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Ehime Gov. Nakamura receives comedians' courtesy visit

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura (2nd from L) poses for photos with visitors including female comedian Tamayo Shimada (L) in the prefectural government office building in Matsuyama on May 8, 2014, as part of the promotion of the Setouchi Shimanowa 2014 project.

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Ehime gov't opens website for cyclists

TOKYO, Japan - Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura (2nd from R) announces the prefectural government's opening of a website for cyclists on April 22, 2014, in Tokyo.

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Hiroshima, Ehime governors attend regional promotional event

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki (front L) and Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura (front R) pose for photos at a commemorative event for the "Setouchi Shimanowa 2014" exposition held on Miyajima island in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 21, 2014. The exposition, aimed at promoting the Seto Inland Sea area between the two prefectures in western Japan, involves various events scheduled to run through Oct. 26.

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Ehime, Hiroshima eye to draw 8,000 people in cycling event

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura speaks during a press conference on March 19, 2014, at the Ehime prefectural government building about an Oct. 26 international cycling event to be held along the Nishiseto Expressway, commonly known as the Setouchi Shimanami Kaido, linking Ehime Prefecture's Imabari and Onomichi of Hiroshima Prefecture. The two western Japan prefectures aim to attract 8,000 participants.

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Prefectures demand higher portion of sales tax revenue

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato speaks during a news conference at the Ehime prefectural office on July 23. Kato unveiled a proposal drawn up by prefectural governors across the nation that calls for the portion of total revenue distributed to local authorities from the 5 percent consumption tax levy to be raised from the current one-fifth.

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Kako wins Ehime election

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its junior partner the New Komeito party, and the tiny opposition Social Democratic Party, speaks at a Matsuyama hotel in Ehime Prefecture on Jan. 21 as it appeared certain he would win a third term in the gubernatorial election.

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260 people sue Ehime governor over history textbook

MATSUYAMA, Japan - People arrive at the Matsuyama District Court in Matsuyama on March 30 to file a lawsuit seeking around 13 million yen in compensation and an apology from Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and others over the prefectural education board's adoption of a controversial history textbook. About 260 people, including South Koreans and Chinese, join the lawsuit.

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Ehime, Hawaii become sister states

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) and Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle sign an agreement in Honolulu on Nov. 21 to become sister states, with the hopes of deepening exchanges after the fatal accident in 2001 when a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine struck a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii.

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Ehime governor visits Hawaii monument for Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and prefectural officials place flowers and pray before a monument in Honolulu, Hawaii, to the nine Japanese killed in February 2001, when their fisheries training ship was struck by a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine off Hawaii.

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Ex-U.S. sub captain apologizes to Ehime Maru accident victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Local media on Dec. 12 received a faxed letter from the former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, retired Cmdr. Scott Waddle (file photo), apologizing to victims of last year's fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and the Japanese high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato also received a letter from Waddle earlier this month.

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Kato leaves for Hawaii for funeral of Ehime Maru victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato speaks to reporters at Matsuyama airport, Ehime Prefecture, on Oct. 24 before leaving for Hawaii to attend a funeral for five Japanese whose bodies were recovered from their sunken ship Ehime Maru.

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Koizumi to discuss Ehime Maru redress with Bush

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) talks with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on June 15. In the talks, Koizumi promised to ask U.S. President George W. Bush to deal sincerely with compensation demands over the February collision between the Japanese high school training ship Ehime Maru and U.S. nuclear submarine Greenville off Hawaii.

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Okawa visits Kato over ship disaster

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Earl Okawa (L), executive director of the Japan-America Society in Hawaii, meets with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) at the prefectural government office in Matsuyama on May 31. Okawa told Kato he is grieved over the tragedy of the Ehime Maru, which belonged to Uwajima Fisheries High School in the western Japan prefecture.

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U.S., Ehime Maru kin lawyers hold 1st compensation talks

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Ehime Vice Gov. Nobuyoshi Yano (R) is greeted May 9 by Capt. Carol Cooper from the legal affairs division of the U.S. Navy in Japan in Yokosuka, as he arrives to attend the first round of compensation talks between lawyers for relatives of 25 of 35 Japanese aboard a high school fisheries ship hit and sunk by a U.S. Navy submarine on Feb. 9 and U.S. representatives.

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U.S. commander meets with Ehime governor

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin (R), commander of the U.S. Navy in Japan, meets with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato in Matsuyama on April 20 to explain a Navy court's decision not to recommend courts-martial for officers on a submarine that sank a fisheries training ship from the prefecture.

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Kin of Ehime Maru victims want monument built in Hawaii

TOKYO, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) bows to Foreign Minister Yohei Kono when he visits the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on April 13. Kato conveyed to Kono the wishes of the families of victims of the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese ship by a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii that a monument be built in the U.S. state in memory of the nine lost at sea.

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Hawaii-born Akebono makes goodwill visit to Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hawaii-born retired champion sumo wrestler Akebono (R) meets Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the Ehime prefectural government building in Matsuyama on April 9. Akebono visited the prefecture and expressed sympathy on behalf of Hawaiian Gov. Benjamin Cayetano to the people of Ehime Prefecture, still mourning February's sinking of the fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine.

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Ehime Gov. Kato to demand trawler off Hawaii be raised

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (L) prepares to leave Matsuyama airport Feb. 20 to travel to Hawaii to directly ask U.S. authorities to raise the trawler Ehime Maru. The 499-ton training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture sank off Oahu Island in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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Ehime governor demands U.S. raise ship sunken in sub collision

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato being surrounded by a number of reporters Feb. 11 after he asked Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to demand the United States immediately raise a Japanese ship sunken by a U.S. submarine in a collision on Feb. 9. ''The captain of the ship has said many of the missing people are likely confined in the ship,'' Kato told reporters after meeting Mori at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo.

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260 people sue Ehime governor over history textbook

MATSUYAMA, Japan - People arrive at the Matsuyama District Court in Matsuyama on March 30 to file a lawsuit seeking around 13 million yen in compensation and an apology from Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and others over the prefectural education board's adoption of a controversial history textbook. About 260 people, including South Koreans and Chinese, join the lawsuit. (Kyodo)

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Kako wins Ehime election

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its junior partner the New Komeito party, and the tiny opposition Social Democratic Party, speaks at a Matsuyama hotel in Ehime Prefecture on Jan. 21 as it appeared certain he would win a third term in the gubernatorial election. (Kyodo)

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Shikoku Electric's Ikata No. 1 nuclear reactor to be scrapped

Shikoku Electric Power Co. President Hayato Saeki (L) informs Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura in Matsuyama, western Japan, on March 25, 2016 of the company's plan to scrap the No. 1 reactor of its Ikata nuclear complex in Ehima Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ehime gov. approves 3rd reactor restart since improved safety rules

People line up to protest the restart of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s nuclear reactor in front of the Ehime prefectural government building on Oct. 26, 2015. Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura gave approval the same day for the restart of the No. 3 reactor of the power supplier's Ikata nuclear plant, the third of its kind to resume operations in Japan under tougher safety rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ehime gov. approves reactor restart in 3rd case under tougher rules

Photo taken in May 2015 shows the No. 3 reactor of Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear plant in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura gave approval on Oct. 26 to restart the reactor, the third to resume operations under tougher safety rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ehime gov. approves reactor restart in 3rd case under tougher rules

Shikoku Electric Power Co. President Hayato Saeki (far R) speaks at a press conference at the Ehime prefectural government building on Oct. 26, 2015 after gaining approval from Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura the same day to restart the power supplier's nuclear reactor. The No. 3 reactor of the Ikata plant will be the third reactor to resume operations in Japan under tougher safety rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ehime gov. approves 3rd reactor restart since improved safety rules

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura (R) informs Shikoku Electric Power Co. President Hayato Saeki of his approval of the restart of the power supplier's nuclear reactor at the Ehime prefectural government building on Oct. 26, 2015. The No. 3 reactor of the Ikata plant will be the third of its kind to resume operations in Japan under tougher safety rules introduced after the 2011 Fukushima disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Local assembly agrees to restart another nuclear plant in Japan

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura meets with reporters on Oct. 9, 2015, in Matsuyama, the capital of the western Japan prefecture, after the local assembly gave its consent to a plan to restart a nuclear power plant despite safety concerns in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns. The move paved the way for reactivating the No. 3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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7 prefectures join tourism blitz for Seto Inland Sea region, west Japan

Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki (4th from L) and other members of a group promoting tourism in seven prefectures facing the Seto Inland Sea, or Setouchi, announce in Okayama, western Japan, on July 29, 2015, that the group will become a general incorporated association around next April. The seven prefectures are Hyogo, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tokushima, Kagawa and Ehime. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ehime governor says will make own judgment on Ikata reactor safety

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura tells the press in his office in Matsuyama, western Japan, on July 23, 2015, that he will have an expert group confirm the safety of the No.3 reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear power station before making his own judgment on the advisability of restarting it. The Ikata No. 3 reactor passed the Nuclear Regulation Authority's safety test on July 15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura wipes tears during a ceremony to light the Olympic flame in Matsuyama, western Japan, on April 21, 2021. The governor cried as he apologized for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay's leg on public roads in the city amid the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura (C) wipes tears during a ceremony to light the Olympic flame in Matsuyama, western Japan, on April 21, 2021. The governor cried as he apologized for the cancellation of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay's leg on public roads in the city amid the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Ehime's "Mikyan" leads in online vote for most popular local mascot

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura (C) pretends to protect "Mikyan" (R), the southwestern Japanese prefecture's mascot, from "Dark Mikyan," a villain character devised by Nakamura, during a promotion event at the prefectural government office on Oct. 8, 2015. Mikyan was leading in an online vote for the year's most popular local mascot as of midnight on Oct. 24. Vote count is set for Nov. 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura holds a press conference at his office in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on May 14, 2020, following the revelation of 17 coronavirus infections at a hospital. Ehime is among 39 of Japan's 47 prefectures which will be delisted from a coronavirus state of emergency later in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hotel for coronavirus patients

Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura (2nd from R) inspects a hotel at the Dogo hot spring resort in Matsuyama, western Japan, earmarked for coronavirus patients with mild symptoms. The annex building of Okudogo Ichiyu No Mori will begin accepting such patients on April 23. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe vows to ensure residents' safety from possible N. Korean missiles

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) receives a written request from Shimane Gov. Zembee Mizoguchi (2nd from R), alongside (from L) Kochi Gov. Masanao Ozaki, Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura and Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki, at the premier's office in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2017. Abe pledged to ensure the safety of residents in the four western Japan prefectures over which North Korea has said its missiles could fly en route to waters off the U.S. territory of Guam. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ikata unit starts commercial operation

Shikoku Electric Power Co. President Hayato Saeki (L) meets with Ehime Gov. Tokihiro Nakamura at the prefectural office in the southwestern Japan city of Matsuyama on Sept. 8, 2016, to report that the No. 3 reactor at the utility's Ikata plant has started commercial operation. Currently, three reactors, including the Ikata unit, are operating in Japan after passing tougher safety checks introduced in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ehime, Hawaii become sister states

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) and Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle sign an agreement in Honolulu on Nov. 21 to become sister states, with the hopes of deepening exchanges after the fatal accident in 2001 when a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine struck a Japanese fisheries training ship off Hawaii. (Kyodo)

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Ehime governor visits Hawaii monument for Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato and prefectural officials place flowers and pray before a monument in Honolulu, Hawaii, to the nine Japanese killed in February 2001, when their fisheries training ship was struck by a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine off Hawaii. (Kyodo)

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Ex-U.S. sub captain apologizes to Ehime Maru accident victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Local media on Dec. 12 received a faxed letter from the former skipper of the U.S. Navy submarine Greeneville, retired Cmdr. Scott Waddle (file photo), apologizing to victims of last year's fatal collision off Hawaii between the sub and the Japanese high school fisheries training ship Ehime Maru. Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato also received a letter from Waddle earlier this month. (Kyodo)

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Kato leaves for Hawaii for funeral of Ehime Maru victims

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato speaks to reporters at Matsuyama airport, Ehime Prefecture, on Oct. 24 before leaving for Hawaii to attend a funeral for five Japanese whose bodies were recovered from their sunken ship Ehime Maru.

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Koizumi to discuss Ehime Maru redress with Bush

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) talks with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on June 15. In the talks, Koizumi promised to ask U.S. President George W. Bush to deal sincerely with compensation demands over the February collision between the Japanese high school training ship Ehime Maru and U.S. nuclear submarine Greenville off Hawaii.

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Okawa visits Kato over ship disaster

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Earl Okawa (L), executive director of the Japan-America Society in Hawaii, meets with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (R) at the prefectural government office in Matsuyama on May 31. Okawa told Kato he is grieved over the tragedy of the Ehime Maru, which belonged to Uwajima Fisheries High School in the western Japan prefecture.

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U.S., Ehime Maru kin lawyers hold 1st compensation talks

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Ehime Vice Gov. Nobuyoshi Yano (R) is greeted May 9 by Capt. Carol Cooper from the legal affairs division of the U.S. Navy in Japan in Yokosuka, as he arrives to attend the first round of compensation talks between lawyers for relatives of 25 of 35 Japanese aboard a high school fisheries ship hit and sunk by a U.S. Navy submarine on Feb. 9 and U.S. representatives.

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U.S. commander meets with Ehime governor

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Rear Adm. Robert Chaplin (R), commander of the U.S. Navy in Japan, meets with Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato in Matsuyama on April 20 to explain a Navy court's decision not to recommend courts-martial for officers on a submarine that sank a fisheries training ship from the prefecture.

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Hawaii-born Akebono makes goodwill visit to Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hawaii-born retired champion sumo wrestler Akebono (R) meets Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the Ehime prefectural government building in Matsuyama on April 9. Akebono visited the prefecture and expressed sympathy on behalf of Hawaiian Gov. Benjamin Cayetano to the people of Ehime Prefecture, still mourning February's sinking of the fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine.

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Hawaii-born Akebono makes goodwill visit to Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hawaii-born retired champion sumo wrestler Akebono (R) meets Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato at the Ehime prefectural government building in Matsuyama on April 9. Akebono visited the prefecture and expressed sympathy on behalf of Hawaiian Gov. Benjamin Cayetano to the people of Ehime Prefecture, still mourning February's sinking of the fisheries training vessel Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine.

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Ehime governor seeks apology from sub's commanding officer

HONOLULU, United States - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (2nd from L) speaks with Adm. Dennis Blair, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, in Honolulu on Feb. 21. Kato wants an apology from Cmdr. Scott Waddle, the commanding officer of the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville, who was relieved of duty after the submarine hit and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru off Oahu Island on Feb. 9. The photo was provided by the U.S. Navy.

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Ehime Gov. Kato to demand trawler off Hawaii be raised

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (L) prepares to leave Matsuyama airport Feb. 20 to travel to Hawaii to directly ask U.S. authorities to raise the trawler Ehime Maru. The 499-ton training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture sank off Oahu Island in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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Ehime governor demands U.S. raise ship sunken in sub collision

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato being surrounded by a number of reporters Feb. 11 after he asked Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to demand the United States immediately raise a Japanese ship sunken by a U.S. submarine in a collision on Feb. 9. ''The captain of the ship has said many of the missing people are likely confined in the ship,'' Kato told reporters after meeting Mori at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo.