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Japan's research whaling

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japanese research whaling ship the Yushin Maru No. 2 leaves Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2013. Two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance ship left the port the same day to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru and hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March.

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Japan's research whaling

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Japanese research whaling ship the Yushin Maru leaves Shimonoseki port in Yamaguchi Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2013. Two Japanese whaling ships and a surveillance ship left the port the same day to join the mother vessel Nisshin Maru and hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales and up to 50 fin whales through March.

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Daigoji temple national treasures to be made open to public

KYOTO, Japan - The image of the Buddha Yakushi (Healing), flanked by those of two attendants, Nikko and Gakko, are shown to the press in the Yakushido Hall of the Daigoji temple in Kyoto on Aug. 9, one day before they are opened to the general public. All the images, designated as national treasures, are known to have been executed by the priest Eri (852-935) in 907. Their exhibition, only for an hour daily, is to last till Sept. 17.

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Fire near Tsukiji fish market put out after 15 hours, no injuries

Photo taken Aug. 4, 2017, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a fire in an area adjacent to the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, which broke out the previous evening and was extinguished 15 hours later, burning a roughly 935 square meter area but causing no injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire near Tsukiji fish market put out after 15 hours, no injuries

Firefighters using ladder trucks try to extinguish a fire in an area adjacent to the Tsukiji fish market in central Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017. The fire was extinguished the following morning, 15 hours after it broke out, burning a roughly 935 square meter area but causing no injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire near Tsukiji fish market put out after 15 hours, no injuries

Firefighters using ladder trucks try to extinguish a fire in an area adjacent to the Tsukiji fish market in central Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017. The fire was extinguished the following morning, 15 hours after it broke out, burning a roughly 935 square meter area but causing no injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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DOMINIK DUKA, CHARLES DANIEL BALVO

Thousands of people attended the pilgrimage Mass commemorating Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia, in Stara Boleslav, where he was murdered in AD 935, Czech Republic, September 28, 2019. The Mass was mainly said by the Apostolic Nuncio Charles Daniel Balvo, who came to Stara Boleslav for the first time. At left is Prague Archbishop Cardinal Dominik Duka. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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CHARLES DANIEL BALVO

Thousands of people attended the pilgrimage Mass commemorating Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia, in Stara Boleslav, where he was murdered in AD 935, Czech Republic, September 28, 2019. The Mass was mainly said by the Apostolic Nuncio Charles Daniel Balvo, who came to Stara Boleslav for the first time. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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CHARLES DANIEL BALVO

Thousands of people attended the pilgrimage Mass commemorating Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia, in Stara Boleslav, where he was murdered in AD 935, Czech Republic, September 28, 2019. The Mass was mainly said by the Apostolic Nuncio Charles Daniel Balvo, who came to Stara Boleslav for the first time. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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CHARLES DANIEL BALVO

Thousands of people attended the pilgrimage Mass commemorating Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia, in Stara Boleslav, where he was murdered in AD 935, Czech Republic, September 28, 2019. The Mass was mainly said by the Apostolic Nuncio Charles Daniel Balvo, who came to Stara Boleslav for the first time. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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CHARLES DANIEL BALVO

Thousands of people attended the pilgrimage Mass commemorating Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of Bohemia, in Stara Boleslav, where he was murdered in AD 935, Czech Republic, September 28, 2019. The Mass was mainly said by the Apostolic Nuncio Charles Daniel Balvo, who came to Stara Boleslav for the first time. (CTK Photo/Michal Kamaryt)

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Fire near Tsukiji fish market put out after 15 hours, no injuries

Photo taken Aug. 4, 2017, shows the site of a fire in an area adjacent to the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, which broke out the previous evening and was extinguished 15 hours later, burning a roughly 935 square meter area but causing no injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire near Tsukiji fish market put out after 15 hours, no injuries

Photo taken Aug. 3, 2017, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site of a fire in an area adjacent to the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. The fire was extinguished the following morning, 15 hours after it broke out, burning a roughly 935 square meter area but causing no injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire near Tsukiji fish market put out after 15 hours, no injuries

Photo taken Aug. 3, 2017, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tsukiji fish market in central Tokyo and white smoke in the back rising from a fire in an area adjacent to the market. The fire was extinguished in the next morning, 15 hours after it broke out, burning a roughly 935 square meter area but causing no injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Daigoji temple national treasures to be made open to public

KYOTO, Japan - The image of the Buddha Yakushi (Healing), flanked by those of two attendants, Nikko and Gakko, are shown to the press in the Yakushido Hall of the Daigoji temple in Kyoto on Aug. 9, one day before they are opened to the general public. All the images, designated as national treasures, are known to have been executed by the priest Eri (852-935) in 907. Their exhibition, only for an hour daily, is to last till Sept. 17.