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State visit of Japan's emperor, empress to Mongolia

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (C, L) and Empress Masako (front, L), meet with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh and his wife Luvsandorjiin Bolortsetseg in a ceremonial ger, a Mongolian portable round tent for distinguished guests, in Ulaanbaatar on July 8, 2025, during their state visit to Mongolia. (Pool photo)

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State visit of Japan's emperor, empress to Mongolia

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (C, L) and Empress Masako (front, L), meet with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh and his wife Luvsandorjiin Bolortsetseg in a ceremonial ger, a Mongolian portable round tent for distinguished guests, in Ulaanbaatar on July 8, 2025, during their state visit to Mongolia. (Pool photo)

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State visit of Japan's emperor, empress to Mongolia

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (C, L) speaks with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh in a ceremonial ger, a Mongolian portable round tent for distinguished guests, in Ulaanbaatar on July 8, 2025, during the emperor and Empress Masako's state visit to Mongolia. (Pool photo)

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State visit of Japan's emperor, empress to Mongolia

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako (blue), meet with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh and his wife Luvsandorjiin Bolortsetseg in a ceremonial ger, a Mongolian portable round tent for distinguished guests, in Ulaanbaatar on July 8, 2025, during their state visit to Mongolia. (Pool photo)

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State visit of Japan's emperor, empress to Mongolia

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako (blue), meet with Mongolian President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh and his wife Luvsandorjiin Bolortsetseg in a ceremonial ger, a Mongolian portable round tent for distinguished guests, in Ulaanbaatar on July 8, 2025, during their state visit to Mongolia. (Pool photo)

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Japan festival in London

A visitor makes a purchase at a tent promoting fruits of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture during a Japan festival at Trafalgar Square in London on Oct. 6, 2024.

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Japan festival in London

Visitors gather at a tent promoting foods of Japan's Hokkaido during a Japan festival at Trafalgar Square in London on Oct. 6, 2024.

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Aftermath of strong quake in central Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 12, 2024, shows a temporary toilet tent used as a women's dressing room at an evacuation center in Nanao in central Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture, following a strong earthquake on Jan. 1.

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Xinhua Headlines: Major earthquake hits central Japan on New Year's Day, causing casualties, widespread structural damage

(240102) -- TOKYO, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Residents of an earthquake-affected house transfer daily supplies to a tent in Hakui, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, Jan. 2, 2024. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-ISHIKAWA-EARTHQUAKES-AFTERMATH

(240102) -- ISHIKAWA, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Residents of an earthquake-affected house transfer daily supplies to a tent in Hakui, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, Jan. 2, 2024. The death toll has risen to 30 after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the area in central Japan and the vicinity, national news agency Kyodo citing local authorities. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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(FOCUS)JAPAN-ISHIKAWA-EARTHQUAKES-AFTERMATH

(240102) -- ISHIKAWA, Jan. 2, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Residents of an earthquake-affected house transfer daily supplies to a tent in Hakui, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, Jan. 2, 2024. The death toll has risen to 30 after a series of powerful earthquakes hit the area in central Japan and the vicinity, national news agency Kyodo citing local authorities. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Iraqi refugees from militant attacks endure intense winter

TOKYO, Japan - A mother and child fleeing attacks by Islamic State extremists brave the cold in a makeshift tent in the mountains in northern Iraq on Dec. 9, 2014, trying to start a fire with wood gathered to keep themselves warm in the cold weather.

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Chinese participant in H.K. pro-democracy campaign

TOKYO, Japan - Wang Deng Yao, a Chinese participant in a pro-democracy campaign in Hong Kong, poses beside his tent in Causeway Bay on Dec. 13, 2014, two days before his arrest along with other occupants. He said he wants to tell fellow Chinese about the preciousness of Hong Kong's freedom of expression.

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Colorful work gloves designed by Japanese students

LONDON, Britain - Colorful cotton work gloves, called "Guntie" and designed by students in the Faculty of Textile Science and Technology of Shinshu University in Japan's Nagano Prefecture, are on display at Tent London, an interior design trade show, in the British capital on Sept. 18, 2014. The exhibit marks Guntie's first exposure overseas.

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Human chain to protest against nuke plant restart

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a civic organization opposing the restart of nuclear power plants surround the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry building in Tokyo on Sept. 11, 2014. It is three years since the organization set up a tent in front of the building in a show of protest.

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Cultural exchange program for foreign students in Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Some 300 students from 84 countries and regions attend an opening ceremony for a "Japan TENT" event in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 20, 2014. The weeklong event till Aug. 26 is designed to allow the students to experience local culture and traditions

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Cultural exchange program for foreign students in Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Szczygiel Elzbieta, a Polish student at Osaka University, addresses an opening ceremony for a "Japan TENT" event in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 20, 2014. Some 300 students from 84 countries and regions joined the weeklong event till Aug. 26 designed to allow them to experience local culture and traditions.

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Antinuclear protests in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - People have their umbrellas up as they look on at an hour-long live program under rain at "Tent Square" on Feb. 15, 2013, in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki government district. The program was transmitting voices and messages disapproving of atomic-power use, which has long been promoted by the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry (at right in the background).

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Children affected by earthquake in eastern Turkey

TOKYO, Japan - Children huddle around a fire to keep warm on Nov. 1, 2011, at a tent site in Van, eastern Turkey, for people affected by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit the area on Oct. 23.

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People affected by M7.2 earthquake in eastern Turkey

TOKYO, Japan - Women hug each other outside a tent providing temporary shelter for people affected by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake, in Ercis, eastern Turkey, on Oct. 30, 2011. The disaster occurred Oct. 23.

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Bench convertible to evacuation life raft

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a woman sitting on a Bench Floater Noah. Osaka-based tent maker Taiyo Kogyo Corp. said Sept. 5, 2011, that it has developed the bench which it says can be easily converted into a life raft for use in the event of major flooding. The company will put the product on sale for 80,000 yen from Sept. 7 and is aiming to sell it mainly to municipalities.

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Libya's Qaddafi meets with Japan's Koike, calls for closer ties

TRIPOLI, Libya - Former Japanese Defense Minister Yuriko Koike (2nd from L), a House of Representatives member from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, hands gifts to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi (R) after their meeting in a tent in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Nov. 20, 2009. Qaddafi met with a Japanese business delegation led by Koike, who currently heads the Japan-Libya Friendship Association, and called for closer relations between the two countries.

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Hibiya tent village organizers ask opposition parties for help

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Yuasa (4th from R, holding microphone), the organizer of a tent village set up for laid-off temporary workers in Tokyo's Hibiya Park during the New Year holidays, called on opposition party lawmakers to form a more systematic support system for such people at a meeting at the No. 1 House of Representatives lawmakers' building in Tokyo on Jan. 19. Naoto Kan, acting president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, promised to take up the issue during ongoing deliberations at the House of Councillors' Budget Committee ''as quickly as possible.''

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Temp workers given shelter, appeal for aid for unemployed

TOKYO, Japan - Temporary workers who have lost their jobs and places to live in the current economic slump and other homeless workers line up to apply for new shelters offered by the government in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Jan. 5 after their ''tent village'' in Tokyo's Hibiya Park was closed.

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Tent village in central Tokyo draws some 400 homeless people

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people line up to get a meal at a temporary tent village in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo on Jan. 4. The tent village has drawn around 400 people without jobs or homes since it was set up by volunteers on New Year's Eve for the New Year holiday period.

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Population of tent village for homeless tops 250

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people form a long line to get a free meal at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Jan. 2. The ''year-crossing temp worker village'' was launched in Hibiya Park in Tokyo to provide free food and shelter for homeless people including laid-off temporary workers who have been forced to leave accommodation provided by their employers.

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Population of tent village for homeless tops 250

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people line up to get a free lunch at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Jan. 2. The ''year-crossing temp worker village'' was launched in Hibiya Park in front of the Imperial Hotel, one of the country's most luxurious hotels, to provide free food and shelter for homeless people including laid-off temporary workers who have been forced to leave accommodation provided by their employers.

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Man dies, several hurt as wind knocks down tent in Fukui Pref.

TSURUGA, Japan - Strong winds knocked down a large tent in a park in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, leaving a man dead and several others injured July 27. The park was hosting an event organized by the city government.

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High court overturns ruling on park as homeless man's address

OSAKA, Japan - Yuji Yamauchi, a homeless man who has lived in a pegged tent in Ogimachi Park in Osaka and received his mail there, faced an Osaka High Court ruling on Jan. 23 which overturned a lower court ruling that a park can be registered as an address of a homeless man. The ward office refused to register the park as his address in March 2004, prompting him to file the lawsuit with the Osaka District Court to demand the local government rescind the decision.

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GSDF team rests at U.S. base in Kuwait

CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait - Yoji Fukuda (L), a member of an advance team for a contingent of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) being sent to Iraq, responds to questions from reporters inside a tent at the U.S. Army's Camp Virginia base in Kuwait on Jan. 18 where the GSDF members were to stay the night.

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Japanese GSDF advance team stays at U.S. Army base

CAMP VIRGINIA, Kuwait - The inside of a large tent at the U.S. Army's Camp Virginia base in Kuwait where an advance team for a detachment of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) being sent to Iraq was to spend the night of Jan. 18.

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(2)Japan's advance troops arrive in U.S. camp in Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - About 30 members of an advance team from Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force line up in a tent at Camp Virginia, a U.S. army base in western Kuwait, on Jan. 17 after arriving there to prepare for their mission in Iraq.

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3 campers injured by fallen tree in typhoon

SAPPORO, Japan - A tree, knocked to the ground by strong winds from Typhoon Maemi, fell on a tent at a campsite at Lake Shikotsu in Chitose, Hokkaido, on Sept. 14, injuring three campers. One of the three was hit on the head and fell into a coma.

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3 firms to sell new air tent for SARS treatment

TOKYO, Japan - Trading house Itochu Corp., machinery maker Ebara Jitsugyo Co. and chemicals firm Achilles Corp. said June 17 they will market a negative-pressure air tent (in handout photo) that can be used as isolation chambers for treatment of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). The air tent, priced at 4.8 million yen, will go on sale on June 18 with sales targeted at 100 units by the end of this year, they said.

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IWC participant from Tonga stages antiwhaling campaign

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - A participant from Tonga stages an antiwhaling demonstration in Shimonoseki, western Japan, on May 19 beside a traditional Tongan tent prior to the International Whaling Commission's (IWC) annual meeting there May 20-24.

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U.S. Embassy staff sorting mail taking antibiotics

TOKYO, Japan - An employee of the U.S. Embassy in Japan checks mail in an isolated tent in the embassy compound in Tokyo on Dec. 27. Embassy mail personnel, most of them Japanese nationals, have been checking mail in the tent since the anthrax scare began in the United States and taking antibiotics as a precaution, several sources close to the embassy said.

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American reaches Okinawa ending walking trip through Japan

NAHA, Japan - Gregory Michel, a 28-year-old American environmentalist, holds a bouquet at the Peace Memorial Park in the southern Okinawa city of Itoman on Dec. 14 after completing a two-year trip walking through Japan. Michel, a staff member of a private educational organization on the environment, began the trip sponsored by his organization, the World School Network in Tokyo, in September 1999 and spent about 300 days walking more than 4,000 kilometers through Japan, while living in a tent.

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U.S. Embassy staff sorting mail taking antibiotics

TOKYO, Japan - An employee of the U.S. Embassy in Japan checks mail in an isolated tent in the embassy compound in Tokyo on Dec. 27. Embassy mail personnel, most of them Japanese nationals, have been checking mail in the tent since the anthrax scare began in the United States and taking antibiotics as a precaution, several sources close to the embassy said.

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American reaches Okinawa ending walking trip through Japan

NAHA, Japan - Gregory Michel, a 28-year-old American environmentalist, holds a bouquet at the Peace Memorial Park in the southern Okinawa city of Itoman on Dec. 14 after completing a two-year trip walking through Japan. Michel, a staff member of a private educational organization on the environment, began the trip sponsored by his organization, the World School Network in Tokyo, in September 1999 and spent about 300 days walking more than 4,000 kilometers through Japan, while living in a tent.

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A Sumo contest

Two Sumo wrestlers crouch in a ring with two referees under an ornimental tent. The competition is about to start. There are many spectators. Date: 1932

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All-cast cast to solidify - Ikeda's new cabinet

Mr.Hayato Ikeda, who had been greatly enriched by the John F Kennedy meeting, embarked on a cabinet reshuffle in order to create a big-name cabinet suitable for Japan in the world. Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda getting out of a car, Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda talking with politicians, Kakuei Tanaka, Chairman of the Diet, wiping away sweat, politicians entering the Prime Minister's official residence lined with tent cities, commemorative photo shoot for the inauguration of the Cabinet, shooting date unknown, release date: July 21, 196.

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Mitsuro Ohba 6

TOKYO, Japan - Adventurer Mitsuro Ohba stands by his tent and sledge on the South Pole on Jan. 4, 1999. The U.S. Amundsen Scott base is on background. (Kyodo)

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Tent community closed in quake-hit town

People put away tents in the earthquake-damaged southwestern Japan town of Mashiki on May 31, 2016, as a temporary refuge for evacuees closed. The evacuees, who stayed in their cars following a series of powerful quakes in April, moved to the tents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quake-hit town to remove evacuation tents for fear of heatstroke

A man folds up his tent at a tent village in the town of Mashiki, one of the communities hit hardest by a series of powerful earthquakes since mid-April in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on May 24, 2016. The local government began the same day to relocate people staying in the tent village to other evacuation centers to protect them from possible heatstroke due to scorching weather. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Evacuees from quakes still stay in tents

Evacuees from a series of powerful earthquakes eat dinner in a tent in the southwestern Japan village of Nishihara on May 12, 2016. They are calling on the authorities to build temporary housing as soon as possible. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Strong winds blow in western Japan

Photo taken May 11, 2016, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a circus tent collapsed by strong winds at the resort island Wakayama Marina City in the western Japan city of Wakayama. Strong winds whipped through the wide area of eastern and western Japan the same day, also affecting traffic systems in the Tokyo metropolitan area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fears Uto city hall may collapse after suffering heavy quake damage

Photo taken from a drone on April 18, 2016, shows the municipal office building of the southwestern Japan city of Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, that has been designated off-limits after being seriously damaged by powerful earthquakes. It is feared the five-story city hall, whose fourth floor has already collapsed, may sustain further damage, leading city officials to conduct business from a tent. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fears Uto city hall may collapse after suffering heavy quake damage

Photo taken from a drone on April 18, 2016, shows the municipal office building of the southwestern Japan city of Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, that has been designated off-limits after being seriously damaged by powerful earthquakes. It is feared the five-story city hall, whose fourth floor has already collapsed, may sustain further damage, leading city officials to conduct business from a tent. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quakes hit southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto

Officials of the southwestern Japan city of Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, conduct business from a tent on April 18, 2016, as the municipal office building is in danger of collapse following a series of powerful earthquakes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quakes hit southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto

Photo taken April 18, 2016, shows the municipal office building of the southwestern Japan city of Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, that has been off-limits after being seriously damaged by powerful earthquakes. The city officials are conducting business from a tent. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo