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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train painted like a human face is pictured at a depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train painted like a human face is pictured at a depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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1st anniv. of bullet train Kamome

A Kamome bullet train prepares to depart JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2023, marking the first anniversary of the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

Passengers step onto a Kamome bullet train at JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

A Kamome bullet train departs JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

A Kamome bullet train is pictured before departing JR Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, marking the start of its commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures. (Pool photo)

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, to celebrate the start of commercial services of Kamome bullet trains on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train Kamome debuts

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force's Blue Impulse aerobatic team flies over the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on Sept. 23, 2022, to celebrate the start of commercial services of Kamome bullet trains on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

People take pictures of a Kamome bullet train at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Kamome bullet trains at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

A Kamome bullet train is pictured at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

Photo taken on Sept. 11, 2022, shows children inside a Kamome bullet train at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

Kamome bullet trains are pictured at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

Children pose in front of a Kamome bullet train at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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Kamome bullet trains to debut in late Sept.

Kamome bullet trains are pictured at a Kyushu Railway Co. depot in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, on Sept. 11, 2022, ahead of the Sept. 23 start of commercial services on the Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen Line in Saga and Nagasaki prefectures.

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New bullet train line in southwestern Japan

Kamome bullet train arrives at Shin Omura Station in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, for a test run on May 10, 2022, ahead of Kyushu Railway Co.'s Sept. 23 start of Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen services between Nagasaki and Takeo Onsen in Saga Prefecture.

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New bullet train line in southwestern Japan

Kamome bullet train arrives at Shin Omura Station in the Nagasaki Prefecture city of Omura, southwestern Japan, for a test run on May 10, 2022, ahead of Kyushu Railway Co.'s Sept. 23 start of Nishi Kyushu Shinkansen services between Nagasaki and Takeo Onsen in Saga Prefecture.

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Owner of tsunami-hit restaurant gets pep talk from "Ramen museum" head

Kenji Chiba (L), owner of the Kamome Diner restaurant in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, chats with Yoji Iwaoka, president of the Shinyokohama Raumen Museum on Nov. 17, 2015, two days before the opening of the shop in the northeastern Japanese city. It was operated at the museum in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, until recently before relocating to Kesennuma. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit popular restaurant reopened in northeastern Japan town

Undated photo shows Kenji Chiba, owner of the Kamome Diner restaurant in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, with a popular "Kamome ramen" noodle dish. The shop, damaged by the 2011 tsunami, opened in a different place in the northeastern Japanese city on Nov. 19, 2015, for the first time since 2006 when it was closed in the absence of a successor to the previous owner. Chiba hopes it will help encourage the city's further recovery. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Women pose by train carrying popular singer's image in Nagasaki

Women pose beside Kyushu Railway Co.'s express train "Kamome" (seagull) bearing an image of popular Japanese singer/actor Masaharu Fukuyama at Nagasaki Station in the southwestern Japanese city on Aug. 23, 2015. The railway operator is running the special train until Oct. 16 to mark the 25th anniversary of the Nagasaki native's debut as a singer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Longtime jazz vocalist Maki Asakawa dies at 67

TOKYO, Japan - Maki Asakawa (file photo taken in October, 1971), an avant-garde jazz and blues vocalist who caught the fancy of restless postwar baby boomers through such songs as ''Kamome'' has died of acute heart failure in Nagoya, the Aichi prefectural police said on Jan. 18. She was 67. Asakawa was found collapsed in her hotel room in Nagoya on Jan. 17 and later confirmed dead. (Kyodo)