Hawks players visit shrine to wish for victorious 2014 season

Hawks players visit shrine to wish for victorious 2014 season

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fukuoka Softbank Hawks players watch manager Koji Akiyama (2nd from L), Sadaharu Oh (3rd), chairman of the professional baseball club, and two others break the cover of a sake barrel with baseball bats as part of a traditional ceremony to wish for a victorious 2014 season for the team at the Hakozaki Shrine in Fukuoka on Jan. 30, 2014.

1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster

1st Fukushima beach opens since nuclear disaster

IWAKI, Japan - Three local women working as tour guides, including Yukiei Hakozaki (L), enter the water at Nakoso beach in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 16, 2012, marking the start of the swimming season on the Marine Day public holiday. The beach opened the same day as the prefecture's only functioning beach for the summer, with all other beaches to remain closed following the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011.

Test-drive for car-sharing project starts in Kyushu Univ.

Test-drive for car-sharing project starts in Kyushu Univ.

FUKUOKA, Japan - An electric car runs on Kyushu University's Hakozaki campus in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 19 on a test-drive to promote a project to jointly use electric cars to improve the environment in the city. The project is being promoted by a nonprofit organization in Fukuoka in cooperation with the Fukuoka municipality and Kyushu Electric Power Co.

Japan - Kobe - Enormous Floating Dock

Japan - Kobe - Enormous Floating Dock

The enormous floating dock at the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Yard at Kobe, Japan. The liner Hakozaki Maru SS (pictured being finished in the dock) was taken over by the Japanese government during the Second World War for service as a transport. On March 19th, 1945, when in the Yellow Sea, she was torpedoed and sunk by the U.S. submarine USS Balao. Date: 1922

Scrolls depicting 1,200-year history dedicated to Kiyomizu temple

Scrolls depicting 1,200-year history dedicated to Kiyomizu temple

Scroll paintings totaling 65 meters long drawn by Mutsumasa Hakozaki, professor emeritus at Kyoto Saga University of Arts, are shown in Kyoto on April 6, 2015, after they were dedicated to Kiyomizu-dera, a Buddhist temple in the western Japanese city. The nine scrolls of paintings depicting the temple's 1,200 years of history took Hakozaki about 10 years to complete and will be shown to the public from April 25 to May 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Scrolls depicting 1,200-year history dedicated to Kiyomizu temple

Scrolls depicting 1,200-year history dedicated to Kiyomizu temple

Scroll paintings totaling 65 meters long drawn by Mutsumasa Hakozaki, professor emeritus at Kyoto Saga University of Arts, are shown in Kyoto on April 6, 2015, after they were dedicated to Kiyomizu-dera, a Buddhist temple in the western Japanese city. The nine scrolls of paintings depicting the temple's 1,200 years of history took Hakozaki about 10 years to complete and will be shown to the public from April 25 to May 13. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Test-drive for car-sharing project starts in Kyushu Univ.

Test-drive for car-sharing project starts in Kyushu Univ.

FUKUOKA, Japan - An electric car runs on Kyushu University's Hakozaki campus in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 19 on a test-drive to promote a project to jointly use electric cars to improve the environment in the city. The project is being promoted by a nonprofit organization in Fukuoka in cooperation with the Fukuoka municipality and Kyushu Electric Power Co. (Kyodo)