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Traditional bean-throwing event

A traditional bean-throwing event is held at the World Heritage-listed Fudarakusan-ji temple in Nachikatsuura in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 27, 2026, for Setsubun celebration in February.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi poses for photos after a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2024. Onishi will be dispatched to the International Space Station for six months as early as February 2025 for various tasks including science experiments.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi speaks at a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2024. Onishi will be dispatched to the International Space Station for six months as early as February 2025 for various tasks including science experiments.

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Japanese astronaut Onishi

Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi speaks at a press conference at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency office in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2024. Onishi will be dispatched to the International Space Station for six months as early as February 2025 for various tasks including science experiments.

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Famous pottery kilns to be fired after 40-year interval

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Kilns used by the late Shoji Hamada, a Japanese ceramic artist credited with developing Mashiko town in Tochigi Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, into a world-renowned pottery center, will be fired in February 2015 for the first time in about 40 years. This file photo of the kilns was taken on July 27, 2014.

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Documents of cancelled 1940 Tokyo Olympics exhibited online

TOKYO, Japan - Documents from the abortive 1940 Tokyo Olympics stocked in the National Diet Library in Tokyo are displayed on a special page of its website since February 27, 2014. The contents are in Japanese only.

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GPM observatory

GREENBELT, United States - Photo shows the control center for the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory unveiled for reporters at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Jan. 27, 2014. The GPM observatory will be put into space by Japan's H-2A rocket in February.

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Giants' players arrive in Miyazaki ahead of training camp

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Yomiuri Giants catcher Shinnosuke Abe (L) receives flowers as he and his teammates, including third baseman Shuichi Murata (C), arrive in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 27, 2014, to prepare for the preseason baseball training camp in February.

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U.S. classical pianist Van Cliburn dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 1996 shows renowned U.S. classical pianist Van Cliburn. Cliburn died on Feb. 27, 2013, at his home in Texas, U.S. media reported, following recent treatment for bone cancer. He was 78.

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Senegalese singer N'Dour in interview

DAKAR, Senegal - Prominent Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour is interviewed by Kyodo News in Dakar, the country's capital, on March 27, 2012. His bid to run in Senegal's presidential election in February 2012 failed in January when his candidacy was rejected by the country's constitution council, citing a shortage in the number of signatures from supporters.

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Photographer captures WWII survivors in Japan, Germany

NEW YORK, United States - New York photographer Paule Saviano holds a photo he took of Tokyo firebomb survivor Michiko Kiyooka as part of his exhibit, ''From Above: Dresden/Tokyo'' shown in both cities through February 2011. Photo was taken during an interview with Kyodo News in Manhattan on Jan. 27, 2011.

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Japan, U.S. forces joint exercise

KUMAMOTO, Japan - Members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force and U.S. soldiers take part in a joint exercise termed Yama Sakura at Camp Kengun in Kumamoto on Jan. 27, 2011. The annual bilateral exercise runs through early February.

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Chile's Moreno visits Japan's weather agency

TOKYO, Japan - Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno (second from back on right) is briefed on Japan's quake and tsunami monitoring and warning systems by Kunio Sakurai (L), director general of the Japan Meteorological Agency, at the agency's headquarters in Tokyo on April 27, 2010. Chile was hit by a devastating earthquake in February.

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S. Korean ex-convict hopes to visit Japan

TOKYO, Japan - This February 2010 file photo shows Kim Hui Ro, a South Korean man who served time in a Japanese prison for the murders of two gangsters in 1968 and was released on parole in 1999. Kim, who now lives in Busan, South Korea, told Kyodo News on Feb. 27, 2010, that he hopes to make a return visit to Japan to pay his respects at his mother's grave.

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Sharp to launch solar-powered cell phones in China in February

OSAKA, Japan - This photo shows a solar-powered cellphone which Sharp Corp. said on Jan. 27, 2010, it will launch in China next month with the goal of boosting its annual overall handset shipments in the country fivefold to 5 million units. The solar-powered cellphones are expected to retail for around 3,400 yuan, or about 45,000 yen.

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Vancouver Olympics figure skaters of Japan

KADOMA, Japan - (from L) Miki Ando, Akiko Suzuki and Mao Asada pose for photos after being selected for February's Vancouver Olympics, at the Japan national figure skating championships at Namihaya Dome in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 27, 2009.

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Vancouver Olympics figure skaters of Japan

KADOMA, Japan - Six Japanese figure skaters wave during a ceremony after being selected for February's Vancouver Olympics at the Japan national figure skating championships at Namihaya Dome in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 27, 2009. Clockwise from top left are Daisuke Takahashi, Nobunari Oda, Takahiko Kozuka, Mao Asada, Akiko Suzuki and Miki Ando.

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Vancouver Olympics figure skaters of Japan

KADOMA, Japan - Eight figure skaters pose for photos after being selected for February's Vancouver Olympics at the Japan national figure skating championships at Namihaya Dome in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 27, 2009. From left, Daisuke Takahashi, Nobunari Oda, Takahiko Kozuka, Mao Asada, Akiko Suzuki, Miki Ando and ice dance pair Cathy and Chris Reed.

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Suzuki earns a spot in Vancouver Olympics

KADOMA, Japan - Akiko Suzuki acknowledges the crowd after performing in the women's free program at the Japan national figure skating championships at Namihaya Dome in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 27, 2009. Suzuki moved up from fourth in the short program to finish second, earning a spot for February's Vancouver Olympics.

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Skater Suzuki takes to air

KADOMA, Japan - Akiko Suzuki performs in the women's free program at the Japan national figure skating championships at Namihaya Dome in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 27, 2009. Suzuki moved up from fourth in the short program to finish second, earning a spot for February's Vancouver Olympics.

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Suzuki earns a spot in Vancouver Olympics

KADOMA, Japan - Akiko Suzuki performs in the women's free program at the Japan national figure skating championships at Namihaya Dome in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 27, 2009. Suzuki moved up from fourth in the short program to finish second, earning a spot for February's Vancouver Olympics.

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Ando 4th at national figure skating c'ships

KADOMA, Japan - Miki Ando performs in the women's free program at the Japan national figure skating championships at Namihaya Dome in Osaka Prefecture on Dec. 27, 2009. Ando, who already earned a spot in February's Vancouver Olympics at the Grand Prix Final, came in fourth place.

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Korekiyo Takahashi

Politician and financial expert who served as Japan's 20th prime minister (Nov. 1921- June 1922). Takahashi served as finance minister in four cabinets. His major achievement as finance minister was to bring under control the financial crisis of 1927. Takahashi was assassinated by young army officers in the February 26th Incident in 1936. Born July 27, 1854. The photo is a copy.

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Zenko Suzuki

Zenko Suzuki Born on Jan. 11, 1911 in Iwate Prefecture. After graduating from the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry's Fisheries Institute (now Tokyo University of Fisheries) in 1935, Suzuki worked for various fisheries organizations. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1947. Suzuki became Japan's 70th prime minister on July 17, 1980 following the sudden death of then Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira. He served as premier until Nov. 27, 1982. Photo was taken in February, 1986.

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List of over 120,000 Japanese American internment detainees completed

Photo taken on Aug. 27, 2022, shows a memorial monument at the former site of the Manzanar internment camp in Manzanar, California. A roster listing over 120,000 Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II after being considered "enemy aliens" in the United States has been completed 80 years after the signing of an Executive Order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942, two months after Japan's Pearl Harbor attack, which authorized the U.S. military to evict residents in specific areas.