Yokohama Marathon 2015

Yokohama Marathon 2015

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa, actress Ayame Goriki, actor Shosuke Tanihara, and Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi (from L, front row) hold a promotional panel for the first Yokohama Marathon slated for March 2015, at an event in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 23, 2014.

Time capsule to be sent to moon

Time capsule to be sent to moon

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Pupils write down their future goals for a time capsule at Atsugi elementary school in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 23, 2014. The time capsule carrying their messages will be sent to the moon and collected after 30 years from the launch scheduled in October 2015.

Choue Okuno

Choue Okuno

Choue Okuno, chairman of the Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives (photo taken on June 23, 2015)

MSDF plane takes flight over South China Sea off Philippines

MSDF plane takes flight over South China Sea off Philippines

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines, June 26 Kyodo - Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Cmdr. Hiromi Hamano (C) takes reporters' questions in Puerto Princesa on the Philippine island of Palawan on June 23, 2015, after taking a flight over the South China Sea with MSDF and Philippine military members aboard. Japan and the Philippines conducted a joint exercise off the island of Palawan not far from the disputed Spratly Islands.

WWII Japanese navy bunker under Keio campus shown to press

WWII Japanese navy bunker under Keio campus shown to press

TOKYO, June 26 Kyodo - Keio Senior High School teacher Takeshi Akuzawa briefs the press on an underground tunnel at Keio University's Hiyoshi campus in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on June 23, 2015. The maze-like tunnel was used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final months of World War II.