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Japan: Typhoon Peipah Leaves Widespread Damage Across Prefectures

Typhoon Peipah made landfall early Friday, September 5, bringing heavy rain and flooding across a wide area from western to eastern Japan. The typhoon first came ashore near Sukumo City in Kochi Prefecture before dawn, then made a second landfall in northern Wakayama Prefecture around 9:00 a.m. Fallen trees, landslides, and roof damage, among other destruction, were reported across multiple prefectures.

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Tsunami warning issued in Japan

People check evacuation information at JR Kamakura Station in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on July 30, 2025, following the suspension of railway services after a tsunami warning for the country's Pacific coast issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency in the wake of a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Sumo: Former ozeki Konishiki undergoes kidney transplant

KAMAKURA, Japan, Dec. 23 Kyodo - Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki, 60, the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the second-highest rank of ozeki, attends a press conference at a hospital in Kamakura near Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2024, as he reveals that he had a kidney failure and received an organ transplanted from his wife. (Kyodo)

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Sumo: Former ozeki Konishiki undergoes kidney transplant

Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki, 60, the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the second-highest rank of ozeki, attends a press conference at a hospital in Kamakura near Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2024, as he reveals that he had a kidney failure and received an organ transplanted from his wife.

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Sumo: Former ozeki Konishiki undergoes kidney transplant

Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki, 60, the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the second-highest rank of ozeki, attends a press conference at a hospital in Kamakura near Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2024, as he reveals that he had a kidney failure and received an organ transplanted from his wife.

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Sumo: Former ozeki Konishiki undergoes kidney transplant

Hawaiian-born former sumo wrestler Konishiki, 60, the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the second-highest rank of ozeki, attends a press conference at a hospital in Kamakura near Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2024, as he reveals that he had a kidney failure and received an organ transplanted from his wife.

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Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine

Photo taken on March 13, 2024, shows Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in Kamakura near Tokyo.

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Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine

Photo taken on March 13, 2024, shows Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in Kamakura near Tokyo.

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Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine

Photo taken on March 13, 2024, shows Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in Kamakura near Tokyo.

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Snowfall in Tokyo region

Photo taken on Feb. 5, 2024, shows Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in the snow in Kamakura near Tokyo.

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Snowfall in Tokyo region

Photo taken on Feb. 5, 2024, shows Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in the snow in Kamakura near Tokyo.

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Japanese novelist Kawabata

KAMAKURA, Japan, Oct. 11 Kyodo - Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata meets the press at his home in Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 18, 1968, the day he was officially informed that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Nobel laureate Japanese novelist Kawabata

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Swedish Ambassador to Japan Karl Almqvist (R) officially informs Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata (L) that he has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature during a visit to his home in Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 18, 1968. (Kyodo)

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Tourists flock to Slam Dunk location

Tourists take pictures at a seaside railway crossing featured in the Japanese basketball-themed comic series Slam Dunk in Kamakura near Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2023.

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BEAUTY IN THE RAIN

BEAUTY IN THE RAIN==Date:1990, Place:Kamakura,JAPAN, (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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ELEMENTARY JAZZ

ELEMENTARY JAZZ,elementary school jazz band, Ueki Liturgical Echo Ensemble, jazz big band, brass instruments, children, practice, Kamakura Municipal Ueki Elementary School=Date:1994, Place:Kamakura, kanagawa,JAPAN

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KAMAKURA IN THE RAIN

KAMAKURA IN THE RAIN,Kamakura and hydrangea, Kotokuin Temple, Great Buddha of Kamakura, temple, rain=Date: July,1994, Place:Kamakura, Kanagawa,JAPAN=Date:1994, Place:JAPAN

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Hydrangeas at Kamakura temple

People stroll at Meigetsuin temple, famous for hydrangeas, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 6, 2023. About 2,500 hydrangeas are now in full bloom at the temple in the ancient Japanese capital.

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Illuminated snow domes in northeastern Japan

Candles illuminate snow domes during a photo session on the eve of the opening of an annual snow festival dating back around 450 years in the Akita Prefecture city of Yokote, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2023. The Yokote Kamakura Festival, named after the snow domes called "kamakura," will be held with tourists for the first time in three years after the recent lifting of COVID-19 restrictions in Japan.

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Illuminated snow domes in northeastern Japan

Candles illuminate snow domes during a photo session on the eve of the opening of an annual snow festival dating back around 450 years in the Akita Prefecture city of Yokote, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2023. The Yokote Kamakura Festival, named after the snow domes called "kamakura," will be held with tourists for the first time in three years after the recent lifting of COVID-19 restrictions in Japan.

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Illuminated snow domes in northeastern Japan

Candles illuminate a snow dome during a photo session on the eve of the opening of an annual snow festival dating back around 450 years in the Akita Prefecture city of Yokote, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2023. The Yokote Kamakura Festival, named after the snow domes called "kamakura," will be held with tourists for the first time in three years after the recent lifting of COVID-19 restrictions in Japan.

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Japan beach receives international Blue Flag award

YOKOSUKA, Japan, July 1 Kyodo - Children play in the water at Yuigahama beach in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo on July 1, 2016, the first day of the sea-bathing season for the beach. The beach has received the Blue Flag designation, an international award given by the Copenhagen-based Foundation for Environmental Education to beaches and marinas that implement sustainable management and meet high standards in safety and conservation.

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Kyoto museum confirms long missing novel sword

KYOTO, Japan - The Kyoto National Museum displays a sword confirmed as the legendary "Shimazu Masamune" crafted by Okazaki Masamune, one of Japan's most outstanding swordsmiths active in the late Kamakura period (1192-1333), in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 14, 2014. The sword had been missing for some 150 years since the Tokugawa shogunate presented it to the imperial family in the late Edo period (1603-1867).

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Powerful typhoon hits Japanese archipelago

TOKYO, Japan - High waves are generated by powerful typhoon Phanfone off the coast of the Japanese tourist city of Kamakura near Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2014. A U.S. serviceperson was reported to have died after being swept away by high waves in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

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Traditional mounted archery performed in Kamakura, Japan

KAMAKURA, Japan - An archer on a running horse shoots an arrow at a wooden target at the Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu shrine in a show of traditional "Yabusame" Japanese archery in Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo, on Sept. 16, 2014. The martial art dates back to the beginning of the Kamakura period some 800 years ago.

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'Fox dance' fiesta held in northwestern Japan

OITA, Japan - Children disguising themselves as foxes perform a frolicsome fox dance by holding lantern-lit umbrellas during a "bon" midsummer Buddhist festival in Himeshima, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 14, 2014. The fox dance originates from a Buddhist incantation dance in the Kamakura era (1192-1333).

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Beach in Kamakura

KAMAKURA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 27, 2014, shows crowded Yuigahama beach in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Writer Osaragi's draft of nonfiction piece discovered

TOKYO, Japan - Masako Nojiri (L), an adopted daughter of the late writer Jiro Osaragi, is seen reading an original draft of one of Osaragi's nonfiction pieces on June 24, 2014, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. The items discovered at the residence of Osaragi's editor include his draft of "Panama Jiken," meaning the Panama Incident, and his letters. The items were returned to Nojiri, who then donated them to the Osaragi Jiro Memorial Museum in Yokohama, south of Tokyo.

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Hula dance performance at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura

YOKOHAMA, Japan - People from the Hawaiian island of Kauai dance a hula on the Maiden, a stage for dance and music performances, at the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on May 17, 2014.

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Hula dance performance at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura

YOKOHAMA, Japan - People from the Hawaiian island of Kauai dance a hula on the Maiden, a stage for dance and music performances, at the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on May 17, 2014.

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Nickname sought for Yuigahama Beach in Kamakura, Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Beachgoers flock to Yuigahama Beach in Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo, in this file photo taken in August 2013. Yuigahama is one of three beaches in Kamakura for which nicknames are being sought by Toshimaya, a local confectionary maker known for pigeon-shaped "Hato Sable" biscuits. The confectioner, which won 10-year naming rights for the beaches in 2013, is soliciting nickname applications through March 28, 2014.

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Kamakura festival

YOKOTE, Japan - Children bake rice cakes inside an igloo-like snow hut during the Kamakura festival in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2014.

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Kamakura festival

YOKOTE, Japan - Children bake rice cakes and enjoy "amazake" drinks inside igloo-like snow huts during the Kamakura festival in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2014.

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Kamakura festival

YOKOTE, Japan - Photo shows igloo-like snow huts during the Kamakura festival in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2014.

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Kamakura festival

YOKOTE, Japan - A couple pose for a photo inside an igloo-like snow hut with a heart-shaped entrance during the Kamakura festival in Yokote, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2014, or Valentine's Day.

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Strong typhoon approaching Japan

KAMAKURA, Japan - High waves crash onto a beach in Kamakura, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2013, as Typhoon Wipha approaches Japan. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the typhoon, the strongest to hit eastern Japan around Tokyo in ten years, could make landfall in the Kanto area including Tokyo on the morning of Oct. 16.

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Strong typhoon approaching Japan

KAMAKURA, Japan - High waves crash onto a beach in Kamakura, near Tokyo, on Oct. 15, 2013, as Typhoon Wipha approaches Japan. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the typhoon, the strongest to hit eastern Japan around Tokyo in ten years, could make landfall in the Kanto area including Tokyo on the morning of Oct. 16.

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Summer beach in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows parasols on Yuigahama beach in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 14, 2013, a day before the Marine Day national holiday in Japan.

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Meditation, music help people know more about themselves

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken June 11, 2013 shows one of the praying locations within the premises of a monastery in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Writer-cum-psychiatrist Nada Inada dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows writer-cum-psychiatrist Nada Inada during an interview in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, in April 2008. The renowned author of humorous and satirical books, whose real name was Shigeru Horiuchi, died on June 6, 2013, at the age of 83, sources said June 9.

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Kamakura to cancel World Heritage bid

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2013 shows the Great Buddha of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture. Kamakura Mayor Takashi Matsuo said May 27, 2013, he will ask the Agency for Cultural Affairs to drop its recommendation to list the ancient city near Tokyo to be registered on the World Heritage list.

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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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Great Buddha of Kamakura

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2013 shows the Great Buddha of Kamakura, in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. An advisory panel to UNESCO rejected Japan's request to add a group of cultural assets in the ancient city of Kamakura to the World Heritage list due to scarce assets directly linked to the medieval shogunate.

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Mitsubishi's new space satellite manufacturing plant

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 12, 2013, shows a new space satellite manufacturing factory of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Exhibit on pioneering Russian ballerina opens in Kamakura

KAMAKURA, Japan - A photo exhibition chronicling the life of Nadejda Pavlova (1906-1982), a pioneering Russian ballerina, opens in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture on Sept. 29, 2012. Pavlova fled her native Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution to settle in Japan and popularized the art of ballet dancing in the Asian country.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a noted classical music critic, standing in the garden of his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture in January 2012. Yoshida's family on May 27, 2012, said that he died of acute heart failure on May 22 at his home at age 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida (R), a Japanese classical music critic, receiving the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in November 2006. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in December 2011 shows (from L) novelist Saiichi Maruya, classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida and conductor Seiji Ozawa, chatting at a party to celebrate the awarding of the Order of Culture to Maruya. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a Japanese classical music critic, during an interview at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, in April 2009. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in the city. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in September 2009 shows Hidekazu Yoshida, a Japanese classical music critic. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.