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Scenic spot in Toyama, central Japan

Photo taken on April 3, 2023, in the Toyama prefectural town of Asahi in central Japan, shows a landscape dubbed "Spring trio," in which cherry blossoms and tulips can be seen together in front of the snow-covered Hida Mountains, or Northern Alps, stretching through Nagano, Toyama and Gifu prefectures.

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Scenic spot in Toyama, central Japan

Photo taken on April 3, 2023, in the Toyama prefectural town of Asahi in central Japan, shows a landscape dubbed "Spring trio," in which cherry blossoms and tulips can be seen together in front of the snow-covered Hida Mountains, or Northern Alps, stretching through Nagano, Toyama and Gifu prefectures.

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Face masks at school graduation ceremonies

About half of students attend a graduation ceremony without wearing face masks at Sendai Daiichi High School in the Miyagi prefectural capital of Sendai, northeastern Japan, on March 1, 2023. Students at Gifu prefectural high school in the Gifu prefectural capital of Gifu, central Japan, wear face masks at a graduation ceremony on March 1, 2023. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in February that the government will not urge students and teachers to wear face masks at school graduation ceremonies slated for March as part of its plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions.

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Face masks at school graduation ceremonies

Students at Gifu prefectural high school in the Gifu prefectural capital of Gifu, central Japan, wear face masks at a graduation ceremony on March 1, 2023. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in February that the government will not urge students and teachers to wear face masks at school graduation ceremonies slated for March as part of its plan to ease COVID-19 guidelines on protective face masks.

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Face masks at school graduation ceremonies

Students at Gifu prefectural high school in the Gifu prefectural capital of Gifu, central Japan, wear face masks at a graduation ceremony on March 1, 2023. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in February that the government will not urge students and teachers to wear face masks at school graduation ceremonies slated for March as part of its plan to ease COVID-19 restrictions.

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3 nabbed for stealing hundreds of fire hoses

GIFU, Japan - Vast quantities of brass nozzles and other parts of stolen fire hoses confiscated by the Gifu prefectural police are shown to the press on Nov. 6, 2014, in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture in central Japan. The police have arrested three suspects on suspicion of the theft.

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Mt. Ontake eruption

OTAKI, Japan - A Japanese Self-Defense Forces helicopter, carrying Nagano Prefectural Police officers, flies to near the top of Mt. Ontake on Sept. 29, 2014, to rescue climbers who were left behind in critical condition after the 3,067-meter volcano straddling Nagano and Gifu prefectures in central Japan erupted on Sept. 27.

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Gifu pref. institute breeds deepbody bitterling

GIFU, Japan - Artificially bred deepbody bitterling, a national natural treasure, are raised in a man-made pond, shown in this photo taken in May 2014, in the Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquatic Environments in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture.

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Artificially bred deepbody bitterling

GIFU, Japan - Artificially bred deepbody bitterling, a national natural treasure, swim in a tank at the Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquatic Environments in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, in May 2014.

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Stolen sport outfits shown in Gifu

GIFU, Japan - Stolen sport outfits of female high school students are pictured at a Gifu prefectural police station in Gifu City on June 11, 2014, after they were seized.

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Sochi bronze medalist Hiraoka visits Gifu governor

GIFU, Japan - Taku Hiraoka (R), who won the bronze medal in the men's snowboard halfpipe at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games, shakes hands with Gifu Gov. Hajime Furuta at the prefectural government building on March 12, 2014.

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Police PR dog retires, succeeded by puppet

GIFU, Japan - A dog named Soleil (R) attends her last public relations activity for the Gifu prefectural police at its headquarters on March 12, 2014. The five-year old pug was succeeded by a puppet (L) with the same name as the PR symbol of the police.

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Gifu police PR dog's last duty

GIFU, Japan - Soleil, the public relations symbol dog of the Gifu prefectural police, participates in her last assignment before retirement on March 12, 2014.

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Soleil, Gifu police PR dog, retires

GIFU, Japan - Soleil, the public relations symbol of the Gifu prefectural police, is photographed during her final job on March 12, 2014, before retirement.

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Antiterrorism drill

GIFU, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co., Gifu prefectural police and other entities jointly conduct an antiterrorism drill at JR Gifuhashima bullet train station in Gifu Prefecture on May 28, 2012. The drill at the station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line connecting Tokyo and Osaka simulated an attack on the station using a plastic bottle containing liquid that could generate toxic gas.

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Gold medalist Takahashi dating ex-trainer

GIFU, Japan - Naoko Takahashi, the 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist in women's marathon, meets reporters at the Gifu prefectural government office on March 16, 2012, on media reports the same day about her being in a relationship with her former trainer Ko Nishimura. Takahashi, 39, confirmed the reports.

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Gold medalist Takahashi dating ex-trainer

GIFU, Japan - Naoko Takahashi, the 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist in women's marathon, meets reporters at the Gifu prefectural government office on March 16, 2012, on media reports the same day about her being in a relationship with her former trainer Ko Nishimura. Takahashi, 39, confirmed the reports.

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Watchdog issues recommendation to broadcaster over false report

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Television Network Corp. President Noritada Hosokawa meets the press in Tokyo on July 30 after the Broadcasting Ethics & Program Improvement Organization recommended that NTV air a program investigating its news report that falsely said the Gifu prefectural government had been amassing slush funds.

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Japanese researchers clone ox known as 'father of Hidagyu' beef

GIFU, Japan - File photo taken before 1993 shows what is believed to have been the progenitor bull of Gifu Prefecture's high-quality ''Hidagyu'' beef. The original bull, named Yasufuku-go, which died in 1993 and was preserved by freezing, is said to have been the progenitor of 30 percent or more of Japanese black cattle. (Photo courtesy of the Gifu prefectural government)

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Ex-Gifu official arrested for pocketing slush funds

GIFU, Japan - Police search the office of the Gifu Prefectural employees labor union at the prefectural government building in Gifu on Oct. 31 after Michio Kishita, a former vice chairman of the union, was arrested for allegedly pocketing 5 million yen worth of slush funds.

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Microsoft, Gifu Pref. to jointly support venture businesses

TOKYO, Japan - Microsoft Co. President Michael Rawding (L) and Gifu Gov. Taku Kajiwara (C) announced in Tokyo on Oct. 16 that the Japanese unit of the U.S. software giant and the Gifu prefectural government have agreed to cooperate in nurturing venture businesses.

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Gifu assembly approves environmental tax in natational park

GIFU, Japan - File photo shows the Norikura Skyline toll road in the Chubu Mountains National Park. The Gifu prefectural assembly voted to levy a new environmental tax on Oct. 9 on buses and taxis using the road, the first such tax in the Japan's 28 national parks.

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Japanese researchers clone ox known as 'father of Hidagyu' beef

GIFU, Japan - File photo taken before 1993 shows what is believed to have been the progenitor bull of Gifu Prefecture's high-quality ''Hidagyu'' beef. The original bull, named Yasufuku-go, which died in 1993 and was preserved by freezing, is said to have been the progenitor of 30 percent or more of Japanese black cattle. (Photo courtesy of the Gifu prefectural government)(Kyodo)

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Gifu assembly approves environmental tax in natational park

GIFU, Japan - File photo shows the Norikura Skyline toll road in the Chubu Mountains National Park. The Gifu prefectural assembly voted to levy a new environmental tax on Oct. 9 on buses and taxis using the road, the first such tax in the Japan's 28 national parks. (Kyodo)

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Sports Competition for the Physically Challenged at the Chunichi Film Company

Sports event for the physically handicapped. Gifu Prefectural Track and Field Stadium wheelchair slalom club throwing volleyball with a buzzer ball encouragement by His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince *Date of shooting unknown release date: November 11 1965

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FAO adds 3 more Japanese regions to agricultural heritage list

Three Japanese prefectural governors - (from L) Hajime Furuta of Gifu Prefecture, Yoshinobu Nisaka of Wakayama Prefecture and Shunji Kono of Miyagi Prefecture - attend a meeting of an international conference on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's headquarters in Rome on Dec. 15, 2015. The meeting decided to add three areas in Japan's prefectures to its world agricultural heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Another Japanese local assemblyman calls gays "abnormal"

Mamoru Fujitsuka, a member of the Gifu prefectural assembly in central Japan, is seen ahead of a press conference at the prefectural government offices on Dec. 11, 2015, following controversy over his remarks that homosexuals are "abnormal." He withdrew the remarks but said he is having "a sense of crisis that homosexuality might go around in the entire society." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Gifu official arrested for pocketing slush funds

GIFU, Japan - Police search the office of the Gifu Prefectural employees labor union at the prefectural government building in Gifu on Oct. 31 after Michio Kishita, a former vice chairman of the union, was arrested for allegedly pocketing 5 million yen worth of slush funds. (Kyodo)

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Antiterrorism drill

GIFU, Japan - Central Japan Railway Co., Gifu prefectural police and other entities jointly conduct an antiterrorism drill at JR Gifuhashima bullet train station in Gifu Prefecture on May 28, 2012. The drill at the station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line connecting Tokyo and Osaka simulated an attack on the station using a plastic bottle containing liquid that could generate toxic gas. (Kyodo)

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Gold medalist Takahashi dating ex-trainer

GIFU, Japan - Naoko Takahashi, the 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist in women's marathon, meets reporters at the Gifu prefectural government office on March 16, 2012, on media reports the same day about her being in a relationship with her former trainer Ko Nishimura. Takahashi, 39, confirmed the reports. (Kyodo)

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Gold medalist Takahashi dating ex-trainer

GIFU, Japan - Naoko Takahashi, the 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist in women's marathon, meets reporters at the Gifu prefectural government office on March 16, 2012, on media reports the same day about her being in a relationship with her former trainer Ko Nishimura. Takahashi, 39, confirmed the reports. (Kyodo)

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3 nabbed for stealing hundreds of fire hoses

GIFU, Japan - Vast quantities of brass nozzles and other parts of stolen fire hoses confiscated by the Gifu prefectural police are shown to the press on Nov. 6, 2014, in Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture in central Japan. The police have arrested three suspects on suspicion of the theft. (Kyodo)

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Gifu pref. institute breeds deepbody bitterling

GIFU, Japan - Artificially bred deepbody bitterling, a national natural treasure, are raised in a man-made pond, shown in this photo taken in May 2014, in the Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquatic Environments in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Artificially bred deepbody bitterling

GIFU, Japan - Artificially bred deepbody bitterling, a national natural treasure, swim in a tank at the Gifu Prefectural Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquatic Environments in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, in May 2014. (Kyodo)

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Stolen sport outfits shown in Gifu

GIFU, Japan - Stolen sport outfits of female high school students are pictured at a Gifu prefectural police station in Gifu City on June 11, 2014, after they were seized. (Kyodo)

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Day after Japan expands coronavirus emergency to 7 more prefectures

Gifu Gov. Hajime Furuta speaks at a press conference at the prefectural government headquarters in Gifu, central Japan, on Jan. 14, 2021, wearing a mask amid the coronavirus pandemic. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declared a coronavirus state of emergency in seven additional prefectures, including Gifu, the previous day.

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Aichi, Gifu to request virus emergency declaration

Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura speaks at a press conference at the prefectural government headquarters in Nagoya, Japan, on Jan. 12, 2021. Omura said Aichi and Gifu are prepared to ask the central government to declare a coronavirus state of emergency for the two prefectures, already in place in Tokyo and three of its adjacent prefectures.

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Aichi, Gifu to request virus emergency declaration

Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura speaks at a press conference at the prefectural government headquarters in Nagoya, Japan, on Jan. 12, 2021. Omura said Aichi and Gifu are prepared to ask the central government to declare a coronavirus state of emergency for the two prefectures, already in place in Tokyo and three of its adjacent prefectures.

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New coronavirus

A computer screen photographed at the Mie prefectural government office in Tsu, central Japan, shows (anticlockwise from top R) Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura, Mie Gov. Eikei Suzuki and Gifu Gov. Hajime Furuta holding a video conference on April 6, 2020. The conference was called as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to declare a state of emergency in big cities following a recent surge in coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hog cholera infection found in central Japan

Photo taken Dec. 25, 2018, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the site where the Gifu prefectural government began disposing of about 7,500 pigs culled at a firm in the central Japan city of Seki, following the detection of a hog cholera infection. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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