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Daihatsu suspends domestic production over safety scandal

Photo taken on Dec. 26, 2023, shows the headquarters building of Daihatsu Motor Co. in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan. The small-car unit of Toyota Motor Corp. is suspending production at all domestic factories due to a safety testing scandal, a measure that will last until at least the end of January.

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Daihatsu suspends domestic production over safety scandal

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 26, 2023, shows a Daihatsu Motor Co. factory at its headquarters in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan. The small-car unit of Toyota Motor Corp. is suspending production at all domestic factories due to a safety testing scandal, with the halt lasting until at least the end of January.

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Daihatsu suspends domestic production over safety scandal

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 26, 2023, shows a Daihatsu Motor Co. factory at its headquarters in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan. The small-car unit of Toyota Motor Corp. is suspending production at all domestic factories due to a safety testing scandal, with the halt lasting until at least the end of January.

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Japan's 1st woman airline captain

OSAKA, Japan - Ari Fuji (R), a co-pilot with Japan Express Co., receives a letter appointing her as a pilot at the company's office in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on July 9, 2010.

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Japan's 1st woman airline captain

OSAKA, Japan - Ari Fuji (L), a co-pilot with Japan Express Co., smiles as she holds a letter appointing her as an airline captain at the company's office in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on July 9, 2010.

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Instant noodle inventor Ando dies at 96

OSAKA, Japan - Momofuku Ando (L), the founder-chairman of Nissin Food Products Co., poses with the one millionth visitor to his ''Instant Noodle Museum'' in a photo taken in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, in July 2006. Ando died of a heart failure on Jan. 5 at a hospital in Ikeda his family said. He was 96. Ando was widely known as the inventor of instant noodles.

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Environmental protection called for in candle-light event

IKEDA, Japan - A total of 20,000 candles made from waste oil lit the town of Ikeda in Fukui Prefecture on Oct. 14 in an event calling for the protection of the environment.

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Astronaut Noguchi visits instant Chinese noodle museum

IKEDA, Japan - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi visits a museum dedicated to Chinese noodles in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 21. Noguchi, who ate Chinese noodles during his mission on the U.S. space shuttle Discovery in August, reported back about the food while at the museum.

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Nostalgic trip to Oita in 1967 Midget begins

OSAKA, Japan - The ''Midget,'' one of Daihatsu Motor Co.'s once-popular models from 1967, leaves the company's headquarters May 12 in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, for Oita Prefecture. The vehicle was restored in an effort to rebuild and promote Showa Era townships there.

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Nissin develops instant noodles for astronauts

OSAKA, Japan - Nissin Food Products Co. Chairman Momofuku Ando (R) tells a news conference in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 23 his company has almost completed the development of instant noodles able to be eaten in space. The product, called ''Space Ram,'' will be ready for Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi who will go to space on a U.S. space shuttle in January, Ando said.

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Justice minister visits Osaka elementary school

OSAKA, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) on July 18 visits Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, the site of the June 8 massacre where eight children were stabbed to death and 15 others injured. Moriyama made the visit to talk to the victims' parents amid growing calls for revisions to a law exempting mentally ill criminal suspects from criminal liability for their actions.

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Pupils hang paper cranes at Ikeda school

IKEDA, Japan - Two girls try to hang a chain of paper-folded cranes June 14 on the gate to Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture, the scene of a stabbing rampage that claimed the lives of eight schoolchildren on June 8.

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Ikeda schoolyard quiet in wake of massacre

IKEDA, Japan - The schoolyard of Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka Prefecture is empty on June 13, after a man stabbed to death eight pupils and injured 15 others at the school June 8 in the worst mass killing in Japan in years.

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Teacher-counselor pair visits Ikeda students

IKEDA, Japan - A teacher-counselor team June 11 begins visiting the homes of pupils involved in the June 8 massacre at the state-run Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, to assess their emotional and psychological states. The rampage by a knife-wielding man left eight schoolchildren dead and 15 others, including two teachers, injured.

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Education ministers gives news conference

TOKYO, Japan - Education Minister Atsuko Toyama speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on June on the incident in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, in which a knife-wielding man stabbed eight children to death and injured 15 others including teachers.

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Former marathon world champion Asari announces retirement

IKEDA, Japan - Former women's marathon world champion Junko Asari announces her retirement at a press conference in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture on Jan. 24. Asari became the first female Japanese world champion in athletics when she won the women's marathon in Stuttgart, Germany in 1993.

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'Ramen' noodle museum to open in Ikeda

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Knock Yokoyama (R) greets visitors to a ceremony held Nov. 4 in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, to mark the completion of ''Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum'' which was built in commemoration of the invention of instant ''ramen,'' or ready-to-eat Chinese noodles, in 1958. The museum will open Nov. 21.