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Japan: Typhoon Halong Hits Japan, Triggers Flood and Landslide Warnings 3

Typhoon Halong brought torrential rain and strong winds to Japan on Thursday, October 9, prompting emergency warnings for flooding and landslides. Rainfall on Hachijo Island reached a record 207 mm in three hours—the highest ever for the area. Although the storm has now moved east, power outages persist, and authorities continue to urge residents to avoid landslide-prone areas. This video shows waves and strong winds at the beach of Chigasaki.

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U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing

CHIGASAKI, Japan, Oct. 10 Kyodo - Video taken on Oct. 10, 2024, shows a U.S. Navy helicopter after it made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2024, shows a U.S. Navy helicopter after it made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2024, shows a U.S. Navy helicopter after it made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2024, shows a U.S. Navy helicopter after it made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 10, 2024, shows a U.S. Navy helicopter after it made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 10, 2024, shows a U.S. Navy helicopter after it made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing

Photo taken on Oct. 10, 2024, shows a U.S. Navy helicopter after it made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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U.S. military helicopter makes emergency landing

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 10, 2024, shows a U.S. Navy helicopter after it made an emergency landing on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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Japan: Tropical Storm Shanshan Continues To Bring Widespread Heavy Rains 7

Tropical Storm Shanshan remained mostly stationary off Japan's Pacific coast as of Sunday, September 1, continued to bring widespread heavy rains. Shanshan caused flooding, downed trees, power outages, and mudslides across the country, leaving at least six dead and more than 120 people injured.

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PM Abe plays golf in Chigasaki

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) plays golf with his wife Akie on Jan. 4, 2015, in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. Abe played golf for two consecutive days before returning to work on Jan. 5.

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PM Abe plays golf with business leaders

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) plays golf with Fujio Mitarai (C), former chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and Sadayuki Sakakibara, current chairman, on Jan. 3, 2015, in Chigasaki, near Tokyo. Abe told reporters he hopes the year 2015 "will be sunny like today's weather."

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Japan PM Abe enjoys golf for 1st time in 4 months

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plays golf for the first time in about four months at a golf course in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2014, ahead of a special parliamentary session on Dec. 24, during which he will be re-elected as premier.

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Water balloon fight held on Japan beach

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Young people throw water balloons on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 24, 2014, to promote the sport under rules laid down by volunteer workers in Fukushima Prefecture following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Young people enjoy water balloon fight on Japan beach

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Young people enjoy a water balloon fight on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 24, 2014, under rules laid down by volunteer workers in Fukushima Prefecture following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Prime Minister Abe playing golf

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shizo Abe plays golf in the city of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 29, 2013. Abe will end this year's official duties on Dec. 30 by attending the year-end trading session at Tokyo Stock Exchange. Abe is scheduled to hold his first press conference of next year on Jan. 6 after visiting Ise Shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture.

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Astronaut Noguchi receives hero's welcome in hometown

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves to well-wishers as he received a hero's welcome during a parade in a convertible car on Aug. 9, 2010, in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, where he spent his childhood, following his completion in June of a nearly half-year stay aboard the International Space Station.

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Hatoyama calls astronaut Noguchi in space

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) waves to Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who is at the International Space Station for a five-month mission, from the prime minister office in Tokyo during a video conference on Jan. 7, 2010, with Education, Culture, Sports and Technology Minister Tatsuo Kawabata and elementary school children from Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, looking on.

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Residents cheer Noguchi's liftoff from Kazakhstan

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Residents of the hometown of Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi applaud after seeing Russia's Soyoz TMA-17's liftoff from Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan through a live broadcast in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2009. Some 400 residents, including many students, gathered at the city hall early in the morning to watch the launch of the space capsule carrying Noguchi and two others, heading for the International Space Station.

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Ai Sugiyama opens her own sports club in Kanagawa

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Japanese professional tennis player Ai Sugiyama poses with her birthday cake on July 8 as she formally opened a sports club she set up in her native Chigasaki city in Kanagawa Prefecture. Sugiyama, who turned 33 on July 5, will join Japan's tennis team at next month's Beijing Olympics, her fourth Olympic entry.

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Business storyteller Shiroyama dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - Saburo Shiroyama (in photo taken in May 2003), a leading Japanese writer of business and biographical novels, died on March 22 of interstitial lung disease at a hospital in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, his agent said. He was 79. Brought up in Nagoya, Shiroyama, whose real name is Eiichi Sugiura, pioneered a style of business novel featuring inside stories of corporate Japan in the early 1970s, and also authored a number of books often modeled on existing personalities.

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Astronaut Noguchi joins parade in hometown

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves to well-wishers in a parade held in his honor in his hometown of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct. 2 following his mission aboard the U.S. space shuttle Discovery in August.

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Discovery lands in California

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Students at Hamasuka Junior High School, the alma mater of Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, along with citizens of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture and Noguchi's supporters rejoice over the safe landing of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base in California Aug. 9.

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Discovery lands in California

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Students at Hamasuka Junior High School, the alma mater of Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, along with citizens of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture and Noguchi's supporters rejoice over the safe landing of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base in California Aug. 9. (Kyodo)

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Ai Sugiyama opens her own sports club in Kanagawa

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Japanese professional tennis player Ai Sugiyama poses with her birthday cake on July 8 as she formally opened a sports club she set up in her native Chigasaki city in Kanagawa Prefecture. Sugiyama, who turned 33 on July 5, will join Japan's tennis team at next month's Beijing Olympics, her fourth Olympic entry. (Kyodo)

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Woman recalls evacuation life during WWII

Tomee Takahashi recalls her life of evacuation from Tokyo with elementary school classmates in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, during World War II as pictured at her home in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on Feb. 10, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe hits the golf course

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) enjoys a round of golf on Feb. 27, 2016, in Chigasaki, near Tokyo. It was his first game since Jan. 2. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police chopper flies over waters off Chigasaki after shark sightings

A police helicopter flies over the sea off Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on Aug. 14, 2015, after sharks were spotted swimming in the area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shark threat hitting Japanese beaches

Photo taken Aug. 15, 2015, shows a sign at a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture that reads "Swimming is prohibited." Increasing reports of sharks in the month have prompted beaches across Japan to prohibit bathing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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International stand-up paddleboard race held in eastern Japan

Contestants ride the waves on their stand-up paddleboards during an international tournament in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 19, 2015. Toby Cracknell from Australia won the men's competition covering an M-shaped distance of about 1 km while Fiona Wylde from the United States was the winner of the women's race. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Less-expensive light camper becoming popular

The interior of Auto One's "Kyuden-kun" campervan, equipped with a microwave oven and others, is photographed in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, in July 2015. The campervan was developed from Suzuki Motor Corp.'s Every light passenger vehicle. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Discovery lands in California

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Students at Hamasuka Junior High School, the alma mater of Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, along with citizens of Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture and Noguchi's supporters rejoice over the safe landing of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base in California Aug. 9. (Kyodo)

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Business storyteller Shiroyama dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - Saburo Shiroyama (in photo taken in May 2003), a leading Japanese writer of business and biographical novels, died on March 22 of interstitial lung disease at a hospital in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, his agent said. He was 79. Brought up in Nagoya, Shiroyama, whose real name is Eiichi Sugiura, pioneered a style of business novel featuring inside stories of corporate Japan in the early 1970s, and also authored a number of books often modeled on existing personalities. (Kyodo)

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Supernova found by Japanese astronomer possibly hypernova

TOKYO, Japan - A supernova (L), discovered Jan. 29 by Yoji Hirose, an amateur Japanese astronomer from Chigasaki, is likely to be a hypernova with explosive energy up to 100 times greater than a supernova, according to an astronomical study Feb. 7. Photo was provided by the observatory.

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Astronaut Noguchi receives hero's welcome in hometown

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi waves to well-wishers as he received a hero's welcome during a parade in a convertible car on Aug. 9, 2010, in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, where he spent his childhood, following his completion in June of a nearly half-year stay aboard the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Japan PM Abe enjoys golf for 1st time in 4 months

CHIGASAKI, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plays golf for the first time in about four months at a golf course in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2014, ahead of a special parliamentary session on Dec. 24, during which he will be re-elected as premier. (Kyodo)

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Water balloon fight held on Japan beach

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Young people throw water balloons on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 24, 2014, to promote the sport under rules laid down by volunteer workers in Fukushima Prefecture following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Kyodo)

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Young people enjoy water balloon fight on Japan beach

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Young people enjoy a water balloon fight on a beach in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 24, 2014, under rules laid down by volunteer workers in Fukushima Prefecture following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. (Kyodo)

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Hatoyama calls astronaut Noguchi in space

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) waves to Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who is at the International Space Station for a five-month mission, from the prime minister office in Tokyo during a video conference on Jan. 7, 2010, with Education, Culture, Sports and Technology Minister Tatsuo Kawabata and elementary school children from Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, looking on. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Noguchi returns to Earth in SpaceX capsule

People celebrate the return of Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi to Earth on May 2, 2021, in front of a monitor screen set up at the city hall of Chigasaki, his hometown in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. U.S. SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts including Noguchi splashed down off the coast of Florida, returning to Earth after their six-month mission at the International Space Station.

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Abe on winter holiday

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and Sadayuki Sakakibara, honorary chairman of the Japan Business Federation, are pictured at a golf course in Chigasaki, near Tokyo, on Jan. 2, 2020, during their New Year holidays. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe on winter holiday

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pictured at a golf course in Chigasaki, near Tokyo, on Jan. 2, 2020, during his New Year holiday. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe on winter holiday

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pictured during year-end and New Year holidays at a golf course in Chigasaki, near Tokyo, on Dec. 30, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe playing golf

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pictured as he plays golf in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 18, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe playing golf

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) plays golf in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 18, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe at golf course

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plays golf in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Driver in her 90s hits pedestrians

Photo shows a place near an intersection where a female driver in her 90s hit several pedestrians near JR Chigasaki Station in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on May 28, 2018. A woman was killed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plays his first round of golf of the year in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plays his first round of golf of the year in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 2, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe on vacation

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plays golf in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 30, 2017, the second day in a row he has played golf. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo