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Small drone to investigate interior of Fukushima plant reactor

Photo taken in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 1, 2025, shows a very small drone to be used to investigate the interior of the No. 3 reactor containment vessel at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The drone -- 13 centimeters by 12 CM -- weighing 95 grams was unveiled to the media the same day before its likely use from November.

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Stand-up noodle bar at eastern Japan station

People wait in a line to eat at a stand-up soba noodle eatery "Kisoba" on its last business day on Jan. 14, 2022, at JR Oyama Station in Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan. The eatery is said to be a model for the one that appears in director Makoto Shinkai's animation "Byosoku 5 Centimeters" (5 Centimeters per Second.)

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Mirror discovered at ancient Japan tomb

Photo taken on Jan. 20, 2023, in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, shows a shield-shaped mirror excavated from the fourth century Tomio-Maruyama tomb mound in the western Japan city of Nara in November 2022. The 5.7-kilogram mirror, which is 64 centimeters in length and 31 cm in width at its widest, is the largest bronze mirror ever found in Japan, according to the city's board of education and an archeological institute that supported the excavation.

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Heavy snow hits Pacific side of Honshu

OSAKA, Japan - A couple and their children build a snowman in Osaka Castle Park in Osaka as heavy snowfall hits the Pacific side of Honshu on Feb. 9. Meteorologists are forecasting that 30-50 centimeters of snow could fall through Feb. 10 in heavily affected areas of the southern Tohoku region as the snow front moves from western Japan to the Pacific coast of eastern Japan.

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Heavy snow hits Pacific side of Honshu

NAGOYA, Japan - A couple walk in the snow-blanketed streets of Nagoya as heavy snowfall hits the Pacific side of Honshu on Feb. 9. Meteorologists are forecasting that 30-50 centimeters of snow could fall through Feb. 10 in heavily affected areas of the southern Tohoku region as the snow front moves from western Japan to the Pacific coast of eastern Japan.

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Crocodile captured at hospital parking lot in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - This crocodile measuring 43 centimeters long was captured in a parking lot of a hospital in Nagoya's Chikusa Ward on Aug. 18 evening, police said. The reptile was found by a nurse at around 6:30 p.m. and was caught with a net by security guards of Aichi Prefectural Shiroyama Hospital, and was handed over to police.

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Chum salmon fry release at peak in Hokkaido river

SHIBECHA, Japan, May 11 Kyodo - Chum salmon fry form a school in the Nishibetsu River in Shibecha, Hokkaido, on May 11, 2017, after being released. About 2 million chum salmon fry, which are five centimeters in length, were released in the river that day. Some 25 million chum salmon fry were to be released from early March to May 22, with fewer than one percent expected to return to the river in several years to spawn.

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Japan space agency developing world's smallest satellite-launch rocket

SAGAMIHARA, Japan, Nov. 22 Kyodo - Hiroto Habu, an assistant professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, poses with the TRICOM1 ultra small satellite developed by the University of Tokyo, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2016. JAXA said it will launch the world's smallest rocket, which is around 10 meters long, about 50 centimeters in diameter and weighs 2.6 tons, to put the satellite into Earth orbit from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, by the end of March 2017.

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Pure gold Ebisu statuette displayed at Osaka jewelry shop

OSAKA, Japan - A 130-million-yen pure gold statuette of Ebisu, a Japanese deity known as the guardian of commerce, measuring around 40 centimeters in height and 32 centimeters in width, is displayed on Dec. 26, 2014, at jewelry shop Ginza Tanaka in Osaka's Shinsaibashi shopping district, western Japan. The display started the same day and will run until Jan. 12, 2015.

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Pure gold Ebisu statuette displayed at Osaka jewelry shop

OSAKA, Japan - A 130-million-yen pure gold statuette of Ebisu, a Japanese deity known as the guardian of commerce, measuring around 40 centimeters in height and 32 centimeters in width, is displayed on Dec. 26, 2014, at jewelry shop Ginza Tanaka in Osaka's Shinsaibashi shopping district, western Japan. The display started the same day and will run until Jan. 12, 2015.

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Snowcapped Nagoya Castle amid heaviest snowfall in 9 years

NAGOYA, Japan - Visitors walk toward a snowcapped Nagoya Castle on Dec. 18, 2014, as snowfall in the central Japan city of Nagoya reached 23 centimeters, topping the 20 cm line for the first time since December 2005.

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Nagoya hit by record snowfall

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 18, 2014, shows Nagoya Castle covered with snow in the central Japan city of Nagoya. Snow accumulation there reached 23 centimeters, topping the 20 cm line for the first time since December 2005, causing traffic disturbance.

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Nagoya hit by record snowfall

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 18, 2014, shows Nagoya TV Tower and the surrounding area in the central Japan city of Nagoya, covered with snow. Snow accumulation there reached 23 centimeters, topping the 20 cm line for the first time since December 2005, causing traffic disturbance.

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Heavy snow hits parts of central, western Japan

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2014, shows an area in the city of Niigata on the Sea of Japan coast where snowfall exceeded 30 centimeters.

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Heavy snow hits parts of central, western Japan

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2014, shows an area in the city of Niigata on the Sea of Japan coast where snowfall exceeded 30 centimeters.

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Penguin cam

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - An Humboldt penguin wears a small camera at Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa, Japan's northernmost prefecture Hokkaido, on Nov. 20, 2014, as an IT-related company in Tokyo begins distributing live moving images from the camera to smartphones. The camera, which is 7 centimeters in diameter and about 160 grams in weight, is worn by the penguin on a belt for two or three hours a day.

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Big cabbages harvested in Hokkaido's Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - People harvest big cabbages, measuring 50-60 centimeters in diameter and weighing 10-15 kilograms, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, on Oct. 30, 2014.

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Big cabbages harvested in Hokkaido's Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - People harvest big cabbages, measuring 50-60 centimeters in diameter and weighing 10-15 kilograms, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost main island, on Oct. 30, 2014.

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Apple unveils two new iPhones

CUPERTINO, United States - Photo shows the iPhone 6 (L) and iPhone 6 Plus with screen sizes of 4.7 inches (about 12 centimeters) and 5.5 inches, respectively, unveiled by Apple Inc. on Sept. 9, 2014, in Cupertino, California. The new smartphones will be able to facilitate the company's new mobile payment system called Apple Pay. They will go on sale in 10 regions, including Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore on Sept. 19.

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Godzilla exhibition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A pure gold statuette of Godzilla, measuring around 24 centimeters in height, is displayed at Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest skyscraper in Osaka, on Aug. 14, 2014. The statuette is part of an exhibition of Godzilla-related items that began the same day and will run until Aug. 24 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the original Japanese film's release.

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Godzilla exhibition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - A pure gold statuette of Godzilla, measuring around 24 centimeters in height, is displayed at Abeno Harukas, Japan's tallest skyscraper in Osaka, on Aug. 14, 2014. The statuette is part of an exhibition of Godzilla-related items that began the same day and will run until Aug. 24 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the original Japanese film's release.

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Blakiston's fish owl

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows a Blakiston's fish owl chick, around 50 centimeters tall with metal tags attached, in a forest in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 10, 2014. The Environment Ministry attached the tags the same day to track the bird, one of the most endangered species in the owl family.

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Blakiston's fish owl

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows a Blakiston's fish owl chick, around 50 centimeters tall with metal tags attached, in a forest in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 10, 2014. The Environment Ministry attached the tags the same day to track the bird, one of the most endangered species in the owl family.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K., and the real mascot, at the company's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. at its flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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Gold statue of Kumamon

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a pure gold statue of Kumamon, the popular black bear mascot of Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto, unveiled by Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K., and the real mascot, at the company's flagship store in Tokyo's Ginza district on May 1, 2014. The statue, with a price tag of 100 million yen, weighs roughly 10 kilograms and stands around 17 centimeters tall.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, around 3:30 a.m. on April 2, 2014, the time when a tsunami was expected to arrive. Waves of about 45 centimeters were spotted there, considered a normal height, according to a local official. Tsunamis of over 50 cm were observed in some areas in Hawaii that day after a magnitude 8.2 quake hit Chile on April 1.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

SENDAI, Japan - City officials of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture watch a television broadcast of information about tsunami at an evacuation center past 5:30 a.m. on April 3, 2014. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

MINAMISOMA, Japan - A police officer keeps watch on the sea at a fishing port in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, at 5:24 a.m. on April 3, 2014, after a tsunami alert was issued. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

ONAGAWA, Japan - Firefighters keep watch on the ocean on a hill in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, at 5:36 a.m. on April 3, 2014, around the time when a tsunami was expected to arrive. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Tsunami alert after Chile quake

ONAGAWA, Japan - A firefighter watches the sea from a hill in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, at 5:44 a.m. on April 3, 2014, around the time when a tsunami was expected to arrive. A tsunami of up to 40 centimeters was observed in the early morning that day at a port on the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture following a magnitude 8.2 quake that hit Chile on April 1, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Heavy snow continues to fall in eastern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A snow statue of Hachiko, a legendary Japanese dog, is created next to its bronze statue in front of Shibuya Station in Tokyo on Feb. 15, 2014, as heavy snow continued to hit eastern Japan, with snowfall reaching 27 centimeters in the capital.

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Heavy snow continues to fall in eastern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A snow statue of Hachiko, a legendary Japanese dog, is created next to its bronze statue in front of Shibuya Station in Tokyo on Feb. 15, 2014, as heavy snow continued to hit eastern Japan, with snowfall reaching 27 centimeters in the capital.

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Heavy snow continues to fall in eastern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo International Airport, well-known as Haneda airport, is covered with snow on Feb. 15, 2014, as heavy snow continued to hit eastern Japan, with snowfall reaching 27 centimeters in Tokyo.

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Heavy snow continues to fall in eastern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Diet building (front) and the Imperial Palace (back) in central Tokyo are covered with snow on Feb. 15, 2014, as heavy snow continued to hit eastern Japan, with snowfall reaching 27 centimeters in the capital.

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Polar bear enjoys heavy snow in Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan - A polar bear enjoys heavy snow in the quiet Ueno Zoological Gardens in Taito Ward, Tokyo, covered with more than 20 centimeters of snow for the first time in 20 years on Feb. 8, 2014.

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Mt. Fuji eruption may force 470,000 people to evacuate

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2013 shows Mt. Fuji as seen from around the border of the cities of Fuji and Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Prefecture. A panel set up by Shizuoka and two other prefectures around the 3,776-meter volcano worked out a regional evacuation plan on Feb. 6, 2014, projecting that a violent eruption could force around 470,000 people in the prefectures to evacuate if more than 30 centimeters of ash accumulates on the ground.

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New Year tea ceremony

NARA, Japan - Worshipers at Saidai-ji, a temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, enjoy green tea served in cups with a diameter of 30-40 centimeters and weighing about 5 kilograms, at an annual New Year tea ceremony on Jan. 15, 2014.

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New Year tea ceremony

NARA, Japan - Worshipers at Saidai-ji, a temple in Nara, Nara Prefecture, enjoy green tea served in cups with a diameter of 30-40 centimeters and weighing about 5 kilograms, at an annual New Year tea ceremony on Jan. 15, 2014.

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Giant isopod not eating

TOBA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 2, 2014, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, shows a giant isopod, a creature often called a "scavenger of the deep." The crustacean from Mexico, measuring about 29 centimeters and weighing about 1 kilogram, was near bait (L), but did not eat. According to the aquarium, it has not eating anything since it ate fish in January 2009.

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Shortest woman

NEW YORK, United States - Jyoti Amge attends a Guinness World Records ceremony to certify her as the world's shortest living woman at the Empire State Building in New York on Sept. 12, 2013. The 19-year-old woman from India is 62.7 centimeters tall.

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Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

TOKYO, Japan - Tomotaka Takahashi, a roboticist at the University of Tokyo, unveils Kirobo (L), a small talking humanoid robot, and a backup robot called Mirata, in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. Kirobo, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs around 1 kilogram, will be sent to the International Space Station in August to communicate with astronauts stationed for long periods.

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Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a small talking humanoid robot unveiled by a team of Japanese researchers in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. The robot called Kirobo, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs around 1 kilogram, will be sent to the International Space Station in August to communicate with astronauts stationed for long periods.

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Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a small talking humanoid robot unveiled by a team of Japanese researchers in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. The robot called Kirobo, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs around 1 kilogram, will be sent to the International Space Station in August to communicate with astronauts stationed for long periods.

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Japanese developers unveil robot astronaut

TOKYO, Japan - Tomotaka Takahashi, a roboticist at the University of Tokyo, converses with Kirobo, a small talking humanoid robot, in Tokyo on June 26, 2013. The robot, which is 34 centimeters tall and weighs around 1 kilogram, will be sent to the International Space Station in August to communicate with astronauts stationed for long periods.

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LED 'fireflies' light up Tokyo river

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Taito Ward towering over the Sumida River, with its surface lit up in blue by 100,000 light-emitting diode bulbs, mimicking fireflies, during an event called "Tokyo Firefly" on the night of May 25, 2013. Participants bought LED bulbs measuring 8.5 centimeters in diameter, each containing a solar panel and a rechargeable battery, and threw them into the river. The bulbs were collected by fishermen using a net downstream for reuse.

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4-kg police dog

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Mieko Shinkubo holds her 3-year-old female miniature dachshund Becky at the Kumamoto prefectural police headquarters in the city of Kumamoto on April 3, 2013. Becky, about 40 centimeters long and weighing about 4 kilograms, was granted a certificate the same day to work as a police dog.

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Record snow in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - A house is half buried in snow in the Sukayu hot spring resort in Aomori Prefecture on Feb. 25, 2013. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a new snow accumulation record for existing observation points in Japan was set the same day, with Sukayu registering 550 centimeters as of 11 a.m.

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Record snow in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - A tourist tries to dig out a car buried in snow in the Sukayu hot spring resort in Aomori Prefecture on Feb. 25, 2013. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a new snow accumulation record for existing observation points in Japan was set the same day, with Sukayu registering 550 centimeters as of 11 a.m.

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Record snow in Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - Photo shows an area of Sukayu, a hot spring resort in Aomori Prefecture, on Feb. 25, 2013. The Japan Meteorological Agency said a new snow accumulation record for existing observation points in Japan was set the same day, with Sukayu registering 550 centimeters as of 11 a.m.