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Campaigning for general election in Japan

Campaigning for general election in Japan

Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda makes a stump speech in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2026, as official campaigning began in Japan the previous day for the House of Representatives election on Feb. 8.

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Campaigning for general election in Japan

Campaigning for general election in Japan

Centrist Reform Alliance co-leader Yoshihiko Noda makes a stump speech in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2026, as official campaigning began in Japan the previous day for the House of Representatives election on Feb. 8.

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Train collides with out-of-service train near Tokyo

Train collides with out-of-service train near Tokyo

Investigators from the Japan Transport Safety Board and employees of train operator Tokyo Railways inspect on Oct. 6, 2025, two trains that collided the previous night near Kajigaya Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. A train bound for Tokyo's Shibuya collided with an out-of-service train, causing part of it to derail. No one was injured.

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Train collides with out-of-service train near Tokyo

Train collides with out-of-service train near Tokyo

Staff at Tokyu Railways' Kajigaya Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, notify passengers about free alternative transportation on Oct. 6, 2025, after two trains collided the previous night near the station, suspending service.

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Train collides with out-of-service train near Tokyo

Train collides with out-of-service train near Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 6, 2025, shows two trains that collided the previous night near Tokyu Railways' Kajigaya Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Kawasaki Frontale players celebrate after beating Shanghai Shenhua of China in an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Kawasaki Frontale players celebrate after beating Shanghai Shenhua of China in an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Erison (9) of Kawasaki Frontale reacts after scoring the team's second goal in the second half of an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match against Shanghai Shenhua of China in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Erison (C) of Kawasaki Frontale reacts after scoring the team's second goal in the second half of an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match against Shanghai Shenhua of China in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Erison (C) of Kawasaki Frontale scores the team's second goal in the second half of an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match against Shanghai Shenhua of China in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Tatsuya Ito (C) of Kawasaki Frontale scores the team's third goal in the second half of an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match against Shanghai Shenhua of China in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Erison (C) of Kawasaki Frontale scores the team's second goal in the second half of an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match against Shanghai Shenhua of China in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Asahi Sasaki (L) of Kawasaki Frontale opens the scoring in the first half of an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match against Shanghai Shenhua of China in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Football-AFC Champions League Elite

Asahi Sasaki (L) of Kawasaki Frontale reacts after opening the scoring in the first half of an AFC Champions League Elite round of 16 second-leg football match against Shanghai Shenhua of China in Kawasaki, eastern Japan, on March 12, 2025.

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Abductee's mother

Abductee's mother

Sakie Yokota, 88, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, gives an interview in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Feb. 20, 2024.

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Abductee's mother

Abductee's mother

Sakie Yokota, 88, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, gives an interview in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Feb. 20, 2024, with photos of Megumi and Kim Eun Gyong, Megumi's daughter, by her side.

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Abductee's mother

Abductee's mother

Sakie Yokota, 88, whose daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea at age 13 in 1977, gives an interview in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Feb. 20, 2024, with photos of Megumi and Kim Eun Gyong, Megumi's daughter, by her side. (Kyodo)

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Abductee's kin

Abductee's kin

KAWASAKI, Japan - (From L) Sakie and Shigeru Yokota answer reporters' questions in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, after North Korea conducted a third nuclear test on Feb. 12, 2013. Their daughter Megumi was abducted by North Korea in 1977 at the age of 13.

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Ex-Taiwan Pres. Lee Teng-hui sees solar panel station

Ex-Taiwan Pres. Lee Teng-hui sees solar panel station

KAWASAKI, Japan - Visiting former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui touches real-size solar panels at a museum during his visit to a solar power station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Sept. 22, 2014.

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Large boiler installed at Kawasaki power station

Large boiler installed at Kawasaki power station

KAWASAKI, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows the installation of a large-scale boiler to the press at Kawasaki Thermal Power Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2014. The station is planned to start operations in fiscal 2016.

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View from Kawasaki tower listed as 'night scene heritage'

View from Kawasaki tower listed as 'night scene heritage'

KAWASAKI, Japan - A night view from the Kawasaki Marien tower in Kawasaki, neighboring Tokyo, photographed on Aug. 11, 2014, has been added to a list of "night scenery heritage sites" in Japan selected by a private group. The Tokyo Skytree broadcasting tower is seen in the distance and the light line running across is a residual image of light left by aircraft.

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Okubo, Ugajin compete for ball

Okubo, Ugajin compete for ball

KAWASAKI, Japan - Kawasaki Frontale's Yoshito Okubo (L) and Tomoya Ugajin of Urawa Reds compete for the ball during the first half of a J-League game at Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 9, 2014. Kawasaki won 2-1.

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Specter wristwatch-type toy gains enormous popularity

Specter wristwatch-type toy gains enormous popularity

TOKYO, Japan - Brothers show off their wristwatch-type toys, DX specter watch type zero, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 2, 2014. The toy has been gaining enormous popularity in Japan.

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Photo exhibit on abductee to N. Korea starts in Kawasaki

Photo exhibit on abductee to N. Korea starts in Kawasaki

KAWASAKI, Japan - Some 40 photos of Megumi Yokota, who has become a symbol of Japanese nationals abducted in the past by North Korea, are shown at an exhibition on July 28, 2014, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, where her aging parents Shigeru and Sakie Yokota live.

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Captured red-tailed black cockatoo kept at police station

Captured red-tailed black cockatoo kept at police station

KAWASAKI, Japan - A red-tailed black cockatoo captured on the threshold of a private residence is displayed to the press at a police station in Kawasaki, west of Tokyo, on June 9, 2014.

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Man arrested for possessing guns created by 3-D printer

Man arrested for possessing guns created by 3-D printer

KAWASAKI, Japan - Seized machine tools are carried out from home of Yoshitomo Imura in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 8, 2014. Imura was arrested the same day on suspicion of illegally possessing two guns created by a 3-D printer.

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Kawasaki's Okubo fires shot against Seoul in ACL game

Kawasaki's Okubo fires shot against Seoul in ACL game

KAWASAKI, Japan - Forward Yoshito Okubo (L) of Kawasaki Frontale fires a shot before the Japanese football club's 3-2 defeat at home to FC Seoul in the Asian Champions League round of 16 in Kawasaki, west of Tokyo, on May 7, 2014.

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Frontale's Okubo scores in 3-1 win over Ulsan

Frontale's Okubo scores in 3-1 win over Ulsan

KAWASAKI, Japan - Yoshito Okubo scores in Kawasaki Frontale's 3-1 victory over South Korea's Ulsan Hyundai in a Group H match in the Asian Champions League on April 22, 2014 in Kawasaki, Japan. The Japanese football club booked its place in the last 16 of the competition.

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Project under way to see inside reactors with "muons"

Project under way to see inside reactors with "muons"

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 31, 2014 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, shows Haruo Miyadera, a Toshiba Corp. researcher who is engaged in a project to see into the interior of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant which suffered meltdowns due to the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 using elementary particles called "muons."

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Kawasaki Frontale's Nakamura in action at ACL game

Kawasaki Frontale's Nakamura in action at ACL game

KAWASAKI, Japan - Japan midfielder Kengo Nakamura (R) of J-League club Kawasaki Frontale tries to dodge defender Chen Xavier of China's Guizhou Renhe in an AFC Champions League game in Kawasaki, Japan, on Feb. 26, 2014. Kawasaki won 1-0.

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Kawasaki Frontale's Igawa fires shot in ACL game

Kawasaki Frontale's Igawa fires shot in ACL game

KAWASAKI, Japan - Defender Yusuke Igawa of Japan's J-League club Kawasaki Frontale unleashes a shot as defender Chen Xavier of China's Guizhou Renhe closes in during an AFC Champions League game in Kawasaki, Japan, on Feb. 26, 2014. Kawasaki won 1-0.

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Renewed Toshiba Science Museum set to reopen

Renewed Toshiba Science Museum set to reopen

KAWASAKI, Japan - The refurbished Toshiba Science Museum in Kawasaki, Kanawaga Prefecture, is shown to the press on Jan. 23, 2014, prior to its reopening to the public on Jan. 31.

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Eagles win rights to lefty Matsui

Eagles win rights to lefty Matsui

KAWASAKI, Japan - Schoolmates toss Yuki Matsui of Toko Gakuen High School into the air at the school in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2013, after the Pacific League champion Rakuten Eagles won the negotiating rights to the highly rated lefty in the Nippon Professional Baseball's annual amateur draft.

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Secretive wartime weapons lab drawing fresh attention

Secretive wartime weapons lab drawing fresh attention

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Enji Ota, one of the former workers who divulge their wartime memories in the documentary film "Army Noborito Laboratory," gives an interview on Sept. 5, 2013, in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Internships becoming more oriented toward problem-solving

Internships becoming more oriented toward problem-solving

TOKYO, Japan - Students at Senshu University make a presentation of university dormitory construction plans under an internship program in collaboration with a dormitory operator on July 9, 2013 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Actor Natsuyagi dies

Actor Natsuyagi dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 7, 2013, shows Japanese actor Isao Natsuyagi. Natsuyagi died at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 11, 2013, at age 73. While the cause of death was not immediately revealed, he had suffered from pancreatic cancer, sources close to him said.

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Maestro Ozawa conducts elementary school choir

Maestro Ozawa conducts elementary school choir

KAWASAKI, Japan - Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa directs a choir at Minami-Ikuta Elementary School in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 27, 2013. Ozawa conducted the choir of 340 primary school pupils the same day, his first public performance since ill health forced him to suspend musical activities in March 2012.

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Kuroda before WBA title match

Kuroda before WBA title match

KAWASAKI, Japan - Ninth-ranked WBA flyweight Masayuki Kuroda (R) of Japan is pictured during an open practice session in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2013, before he faces WBA flyweight champion Juan Carlos Reveco of Argentina in a title match in Japan on Feb. 27.

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Kuroda before WBA title match

Kuroda before WBA title match

KAWASAKI, Japan - Ninth-ranked WBA flyweight Masayuki Kuroda (L) of Japan is pictured during an open practice session in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2013, before he faces WBA flyweight champion Juan Carlos Reveco of Argentina in a title match in Japan on Feb. 27.

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Abductees' relatives criticize N. Korea for rocket launch

Abductees' relatives criticize N. Korea for rocket launch

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shigeru Yokota (L) and his wife Sakie, parents of Megumi Yokota who was abducted at the age of 13 in 1977, speak with reporters in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 12, 2012. The Yokotas and other relatives of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the past criticized the country for its rocket launch the same day that could affect Tokyo-Pyongyang talks on the return of the abductees.

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Police release additional pictures of AUM fugitive

Police release additional pictures of AUM fugitive

TOKYO, Japan - Photos taken by a security camera show Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining AUM Shinrikyo fugitive wanted over the cult's 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, getting in a taxi after purchasing a carry-on bag at a supermarket in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 4, 2012. The Metropolitan Police Department released the additional photos of Takahashi on June 10.

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Happy birthday Gian

Happy birthday Gian

KAWASAKI, Japan - A ''birthday party'' is held for Gian, a bully character in the comic and animation series Doraemon, at Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 31, 2012.

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Myanmar president inspects power plants in Kanagawa

Myanmar president inspects power plants in Kanagawa

KAWASAKI, Japan - Myanmar President Thein Sein (C) points at a power generator model on display at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s thermal power plant in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on April 22, 2012.

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Griffey coaches children in Japan

Griffey coaches children in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Former major leaguer Ken Griffey Jr. watches children practice during a baseball clinic in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Jan. 15, 2012. Griffey held the event with Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge for children including ones from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, an area greatly affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster.

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Griffey coaches children in Japan

Griffey coaches children in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Former major leaguer Ken Griffey Jr. demonstrates batting during a baseball clinic in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Jan. 15, 2012. Griffey held the event with Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge for children including ones from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, an area greatly affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear disaster.

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Mariners manager in Japan

Mariners manager in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge speaks during a baseball clinic for Japanese children in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 15, 2012. The children included junior baseball team players from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, affected by the crisis at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Olympus raided

Olympus raided

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors head to the apartment of former Olympus Corp. Chairman and President Tsuyoshi Kikukawa in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, for a search on Dec. 21, 2011. Investigators searched offices and locations related to Olympus the same day on suspicion of falsification of financial reports in connection with the coverup of the company's massive investment losses.

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Mother of abductee Megumi Yokota

Mother of abductee Megumi Yokota

KAWASAKI, Japan - Sakie Yokota, whose daughter Megumi Yokota was abducted to North Korea in 1977 at age 13, speaks to reporters in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 19, 2011, after North Korea announced the death of its leader Kim Jong Il.

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Cellphone carrier practices setting up onboard base station

Cellphone carrier practices setting up onboard base station

TOKYO, Japan - KDDI Corp. employees practice setting up an onboard mobile communications base station on a riverbank in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2011. The cellphone carrier showed to reporters the drill to enhance preparedness for a disaster. The onboard mobile communications base station comprises a generator, wireless equipment and satellite communications apparatus on a truck that can emit radio waves as far as 2 kilometers via satellite in times of disaster.

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Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

Museum for Doraemon cartoonist opens in Kawasaki

KAWASAKI, Japan - People line up to enter the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on Sept. 3, 2011, the opening day of the museum. The museum is dedicated to the creator of the popular ''Doraemon'' cartoon series.

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