Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Rikke Eberhardt Isen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Rikke Eberhardt Isen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Rikke Eberhardt Isen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Alice Esther Bier Zanden, Anette Stovelbaek, Rikke Eberhardt Isen and Ulla Henningsen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Alice Esther Bier Zanden, Anette Stovelbaek, Rikke Eberhardt Isen and Ulla Henningsen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Alice Esther Bier Zanden, Anette Stovelbaek, Rikke Eberhardt Isen and Ulla Henningsen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Alice Esther Bier Zanden, Anette Stovelbaek, Rikke Eberhardt Isen and Ulla Henningsen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Alice Esther Bier Zanden, Anette Stovelbaek, Rikke Eberhardt Isen and Ulla Henningsen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Alice Esther Bier Zanden, Anette Stovelbaek, Rikke Eberhardt Isen and Ulla Henningsen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Alice Esther Bier Zanden, Anette Stovelbaek, Rikke Eberhardt Isen and Ulla Henningsen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Series Mania Festival - Generations Photocall - Lille

Alice Esther Bier Zanden, Anette Stovelbaek, Rikke Eberhardt Isen and Ulla Henningsen attending Generations photocall during the Series Mania Festival on March 22, 2025 in Lille, France. Photo by Franck Castel/ABACAPRESS.COM

Traditional salt making on Tokunoshima Island

Traditional salt making on Tokunoshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - Noriko Yoshihisa, a 70-year-old housewife in Isen, Kagoshima Prefecture, splashes a bucket of seawater into naturally made hollows of coral reefs on a beach near her home on Tokunoshima Island on Sept. 11, 2011, to produce salt in a traditional way. After drying the seawater in the hollows in the sun for several days, she will boil it down in a big pot for five to seven hours to make salt with ''a gentle taste and lots of minerals,'' Yoshihisa said.

Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - (From 2nd L) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, protest against Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's proposal that the island host some functions of a U.S. Marine base in nearby Okinawa during a rally May 8, 2010, in Kagoshima. Some 5,000 people took part in the protest a day after the mayors rejected the idea in a meeting with Hatoyama in Tokyo.

Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - (From L) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, protest against Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's proposal that the island host some functions of a U.S. Marine base in nearby Okinawa during a rally May 8, 2010, in Kagoshima. Some 5,000 people took part in the protest a day after the mayors rejected the idea in a meeting with Hatoyama in Tokyo.

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa, and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island give a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2010, after meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. The mayors rebuffed Hatoyama's request for the island to accommodate some functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture.

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island speak to reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at his office in Tokyo on May 7, 2010. The mayors rebuffed Hatoyama's request for the island to accommodate some functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture.

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) receives signatures collected by opponents of a plan to relocate some of the functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture to Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 7, 2010. The signatures were handed over by Isen Mayor Akira Okubo (L), Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa (2nd L) and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka.

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) receives signatures collected by opponents of a plan to relocate some of the functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture to Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 7, 2010. The signatures were handed over by Isen Mayor Akira Okubo (L), Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa (2nd L) and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka.

(1)Kamato Hongo, world's oldest person, dies at 116

(1)Kamato Hongo, world's oldest person, dies at 116

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The world's oldest person, Kamato Hongo (in an undated file photo) of the city of Kagoshima, died at the age of 116 in a Kagoshima hospital on Oct. 31, city officials said. Hongo, born in 1887 in the town of Isen on Tokunoshima Island, Kagaoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan, was certified as the world's oldest person in March last year by the Guinness Book of Records.

Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - (From L) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, protest against Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's proposal that the island host some functions of a U.S. Marine base in nearby Okinawa during a rally May 8, 2010, in Kagoshima. Some 5,000 people took part in the protest a day after the mayors rejected the idea in a meeting with Hatoyama in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

Tokunoshima islanders step up U.S. base opposition

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - (From 2nd L) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, protest against Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's proposal that the island host some functions of a U.S. Marine base in nearby Okinawa during a rally May 8, 2010, in Kagoshima. Some 5,000 people took part in the protest a day after the mayors rejected the idea in a meeting with Hatoyama in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

Traditional salt making on Tokunoshima Island

Traditional salt making on Tokunoshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - Noriko Yoshihisa, a 70-year-old housewife in Isen, Kagoshima Prefecture, splashes a bucket of seawater into naturally made hollows of coral reefs on a beach near her home on Tokunoshima Island on Sept. 11, 2011, to produce salt in a traditional way. After drying the seawater in the hollows in the sun for several days, she will boil it down in a big pot for five to seven hours to make salt with ''a gentle taste and lots of minerals,'' Yoshihisa said. (Kyodo)

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island speak to reporters after meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama at his office in Tokyo on May 7, 2010. The mayors rebuffed Hatoyama's request for the island to accommodate some functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Isen Mayor Akira Okubo, Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa, and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka from Tokunoshima Island give a press conference in Tokyo on May 7, 2010, after meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. The mayors rebuffed Hatoyama's request for the island to accommodate some functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) receives signatures collected by opponents of a plan to relocate some of the functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture to Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 7, 2010. The signatures were handed over by Isen Mayor Akira Okubo (L), Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa (2nd L) and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka. (Kyodo)

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

Hatoyama rebuffed by Tokunoshima mayors

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) receives signatures collected by opponents of a plan to relocate some of the functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture to Tokunoshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 7, 2010. The signatures were handed over by Isen Mayor Akira Okubo (L), Amagi Mayor Kosuke Ohisa (2nd L) and Tokunoshima Mayor Hideki Takaoka. (Kyodo)

(1)Kamato Hongo, world's oldest person, dies at 116

(1)Kamato Hongo, world's oldest person, dies at 116

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - The world's oldest person, Kamato Hongo (in an undated file photo) of the city of Kagoshima, died at the age of 116 in a Kagoshima hospital on Oct. 31, city officials said. Hongo, born in 1887 in the town of Isen on Tokunoshima Island, Kagaoshima Prefecture in southwestern Japan, was certified as the world's oldest person in March last year by the Guinness Book of Records. (Kyodo)