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Exhibition honoring late fashion designer Hanae Mori

An exhibition of the work of late Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori is held at Iwami Art Museum in Masuda in the western Japan prefecture of Shimane on Oct. 4, 2025. About 400 items, including five dresses belonging to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, are on display at the exhibition, which is being held through Dec. 1 to mark the 100th anniversary next January of the birth of Mori, who was brought up in Shimane Prefecture and died at 96 in 2022.

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Exhibition honoring late fashion designer Hanae Mori

An exhibition of the work of late Japanese fashion designer Hanae Mori is held at Iwami Art Museum in Masuda in the western Japan prefecture of Shimane on Oct. 4, 2025. About 400 items, including five dresses belonging to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, are on display at the exhibition, which is being held through Dec. 1 to mark the 100th anniversary next January of the birth of Mori, who was brought up in Shimane Prefecture and died at 96 in 2022.

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Pictures of scenery, masks displayed on JR train

YONAGO, Japan - Workers affix pictures of local scenery and masks used in the "Iwami Kagura" Shinto sacred dance to a JR Sanko Line train at a rail yard in Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 21, 2014.

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Giant squids successively caught along Japan Sea coast

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in January 2014 shows a giant squid that was taken to Ajiro new port in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture after being caught in a dragnet.

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Giant squid

TOTTORI, Japan - Photo shows a giant squid landed at a port in the town of Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 21, 2014. The squid caught by a trawler was 3.4 meters long and estimated to have been a total of about 8 meters including its lost long tentacles.

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Japan's Iwami silver mine to become World Heritage site

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A photo taken in May 2007 shows the hot spring resort town of Yunotsu that leads up to the ruins of the 16th-20th century Iwami silver mine at Mt. Sennoyama in the background. A panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decided on June 28 to put the ruins in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on the World Heritage List as a cultural heritage site.

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Japan's Iwami silver mine to become World Heritage site

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Tourists walk through a narrow shaft at the ruins of the 16th-20th century Iwami silver mine in a photo taken in May 2007. A panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decided on June 28 to put the ruins in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on the World Heritage List as a cultural heritage site.

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Japan to recommend old Iwami silver mine as World Heritage site

TOKYO, Japan - Japan decided Sept. 15 to recommend the site of the closed Iwami silver mine (photo taken June 2) in Shimane Prefecture as a candidate cultural World Heritage site.

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Construction trolley falls, kills worker, injures 2

TOTTORI, Japan - Police investigators examine a trolley, which plunged about 80 meters off its track, at Urademe beach in the town of Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 26. Yoshihiro Murakami, one of the four people on board the trolley used for building a public bathroom on the beach, died from the incident.

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Construction trolley falls, kills worker, injures 2

TOTTORI, Japan - Police investigators examine a trolley, which plunged about 80 meters off its track, at Urademe beach in the town of Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, on Jan. 26. Yoshihiro Murakami, one of the four people on board the trolley used for building a public bathroom on the beach, died from the incident.

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World heritage-listed Japanese mine looking for more tourists

File photo taken in 2007 shows a tunnel in the Iwami Ginzan silver mine in the western Japanese city of Oda, Shimane Prefecture. A bus service directly connecting the world heritage site and the Izumo-taisha, one of the most famous shrines in Japan, will start on Aug. 8, 2015, to draw more tourists to the site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitor tastes Japanese snack food at Expo Milano

A visitor to an event square of the Japanese Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015 prepares to try out a "karinoto" fried snack food from Himeji in the western Japanese prefecture of Hyogo at the fair in Milan, Italy, on July 19, 2015. Visiting Himeji Mayor Toshikatsu Iwami pitched Himeji Castle, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site, as well as the food at an event in front of the Japanese Pavilion. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fans flock to photo shoot in western Japan to re-create anime scene

Costume play fans of popular animation "Free!" pose at the poolside of a high school in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on April 4, 2014, during a photo shoot organized by a local tourism board, complete with cherry blossom petals floating on the water, to re-create an important scene in the anime's final episode. Many of the landscapes and locations featured in the anime are based on actual places in Iwami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Himeji Castle, Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle sign friendship pact

Hyogo Gov. Toshizo Ido (L) and Himeji Mayor Toshikatsu Iwami (2nd from L) pose for photos with German officials after signing a tourism promotion treaty, in front of the renovated Himeji Castle, a world heritage site and national treasure, on March 26, 2015. Japan's Himeji Castle and Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria inked a friendship pact to cooperate on tourism promotion. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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German bakery luring visitors to town near Iwami Ginzan silver mine

Photo taken in December 2015 shows Kosaku Hidaka, manager of German bakery Hidaka in Oda, Shimane Prefecture, preparing to bake pretzels. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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German bakery luring visitors to town near Iwami Ginzan silver mine

Photo taken in December 2015 shows the inside of German bakery Hidaka in Oda, Shimane Prefecture, crowded with shoppers from within and outside of the prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Jones wants to end ARC campaign with powerful performance

Japan center Riho Kurogi trains at Aberdeen Sports Ground on May 22, 2015, ahead of the final game of the women's Asia Rugby Championship against Hong Kong the following day. The Iwami Chisuikan High School student turned 17 earlier this month. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to recommend old Iwami silver mine as World Heritage site

TOKYO, Japan - Japan decided Sept. 15 to recommend the site of the closed Iwami silver mine (photo taken June 2) in Shimane Prefecture as a candidate cultural World Heritage site. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Iwami silver mine to become World Heritage site

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - A photo taken in May 2007 shows the hot spring resort town of Yunotsu that leads up to the ruins of the 16th-20th century Iwami silver mine at Mt. Sennoyama in the background. A panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decided on June 28 to put the ruins in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on the World Heritage List as a cultural heritage site. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Iwami silver mine to become World Heritage site

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Tourists walk through a narrow shaft at the ruins of the 16th-20th century Iwami silver mine in a photo taken in May 2007. A panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decided on June 28 to put the ruins in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, on the World Heritage List as a cultural heritage site. (Kyodo)

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With Japanese help, pottery makers thrive again in Cambodia

ANDONG RUSSEY, Cambodia - Japanese Iwami Shinsuke tells Cambodian ceramic makers how to make better products in Andong Russey Village in Cambodia on March 8, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University's Kotaro Kondo (R) hands the sash to Shuya Iwami in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, during the return leg of the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay on Jan. 3, 2021. (Pool photo)

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Broken stone wall at World Heritage site of Iwami Ginzan

A stone wall is seen broken at the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Iwami Ginzan silver mine in Shimane Prefecture on April 11, 2018 after a major earthquake hit the western Japan prefecture two days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cultivation of mackerel

Photo taken on March 5, 2018, shows mackerel cultivated at a land facility in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, the first of its kind in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cultivation of mackerel

A man shows off mackerel during an event held in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on March 5, 2018, to mark Japan's first cultivation of the fish at a land facility in Iwami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cultivation of mackerel

Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai eats mackerel during an event held in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, to mark Japan's first cultivation of the fish at a land facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cultivation of mackerel

Photo taken on March 5, 2018, shows mackerel cultivated at a land facility in Iwami, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, the first of its kind in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(3)Japan to proposes additional World Heritage sites

TOKYO, Japan - Archive photo shows the remains of the Iwami silver mine in western Shimane Prefecture, discovered in the 14th century. It was one of the most important sources of silver in the Edo period (1600-1868). A government advisory panel decided Nov. 17 to propose the remains and two other Japanese cultural sites for the World Heritage List of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).