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Swallow raises chicks on speaker

OSAKA, Japan - A parent swallow feeds chicks in a nest set up on a speaker at a train station in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, in this undated photo.

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - Baby swallows wait for food at a nest built in a bundled electric cord hanging from the ceiling of a station in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on June 19, 2013.

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Panasonic logs record net loss

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Corp. President Fumio Otsubo speaks during a press conference in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on May 11, 2012. The electronics maker reported its largest-ever group net loss of 772.17 billion yen for the business year ended March 2012, citing factors including massive losses in its TV manufacturing operations, but said Panasonic expects to return to the black in the current business year through restructuring.

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Hirakata mayor arrested over suspected bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Hiroshi Nakatsuka, mayor of Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, heads to the Osaka District Prosecutors' Office in Osaka on July 31 for questioning. Nakatsuka, 51, was later arrested by the prosecutors for his role in the bid rigging case in 2005 for a garbage incinerator plant construction project.

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Abduction inquiry group to air messages on radio reaching N. Korea

OSAKA, Japan - Akihiro Arimoto, who had his daughter Keiko abducted by North Korea, speaks as his wife Kayoko listens at a meeting of the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea held in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 22. Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the group, told the meeting it will air messages on shortwave radio, which reaches North Korea, at the end of October in an effort to collect more information about missing Japanese.

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Crown Prince Naruhito attends greenery protection event

OSAKA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito plants a tree during a national event to protect greenery at a park in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on April 23.

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Daiei opens 1st outlet under new management

OSAKA, Japan - Shoppers visit a supermarket store of Daiei Inc. in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on April 14 as it was opened as the first outlet under the company's new management. The store, specializing in food, is expected to serve as a test of its reconstruction plan that puts more emphasis on food rather than the wide range of products it had in the past.

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Matsushita Electric announces 3-year business plan

OSAKA, Japan - Kunio Nakamura (R), president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., briefs reporters in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 9 about the company's three-year business plan under which it aims to earn group sales of 8.2 trillion yen for the year to March 2007.

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Antiwar civil servant reports plight of Iraqi people

OSAKA, Japan - Mamoru Toyota, a local government worker who has visited Iraq twice since the end of last year, reports on the current situation in Iraq at an antiwar rally in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on March 22. He said the number of cancer patients has increased sharply among Iraqi people and that medicine is running very short in the country.

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Matsushita to turn group firms into wholly owned units

HIRAKATA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. President Kunio Nakamura speaks at a news conference in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 10. The consumer electronics giant announced it will transform five of its group firms into wholly owned subsidiaries to reorganize its group businesses and make operations more efficient.

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Woman found strangled in Osaka love hotel

OSAKA, Japan - Pictured early on the morning of June 27 is a love hotel in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, where a woman in her 40s or 50s was found strangled.

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S. Korean premier visits ancient scholar's grave in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil (R) offers a prayer at the gravestone in memory of Wani, who came to Japan from the Korean state of Paekche around 400, in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Sept. 5. Kim is completing his five-day official visit to Japan on the same day. Wani is thought to have brought the ''Analects of Confucius'' and the ''Thousand Character Classic,'' to Japan during Emperor Ojin's reign from the late fourth to early fifth centuries.

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Campaigning for Japanese general election

Ichiro Matsui, leader of the Japan Innovation Party, makes a stump speech in Hirakata in Osaka on Oct. 25, 2021, ahead of a general election on Oct. 31.

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Campaigning for Japanese general election

Ichiro Matsui, leader of the Japan Innovation Party, makes a stump speech in Hirakata in Osaka on Oct. 25, 2021, ahead of a general election on Oct. 31.

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Golf: Greg Norman at 1977 Kuzuha International in Japan

HIRAKATA, Japan, Oct. 1 Kyodo - Greg Norman of Australia hits off the 16th tee during the opening round of the Kuzuha International golf tournament in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on April 16, 1977.

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Matsushita to turn group firms into wholly owned units

HIRAKATA, Japan - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. President Kunio Nakamura speaks at a news conference in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 10. The consumer electronics giant announced it will transform five of its group firms into wholly owned subsidiaries to reorganize its group businesses and make operations more efficient.

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Daiei opens 1st outlet under new management

OSAKA, Japan - Shoppers visit a supermarket store of Daiei Inc. in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on April 14 as it was opened as the first outlet under the company's new management. The store, specializing in food, is expected to serve as a test of its reconstruction plan that puts more emphasis on food rather than the wide range of products it had in the past. (Kyodo)

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Crown Prince Naruhito attends greenery protection event

OSAKA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito plants a tree during a national event to protect greenery at a park in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on April 23. (Kyodo)

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WWII Burma Campaign survivor talks about his ordeal

Junichi Tanigawa, a survivor of the Burma Campaign in the early 1940s during World War II, talks about his experience at his home in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan on Nov. 20, 2014. He lost his younger brother Shugo during fighting in the Southeast Asian nation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police quiz ex-official of Toyo Tire unit over data manipulation

File photo taken in February 2016 shows a building that houses a fire department in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture. Japanese police questioned several people on a voluntary basis, including a former executive and employees of a Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. subsidiary, who are suspected of shipping 19 substandard shock absorber units in September 2014 for use in construction of the city's fire department. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka mayor to create new party, could spark opposition realignment

Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto makes a stump speech in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2015. Hashimoto said he plans to establish a new political party possibly within 2015, deepening the strife within Japan's second-largest opposition party. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Mongolia team finds Genghis Khan military outpost

Koichi Matsuda (R), professor emeritus at Osaka International University and leader of a group of Japanese and Mongolian archeologists, announces in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 26, 2015, that the remains of a fortress discovered in southwestern Mongolia is most likely a military outpost of Genghis Khan, who founded the Mongol Empire in the 13th century, based on carbon dating of artifacts unearthed at the site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese-Brazilian woman eager to help Japan volleyball team at Rio

Photo taken Jan. 6, 2016 shows Megumi Kamizono (C), a Brazilian-Japanese woman serving as an interpreter for a men's volleyball team owned by Panasonic Corp., translating instructions by a Brazilian coach (2nd from L) during a practice in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese-Brazilian woman eager to help Japan volleyball team at Rio

Photo taken Jan. 6, 2016 shows Megumi Kamizono (R), a Brazilian-Japanese woman serving as an interpreter for a men's volleyball team owned by Panasonic Corp., talking with a Brazilian coach and a player during a practice in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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American man heads residents' association in Osaka

Photo taken in December 2015 shows Samuel Edward Teckenbrock, known to friends and neighbors as "Sam-san," who leads a residents' association for the Koyodai community in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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American man heads residents' association in Osaka

Photo taken in December 2015 shows Samuel Edward Teckenbrock (C in front), head of a residents' association of the Koyodai community in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, surrounded by local residents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit Iwate region tries to recover seaweed sales

A shopper tastes a sample of "wakame" edible seaweed grown in Iwate Prefecture at a supermarket in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 1, 2015, during a promotional campaign for the seaweed. Wakame production and sales have not recovered to their levels before the 2011 tsunami disaster in the northeastern Japanese prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hirakata mayor arrested over suspected bid rigging

OSAKA, Japan - Hiroshi Nakatsuka, mayor of Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, heads to the Osaka District Prosecutors' Office in Osaka on July 31 for questioning. Nakatsuka, 51, was later arrested by the prosecutors for his role in the bid rigging case in 2005 for a garbage incinerator plant construction project. (Kyodo)

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Abduction inquiry group to air messages on radio reaching N. Kor

OSAKA, Japan - Akihiro Arimoto, who had his daughter Keiko abducted by North Korea, speaks as his wife Kayoko listens at a meeting of the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea held in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 22. Kazuhiro Araki, who heads the group, told the meeting it will air messages on shortwave radio, which reaches North Korea, at the end of October in an effort to collect more information about missing Japanese. (Kyodo)

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Hirakata Bay from Kyurantei

A view of Hiragata Bay, from the Kyurantei. In the center is the Benten of Biwa Island, and further on is Seto Shrine. A photo of the area around Hiragata Bay.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Suzuki Shin-ichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number41‐15‐0]

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Village at Cape Nojima

Cape Nojima and the village in Nojima, in Hirakata Bay of Kanazawa Hakkei.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number37‐78‐0]

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Seto Bridge in Hiragata Bay

The Seto bridge in Hirakata Bay of Kanazawa Hakkei. The building to the left is the tea house. The fore is the Hirakata Bay which is now a dry beach.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number37‐71‐0]

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Hirakata Bay from Kyurantei

The view of Hiragata Bay from Kurantei. In the center is the Benten of Biwajima, and the distant one is Seto Shrine. The caption says, Tea House in Kanazawa. Photograph by F. Beato. Identical to photo No. 916 (19-32).==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number36‐17‐0]

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Hirakata Bay from Kyurantei

Kanazawa was the most popular spot for picnics among foreigners living in Yokohama. Frequent visitors to this spot will recognize where this photo was taken. From the November 21, 1872 edition of The Far East, in the republished edition.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐32‐0]

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Panasonic logs record net loss

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Corp. President Fumio Otsubo speaks during a press conference in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on May 11, 2012. The electronics maker reported its largest-ever group net loss of 772.17 billion yen for the business year ended March 2012, citing factors including massive losses in its TV manufacturing operations, but said Panasonic expects to return to the black in the current business year through restructuring. (Kyodo)

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Urban Animal Album

OSAKA, Japan - Baby swallows wait for food at a nest built in a bundled electric cord hanging from the ceiling of a station in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on June 19, 2013. (Kyodo)

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Hirakata Bay from Kyurantei

Hirakata Bay from Kyurantei ==Date:Early Meiji, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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End-of-school year ceremony in Japan

Pupils disinfect their hands at an elementary school in Hirakata in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, before attending a ceremony marking the end of the school year on March 24, 2020. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe requested a nationwide school closure in late February to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Strong quake hits western Japan

Photo taken June 18, 2018 in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, shows a broken chimney after a powerful earthquake hit the western Japan prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Strong quake hits western Japan

Photo taken June 18, 2018 in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, shows a broken chimney after a powerful earthquake hit the western Japan prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Strong quake hits western Japan

Photo taken June 18, 2018, shows a liquor shop in disarray in Osaka's Hirakata city after a powerful earthquake hit the western Japan area earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5 pupils, teacher injured after being hit by car

Police officers examine an accident site, where five pupils and a junior high school teacher were injured on Oct. 18, 2017, after a car careened into them in Hirakata in the western prefecture of Osaka. The police arrested the 21-year-old driver on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injury. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5 pupils, teacher injured after being hit by car

Photo taken Oct. 18, 2017, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officers examining an accident site, where five pupils and a junior high school teacher were injured after a car careened into them in Hirakata in the western prefecture of Osaka. The police arrested the 21-year-old driver on suspicion of negligent driving resulting in injury. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsushita Electric announces 3-year business plan

OSAKA, Japan - Kunio Nakamura (R), president of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., briefs reporters in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 9 about the company's three-year business plan under which it aims to earn group sales of 8.2 trillion yen for the year to March 2007. (Kyodo)

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Chrysanthemum doll maker

OSAKA, Japan - Minoru Fukuda, a chrysanthemum doll maker, make a new chrysanthemum doll in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 22, 2003. (Kyodo)

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Antiwar civil servant reports plight of Iraqi people

OSAKA, Japan - Mamoru Toyota, a local government worker who has visited Iraq twice since the end of last year, reports on the current situation in Iraq at an antiwar rally in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, on March 22. He said the number of cancer patients has increased sharply among Iraqi people and that medicine is running very short in the country. (Kyodo)

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Woman found strangled in Osaka love hotel

OSAKA, Japan - Pictured early on the morning of June 27 is a love hotel in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, where a woman in her 40s or 50s was found strangled.

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Yomiuri pitcher Uehara begins training

OSAKA, Japan - Yomiuri Giants pitcher Koji Uehara, the Cenral League's 1999 rookie of the year, jogs Jan. 8 at Matsushita ball park in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, as he began voluntary training for the 2000 season.