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Abe to be hospitalized for 3-4 days

TOKYO, Japan - Toshifumi Hibi, head of gastroenterology at Keio University Hospital speaks at a news conference at the hospital in Tokyo on Sept. 13, saying Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who abruptly announced his resignation the previous day, has been suffering from stomach irritations, pain, poor appetite and other symptoms centering on the duodenum and needs to stay in hospital for ''at least three or four days.''

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Disaster-hit Japanese daily awarded

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hiroyuki Takeuchi (R), editor-in-chief of the Japanese newspaper Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, attends the International Press Institute's annual world congress and general assembly in Taipei on Sept. 25, 2011, as the daily received a special award for its publication efforts in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The daily continued to publish using handwritten papers (L) posted on walls, despite loss of power and damage to printing machines due to the disaster.

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Handwritten newspaper from Ishinomaki exhibited

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A woman reads a handwritten newspaper issued shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster by the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, a daily in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, exhibited at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on May 14, 2011. The paper had been exhibited at the Newseum, a museum in Washington, and is being provided to the museum in Yokohama on loan.

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Abe to be hospitalized for 3-4 days

TOKYO, Japan - Toshifumi Hibi, head of gastroenterology at Keio University Hospital speaks at a news conference at the hospital in Tokyo on Sept. 13, saying Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who abruptly announced his resignation the previous day, has been suffering from stomach irritations, pain, poor appetite and other symptoms centering on the duodenum and needs to stay in hospital for ''at least three or four days.'' (Kyodo)

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Britain's Prince William meets Japan quake-tsunami survivors

Britain's Prince William watches handwritten wall newspapers issued by the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun newspaper after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, as he visits the publisher in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 1, 2015. (Pool photo by Jiji Press)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese woman plants seeds of hope in Syria

Photo taken April 16, 2016, in Damascus shows Eriko Hibi, a Japanese national who works as a representative of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Syria helping people take back some independence through the promotion of agriculture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Great Nobi Earthquake (landslide at Neodani)

There were more than 10,000 mountains collapsing in the Nobi earthquake disaster. In Neoya village, roads were stopped, and transportation was cut. Prices for daily commodities shot up, and the price of a hyo (straw bag)of salt was 80 sen. (reported in the Gifu Hibi dated November 5).==Date:unknown, Place:Gifu, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number39‐17‐0]

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Great Nobi Earthquake (exposed strata at Neodani Kinbara)

The slope of the mountain on the opposite side has collapsed, and the paddy field before harvest has been gouged. The Gifu Hibi dated November 5 reports that The paddy fields have either sunk or have been ripped open, so with the ground uneven, water cannot be kept, without hope for next years rice crops.==Date:unknown, Place:Gifu, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number39‐16‐0]

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Great Nobi Earthquake (Kitagata)

The tragic state of the Kitagata cho of Motosugun of Gifu prefecture which was near the seismic center. According to the Gifu Hibi (Gifu Daily), In Motosugun, several thousand houses were destroyed, Naka aza Nakamachi of Kitagata-cho has been totally destroyed, and there are no cities without houses destroyed, and several hundred are dead. The photo is a view of the east from the west (in the direction of Gifu).==Date:unknown, Place:Gifu, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number39‐13‐0]

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Great Nobi Earthquake (Ogaki Wakamori Village)

According to the Gifu Hibi (Gifu Daily), in Ogaki, 90% of the houses were destroyed, with 70% burnt by catching fire from all directions, and the whole city seems to have been destroyed. The disaster in Ogaki is reported to be 3,356 fully destroyed houses, 962 half-destroyed houses, 789 dead, 1,270 wounded, and 1,473 fires. In the Jiji dated November 6.==Date:unknown, Place:Gifu, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number39‐7‐0]

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Disaster-hit Japanese daily awarded

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Hiroyuki Takeuchi (R), editor-in-chief of the Japanese newspaper Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, attends the International Press Institute's annual world congress and general assembly in Taipei on Sept. 25, 2011, as the daily received a special award for its publication efforts in the wake of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The daily continued to publish using handwritten papers (L) posted on walls, despite loss of power and damage to printing machines due to the disaster. (Kyodo)

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Handwritten newspaper from Ishinomaki exhibited

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A woman reads a handwritten newspaper issued shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster by the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, a daily in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, exhibited at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on May 14, 2011. The paper had been exhibited at the Newseum, a museum in Washington, and is being provided to the museum in Yokohama on loan. (Kyodo)

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Handwritten newspaper in tsunami-hit Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Hiroyuki Takeuchi, editor-in-chief of the daily Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, shows a handwritten copy of the ''wall paper'' in its office in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 20, 2011. The company's handwritten newspapers were posted at shelters and convenience stores for six days after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami ravaged the city. (Kyodo)