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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 5

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River. This video shows a flooded parking lot at Suizenji Ezuko park in Higashi Ward, Kumamoto City.

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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River.

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UK: Widespread Flooding Hits Greater Manchester Forcing Hundreds To Evacuate 4

Heavy rain caused severe flooding across Greater Manchester on New Year's Day forcing at least 13,000 people to evacuate. Emergency services declared a major incident.

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Ex-Taiwan President Lee wraps up Japan trip

KYOTO, Japan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui offers flowers at the tomb of the late Japanese author Ryotaro Shiba in Kyoto's Higashi Ward on Jan. 2 before wrapping up his weeklong visit to Japan.

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Little monks in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Young apprentices line up for group photos at Higashi Honganji, mother temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism, in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, on August 4, 2011, after attending a Tokudo ordination ceremony to become Buddhist monks earlier in the day. One hundred and thirteen elementary school and junior high school students were among the 153 men and women aged nine to 65 from across Japan who attended the ceremony.

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Little monks in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A young boy makes a droll gesture with his rosary beads before a Tokudo ordination ceremony to become a Buddhist monk at Higashi Honganji, mother temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism, in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, on August 4, 2011. One hundred and thirteen elementary school and junior high school students were among the 153 men and women aged nine to 65 from across Japan who attended the ceremony.

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Little monks in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Young apprentices attend a Tokudo ordination ceremony to become Buddhist monks at Higashi Honganji, mother temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism, in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, on August 4, 2011. One hundred and thirteen elementary school and junior high school students were among the 153 men and women aged nine to 65 from across Japan who attended the ceremony.

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Little monks in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Young apprentices attend a Tokudo ordination ceremony to become Buddhist monks at Higashi Honganji, mother temple of the Shinshu Otani-ha branch of Shin Buddhism, in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, on August 4, 2011. One hundred and thirteen elementary school and junior high school students were among the 153 men and women aged nine to 65 from across Japan who attended the ceremony.

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - People lit candles in about 7,000 memorial lanterns during an event held at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17 to commemorate the 6,434 people who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. At 5:46 a.m., the time the magnitude 7.3 quake originating in the northern part of the prefecture's Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea hit the western Japan area 14 years ago, about 5,500 people offered silent prayers in the event.

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Three female junior high school students pray for the 6,434 people who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, during a memorial event held at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17. At 5:46 a.m., the time the magnitude 7.3 quake originating in the northern part of the prefecture's Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea hit the western Japan area 14 years ago, about 5,500 people offered silent prayers in the event at the park, where candles in about 7,000 memorial lanterns were lit.

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Dud U.S. bomb of World War II vintage removed in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - As members a bomb-disposal unit of the Ground Self-Defense Force watch, a dud U.S. bomb of World War II vintage is removed from a housing construction site in Nagoya's Higashi Ward on March 22 while 3,000 nearby residents were evacuated. The 1.2-meter, 250-kilogram bomb, believed to have been dropped by the U.S. military during World War II, was found March 10.

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Osaka forcibly removes homeless tents in local parks

OSAKA, Japan - Officials of the Osaka city government, homeless people and their supporters clash in Osaka's Nagai Park in Higashi-Sumiyoshi Ward on Feb. 5 as the Osaka city government forcibly removes 13 tents and huts used by nine homeless people.

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Memorial events held to mark 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Building lights are lit up in the form of ''1.17'' on the side of a building near Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward on Jan. 17 to mark the 12 anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Memorial events held to mark 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Tomoko Kobayashi, 40, a housewife from Kobe's Nada Ward who lost her father in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, addresses a memorial event at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward on Jan. 17. Various events were held in Kobe and other areas to remember 6,434 people killed in the most devastating natural calamity in postwar Japan.

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Memorial gas lamp for Hanshin Earthquake destroyed

KOBE, Japan - The case of a gas lamp placed in Kobe in memory of the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake is found broken May 3. The lamp sits in Higashi Amusement Park in the city's Chuo Ward.

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Toyota to launch Lexus, revamp domestic sales networks

NAGOYA, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho speaks at a press conference in Nagoya's Higashi Ward on Feb. 14 about a plan to reorganize its domestic sales networks.

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Police search Nippon Shokuhin in false labeling probe

FUKUOKA, Japan - Police enter the head office of failed meat processor Nippon Shokuhin Co. in Fukuoka's Higashi Ward on July 18. They were searching for evidence on allegations the firm received some 136 million yen in subsidy payments under a state beef buyback program by labeling imported meat as domestic.

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Kobe civic solar power station begins generating electricity

KOBE, Japan - A solar power station developed by a civic group in Kobe on rent-free land on loan from the western Japan city begins generating power on March 1. The Kuru Kuru Power Station, situated on a sewage-disposal site in Higashi Nada Ward, is the brainchild of a grassroots movement aiming to promote ecologically sound sources of energy and educate children in environmental issues.

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Shizuoka nuclear plant leaking radioactive water

NAGOYA, Japan - Ryosuke Mizutani, chief of Chubu Electric Power Co.'s nuclear management department, speaks at a press conference at the company's head office in Nagoya's Higashi Ward on Nov. 10 about the accidental leakage of radioactive water at the company's nuclear power plant in Hamaoka, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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S. Korean group attends funeral for Chongryun leader Han

OSAKA, Japan - Kim Chang Sik, president of the Osaka head office of the South Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan), holds a flower at a funeral March 3 for Han Tok Su, leader of the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryun), who died last month at the age of 94. Kim and eight senior members of Mindan's Osaka head office paid their last respects to Han at Chongryun's Osaka headquarters in Higashi-Yodogawa Ward. It was the first time for Mindan's Osaka head office to make a condolence visit to a funeral at its North Korean counterpart.

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Temporary shelter for homeless people opens in Osaka park+

OSAKA, Japan - Two homeless people wheel a cart full of their belongings as they move into a temporary shelter in a park in Osaka's Higashi-Sumiyoshi Ward on Dec. 29. The Osaka city government is planning to operate the shelter for three years. The faces of the homeless people are obstructed to protect their identities.

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Japanese 'war orphans' in China visit vocational school

OSAKA, Japan - A group of 20 Japanese left behind as children in China in the chaotic final days of World War II watch an automobile tune-up lesson at a vocational school in Higashi Yodogawa Ward, Osaka, on Nov. 8. They arrived in Japan on Nov. 1 and will stay until Nov. 16 to search for relatives under an arrangement by the Japanese government.

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Monkey finds kitty pal in heart of Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - A monkey seen hanging around central Tokyo since mid-June plays with a new friend, a kitten, in the shade of a small garden of a house in Higashi Azabu, Minato Ward, Tokyo. The two animals were seen playing together on Aug. 4.

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Kobe marks 27th anniversary of deadly quake

Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an overview of Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 17, 2022, the 27th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people. The western Japan city of Kobe on Monday marked the 27th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that killed 6,434 people in the area. Local residents and victims' families observed a moment of silence at 5:46 a.m., the time the Great Hanshin Earthquake struck the port city in Hyogo Prefecture and neighboring areas on Jan. 17, 1995. In a predawn event at Higashi Yuenchi, a park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, people lit about 3,000 bamboo lanterns that were aligned to form "1.17," the date of the disaster.

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Station-side robot demonstration experiment started by Connected Robotics and others

On the 16th, Connected Robotics (Koganei City, Tokyo), in collaboration with JR East Startup (Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo) and Nippon Restaurant Enterprise (Taito Ward, Tokyo), began a demonstration experiment of an "ekisoba (buckwheat noodle) robot" at a soba (buckwheat noodle) restaurant in JR Higashi Koganei Station. The aim of the experiment is to verify the practicality of the robot in actual shops, and to introduce it to other shops in the future and automate the entire operation. The boiling machine and sink were also custom-made to fit the robot. In the future, the company hopes to increase the processing capacity of the robot and introduce it at stores with a large number of customers, such as Shinjuku and Kanda in Tokyo. (March 16, 2020, JR Higashi Koganei Station, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Shizuoka nuclear plant leaking radioactive water

NAGOYA, Japan - Ryosuke Mizutani, chief of Chubu Electric Power Co.'s nuclear management department, speaks at a press conference at the company's head office in Nagoya's Higashi Ward on Nov. 10 about the accidental leakage of radioactive water at the company's nuclear power plant in Hamaoka, Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Memorial gas lamp for Hanshin Earthquake destroyed

KOBE, Japan - The case of a gas lamp placed in Kobe in memory of the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake is found broken May 3. The lamp sits in Higashi Amusement Park in the city's Chuo Ward.

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Temporary shelter for homeless people opens in Osaka park+

OSAKA, Japan - Two homeless people wheel a cart full of their belongings as they move into a temporary shelter in a park in Osaka's Higashi-Sumiyoshi Ward on Dec. 29. The Osaka city government is planning to operate the shelter for three years. The faces of the homeless people are obstructed to protect their identities.

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Ex-Taiwan President Lee wraps up Japan trip

KYOTO, Japan - Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui offers flowers at the tomb of the late Japanese author Ryotaro Shiba in Kyoto's Higashi Ward on Jan. 2 before wrapping up his weeklong visit to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo ward issues certificate for same sex couples

Hiroko Masuhara (L) and Koyuki Higashi hold a certificate, issued by Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Nov. 5, 2015, recognizing their same-sex partnership as equivalent to marriage. The first such move among Japanese municipalities aims to combat discrimination against sexual minorities and secure social diversity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo ward issues certificate for same sex couples

Hiroko Masuhara (L) and Koyuki Higashi hold a certificate, issued by Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Nov. 5, 2015, recognizing their same-sex partnership as equivalent to marriage. The first such move among Japanese municipalities aims to combat discrimination against sexual minorities and secure social diversity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo ward issues certificate for same sex couples

Hiroko Masuhara (L) and Koyuki Higashi hold a certificate, issued by Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Nov. 5, 2015, recognizing their same-sex partnership as equivalent to marriage. The first such move among Japanese municipalities aims to combat discrimination against sexual minorities and secure social diversity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo ward issues certificate for same sex couples

Ken Hasebe (L), mayor of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, congratulates Hiroko Masuhara (C) and Koyuki Higashi as they received a certificate at the ward office on Nov. 5, 2015, recognizing their same-sex partnership as equivalent to marriage. The first such move among Japanese municipalities, it aims to combat discrimination against sexual minorities and secure social diversity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Same-sex couple applies for partnership paper

Hiroko Masuhara (L) and Koyuki Higashi leave Tokyo's Shibuya Ward office on Oct. 28, 2015, after applying for a certificate recognizing their same-sex partnership as equivalent to marriage. The ward will issue the document on Nov. 5 as Japan's first municipality to officially recognize same-sex couples. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Same-sex couple applies for partnership paper

Hiroko Masuhara (L) and Koyuki Higashi hold paperwork acknowledging their application for recognition of their same-sex partnership at Tokyo's Shibuya Ward office on Oct. 28, 2015. The ward will issue a certificate recognizing their partnership as equivalent to marriage on Nov. 5, after becoming Japan's first municipality to officially recognize same-sex couples. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Same-sex couple applies for partnership paper

Hiroko Masuhara (L) and Koyuki Higashi hold paperwork acknowledging their application for recognition of their same-sex partnership at Tokyo's Shibuya Ward office on Oct. 28, 2015. The ward will issue a certificate recognizing their partnership as equivalent to marriage on Nov. 5, after becoming Japan's first municipality to officially recognize same-sex couples. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Election outcome may hinder same-sex partnerships ordinance in Tokyo

Koyuki Higashi (C), a 30-year-old lesbian who lives in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward with her partner, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 23, 2015. On March 31, Shibuya became the first municipality in Japan to enact the ordinance that enables the issuance of certificates for same-sex couples. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo ward assembly passes ordinance recognizing same-sex couples

Hiroko Masuhara (L) and her partner Koyuki Higashi (2nd from R) hold a banner celebrating the adoption of an ordinance by Tokyo's Shibuya Ward assembly on March 31, 2015, recognizing same-sex partnerships as being equivalent to marriage. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo ward OKs ordinance on same-sex partnerships

Koyuki Higashi (R), 30, and her partner Hiroko Masuhara (L), 37, celebrate in front of the Shibuya Ward government office in Tokyo on March 31, 2015, after the ward became Japan's first municipality to adopt an ordinance enabling it to issue certificates recognizing same-sex partnerships as being equivalent to marriage. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese woman receives early 117th birthday present

Takehiro Ogura (R), mayor of Osaka's Higashi-Sumiyoshi Ward, gives birthday wishes and a bouquet of flowers to Misao Okawa on March 4, 2015, the day before her 117th birthday, at an elder care facility in the western Japanese city. Born in 1898, Okawa holds the Guinness World Records title for the oldest living person. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Voters line up at polling station

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Voters cast ballots at a polling station in Higashi Kibogaoka elementary school in Yokohama's Asahi Ward Aug. 30, 2009. Voting opened at polling stations nationwide for the House of Representatives election the same day. (Kyodo)

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Housewife leads Japanese-language class for foreign children

FUKUOKA, Japan - Mitsuko Koga (C) teaches the Japanese language to an Egyptian man (R) and an unidentified foreigner at the Kashiihama Elementary School in Fukuoka's Higashi Ward on April 8, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Dud U.S. bomb of World War II vintage removed in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - As members a bomb-disposal unit of the Ground Self-Defense Force watch, a dud U.S. bomb of World War II vintage is removed from a housing construction site in Nagoya's Higashi Ward on March 22 while 3,000 nearby residents were evacuated. The 1.2-meter, 250-kilogram bomb, believed to have been dropped by the U.S. military during World War II, was found March 10. (Kyodo)

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Osaka forcibly removes homeless tents in local parks

OSAKA, Japan - Officials of the Osaka city government, homeless people and their supporters clash in Osaka's Nagai Park in Higashi-Sumiyoshi Ward on Feb. 5 as the Osaka city government forcibly removes 13 tents and huts used by nine homeless people. (Kyodo)

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - A woman in tears holds a photograph of her son who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995 during an event held to commemorate the victims of the quake at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17. (Kyodo)

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - People lit candles in about 7,000 memorial lanterns during an event held at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17 to commemorate the 6,434 people who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. At 5:46 a.m., the time the magnitude 7.3 quake originating in the northern part of the prefecture's Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea hit the western Japan area 14 years ago, about 5,500 people offered silent prayers in the event. (Kyodo)

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - A woman who lost her mother and a brother in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995 wipes her tears as she lights one of the candles in about 7,000 memorial lanterns to commemorate the victims of the quake at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17. (Kyodo)

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Three female junior high school students pray for the 6,434 people who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, during a memorial event held at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17. At 5:46 a.m., the time the magnitude 7.3 quake originating in the northern part of the prefecture's Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea hit the western Japan area 14 years ago, about 5,500 people offered silent prayers in the event at the park, where candles in about 7,000 memorial lanterns were lit. (Kyodo)

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Memorial events held to mark 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Building lights are lit up in the form of ''1.17'' on the side of a building near Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward on Jan. 17 to mark the 12 anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. (Kyodo)

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Memorial events held to mark 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Tomoko Kobayashi, 40, a housewife from Kobe's Nada Ward who lost her father in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, addresses a memorial event at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward on Jan. 17. Various events were held in Kobe and other areas to remember 6,434 people killed in the most devastating natural calamity in postwar Japan. (Kyodo)