Gay photographer wins prize

Gay photographer wins prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken March 3, 2014 in Tokyo shows Eiki Mori, a gay photographer who has won the prestigious Kimura Ihei award for the year with his photo collection "intimacy" which portrays his daily life with his partner.

Industrial X Security Establishment Conference

Industrial X Security Establishment Conference

INDUSTRIAL-X SECURITY held an inaugural press conference in Tokyo on March 18. The company will provide total security solutions for safe control and automation of manufacturing sites. The sales target is undisclosed. The company was established on the 14th. President Hachiko said, "With the spread of the IoT (Internet of Things), it has been relatively easy to visualize data. However, the security of the IoT has been lagging behind. In particular, we need to ensure the security of the control area in the field," he said. In the future, the company will collaborate with network vendors and other companies to solve security-related issues faced by customers, including those in the control area of manufacturing sites. The company will also contribute to the realization of smart factories that take security into consideration. (Photo from left to right: Director Shinya Amano, President Hachiko, and Director Eiki Iino, November 18, 2019, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Images)

Iwate high school team awarded for decade-long tsunami education outreach

Iwate high school team awarded for decade-long tsunami education outreach

Members of the Tsunami Model Club of Miyako Technical High School in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pose at an elementary school on July 22, 2015, with their handmade model of a local landscape that they use to demonstrate to schoolchildren how tsunami waves reach inland. The student club won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Japan Water Prize for its decade-long outreach program to raise awareness and pass on lessons learnt from past tsunami disasters in the area. From L (front row): Dai Sasaki, Ryo Nakashima, Eiki Haga, Hikaru Tatehora and Koichi Iioka, with mechanical engineering teacher Hiroshi Yamanome in the background. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Okinawa man talks about misery of war

Okinawa man talks about misery of war

Eiki Ishikawa speaks about misery he experienced during the Battle of Okinawa in the closing days of World War II in which he narrowly survived shelling from U.S. warships, as seen in this photo taken on Feb. 17, 2015, at his home in Uruma in the southernmost Japanese prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Graduation after disaster

Graduation after disaster

OTSUCHI, Japan - A student (C) receives his certificate from Otsuchi Junior High School principal Eiki Ono (L) as a graduation ceremony is held outdoors at an evacuation facility in the village of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on March 22, 2011. The village was hit hard by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)