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Hydrangeas bloom in central Japan

Hydrangeas bloom at a park in Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on June 9, 2025. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced the same day that the rainy season had apparently started in the Tokai region centering on the city as well as Chugoku and Kinki regions.

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Hydrangeas bloom in central Japan

Hydrangeas bloom at a park in Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on June 9, 2025. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced the same day that the rainy season had apparently started in the Tokai region centering on the city as well as Chugoku and Kinki regions.

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Hydrangeas bloom in central Japan

Hydrangeas bloom at a park in Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on June 9, 2025. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced the same day that the rainy season had apparently started in the Tokai region centering on the city as well as Chugoku and Kinki regions.

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Kinki Nippon Railway Sightseeing Express Aoniyoshi

Kinki Nippon Railway's sightseeing express “Aoniyoshi”.=May 2,2025,Japan

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Kinki Nippon Railway Sightseeing Express Aoniyoshi

Kinki Nippon Railway's sightseeing express “Aoniyoshi”.=May 2,2025,Japan

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Kinki Nippon Railway Sightseeing Express Aoniyoshi

Kinki Nippon Railway's sightseeing express “Aoniyoshi”.=May 2,2025,Japan

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Kinki Nippon Railway Sightseeing Express Aoniyoshi

Kinki Nippon Railway's sightseeing express “Aoniyoshi”.=May 2,2025,Japan

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Kinki Nippon Railway BlueSymphony

Kinki Nippon Railway BlueSymphony=April 24,2025,Japan

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Kinki Nippon Railway BlueSymphony

Kinki Nippon Railway BlueSymphony=April 24,2025,Japan

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Kinki Nippon Railway BlueSymphony

Kinki Nippon Railway BlueSymphony=April 24,2025,Japan

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Playwright Juro Kara

OSAKA, Japan, Nov. 14 Kyodo - Japanese playwright Juro Kara speaks at a press conference in the western Japan city of Osaka in March 2005 after being appointed as a guest professor at Kinki University. Its English name was changed to Kindai University in 2016.(Kyodo)

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Kintetsu Group Holdings, Kinki Nippon Railway head office exterior, logo and signage

Exterior, logo, and signage of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway Co. ＝Osaka Prefecture, April 25, 2024.

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Signboard of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway Co.

Signboard of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway Co. ＝April 25, 2024, Osaka Prefecture

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Kintetsu Group Holdings and Kinki Nippon Railway head office sign

Signboard at the headquarters of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway Co. ＝Osaka Prefecture, April 25, 2024

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Exterior, logo and signage of Kintetsu Group Holdings and Kinki Nippon Railway head office

Exterior view, logo, and signboard of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway Co. ＝April 25, 2024, Osaka Prefecture

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Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway head office exterior, logo and signage

Exterior view, logo and signboard of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway Co. ＝April 25, 2024, Osaka Prefecture

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Signboard of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway head office

Signboard of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway Co. ＝April 25, 2024, Osaka Prefecture

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Kintetsu Group Holdings and Kinki Nippon Railway head office signage

Signboard of Kintetsu Group Holdings, Inc. and Kinki Nippon Railway Co. ＝Osaka, April 25, 2024.

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Rainy season begins in parts of Japan

Hydrangeas bloom in the rain in the central Japan city of Nagoya on May 29, 2023. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced the same day that the rainy season had apparently started in the northern Kyushu, Shikoku, Chugoku, Kinki and Tokai regions.

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Rainy season begins in parts of Japan

Pedestrians with umbrellas walk in the rain in Osaka's Dotonbori area in western Japan on May 29, 2023. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced the same day that the rainy season had apparently started in the northern Kyushu, Shikoku, Chugoku, Kinki and Tokai regions.

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Rainy season begins in parts of Japan

Hydrangeas begin to bloom in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on May 29, 2023. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced the same day that the rainy season had apparently started in the northern Kyushu, Shikoku, Chugoku, Kinki and Tokai regions.

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Bone broth from cultured tuna used for cup noodle

TOKYO, Japan - Acecook Co. and Kinki University announce on Dec. 1, 2014, the limited sale of 1.5 million cups of instant noodles featuring broth made from the backbones of farm-raised "Kindai tuna," the university brand of bluefin tuna bred in a complete cycle of culture ranging from eggs to adult tuna.

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Trebling output of 'Kindai tuna' in FY 2020 eyed

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Miyashita (2nd from L), head of the Kinki University Fisheries Laboratory, shows a certificate to recognize Toyota Tsusho Corp.-raised bluefin tuna as "Kindai tuna," the university brand tuna, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014. They plan to increase yearly output of tuna to 6,000 in fiscal 2020.

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Farm bank holds event to promote regional specialties

OSAKA, Japan - The Norinchukin Bank holds an event jointly with the national federations of agricultural and fisheries cooperative associations in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 26, 2014, to promote specialties of the Kinki and Shikoku western Japan regions.

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Best Produce Award 2014 award ceremony

OSAKA, Japan - The Best Produce Award 2014 winners (from L, front row) -- Kyushu Railway Co. chairman Koji Karaike (Cruise Train "Seven Stars in Kyushu"), Kinki University President Hitoshi Shiozaki (Bluefin Tuna Farming), Orobianco Chief Executive Officer Giacomo Valentini and broadcast writer Kundo Koyama -- pose for photographs in Osaka on Nov. 13, 2014.

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Bus tour participants chant Buddhist sutra at temple

OSAKA, Japan - Participants in a bus tour of well-known Buddhist temples in the western Japan region of Kinki chant the Heart Sutra at the Enryakuji temple in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Oct. 11, 2014.

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JR West unveils 227 series train

OSAKA, Japan - West Japan Railway Co. unveils to the media its new 227 series train to be operated in the Hiroshima area from the spring of 2015, at Kinki Sharyo Co. in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 26, 2014. The front car has parts on both sides to prevent passengers from falling when it is connected with another train.

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Daihatsu launches minicar series with many color choices

OSAKA, Japan - Daihatsu Motor Co. unveils a partially restyled regional model of the "Mira Cocoa" minicar series in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 26, 2014. The model caters to customers in the Kinki region that includes Osaka and Kyoto. The remodeled series offers 160 different color combinations for the body and interior components as well as different versions according to 11 regions.

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Japanese light rail cars aid U.S. public transportation boom

NEW YORK, United States - File photo taken in December, 2013, shows a light rail train produced by Japan's Kinki Sharyo Co. running on a street in Boston, Massachusetts. Major metropolitan areas all over the United States are increasingly turning to light rail transit networks, or LRT, as a way to transport commuters. (

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Toyota Tsusho, Kinki Univ. expand tuna farming alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Tsusho Corp. President Jun Karube (2nd from R) attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 16, 2014, announcing an expansion of cooperation between the company and Kinki University in the bluefin tuna cultivation business.

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Vertical telescopic breakwater under development

OSAKA, Japan - The vertical telescopic breakwater, a buoyancy-driven vertical piling breakwater system under development in defense against tsunami, is seen in Kainan, Wakayama Prefecture, in March 2013. It was learned on June 19, 2014, that the breakwater, expected to be implemented as the world's first such system by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Kinki Regional Development Bureau, may not function properly due to a lack of strength.

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Audi World Cup model

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken June 6, 2014, shows special limited-edition "World Cup model" vehicles in the Japanese team's colors unveiled by Audi Japan KK at its biggest outlet in the Kinki region. The outlet opened the same day in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, ahead of the soccer extravaganza in Brazil.

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Biomass coke to be produced from palm scraps in Malaysia

OSAKA, Japan - A piece of biomass coke is displayed in Osaka, western Japan, on March 3, 2014, before the launch of an experimental project to produce the environment-friendly solid fuel made from oil palm scraps in Malaysia. The project, undertaken by an Osaka Gas Co. subsidiary and Kinki University, is intended to produce a substitute for coking coal used in iron manufacture.

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Higashikokubaru says to give up Diet seat

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Hideo Higashikokubaru, a Japanese lawmaker from the Japan Restoration Party. Higashikokubaru said Dec. 11, 2013, he will give up his seat in parliament and leave his party due to differences in opinion on policy. He won a seat with the party in proportional representation for the Kinki region in December 2012's House of Representatives election.

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Heavy rain in western Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Boys ride bicycles on a flooded street in Osaka on Aug. 27, 2011. Heavy rain fell in the Kinki region in western Japan the same day.

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University students harvest mangos

KAINAN, Japan - Students of Kinki University harvest mangos at the university farm in the town of Yuasa, Wakayama Prefecture, on Aug. 24, 2010. About 1 ton of mangos will be sent to markets in Osaka under the brand name of ''Kindai Mango'' (Kinki University Mango) through September.

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Argentine dancers visit Japan's Buddhism spot

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Members of the Argentine dance company Udaondo walk through a complex of Buddhist buildings in Danjogaran in the Koyasan area in the western Japan prefecture of Wakayama on Nov. 22, 2009. The dancers, aged between 15 and 24, visited Japan for a series of performances in the Kinki district.

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Kinki Osaka Bank President Mizuta to head Resona Holdings

TOKYO, Japan - Resona Holdings Inc. plans to name Hiroyuki Mizuta (file photo), president of its affiliate Kinki Osaka Bank, as its new president, sources close to the banking group said April 27.

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Itochu, Kawasaki Heavy to build vehicles for Hong Kong railway

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows the train cars the same in type to those to be built for Hong Kong's Kowloon-Canton Railway Corp. by a Japanese consortium formed by Itochu Corp., Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Kinki Sharyo Co. The vehicles are expected to be used on the existing West line and a new railway called the Kowloon Southern Link due to come into operation in 2009.

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Postcards marking Tigers' CL victory put on sale

OSAKA, Japan - Japan Post's Kinki branch put on sale a set of postcards marking the Hanshin Tigers' victory in the Central League in Osaka and Hyogo prefectures on Oct. 20. The postcards will also be sold from Oct. 28 in Kyoto, Shiga, Nara and Wakayama prefectures.

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Experimental voyage aims to resolve mystery of ancient stone coffins

UTO, Japan - A replica of an ancient boat (R) sets off for a monthlong experimental voyage from Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, to Osaka on July 24 in a bid to resolve an archeological mystery in the sixth to seventh centuries -- how heavy stone coffins were shipped to emperors' tombs in the Kinki region some 800 kilometers away. The 12-meter-long wooden boat, rowed by 18 people, tows two boards with a replicated coffin made of the ''makadoishi'' stone on them.

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Experimental voyage aims to resolve mystery of ancient stone coffins

UTO, Japan - A crew of 18 persons rows a replica of an ancient boat out into the sea off Uto, Kumamoto Prefecture, on a monthlong experimental voyage to Osaka on July 24, aimed at resolving an archeological mystery in the sixth to seventh centuries -- how heavy stone coffins were shipped to emperors' tombs in the Kinki region some 800 kilometers away. The 12-meter-long wooden boat is towing a barge loaded with a replicated coffin made of the ''makadoishi'' stone on them.

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(2)Bereaved kin, JR West workers pray for train crash victims

OSAKA, Japan - Some 2,000 students at Kinki University observed a minute's silence at the university compound in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, on May 3 for three university students killed in the April 25 JR West train crash.

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(2)World's 1st fully cultivated tuna to debut in market

KUSHIMOTO, Japan - Contained in a box is the world's first fully cultivated bluefin tuna ready for marketing in the town of Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on Sept. 3. Researchers at Kinki University in Osaka have succeeded in farming Pacific northern bluefin tuna from eggs, unlike existing farmed tuna that are reared from larvae caught in the wild.

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(1)World's 1st fully cultivated tuna to debut in market

WAKAYAMA, Japan - A researcher at Kinki University feeds bluefin tuna cultivated in the pool of the university's Research Laboratory in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, in a file photo taken in 2000. The Osaka-based university said on Sept. 3 that the world's first fully cultivated bluefin tuna raised from eggs will shortly be shipped to market. The laboratory began fish farming research in 1970 and succeeded in having tuna lay eggs in an artificial environment for the first time in the world in 1979.

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Rainy season ends in Kanto, Koshin, Kinki regions

TOKYO, Japan - Pedestrians put up parasols to block the sun in Tokyo's Ginza district on July 13. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the same day that the rainy season appears to have ended in the Kanto, Koshin and Kinki regions, a week earlier than average and three weeks earlier than last year.

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Kintetsu, Orix agreed on merger in May

OSAKA, Japan - Masanori Yamaguchi (foreground), president of Kinki Nippon Railway Co. which owns the rights to the Kintetsu Buffaloes, and Tetsuya Kobayashi, president of the Pacific League baseball club, speak at a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on June 13 about a merger between the Buffaloes and the Orix BlueWave, another baseball club in the Pacific League.

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Kinki Nippon Railway fails to declare 700 mil. yen income

OSAKA, Japan - Tax administration officers walks into the head office of Kinki Nippon Railway Co. in Osaka on June 11. Sources familiar with the case said the railway company failed to declare taxes for 700 million yen of earnings in the two years to March 2002.

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Sweden reopens honorary consulate in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Swedish Ambassador to Japan Mikael Lindstrom (L) and Naoya Wada participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Kobe's Chuo Ward on April 18 to mark the reopening of the country's honorary consulate there. Wada, president of Kinki Industrial Co., a machinery maker based in Miki, Hyogo Prefecture, that has extensive business ties with Sweden, will serve as honorary consul.

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Riot police go to Okinawa to guard U.S. bases

NAHA, Japan - Vehicles carrying the first group of riot police arrive at Naha port in Okinawa on March 28 to increase security around U.S. military bases and other U.S.-related facilities. A total of about 300 police officers from the Chubu and Kinki areas are to be deployed to Okinawa by later in the day.