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Large tuna offered at shrine

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - People put coins on a 2.5-meter, 220-kilogram tuna praying for the recovery of the Japanese economy Jan. 8 at Nishinomiya Shrine which enshrines a god of business prosperity. The tuna will be displayed at the shrine until the Jan. 11 end of a festival.

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Wakayama temples heralds spring with fire festival

HASHIMOTO, Japan - The Kongobuji temple in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture holds the ''Koya Fire Festival'' on March 4 to herald the arrival of spring and to expel evil spirits, with monks feeding prayer wood plaques into a 2.5-meter-high pyre especially built for the occasion

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Japanese group succeeds in simulating 2.5-meter tsunami

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Walls of a wooden house and life-sized dolls are destroyed and washed away by a 2.5-meter simulated tsunami created in a large waterway-shaped device which the Port and Airport Research Institute in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, has devised and put to press preview on June 29.

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Japanese research group simulates tsunami

YOKOSUKA, Japan - A 2.5 meter tsunami is generated in a man-made channel at the Port and Airport Research Institute in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 29. The institute developed the 5-meter-deep concrete water tank measuring 184 meters long and 3.5 meters wide to help unravel the destructive mechanism of tsunamis.

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Tang, Kono promise Beijing reunion after Hakone cruise

HAKONE, Japan - Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan spent May 13 in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo, with Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, before returning home later in the day. Photo shows Kono (Second from R) and Tang (Third from L) planting a 2.5-meter-high kousa dogwood to commemorate the bilateral friendship near the hotel Tang stayed the night of May 12.

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Israel discovers 500,000-year-old giant elephant tusk

STORY: Israel discovers 500,000-year-old giant elephant tusk DATELINE: Sept. 1, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:21 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. shots of the archaeological excavation near Kibbutz Revadim 2. shots of archaeologists working at the site 3. shots of old elephant tusk 4. shots of archaeologist measuring the old elephant tusk STORYLINE: A 500,000-year-old elephant tusk was discovered in Israel's southern coastal plain, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Wednesday. The 2.5-meter-long tusk fossil, which belonged to a straight-tusked elephant known as Palaeoloxodon antiquus, was unearthed and being researched by the IAA, Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University, according to the IAA. The discovery sheds new light on the fascinating life of prehistoric humanity, especially their hunting habits, it said. This gigantic species apparently appeared in the region about 800,000 years ago and became extinct 400,000 years ago, it added. Previous archaeological fin

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Largest bluefin tuna of 2021 at western Japan port

Photo taken March 30, 2021, shows a 340-kilogram, 2.5-meter-long bluefin tuna, which was landed earlier in the day in Nachikatsuura in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. The tuna, the largest of the year at the town's wholesale market, is estimated to provide sashimi dishes for 1,700 people.

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Largest bluefin tuna of 2021 at western Japan port

Photo taken March 30, 2021, shows a 340-kilogram, 2.5-meter-long bluefin tuna, which was landed earlier in the day in Nachikatsuura in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. The tuna, the largest of the year at the town's wholesale market, is estimated to provide sashimi dishes for 1,700 people.

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Japanese research group simulates tsunami

YOKOSUKA, Japan - A 2.5 meter tsunami is generated in a man-made channel at the Port and Airport Research Institute in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 29. The institute developed the 5-meter-deep concrete water tank measuring 184 meters long and 3.5 meters wide to help unravel the destructive mechanism of tsunamis. (Kyodo)

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Japanese group succeeds in simulating 2.5-meter tsunami

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Walls of a wooden house and life-sized dolls are destroyed and washed away by a 2.5-meter simulated tsunami created in a large waterway-shaped device which the Port and Airport Research Institute in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, has devised and put to press preview on June 29. (Kyodo)

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Wakayama temples heralds spring with fire festival

HASHIMOTO, Japan - The Kongobuji temple in Koya, Wakayama Prefecture holds the ''Koya Fire Festival'' on March 4 to herald the arrival of spring and to expel evil spirits, with monks feeding prayer wood plaques into a 2.5-meter-high pyre especially built for the occasion (Kyodo)

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Large tuna offered at shrine

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - People put coins on a 2.5-meter, 220-kilogram tuna praying for the recovery of the Japanese economy Jan. 8 at Nishinomiya Shrine which enshrines a god of business prosperity. The tuna will be displayed at the shrine until the Jan. 11 end of a festival. (Kyodo)

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Kumamon goods shop in China

A 2.5-meter-high balloon representing Kumamon, the official black bear mascot of Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture, is on display on June 7, 2021, at a temporary shop dedicated to goods related to the mascot, which recently opened at a shopping complex in the suburbs of Shanghai.

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Tang, Kono promise Beijing reunion after Hakone cruise

HAKONE, Japan - Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan spent May 13 in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo, with Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono, before returning home later in the day. Photo shows Kono (Second from R) and Tang (Third from L) planting a 2.5-meter-high kousa dogwood to commemorate the bilateral friendship near the hotel Tang stayed the night of May 12.