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GSDF anti-disaster drill

TOYO, Japan, Jan. 14 Kyodo - The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Middle Army conducts an anti-disaster drill in Toyo in the western Japan prefecture of Kochi on Jan. 13, 2025, simulating a magnitude 9.0 earthquake striking off Japan's Kii Peninsula near the Nakai Trough that runs along the country's Pacific coast. (Kyodo)

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GSDF anti-disaster drill

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Middle Army conducts an anti-disaster drill in Kaiyo in the western Japan prefecture of Tokushima on Jan. 13, 2025, simulating a magnitude 9.0 earthquake striking off Japan's Kii Peninsula near the Nakai Trough that runs along the country's Pacific coast.

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GSDF anti-disaster drill

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Middle Army conducts an anti-disaster drill in Kaiyo in the western Japan prefecture of Tokushima on Jan. 13, 2025, simulating a magnitude 9.0 earthquake striking off Japan's Kii Peninsula near the Nakai Trough that runs along the country's Pacific coast.

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GSDF anti-disaster drill

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Middle Army conducts an anti-disaster drill in Kaiyo in the western Japan prefecture of Tokushima on Jan. 13, 2025, simulating a magnitude 9.0 earthquake striking off Japan's Kii Peninsula near the Nakai Trough that runs along the country's Pacific coast.

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GSDF anti-disaster drill

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Middle Army conducts an anti-disaster drill in Toyo in the western Japan prefecture of Kochi on Jan. 13, 2025, simulating a magnitude 9.0 earthquake striking off Japan's Kii Peninsula near the Nakai Trough that runs along the country's Pacific coast.

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GSDF anti-disaster drill

The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Middle Army conducts an anti-disaster drill in Toyo in the western Japan prefecture of Kochi on Jan. 13, 2025, simulating a magnitude 9.0 earthquake striking off Japan's Kii Peninsula near the Nakai Trough that runs along the country's Pacific coast.

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Sunflower field lit up in Wakayama Pref.

A sunflower field is lit up in the Wakayama Prefecture city of Shingu, western Japan, on Sept. 1, 2023, to highlight the region's reconstruction from devastating torrential rain that hit the Kii Peninsula in September 2011, leaving 14 people dead or missing.

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Sunflower field lit up in Wakayama Pref.

A sunflower field is lit up in the Wakayama Prefecture city of Shingu, western Japan, on Sept. 1, 2023, to highlight the region's reconstruction from devastating torrential rain that hit the Kii Peninsula in September 2011, leaving 14 people dead or missing.

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Sunflower field lit up in Wakayama Pref.

A sunflower field is lit up in the Wakayama Prefecture city of Shingu, western Japan, on Sept. 1, 2023, to highlight the region's reconstruction from devastating torrential rain that hit the Kii Peninsula in September 2011, leaving 14 people dead or missing.

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Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2023, shows a dead whale being transported by a vessel off the Kii Peninsula, western Japan, before being sent down to the sea floor. The 15-meter-long male sperm whale, which was first sighted on Jan. 9 near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka, became progressively weaker and was confirmed dead four days later.

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Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2023, shows a dead whale being sent down to the sea floor with 30-ton concrete blocks from a vessel off the Kii Peninsula, western Japan. The 15-meter-long male sperm whale, which was first sighted on Jan. 9 near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka, became progressively weaker and was confirmed dead four days later.

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Dead whale in Osaka Bay sunk offshore

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 19, 2023, shows a dead whale being sent down to the sea floor with 30-ton concrete blocks from a vessel off the Kii Peninsula, western Japan. The 15-meter-long male sperm whale, which was first sighted on Jan. 9 near the mouth of the Yodo River in Osaka, became progressively weaker and was confirmed dead four days later.

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Huge whale found floating dead in Ise Bay

TSU, Japan - A gigantic whale was found floating dead in Ise Bay off the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 5, surprising local officials and leading coast guard officials to alert fishing and other boats around the area. It is believed to have gone astray while swimming around the Kii Peninsula.

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Typhoon Ma-on moving eastward around Japan

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - High waves from typhoon Ma-on wash on the coast of Kii Peninsula in western Japan on July 20, 2011. Ma-on hit Shikoku and continued moving eastward.

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Turkish president gives emperor model of sunken Turkish warship

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) talks with visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul (3rd from L) while Empress Michiko (R) talks with Gul's wife Hayrunnisa (3rd from R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on June 5. The Turkish president gave the emperor a model of an Ottoman warship that sank off Japan's Kii Peninsula in 1890. (Pool photo)

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Early-blooming cherry in full blossom a month early

SHINGU, Japan - Higan zakura, an early blooming cherry, is in full blossom a month early this year in Taiji, a fishing town with a mild climate located in southern Kii Peninsula.

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Typhoon approaches Kii Peninsula, may dump heavy rain

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Waves wash the coast of Shizuoka Prefecture as typhoon Maria is approaching central Honshu facing the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 8.

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Man with cerebral palsy completes 700km wheelchair journey

Takuro Fujiwara, who suffers from cerebral palsy, arrives at the goal of his 700km wheelchair journey through the Kii Peninsula in western Japan on Oct. 22, 2015. Fujiwara took on the 41-day challenge to raise public awareness of a law that bans public and private bodies from refusing services to people with disabilities, to be introduced next April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress meet survivors of Kii Peninsula flooding

Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and Empress Michiko (far R) chat with survivors of the 2011 flooding and mudslide disaster on the Kii Peninsula in western Japan during their visit to Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 25, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress meet survivors of Kii Peninsula flooding

Emperor Akihito (L), accompanied by Empress Michiko, waves to the crowd in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 25, 2015, after the imperial couple gave words of encouragement to survivors of the 2011 flooding and mudslide disaster on the Kii Peninsula. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man leaves on wheelchair trip around peninsula in west Japan

Takuro Fujiwara, who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, leaves Osaka on Sept. 12, 2015, for a trip around the Kii Peninsula south of the western Japanese city. He is making the journey to enhance public understanding of a law due to take effect in April 2016 to eliminate discrimination against people with disabilities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Typhoon approaches Kii Peninsula, may dump heavy rain

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Waves wash the coast of Shizuoka Prefecture as typhoon Maria is approaching central Honshu facing the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 8. (Kyodo)

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Turkish president gives emperor model of sunken Turkish warship

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) talks with visiting Turkish President Abdullah Gul (3rd from L) while Empress Michiko (R) talks with Gul's wife Hayrunnisa (3rd from R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on June 5. The Turkish president gave the emperor a model of an Ottoman warship that sank off Japan's Kii Peninsula in 1890. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Huge whale found floating dead in Ise Bay

TSU, Japan - A gigantic whale was found floating dead in Ise Bay off the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 5, surprising local officials and leading coast guard officials to alert fishing and other boats around the area. It is believed to have gone astray while swimming around the Kii Peninsula. (Kyodo)

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Early-blooming cherry in full blossom a month early

SHINGU, Japan - Higan zakura, an early blooming cherry, is in full blossom a month early this year in Taiji, a fishing town with a mild climate located in southern Kii Peninsula. (Kyodo)

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An entrance to Mt. Suwa

The torii gates of Suwa Shinto Shrine are on the left. The restaurant Tokiwaro, frequented by men-of-letters and politicians, is on the hillside. The observation deck above the restaurant commands a panoramic view of the city and harbour as well as Kii Peninsula and Awaji Island in the distance. The photographs taken from this spot appear in photograph albums, postcards, and guidebooks. The present-day Venus Bridge connects the original observation deck with a new one built above it.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number56‐33‐0]

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Typhoon Ma-on moving eastward around Japan

SHIRAHAMA, Japan - High waves from typhoon Ma-on wash on the coast of Kii Peninsula in western Japan on July 20, 2011. Ma-on hit Shikoku and continued moving eastward. (Kyodo)

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Typhoon Choi-wan moving east-northeast off Kii Peninsula

TANABE, Japan - Tourists watch high waves in the resort town of Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture on Sept. 21, as typhoon Choi-wan moves east-northeast off the Kii Peninsula. The photo was provided by the Kii Minpo newspaper. (Kyodo)