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Japan PM visits MSDF destroyer off Kyoto Prefecture

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) speaks during a visit to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Hyuga docked off Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on May 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits MSDF destroyer off Kyoto Prefecture

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) speaks during a visit to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Hyuga docked off Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on May 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits MSDF destroyer off Kyoto Prefecture

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Hyuga docked off Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on May 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits MSDF destroyer off Kyoto Prefecture

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Hyuga docked off Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on May 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits MSDF destroyer off Kyoto Prefecture

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C, L) receives a guard of honor during a visit to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Hyuga docked off Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on May 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits MSDF destroyer off Kyoto Prefecture

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) receives a guard of honor during a visit to Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Hyuga docked off Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on May 25, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan: M6.6 Earthquake Hits Off Miyazaki Coast, Prompts Tsunami Advisory 4

The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that on Monday, January 13, at around 21:19 JST, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Hyuga-nada Sea off the coast of Kyushu Island, Japan, at a depth of 18.6 miles (30 kilometers). A tsunami warning was also issued for Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. A tsunami of approximately 20 cm was observed, and the warning was lifted. The video shows a package shaking during the quake in a hotel room in Miyazaki City.

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Japan: M6.6 Earthquake Hits Off Miyazaki Coast, Prompts Tsunami Advisory 3

The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that on Monday, January 13, at around 21:19 JST, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Hyuga-nada Sea off the coast of Kyushu Island, Japan, at a depth of 18.6 miles (30 kilometers). A tsunami warning was also issued for Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. A tsunami of approximately 20 cm was observed, and the warning was lifted. The video shows a car stopped on a bridge in Miyazaki City, shaking from the quake, while an alert blares inside.

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Japan: M6.6 Earthquake Hits Off Miyazaki Coast, Prompts Tsunami Advisory 2

The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that on Monday, January 13, at around 21:19, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Hyuga-nada Sea off the coast of Kyushu Island, southwestern Japan, at a depth of 18.6 miles (30 kilometers). A tsunami advisory was also issued for Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. A tsunami of approximately 20 cm was observed. This video shows flowers hanging in front of a flower shop in downtown Kumamoto City, swaying when the quake hit.

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Japan: M6.6 Earthquake Hits Off Miyazaki Coast, Prompts Tsunami Advisory

The Japan Meteorological Agency reported that on Monday, January 13, at around 21:19, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Hyuga-nada Sea off the coast of Kyushu Island, Japan, at a depth of 18.6 miles (30 kilometers). A tsunami advisory was also issued for Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. A tsunami of approximately 20 cm was observed. This video was filmed inside an airplane at Kagoshima Airport, located in southern Kyushu.

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(SP)HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-ATHLETICS-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS-DAY 6

(230825) -- BUDAPEST, Aug. 25, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Endo Hyuga (C) of Japan crosses the finish line during the Men's 5000m heat of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 24, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Ming)

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Athletics: World championships

Hyuga Endo of Japan drops to the ground after crossing the finish line in a men's 5,000 meters heat at the world athletics championships in Budapest on Aug. 24, 2023.

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Athletics: World championships

Hyuga Endo (C) of Japan competes in a men's 5,000 meters heat during the world athletics championships in Budapest on Aug. 24, 2023.

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Athletics: World championships

Hyuga Endo (front, C) of Japan competes in a men's 5,000 meters heat during the world athletics championships in Budapest on Aug. 24, 2023.

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Japan's 1st 'helicopter carrier' opened to public

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Spectators admire the Maritime Self-Defense Force's first helicopter-carrying destroyer Hyuga at the MSDF base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. The ship was opened to the public for the first time since it was deployed to the base.

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'Lady Hebe' promotes 'hebesu' citrus in Miyazaki Pref.

MIYAZAKI, Japan - "Lady Hebe," mimicking American singer and songwriter Lady Gaga, makes a pitch for "hebesu," a citrus fruit indigenous to Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, on July 19, 2014, in the southwestern Japanese city.

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'Lady Hebe' helps ship 'hebesu' citrus in Miyazaki Pref.

MIYAZAKI, Japan - "Lady Hebe" is seen lending a hand in shipping the "hebesu" citrus fruit in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 19, 2014.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps parks up in a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps takes off from the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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MV-22 Osprey lands on Japanese destroyer for 1st time

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo shows an MV-22 Osprey taking off from the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga in waters off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013, during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces. The U.S. Marine Corps landed the tilt-rotor aircraft on the Hyuga the same day, the first landing of an Osprey on a Japanese vessel.

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MV-22 Osprey lands on Japanese destroyer for 1st time

SAN DIEGO, United States - U.S. military and Japanese Ground, Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces officers meet on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The U.S. Marine Corps landed an MV-22 Osprey on the Hyuga the same day, the first landing of the tilt-rotor aircraft on a Japanese vessel, during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps descends into a hangar on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps is seen on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga after landing on the vessel during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. The tilt-rotor aircraft earlier became the first of its kind to land on a Japanese ship.

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Osprey lands on Japan destroyer

SAN DIEGO, United States - An MV-22 Osprey of the U.S. Marine Corps lands on the Japanese helicopter destroyer Hyuga during a joint exercise involving the U.S. military and Japan's Self-Defense Forces in the Pacific off San Diego, California, on June 14, 2013. It was the first landing by the tilt-rotor aircraft on a Japanese ship.

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Japan, U.S. drill involving recapture of island

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo using a fisheye lens shows an elevator and hangar of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Hyuga, a helicopter-carrying destroyer, at a U.S. Navy base in San Diego, California, on June 10, 2013. The vessel, in California to take part in a drill designed to practice recapturing control of remote islands, was shown to reporters.

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Japan, U.S. drill involving recapture of island

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo using a fisheye lens shows the air control room of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Hyuga, a helicopter-carrying destroyer, in San Diego, California, on June 10, 2013. The vessel, in California to take part in a drill designed to practice recapturing control of remote islands, was shown to reporters.

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Japan, U.S. drill involving recapture of island

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo shows a conference involving officers of Japan's Self-Defense Forces inside the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Hyuga, a helicopter-carrying destroyer, in San Diego, California, on June 10, 2013. The vessel, in California to take part in a drill designed to practice recapturing control of remote islands, was shown to reporters.

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Japan, U.S. drill involving recapture of island

SAN DIEGO, United States - Photo shows a conference involving officers of Japan's Self-Defense Forces inside the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Hyuga, a helicopter-carrying destroyer, in San Diego, California, on June 10, 2013. The vessel, in California to take part in a drill designed to practice recapturing control of remote islands, was shown to reporters.

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SDF relief work

KESENNUMA, Japan - Survivors from the island of Oshima, which was devastated by the March 11 tsunami, arrive to take a bath on the Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Hyuga off the coast of Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture on April 1, 2011.

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3-day intensive search begins

KESENNUMA, Japan - A helicopter takes off from the Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Hyuga off Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture on April 1, 2011. The Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military began a three-day intensive search to find missing people in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, three weeks after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami wiped out coastal cities and towns in northeast Japan. The MSDF vessel Asuka, also part of the operation, can be seen in the background.

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3-day intensive search begins

KESENNUMA, Japan - A helicopter takes off from the Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Hyuga off Kesennuma in Miyagi Prefecture on April 1, 2011. The Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military began a three-day intensive search to find missing people in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, three weeks after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami wiped out coastal cities and towns in northeast Japan. The MSDF vessel Asuka, also part of the operation, can be seen in the background.

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3-day intensive search begins

KESENNUMA, Japan - Members of the Self-Defense Forces refuel helicopters on the Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Hyuga in Miyagi Prefecture on April 1, 2011. The Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military began a three-day intensive search to find missing people in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, three weeks after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami wiped out coastal cities and towns in northeast Japan. The MSDF vessel Asuka, also part of the operation, can be seen in the background.

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Japan-U.S. joint naval drill

TOKYO, Japan - A pair of Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force members (L) chat with their counterparts from the U.S. Navy (C) on the MSDF helicopter carrier Hyuga in the Pacific near Minamidaito Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Dec. 9, 2010, during a joint drill with the U.S. military. (Pool photo)

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Japan-U.S. joint naval drill

TOKYO, Japan - The helicopter carrier Hyuga of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force sails in the Pacific near Minamidaito Island in Okinawa Prefecture on Dec. 9, 2010, during a joint drill with the U.S. military. (Pool photo)

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Drill on Japanese 'helicopter carrier' Hyuga

TOKYO, Japan - The destroyer Hyuga of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, dubbed as a ''helicopter carrier,'' is docked at the Yokohama Osanbashi pier in the port city south of Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2009. The destroyer came to the pier to join a disaster drill the same day.

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Drill on Japanese 'helicopter carrier' Hyuga

TOKYO, Japan - A helicopter of the Ground Self-Defense Force flies over the deck of the destroyer Hyuga of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, dubbed as a ''helicopter carrier,'' during a disaster drill at the Yokohama Osanbashi pier in the port city south of Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2009.

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Drill on Japanese 'helicopter carrier' Hyuga

TOKYO, Japan - A helicopter of the Ground Self-Defense Force flies over the deck of the destroyer Hyuga of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, dubbed as a ''helicopter carrier,'' during a disaster drill at the Yokohama Osanbashi pier in the port city south of Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2009.

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Drill on Japanese 'helicopter carrier' Hyuga

TOKYO, Japan - A helicopter flies over the deck of the destroyer Hyuga of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, dubbed as a ''helicopter carrier,'' during a disaster drill at the Yokohama Osanbashi pier in the port city south of Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2009.

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Drill on Japanese 'helicopter carrier' Hyuga

TOKYO, Japan - The destroyer Hyuga of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, dubbed as a ''helicopter carrier,'' is docked at the Yokohama Osanbashi pier in the port city south of Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2009. The destroyer came to the pier to join a disaster drill the same day.

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Drill on Japanese 'helicopter carrier' Hyuga

TOKYO, Japan - The destroyer Hyuga of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, dubbed as a ''helicopter carrier,'' is docked at the Yokohama Osanbashi pier in the port city south of Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2009. The destroyer came to the pier to join a disaster drill the same day.

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Japan's largest 'helicopter carrier' commissioned amid concerns

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows the Hyuga, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's largest helicopter-carrying destroyer with an eye-catching flight deck at a shipyard in Yokohama on March 18. MSDF commissioned the destroyer the same day, amid concerns about its resemblance to a light aircraft carrier.

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Japan's largest 'helicopter carrier' commissioned amid concerns

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows the Hyuga, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's largest helicopter-carrying destroyer with an eye-catching flight deck at a shipyard in Yokohama on March 18. MSDF commissioned the destroyer the same day, amid concerns about its resemblance to a light aircraft carrier.

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Japan's largest 'helicopter carrier' commissioned amid concerns

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Women personnel board the Hyuga, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's largest helicopter-carrying destroyer, in a ceremony for the vessel to be commissioned at a shipyard in Yokohama March 18. The Hyuga has women officers and sailors on board a destroyer for the first time since the establishment of the Self-Defense Forces in 1954.

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Workers prepare to cull chickens at bird flu-infected Miyazaki farm

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Workers prepare to cull chicken in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Jan. 26, a day after the government determined that chickens at a local farm had been infected by the highly virulent H5 variety of the bird flu virus. This marks the second outbreak of bird flu in a month in Japan's top chicken breeding prefecture.

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Ministry confirms virulent bird flu virus in Miyazaki

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru (R) speaks at a news conference at the Miyazaki prefectural government office in Miyazaki on Jan. 25 after the agriculture ministry confirmed that the virus detected in chickens at Hyuga in the prefecture is the highly virulent H5 variety of the bird flu virus.

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Ministry confirms virulent bird flu virus in Miyazaki

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru speaks at a news conference at the Miyazaki prefectural government office in Miyazaki on Jan. 25 after the agriculture ministry confirmed that the virus detected in chickens at Hyuga in the prefecture is the highly virulent H5 variety of the bird flu virus.

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Ministry confirms virulent bird flu virus in Miyazaki

MIYAZAKI, Japan - Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru speaks at a news conference at the Miyazaki prefectural government office in Miyazaki on Jan. 25 after the agriculture ministry confirmed that the virus detected in chickens at Hyuga in the prefecture is the highly virulent H5 variety of the bird flu virus.

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Miyazaki to determine whether chicken in Hyuga died from bird flu

MIYAZAKI, Japan - An official from the Miyazaki prefectural government (foreground) heads toward a chicken farm in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Jan. 25 where the chicken there have been suspected to being infected by avian flu. More than 1,300 chicken in the farm have died between Jan. 22-24.