Japan issues wrong info on N. Korean rocket launch

Japan issues wrong info on N. Korean rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - An aerial photo, taken April 4, of the FPS-5 radar at the Defense Ministry's Iioka research and development site in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture. The Defense Ministry said that the radar picked up a trace over the Sea of Japan on the radar screen, leading the government to erroneously report that North Korea had launched a rocket.

Japan issues wrong info on N. Korean rocket launch

Japan issues wrong info on N. Korean rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - An aerial photo, taken April 4, of the FPS-5 radar at the Defense Ministry's Iioka research and development site in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture. The Defense Ministry said that the radar picked up a trace over the Sea of Japan on the radar screen, leading the government to erroneously report that North Korea had launched a rocket.

Japan issues wrong info on N. Korean rocket launch

Japan issues wrong info on N. Korean rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - An aerial photo, taken April 4, of the FPS-5 radar at the Defense Ministry's Iioka research and development site in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture. The Defense Ministry said that the radar picked up a trace over the Sea of Japan on the radar screen, leading the government to erroneously report that North Korea had launched a rocket. (Kyodo)

Japan issues wrong info on N. Korean rocket launch

Japan issues wrong info on N. Korean rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - An aerial photo, taken April 4, of the FPS-5 radar at the Defense Ministry's Iioka research and development site in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture. The Defense Ministry said that the radar picked up a trace over the Sea of Japan on the radar screen, leading the government to erroneously report that North Korea had launched a rocket. (Kyodo)

Iwate high school team awarded for decade-long tsunami education outreach

Iwate high school team awarded for decade-long tsunami education outreach

Members of the Tsunami Model Club of Miyako Technical High School in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pose at an elementary school on July 22, 2015, with their handmade model of a local landscape that they use to demonstrate to schoolchildren how tsunami waves reach inland. The student club won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Japan Water Prize for its decade-long outreach program to raise awareness and pass on lessons learnt from past tsunami disasters in the area. From L (front row): Dai Sasaki, Ryo Nakashima, Eiki Haga, Hikaru Tatehora and Koichi Iioka, with mechanical engineering teacher Hiroshi Yamanome in the background. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Iwate high school team awarded for decade-long tsunami education outreach

Iwate high school team awarded for decade-long tsunami education outreach

Members of the Tsunami Model Club of Miyako Technical High School in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, work on July 21, 2015, on a scale model of the landscape of Susaki, Kochi Prefecture, in the west to simulate the path of tsunami waves in the event of a Nankai Trough earthquake. From L: Dai Sasaki, Hikaru Tatehora and Koichi Iioka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Iwate high school team awarded for decade-long tsunami education outreach

Iwate high school team awarded for decade-long tsunami education outreach

Koichi Iioka (R) and fellow students of Miyako Technical High School in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, use their handmade scale model of a local landscape at an elementary school on July 22, 2015, to demonstrate to schoolchildren how tsunami waves reach inland. The students' Tsunami Model Club won the Grand Prix at the 2015 Japan Water Prize for its decade-long outreach program to raise awareness and pass on lessons learnt from past tsunami disasters in the area, including the devastating 2011 tidal wave. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo