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People take photos of 50-inning baseball game score board

AKASHI, Japan - People take photos on Aug. 31, 2014, of the scoreboard of a National High School Rubber Baseball Tournament semifinal game between Chukyo and Sotoku which took an incredible 50 innings over four days to complete. Chukyo scored three runs in the 50th inning to end the scoreless streak for the victory. Chukyo also went on to win the final played later the same day.

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Semifinal settled following 50-inning fight

AKASHI, Japan - Players of Chukyo High School and Sotoku High School rubber-ball baseball teams celebrate their good fight after a 50-inning semifinal game at the national championship on Aug. 31, 2014, in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture. Chukyo beat Sotoku 3-0. Chukyo also won the final game later in the day.

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Ex-Olympic gold medalist Miyake at weightlifting masters championship

AKASHI, Japan - Yoshinobu Miyake, weightlifting gold medalist at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games, competes at the Japan Masters Championship for the first time at the age of 74 on Aug. 15, 2014, in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture.

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2001 fatal stampede

KOBE, Japan - (From front) Kiyoshi Miki, Seiji Shimomura and Masaharu Arima, who lost relatives in a 2001 stampede in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, attend a press conference in Kobe on Feb. 20, 2013. The Kobe District Court earlier the same day dismissed a case against a former senior police officer over the stampede on a bridge that was overcrowded with fireworks spectators on July 21, 2001, in which 11 people died and 247 were injured. The court ruled the statute of limitations had expired.

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Ex-police official indicted over stampede under new inquest system

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuaki Sakaki (file photo), former deputy chief of the Akashi Police Station, is indicted on April 20, 2010, for allegedly failing to prevent a fatal stampede in 2001 in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, becoming the first person to be brought to trial under a new prosecution inquest system.

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Female knuckleballer Yoshida to leave independent league club

AKASHI, Japan - Female knuckleballer Eri Yoshida of the Kobe 9 Cruise pitches against the Kishu Rangers in their Kansai Independent League game in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, on Oct. 1, 2009. Yoshida, the first woman to play professional baseball alongside male players in Japan, is scheduled to leave the financially troubled club when her contract expires at the end of this month.

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Women pray for those who died in Akashi fatal stampede

AKASHI, Japan - Two people on July 22 present flowers at a pedestrian bridge in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture and pray for the repose of the souls of 10 people who died there the previous day in a fatal stampede during a nearby fireworks display.

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10 die, 100 injured on Hyogo bridge after fireworks

AKASHI, Japan - Photo shows a pedestrian bridge where 10 people were crushed to death, most of them children, and about 100 more were injured on July 21 as people tripped and piled on top of each other while a huge crowd crossed the bridge. They were heading home after watching a fireworks display in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture.