Hayabusa on exhibition at Kakuda Space Center in Miyagi

Hayabusa on exhibition at Kakuda Space Center in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - Visitors look at an exhibition of items associated with the Hayabusa unmanned space probe and retrieved in June after a seven-year round trip to the asteroid Itokawa at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kakuda Space Center in Miyagi Prefecture on Sept. 11, 2010.

Hayabusa on exhibition at Kakuda Space Center in Miyagi

Hayabusa on exhibition at Kakuda Space Center in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - Visitors look at an exhibition of items associated with the Hayabusa unmanned space probe and retrieved in June after a seven-year round trip to the asteroid Itokawa at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kakuda Space Center in Miyagi Prefecture on Sept. 11, 2010. (Kyodo)

New coronavirus

New coronavirus

Akihiro Oyama, president of household equipment maker Iris Ohyama Inc., meets the press at its factory in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 20, 2020. Preparations for making face masks were under way at the factory the same day, as Japan braces for possible second wave of coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

New coronavirus

New coronavirus

Preparations for making face masks are under way at household equipment maker Iris Ohyama Inc.'s factory in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 20, 2020, as Japan braces for possible second wave of coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Powerful Typhoon in Japan

Powerful Typhoon in Japan

A car is stuck on a caved-in road beside a river in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 13, 2019, a day after Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in eastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Powerful typhoon in Japan

Powerful typhoon in Japan

Residents are taken to safety by boat in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2019, after a nearby river overflowed due to Typhoon Hagibis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Powerful typhoon in Japan

Powerful typhoon in Japan

Residents are taken to safety by boat in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2019, after a nearby river overflowed due to Typhoon Hagibis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Powerful typhoon in Japan

Powerful typhoon in Japan

People remove mud and driftwood in Kakuda, Miyagi Prefecture on Oct. 13, 2019, after the northeastern Japan city was inundated due to Typhoon Hagibis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rice paddy art of figure skating star Hanyu

Rice paddy art of figure skating star Hanyu

Photo taken Aug. 8, 2019, shows rice paddy art depicting two-time Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu in Kakuda in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rice paddy art of figure skating star Hanyu

Rice paddy art of figure skating star Hanyu

Photo taken Aug. 8, 2019, shows rice paddy art depicting two-time Olympic figure skating champion Yuzuru Hanyu in Kakuda in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan firm succeeds in bluefin tuna farming with formulated feed

Japan firm succeeds in bluefin tuna farming with formulated feed

Haruo Kakuda, head of Hyoshoku Co., shows a bluefin tuna the seafood processing company has farmed by using only formulated feed in the southwestern Japan city of Oita on Sept. 7, 2016. The company said using such feed makes it easier to control the quality of the tuna regardless of the season. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo