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Apparent fireball reported in Japan

Photo taken by an unmanned fixed-point camera at 11:08 p.m. on Aug. 19, 2025, shows the Sakurajima volcano in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima. Many people in western and southwestern Japan reported on social media seeing what appeared to be a fireball on the night of Aug. 19.

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Apparent fireball reported in Japan

Photo taken by a fixed-point infrared camera at 11:08 p.m. on Aug. 19, 2025, shows what appeared to be a fireball in Nachikatsuura in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama. Many people in western and southwestern Japan reported on social media seeing such a phenomenon on the night of Aug. 19.

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Apparent fireball reported in Japan

Photo taken by an unmanned fixed-point camera at 11:08 p.m. on Aug. 19, 2025, shows the Sakurajima volcano in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima. Many people in western and southwestern Japan reported on social media seeing what appeared to be a fireball on the night of Aug. 19.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Photo taken on April 20, 2025, shows what is believed to be a building stone from an ancient fortress in East Jerusalem -- occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war -- on display at Israel's booth at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan.

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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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Budget plane with women's support project logo

Photo taken at Narita airport near Tokyo on March 4, 2024, shows an airplane of the Japan Airlines-affiliated low-cost carrier Zipair Tokyo, featuring the logo of the "Girls Be Ambitious" project launched by Be-A Japan, a Tokyo-based startup developing and selling absorbent period shorts to support women in the workforce.

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Budget plane with women's support project logo

Photo taken at Narita airport near Tokyo on March 4, 2024, shows an airplane of the Japan Airlines-affiliated low-cost carrier Zipair Tokyo, featuring the logo of the "Girls Be Ambitious" project launched by Be-A Japan, a Tokyo-based startup developing and selling absorbent period shorts to support women in the workforce.

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Residents evacuate to overnight shelters after earthquakes in Japan

STORY: Residents evacuate to overnight shelters after earthquakes in Japan SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 2, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:48 LOCATION: ISHIKAWA, Japan CATEGORY: OTHERS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): Emergency shelter coordinator 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): Local resident STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHANG XIAOYU, Xinhua correspondent "I am Xinhua correspondent Zhang Xiaoyu. I am now reporting in Ishikawa, Japan. Here is an emergency shelter in Ishikawa (prefecture). As we can see, many people are taking shelter here after strong earthquakes hit the region. The place used to be a primary school and now it has been turned into an emergency shelter. Earlier we've spoken with some of the people here. They've told me that around 230 people are currently staying here and there is a lack of water supply and food." SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): Emergency shelter coordinator "We were afraid that a tsunami might come. So we tried to take she

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JAPAN-TOKYO-AIRCRAFT-COLLISION

(240102) -- TOKYO, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Jan. 2, 2024 shows a Japan Airlines airplane caught in fire at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. All 379 passengers and crew members on board a Japan Airlines airplane that was caught in fire at Tokyo's Haneda Airport have evacuated, local media reported Tuesday. The airplane, flight 516 from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido Prefecture to Tokyo's Haneda Airport, collided with what appears to be a Japan Coast Guard aircraft after landing at Haneda Airport, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing Japan Airlines. (Xinhua/Yue Chenxing)

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All 379 on board evacuated from aircraft in flames at Tokyo's Haneda Airport: NHK

STORY: All 379 on board evacuated from aircraft in flames at Tokyo's Haneda Airport: NHK SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 2, 2024 DATELINE: Jan. 2, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: BREAKING SHOTLIST: 1. various of the airplane that was caught in fire at Tokyo's Haneda Airport STORYLINE: All 379 passengers and crew members on board a Japan Airlines airplane that was caught in fire at Tokyo's Haneda Airport have evacuated, local media reported Tuesday. The airplane, flight 516 from New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido Prefecture to Tokyo's Haneda Airport, collided with what appears to be a Japan Coast Guard aircraft after landing at Haneda Airport, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing Japan Airlines. Firefighters are extinguishing the flames, it said. NHK footage showed a large burst of fire erupting from a side of the Japan Airlines plane as it taxied on a runway and soon the blaze engulfed the aircraft. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Tokyo. (XHTV)

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IAEA report should not be "greenlight" for Japan's nuclear-contaminated water discharge: FM spokesperson

STORY: IAEA report should not be "greenlight" for Japan's nuclear-contaminated water discharge: FM spokesperson DATELINE: July 5, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:22 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant STORYLINE: China on Tuesday said the report released by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should not be a permission for Japan's discharge of nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean, urging Japan to work with the IAEA to put in place a long-term international monitoring mechanism. A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson made the remarks when asked to comment on the report, which believes that Japan's plan to discharge the nuclear-contaminated water into the sea complies with international safety standards, saying that the IAEA will conduct long-term monitoring over Japan's discharge activities. The spokesperson said it is learned that the report failed to fully reflect views from experts that participated in the review, and the c

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Explosive attack on Japanese prime minister

Photo taken April 19, 2023, shows a hole in a container, believed to be a by-product of an explosive attack on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama on April 15. The container sits about 60 meters away from the explosion site.

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Explosive attack on Japanese prime minister

Photo taken April 18, 2023, shows a hole (C) in a container, believed to be a by-product of an explosive attack on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama on April 15. The container sits about 60 meters away from the explosion site.

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Japan PM Kishida unhurt after smoke bomb thrown during campaigning

People are shocked after what appeared to be a smoke bomb was thrown at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before he was due to make a stump speech at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama on April 15, 2023. Kishida was unhurt in the incident.

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Japan PM Kishida unhurt after smoke bomb thrown during campaigning

A man is subdued after throwing what appeared to be a smoke bomb at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida before he was due to make a stump speech at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama on April 15, 2023. Kishida was unhurt in the incident.

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Toyota President Toyoda

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken May 11, 2011, shows Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corp. The Wall Street Journal picked Toyoda as one of 12 ''Corporate Executives to Watch Next Year'' on Dec. 30, 2011, saying 2012 may be a ''make or break year'' for the chief of the top Japanese automaker.

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Toyota wants to be 'front runner in quality,' president says

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Katsuaki Watanabe, addressing an audience in Nagoya on Sug. 27, says his company will target becoming a ''front runner in quality'' even as it stands poised to become the world's No. 1 automobile seller this year. ''It is possible to attain annual sales of 10 million vehicles soon, but we want to be a front runner in quality, not quantity.''

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Vandalism at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 19 Kyodo - Police officers investigate in front of a worship hall of the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2019, after a man threw black ink on a curtain hung on the hall. Police arrested the man, believed to be a Chinese national, at the scene on suspicion of property damage.

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Vandalism at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 19 Kyodo - Police officers investigate in front of a worship hall of the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2019, after a man threw black ink on a curtain hung on the hall. Police arrested the man, believed to be a Chinese national, at the scene on suspicion of property damage.

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Japanese doll Licca-chan helping Fukushima reconstruction

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, May 24 Kyodo - Yoshino Hakata, a member of the staff at Licca-chan Castle, a theme park in the town of Ono in Fukushima Prefecture, looks at messages on the walls of the building written by visitors to encourage local people to overcome the 2011 nuclear and earthquake-tsunami disasters, on May 6, 2017. Licca-chan, Japan's long-selling popular dress-up doll, has proved to be a strong tourist magnet supporting reconstruction of the prefecture from the disasters.

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N. Korea launches ballistic missile

TOKYO, Japan, June 22 Kyodo - Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani meets with reporters at his ministry in Tokyo on June 22, 2016, after North Korea tried to launch what appears to be a Musudan missile, an attempt that appeared to have ended in failure. Nakatani expressed "extreme regret" about the launch, calling it a "grave provocative act" in light of international security.

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Islamic State militants threaten to kill 2 Japanese captives

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 20, 2015, shows a meeting of Cabinet ministers at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2015, held after a man claiming to be a member of the Islamic State militant group threatened in a video to kill two Japanese captives unless a ransom of $200 million is paid.

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People gather to see ditch of ancient tomb in Nara

OSAKA, Japan - People gather around what is believed to be a stone-lined ditch (L) of a giant seventh-century rectangular tomb in the Oyamada ruins in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, western Japan, in a photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter. Archaeological experts explained the ditch found on Jan. 15 to visitors.

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Tokyo hotel offers 33.3-mil-yen Christmas stay

TOKYO, Japan - The Prince Park Tower Tokyo hotel shows a diamond valued at 30 million yen on Nov. 27, 2014, which will be a feature of a special Christmas stay for 33.3 million yen. The accommodation fee corresponds to the 333-meter high Tokyo Tower, viewable from the suite.

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Tokyo hotel offers 33.3-mil-yen Christmas stay

TOKYO, Japan - The Prince Park Tower Tokyo hotel shows a diamond valued at 30 million yen on Nov. 27, 2014, which will be a feature of a special Christmas stay for 33.3 million yen. The accommodation fee corresponds to the 333-meter high Tokyo Tower, viewable from the suite.

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Burnt ancient cornerstone of Kyoto temple found

KYOTO, Japan - The Kyoto Prefectural Board of Education announces the discovery of what seems to be a cornerstone of the famed Kiyomizu-dera temple burnt down during the 1467-1477 Onin War in Kyoto, western Japan, on Nov. 11, 2014.

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Young author calls for end to animal euthanasia

TOKYO, Japan - Manami Mukai, a pet care school student hoping to be a groomer, calls for an end to the euthanasia of pet animals in her book titled "Inochi no Hana" (Flower of Life), as shown in this file photo taken on Sept. 15, 2014.

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Head of traditional theater eyes closer ties with spectators

KANAZAWA, Japan - Takehiro Yoshida, head of the restored Awazu "Embujo" traditional performing art theater in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, says on Aug. 28, 2014, that he hopes to see the venue will be a place where performers and spectators can form close ties.

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Bug spray at Meiji Jingu shrine

TOKYO, Japan - A woman sprays insect repellant, provided by the Meiji Jingu shrine, on her son at the shrine in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2014. Yoyogi Park, located nearby, was closed the previous day after being found to be a hotbed of mosquitoes carrying the Dengue virus.

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Artificial objects found in deep-sea organisms

TOKYO, Japan - What seems to be a piece of cardboard, found in a giant isopod's excrement, is shown at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 11, 2014. This finding raises concerns that man-made waste is contaminating the abyssal floor, a habitat of giant isopods.

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Gust damages houses in Tochigi

MIBU, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows damaged houses in Mibu, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan on Aug. 11, 2014, following a strong gust of wind suspected to be a tornado.

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Gust damages houses in Tochigi

MIBU, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows damaged houses in Mibu, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan on Aug. 11, 2014, following a strong gust of wind suspected to be a tornado.

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Gust damages houses in Tochigi

MIBU, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows damaged houses in Mibu, Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan on Aug. 11, 2014, following a strong gust of wind suspected to be a tornado.

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Tree branches used to reinforce ground around Heijo Palace

NARA, Japan - Remains of tree branches and leaves laid on the bottom of what used to be a river in an area west of the remains of the 8th-century Heijo Palace in Nara, western Japan, are seen on July 4, 2014. The Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties has unearthed the remains of the branches used to reclaim land and reinforce the foundation.

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Tree branches used to reinforce ground around Heijo Palace

NARA, Japan - Remains of tree branches and leaves laid on the bottom of what used to be a river in an area west of the remains of the 8th-century Heijo Palace in Nara, western Japan, are seen on July 4, 2014. The Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties has unearthed the remains of the branches used to reclaim land and reinforce the foundation.

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Aguirre's name floated as Japan coaching candidate

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa, shows former Mexico coach Javier Aguirre, who was reported to be a candidate to fill Japan's vacant managing position in Spanish sports paper Marca's online edition on June 29, 2014. Aguirre managed Mexico at both the 2002 and 2010 World Cups.

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Senior ruling bloc lawmakers discuss collective self-defense

TOKYO, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party Vice President Masahiko Komura (R) attends a meeting of the ruling party lawmakers, together with the New Komeito party deputy chief Kazuo Kitagawa (C) and Secretary General Yoshihisa Inoue on June 20, 2014, in Tokyo. The LDP proposed Japan should participate in U.N. collective security operations that enable member states to defend each other against attacks, causing a backlash from the coalition partner against what would be a departure from the country's postwar policy.

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Toyobo develops new wadding material

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken June 3, 2014, shows wadding material named "Grain Geran" for clothes and bedclothes developed jointly by Toyobo STS Co., a Toyobo Co. subsidiary, and Kyoto-based ARAI Co. The material is hoped to be a boon to the making of clothes and bedclothes given skyrocketing prices of feathers due to a supply shortage caused by an outbreak of avian flu.

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Animated film supervised by Nagatomo aired in Milan

MILAN, Italy - Inter Milan soccer player Yuto Nagatomo responds to questions from the press about an animated film he supervised during the Japan Film Festival in Milan on May 13, 2014. Based on Nagatomo himself, the film depicts in a humorous way how the Japanese footballer grew up to be a top-notch player.

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Stem cell research paper questioned

KOFU, Japan - University of Yamanashi professor Teruhiko Wakayama meets reporters in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, on March 10, 2014. Wakayama has told his co-authors that their research paper on what appeared to be a groundbreaking method for producing stem cells should be retracted and resubmitted. Questions have been raised about irregular images contained in the paper, written by a group led by Haruko Obotaka at the Center for Developmental Biology of the government-affiliated Riken institute, on a method it named "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency" or STAP.

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Japan scientist proposes to retract stem cell research paper

KOFU, Japan - Teruhiko Wakayama, a professor at the University of Yamanashi and one of the co-authors of a research paper on what appeared to be a groundbreaking method of producing stem cells, explains his proposal to retract the paper in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on March 10, 2014. Questions have been raised about irregular images contained in the paper, written by a group led by Haruko Obotaka at the Center for Developmental Biology of the government-run Riken institute, on a method it named "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency" or STAP.

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Japan's Cabinet adopts formal position on bitcoin trading

TOKYO, Japan - Finance Minister Taro Aso holds a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, after the government adopted a formal position in a Cabinet meeting earlier that day on bitcoin trading, deeming the virtual currency to be a noncurrency market product such as precious metals.

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Disaster-hit building in Minamisanriku, Japan

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - The skeletal structure of what used to be a local government building in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, remains deserted on Feb. 14, 2014. Forty-three people, mostly town officials, died at the building in the March 2011 tsunami. The structure was set to be demolished initially but its preservation as a reminder of the disaster is being discussed by experts at the request of the prefectural governor.

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Fossils of new elephant species found in Mie Pref.

TSU, Japan - The Mie prefectural government shows on Jan. 20, 2014, a fossilized tusk base (left) and tooth of what is believed to be a newly discovered species of elephant that has been found in Suzuka in the central Japan prefecture. Archeologists say the elephant existed about 2.4 million years ago.

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NFL star Griffin asked to be bridge between Japan, U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - American football star Robert Griffin III (R) poses with Kenichiro Sasae (C), Japanese ambassador to the United States, and his wife for photos near Washington, D.C. on Aug. 24, 2013. Sasae asked Griffin, who was born in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture and lived there until he was 3 years old, to be a bridge between Japan and the United States, during a meeting beside the field of the Washington Redskins' stadium.

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NFL star Griffin asked to be bridge between Japan, U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - American football star Robert Griffin III (L) shakes hands with Kenichiro Sasae, Japanese ambassador to the United States, near Washington, D.C. on Aug. 24, 2013. Sasae asked Griffin, who was born in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture and lived there until he was 3 years old, to be a bridge between Japan and the United States, during a meeting beside the field of the Washington Redskins' stadium.

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Caviar producers breathe new life into abolished schools

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken July 12, 2013, shows an official checking the condition of sturgeon in one of the water tanks for sturgeon aquaculture placed inside what used to be a gymnasium of an abolished junior high school in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture.

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Caviar producers breathe new life into abolished schools

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Photo taken July 12, 2013, shows facilities for sturgeon aquaculture set up inside what used to be a gymnasium of an abolished junior high school in Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture.

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Upper house election in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows people gathered in front of the Osaka city offices on July 4, 2013, to listen to a stump speech by a candidate running in the July 21 upper house election. Official campaigning for the election, which will be a key test of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's leadership over the past seven months, started the same day.

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Upper house election in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan - People listen to a stump speech by a candidate in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 4, 2013, the day official campaigning started for the July 21 upper house election that will be a key test of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's leadership over the past seven months.