School principal hopes 9 missing in accident still alive

School principal hopes 9 missing in accident still alive

UWAJIMA, Japan - Ietaka Horita, principal of Uwajima Fisheries School in Ehime Prefecture, whose training ship sank off Hawaii last week, tells reporters in Uwajima on Feb. 16 he still holds out hope that the nine people still missing will be found alive. He met reporters a day after returning home from Honolulu. The nine, including four students from the high school and two of their teachers, were among 35 people aboard the Ehime Maru, which sank after it was hit by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

5th anniversary of Christchurch quake in New Zealand

5th anniversary of Christchurch quake in New Zealand

The parents (C) of late Japanese student Megumi Horita offer flowers at a ceremony in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 22, 2016, to commemorate their daughter and other victims of a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on the fifth anniversary of the disaster that claimed 185 victims, including 28 Japanese students who had been studying abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Kin of Japanese victims attend NZ quake anniversary ceremony

Kin of Japanese victims attend NZ quake anniversary ceremony

Kazuo Horita (R) and his wife, whose daughter Megumi was among 28 Japanese victims of an earthquake that killed 185 people in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2011, attend a memorial service in the city on Feb. 22, 2015, to mark the fourth anniversary of the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

8th anniversary of massive New Zealand quake

8th anniversary of massive New Zealand quake

Kazuo (2nd from R) and Seiko Horita, who lost their daughter Megumi in the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, offer prayers before the memorial wall which has their daughter's name engraved on it, at the Canterbury Earthquake National Memorial in the New Zealand city on Feb. 22, 2019. The quake killed 185 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

Researchers unearth Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton

Yoshiyuki Horita, a local fossil collector who found a fossilized tail bone of a Hadrosaurid in 2003, speaks in the town of Mukawa on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on April 27, 2017, after the fossilized remains, dating from around 72 million years ago, were found in the Hokkaido mountains, making it the largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton discovered in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

School principal hopes 9 missing in accident still alive

School principal hopes 9 missing in accident still alive

UWAJIMA, Japan - Ietaka Horita, principal of Uwajima Fisheries School in Ehime Prefecture, whose training ship sank off Hawaii last week, tells reporters in Uwajima on Feb. 16 he still holds out hope that the nine people still missing will be found alive. He met reporters a day after returning home from Honolulu. The nine, including four students from the high school and two of their teachers, were among 35 people aboard the Ehime Maru, which sank after it was hit by the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

2 jellyfish belonging to new family found in Mie Pref.

2 jellyfish belonging to new family found in Mie Pref.

TSU, Japan - The photo shows one of two jellyfish belonging to a new family which were found at Toba Port, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, by Takushi Horita, researcher at Toba Aquarium, in 1992, and given the scientific name Lobato lampea tetragona. The marine coelenterate has four gonads, half the usual number in jellyfish. The photo was released by Toba Aquarium on Oct. 2, the first time a picture of the jellyfish has been released.