Tornado hits Ibaraki

Tornado hits Ibaraki

TSUKUBA, Japan - Photo taken on May 7, 2012 shows a house which collapsed, killing a teenage boy in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, when a tornado ripped through the prefecture in eastern Japan the previous day. Dozens of other people were injured in the tornado. At the back is a housing complex where several families from Fukushima Prefecture had evacuated following the nuclear crisis that was caused by the huge earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.

  • Product Code
  • ILEA001169299
  • Registered date
  • 2012/5/07 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • 2012 Kyodo News
  • Media size
  • 3968 × 2753 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 240 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 1.22(MB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos
    Japan PM Ishiba visits quantum research center

    Japan PM Ishiba visits quantum research center

    Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is briefed about studies using quantum computers during a visit to the Global Research and Development Center for Business by Quantum-AI Technology, housed in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 18, 2025. (Pool photo)
      Onagawa No. 2 nuclear reactor restarts in northeastern Japan

      Onagawa No. 2 nuclear reactor restarts in northeastern Japan

      Officials at the Onagawa nuclear power plant are engaged in the operation to restart the No. 2 reactor at the complex in Miyagi Prefecture on Oct. 29, 2024. It marked the first reactor restart in northeastern Japan since the region was affected by the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster, which triggered the Fukushima nuclear crisis. (Pool photo)
        Japan PM Kishida views cherry blossoms in nuclear crisis-hit town

        Japan PM Kishida views cherry blossoms in nuclear crisis-hit town

        Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from L) views cherry blossoms in full bloom in Tomioka, a town located near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on April 1, 2023, after a restricted access order, imposed following the March 2011 disaster, was lifted the same day in a part of the northeastern Japan town. (Pool photo)
          Japan PM Kishida visits nuclear crisis-hit town

          Japan PM Kishida visits nuclear crisis-hit town

          Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) visits Tomioka, a town located near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on April 1, 2023, after a restricted access order, imposed following the March 2011 disaster, was lifted the same day in a part of the northeastern Japan town. (Pool photo)
            Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima towns

            Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima towns

            Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press in Tomioka, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and the subsequent nuclear crisis, on Oct. 17, 2021, after visiting the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in nearby towns. (Pool photo)
              Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima town

              Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima town

              Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (2nd from R) talks with people in Tomioka, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and the subsequent nuclear crisis, on Oct. 17, 2021. (Pool photo)
                Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima towns

                Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima towns

                Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets the press in Tomioka, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and the subsequent nuclear crisis, on Oct. 17, 2021, after visiting the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in nearby towns. (Pool photo)
                  Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima town

                  Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima town

                  Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) visits a strawberry farm in Okuma, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and the subsequent nuclear crisis, on Oct. 17, 2021, after visiting the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant co-hosted by the town. (Pool photo)
                    Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima town

                    Japan PM Kishida visits disaster-hit Fukushima town

                    Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) walks near JR Futaba Station in Futaba, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster and the subsequent nuclear crisis, on Oct. 17, 2021, after visiting the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant co-hosted by the town. (Pool photo)
                      Abe in Fukushima ahead of quake-tsunami anniversary

                      Abe in Fukushima ahead of quake-tsunami anniversary

                      NAMIE, Japan, March 7 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) attends the opening ceremony of Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, on March 7, 2020, four days before the ninth anniversary of the earthquake-tsunami disaster. (Pool photo)