Plastic whale sculpture in London

Plastic whale sculpture in London

A basket labeled "Sudo-maru Kuji Port" in Japanese is seen on a giant whale sculpture made from marine plastic waste in London on April 17, 2025. The 11-meter-long sculpture, created to raise awareness of marine pollution, has caused a stir in Japan as it contains what appears to be debris from the massive tsunami triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Kuji was one of the Japanese cities hardest hit by the tsunami.

Plastic whale sculpture in London

Plastic whale sculpture in London

A basket labeled "Ishinomaki Fish Market" in Japanese is seen on a giant whale sculpture made from marine plastic waste in London on April 17, 2025. The 11-meter-long sculpture, created to raise awareness of marine pollution, has caused a stir in Japan as it contains what appears to be debris from the massive tsunami triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Ishinomaki was one of the Japanese cities hardest hit by the tsunami.

Plastic whale sculpture in London

Plastic whale sculpture in London

An 11-meter-long whale sculpture made from marine plastic waste washed up on Hawaii's beaches is seen in London on April 17, 2025. The sculpture, created to raise awareness of marine pollution, has caused a stir in Japan as it contains what appears to be debris from the massive tsunami triggered by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

Giant Sculpture Uncle Daniel

SHANGHAI, CHINA - AUGUST 12, 2024 - The 11-meter-high giant sculpture of uncle daniel is pictured in Shanghai, China, August 12, 2024.

Afghan authorities to asphalt Kabul-Kandahar highway

STORY: Afghan authorities to asphalt Kabul-Kandahar highway DATELINE: July 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: Kabul CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the asphalting scene of a highway linking Kabul and Kandahar in Afghanistan STORYLINE: Afghan authorities started the project of asphalting a major section of the Kabul-Kandahar highway on Saturday, according to a statement from the caretaker government. Costing 1 billion afghanis (about 11.6 million U.S. dollars), the 27-km-long and 11-meter-wide road will be covered with asphalt between the Arghandi Bazaar and the Durrani area along the Kabul-Kandahar highway, said the office of Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Mullal Abdul Ghani Beradar. The project is financed by the caretaker government and is expected to be completed by private companies, according to the statement. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Kabul. (XHTV)

Illumination event starts at Kochi Castle

Illumination event starts at Kochi Castle

KOCHI, Japan - An 11-meter-tall object, erected around Kochi Castle's keep in the city of Kochi, Japan, lights up the night on Dec. 12, 2014, during a three-day illumination event that started the same day.

Large tank being dissembled

Large tank being dissembled

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - An 11-meter-tall fish oil tank shown being dissembled in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 30, 2012. The tank, painted like a huge whale meat can, had sat on its side on the median of a road since being washed away from a seafood factory by the March 2011 tsunami.

Large tank being dissembled

Large tank being dissembled

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - An 11-meter-tall fish oil tank shown being dissembled in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 30, 2012. The tank, painted like a huge whale meat can, had sat on its side on the median of a road since being washed away from a seafood factory by the March 2011 tsunami.

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the site of a factory being demolished in the city of Gifu where an 11-meter-high wall collapsed on Oct. 14, 2010, killing Yukari Kawase, a 17-year-old high school girl who was on her way home.

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the site of a factory being demolished in the city of Gifu where an 11-meter-high wall collapsed on Oct. 14, 2010, killing Yukari Kawase, a 17-year-old high school girl who was on her way home.

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the site of a factory being demolished in the city of Gifu where an 11-meter-high wall collapsed on Oct. 14, 2010, killing Yukari Kawase, a 17-year-old high school girl who was on her way home.

'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

KYOTO, Japan - Children look at an 11-meter-wide, 4.5-meter-tall wooden sculpture of a bird inspired by the comic story ''Hi no Tori'' (Phoenix) by renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto on Sept. 22, 2009. It took half a year for the atelier of local Buddhism artist Kosho Sudo to complete the creation.

'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

KYOTO, Japan - Children look at an 11-meter-wide, 4.5-meter-tall wooden sculpture of a bird inspired by the comic story ''Hi no Tori'' (Phoenix) by renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto on Sept. 22, 2009. It took half a year for the atelier of local Buddhism artist Kosho Sudo to complete the creation.

Man launches nonstop solo boat voyage around world

Man launches nonstop solo boat voyage around world

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Akio Yonago, 56, who lost his left arm in a fishing accident at age 23, smiles at Honai in Ehime Prefecture on Aug. 2 before leaving on a nonstop solo boat voyage around the world. Yonago is scheduled to return to the town around next May after a 300-day, 47,000-kilometer voyage on his 11-meter vessel.

Russian and Italian astronauts conduct joint spacewalk to activate robotic arm

STORY: Russian and Italian astronauts conduct joint spacewalk to activate robotic arm DATELINE: July 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:02 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of astronauts (from NASA) STORYLINE: Russian astronaut Oleg Artemyev and Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti conducted a joint spacewalk to activate a robotic arm in the International Space Station on Thursday. They installed an adapter for the European Robotic Arm on the Poisk module, Roscosmos said on Telegram. Roscosmos said an ERA adapter will later be installed on the Rassvet module in order to install it on the Nauka module. The spacewalkers earlier launched 10 nanosatellites. The 11-meter (37-foot) mechanical limb was sent into orbit by the European Space Agency last July. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Moscow. (XHTV)

IHI's ocean current power generation system demonstrator "KAIRYU

IHI's ocean current power generation system demonstrator "KAIRYU

On the 25th, IHI unveiled its underwater floating power generation system demonstrator "KAIRYU" (photo) at its Yokohama Works (Isogo Ward, Yokohama City). It is being developed as part of a project by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), and generates electricity by turning 11-meter diameter fiberglass turbine blades underwater with the power of ocean currents. Compared to the previous operation, the autonomous control program that adjusts the tilt of the turbine blades and the floating structure during operation has been improved, and rectifier plates have been added so that the ocean currents will hit the blades more efficiently. Power generation efficiency is 50-70%, which is higher than that of solar power (12%), onshore wind power (20%), and offshore wind power (over 30%). IHI's Yokohama Plant in Isogo Ward, Yokohama City, July 25, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Great Buddha of Kamakura to undergo 1st maintenance in half-century

Great Buddha of Kamakura to undergo 1st maintenance in half-century

Photo taken July 28, 2015, shows the Great Buddha of Kamakura in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture. Kotokuin Temple said the same day that the 11-meter-high bronze stature will undergo maintenance in the first quarter of 2016, the first of its kind since it had major repairs between 1959 and 1961. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

KYOTO, Japan - Children look at an 11-meter-wide, 4.5-meter-tall wooden sculpture of a bird inspired by the comic story ''Hi no Tori'' (Phoenix) by renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto on Sept. 22, 2009. It took half a year for the atelier of local Buddhism artist Kosho Sudo to complete the creation. (Kyodo)

'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

'Phoenix' flies down to Kyoto manga museum

KYOTO, Japan - Children look at an 11-meter-wide, 4.5-meter-tall wooden sculpture of a bird inspired by the comic story ''Hi no Tori'' (Phoenix) by renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka at the Kyoto International Manga Museum in Kyoto on Sept. 22, 2009. It took half a year for the atelier of local Buddhism artist Kosho Sudo to complete the creation. (Kyodo)

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the site of a factory being demolished in the city of Gifu where an 11-meter-high wall collapsed on Oct. 14, 2010, killing Yukari Kawase, a 17-year-old high school girl who was on her way home. (Kyodo)

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the site of a factory being demolished in the city of Gifu where an 11-meter-high wall collapsed on Oct. 14, 2010, killing Yukari Kawase, a 17-year-old high school girl who was on her way home. (Kyodo)

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

Schoolgirl dies as wall collapses in Gifu

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the site of a factory being demolished in the city of Gifu where an 11-meter-high wall collapsed on Oct. 14, 2010, killing Yukari Kawase, a 17-year-old high school girl who was on her way home. (Kyodo)

Japan-U.S. joint military training

Japan-U.S. joint military training

Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono experiences an 11-meter parachute drop as he inspects Japan-U.S. joint military training at the Ground Self-Defense Force's Camp Narashino in Chiba Prefecture on Jan. 12, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Single pilot solar plane holds test flights in Hokkaido

Single pilot solar plane holds test flights in Hokkaido

Satoru Shinohe, president of Japanese aircraft maker Olympos, speaks to the pilot of a solar plane at Takikawa Sky Park in Takikawa in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The SP-1, a small aircraft weighing 86 kilograms with a wingspan of about 18 meters and a fuselage about 9 meters in length, was jointly built by Japanese aircraft-maker Olympos and engineering students. The plane successfully flew at an 11-meter altitude during test flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Single pilot solar plane holds test flights in Hokkaido

Single pilot solar plane holds test flights in Hokkaido

Photo taken Aug. 23, 2017, at Takikawa Sky Park in Takikawa in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido shows a single pilot solar plane. The SP-1, a small aircraft weighing 86 kilograms with a wingspan of about 18 meters and a fuselage about 9 meters in length, was jointly built by Japanese aircraft-maker Olympos and engineering students. The plane successfully flew at an 11-meter altitude during test flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Single pilot solar plane holds test flights in Hokkaido

Single pilot solar plane holds test flights in Hokkaido

A single pilot solar plane flies at Takikawa Sky Park in Takikawa in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, on Aug. 23, 2017. The SP-1, a small aircraft weighing 86 kilograms with a wingspan of about 18 meters and a fuselage about 9 meters in length, was jointly built by Japanese aircraft-maker Olympos and engineering students. The plane successfully flew at an 11-meter altitude during test flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Single pilot solar plane holds test flights in Hokkaido

Single pilot solar plane holds test flights in Hokkaido

A single pilot solar plane flies at Takikawa Sky Park in Takikawa in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, on Aug. 21, 2017. The SP-1, a small aircraft weighing 86 kilograms with a wingspan of about 18 meters and a fuselage about 9 meters in length, was jointly built by Japanese aircraft-maker Olympos and engineering students. The plane successfully flew at an 11-meter altitude during test flights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Man launches nonstop solo boat voyage around world

Man launches nonstop solo boat voyage around world

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Akio Yonago, 56, who lost his left arm in a fishing accident at age 23, smiles at Honai in Ehime Prefecture on Aug. 2 before leaving on a nonstop solo boat voyage around the world. Yonago is scheduled to return to the town around next May after a 300-day, 47,000-kilometer voyage on his 11-meter vessel. (Kyodo)