023. Industry ministry data released the same day shows the average retail price for regular gasoline in Japan hit 176.70 yen per liter as of July 31, its highest in about 15 years.

15-year-high gasoline prices in Japan

A price board at a gas station in Tokyo shows regular gasoline at 180 yen ($1.27) per liter on Aug. 2, 2023. Industry ministry data released the same day shows the average retail price for regular gasoline in Japan hit 176.70 yen per liter as of July 31, its highest in about 15 years.

15-year-high gasoline prices in Japan

Fukushima nuclear plant chief feared catastrophe for eastern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Pool photo taken Nov. 12, 2011, shows Masao Yoshida, chief of the disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaking to reporters at the plant in Fukushima Prefecture. According to government documents obtained by Kyodo News on Aug. 30, 2014, Yoshida said in testimony before his death that he had feared catastrophic damage to eastern Japan while he was struggling to contain the crisis in March 2011. The government will release his 400-page testimony in September.

Man speaks about Rausu 'kombu' sea tangle

KUSHIRO, Japan - Kazuaki Ida of the Rausu Fisheries Cooperative Association explains the attractiveness of local "kombu" sea tangle in Rausu Town on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 13, 2014. Tours to learn about "kombu," a specialty of Rausu, started in August before the 10th anniversary next year of Shiretoko's addition to the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites.

Panasonic eyes 200 bil. yen sales in care business in FY2025

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Corp. envisages expanding sales in its elderly care-related business to the 200 billion-yen (about $1.91 billion as of Sept. 2, 2014) level in fiscal 2025 as increased demand is expected from aging postwar baby boomers. Employees conduct maintenance of a care bed at its Osaka Rental Center in Osaka Prefecture's Kadoma on Aug. 29, 2014.

Tohoku Electric files for safety review to allow reactor resumption

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Inoue, vice president of Tohoku Electric Power Co., (R) submits an application for a state safety assessment of a nuclear reactor at its Higashidori plant to a Nuclear Regulation Authority official in Tokyo on June 10, 2014. The No. 1 reactor at the plant is the 19th in Japan for which a safety review application has been filed since safety requirements were tightened last year in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis.

Fuel rods removed at Genkai nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - Work is underway to remove fuel rods from the No. 3 reactor at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in Genkai Town, Saga Prefecture, in March 2013. Japan did not include 640kg of unused plutonium in its annual report to the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2012 and 2013. The unreported plutonium is part of the MOX fuel which was loaded to the No. 3 reactor in March 2011 during its regular checkup but was removed unused in March 2013 as the reactor has remained idle since the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

2 years after quake

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Aerial photos taken by Kyodo News show Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture in October 2008 (top), on Feb. 26, 2012 (center), about a year after a nuclear crisis triggered by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, and on March 3, 2013. From back to front are the buildings housing the No. 1 to No. 4 reactors. The bottom photo shows a cover on the No. 1 reactor building used to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Cranes are at work at No. 3 and No. 4 reactor buildings.

Fukushima Daiichi plant

OKUMA, Japan - A March 1, 2013 photo shows workers at the No. 4 (R) and No. 3 (L back) reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Tokyo Electric Power Co. showed work to decommission the plant ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami that triggered the nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)