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.

Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 3

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.

Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 2

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.

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.

Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 4

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.

Ghost museum in Tottori gets 50,000 visitors in 2 months

Ghost museum in Tottori gets 50,000 visitors in 2 months

TOTTORI, Japan - Mana Ueta, a 3-year-old girl from the town of Hikawa, Shimane Prefecture, held by her mother Hiromi is the 50,000th visitor to a Tottori Prefecture museum dedicated to Shigeru Mizuki, a Japanese manga artist known for his ghost and monster cartoons, on May 4. The museum attained the fete within about two months of its opening.

Ghost museum in Tottori gets 50,000 visitors in 2 months

Ghost museum in Tottori gets 50,000 visitors in 2 months

TOTTORI, Japan - Mana Ueta, a 3-year-old girl from the town of Hikawa, Shimane Prefecture, held by her mother Hiromi is the 50,000th visitor to a Tottori Prefecture museum dedicated to Shigeru Mizuki, a Japanese manga artist known for his ghost and monster cartoons, on May 4. The museum attained the fete within about two months of its opening. (Kyodo)

Japan - Yokohama - The Grand Pier

Japan - Yokohama - The Grand Pier

Japan - Yokohama - The Grand Pier. The HMS Rawalpindi (left) was a British armed merchant cruiser (a converted passenger ship - as it was at the time of this photograph - as the P&O vessel the SS Rawalpindi) that was sunk in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau during the first months of Second World War. On the right is the Hikawa Maru - a Japanese ocean liner that was built for the Nippon Yusen KK line by the Yokohama Dock Company. She was launched on 30 September 1929, and made her maiden voyage from Kobe to Seattle on 13 May 1930. Date: circa 1931

Japan's wartime, postwar English texts reflect changing ideas

Japan's wartime, postwar English texts reflect changing ideas

Shigeru Takabayashi, who was a student at a branch of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, from spring to summer of 1945, stands in front of the Hikawa Maru cruise liner in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo with the only remaining copy of the academy's English textbook and his diary at that time. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Main Japanese opposition party leader visits shrine

Main Japanese opposition party leader visits shrine

Yukio Edano, head of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, visits Hikawa Shrine in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Jan. 4, 2018, as opposition parties had their first day at work after New Year holidays. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo