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Nuclear test monitor in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 29 Kyodo - An official of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency shows the press a device that can detect radioactive materials in the air emitted from nuclear tests in Horonobe, Hokkaido, on Jan. 29, 2018. The agency installed the equipment as part of efforts to enhance the capability of monitoring nuclear tests in line with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

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Test burial pit for radioactive waste opened to press

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - The Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Horonobe Underground Research Center opens to the press an experimental pit for the burial of highly radioactive waste in Horonobe, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 16, 2014.

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Test burial pit for radioactive waste opened to press

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - The Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Horonobe Underground Research Center opens to the press an experimental pit for the burial of highly radioactive waste in Horonobe, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 16, 2014.

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Symposium mulls regional development using "hidden railway stations"

A symposium is held in Horonobe, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, on Oct. 31, 2015, as part of a festival featuring far-flung "hidden railway stations" designed to promote regional development. Some officials of the town have volunteered to plan a tour of such stations surrounded by mother nature but rarely visited. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Test burial pit for radioactive waste opened to press

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - The Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Horonobe Underground Research Center opens to the press an experimental pit for the burial of highly radioactive waste in Horonobe, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on June 16, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Nuclear test monitor in Japan

An official of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency shows the press a device that can detect radioactive materials in the air emitted from nuclear tests in Horonobe, Hokkaido, on Jan. 29, 2018. The agency installed the equipment as part of efforts to enhance the capability of monitoring nuclear tests in line with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Snow sculpture of police car unveiled in Hokkaido town

Children play by pretending to ride in a snow sculpture of a life-size police vehicle at a residential police box in the town of Horonobe on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Jan. 10, 2017, designated Dial 110 day in Japan. Several police officers worked to create the sculpture, using a chainsaw and color sprays to shape a block of snow into the police vehicle. It even has a red light made of ice that glows at night. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo