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[Breaking News]Huge artwork of judoka Hifumi Abe in Kobe

KOBE, Japan, July 26 Kyodo - A giant artwork of Tokyo Olympic men's 66-kilogram judo champion Hifumi Abe of Japan is unveiled, painted on the facade and windows of a building at his alma mater, Shinko Gakuen High School, in the western Japan city of Kobe on July 26, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Huge artwork of judoka Hifumi Abe in Kobe

A giant artwork of Tokyo Olympic men's 66-kilogram judo champion Hifumi Abe of Japan is unveiled, painted on the facade and windows of a building at his alma mater, Shinko Gakuen High School, in the western Japan city of Kobe on July 26, 2024.

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Baseball: Ichiro

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki bats during a game between his amateur baseball team Kobe Chiben and a team of selected high school female players at Tokyo Dome in the Japanese capital on Nov. 21, 2023.

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Baseball: Ichiro

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki pitches during a game between his amateur baseball team Kobe Chiben and a team of selected high school female players at Tokyo Dome in the Japanese capital on Nov. 21, 2023.

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Lanterns for Jan. 17 memorial service for Kobe quake victims

A high school student makes a bamboo lantern at a park in Kobe on Jan. 7, 2023, for a Jan. 17 memorial event marking the 28th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city and its vicinity killing more than 6,000 people.

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Mainz's Okazaki gives gifts in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Wearing a Santa Claus costume, Shinji Okazaki of German Bundesliga club Mainz hands a gift to a child during an event organized by his football school at Takigawa Daini senior high school, from which he graduated, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 23, 2014.

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Kobe high schoolers visit tsunami-hit Ishinomaki school

OSAKA, Japan - Students of Maiko high school in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, stand in front of Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 27, 2014. They visited the school which lost many pupils in the March 2011 tsunami as part of an extracurricular activity at the high school offering a disaster prevention course, the only such course provided at a Japanese high school.

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High schoolers check map in outdoor disaster education

OSAKA, Japan - Students at the Kyoto branch of Tsukuba Kaisei High School check a map during an outdoor education program in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on Oct. 9, 2014, seeking to identify people appearing in news photos taken after the Great Hanshin Earthquake that hit the western Japan prefecture in 1995.

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Tsunami-hit school pupils join line dancing Guinness record challenge

KOBE, Japan - Pupils from Oginohama Junior High School in Miyagi Prefecture's tsunami-hit Ishinomaki join former Takarazuka Revue performer Maho Shiomi (6th from L) and over 4,000 others at an event to break the Guinness World Record for the most number of people line dancing together for five minutes or longer, in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, on Nov. 1, 2014. They successfully broke the record, which was previously set by 2,569 people in the United States in 2012.

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Junior high schoolers from disaster-hit areas hold summit

KOBE, Japan - Two students (far R) of Yotsukura junior high school from Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, talks about the degree of recovery from the 2011 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan during a "summit of junior high school students in disaster-stricken areas" in Kobe, western Japan, on Aug. 19, 2014. The gathering was joined by 13 schools from six prefectures, including Nagasaki where pyroclastic flows from Mt. Unzen killed scores of people in 1991.

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Kobe high school team takes part in hacking contest

LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Yuki Koike (C) and other students of Nada High School in Kobe, western Japan, take part in the Def Con hackers' conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Aug. 8, 2014.

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NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

KOBE, Japan - A high school student is about to drop a raw egg covered by a protector created by his three-member team during the Kansai western Japan regional competition of the Egg Drop Koshien on Nov. 3, 2013 on the Ritsumeikan University campus in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture.

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NPO in Osaka organizes egg drop contest

KOBE, Japan - High school students create a device to protect a raw egg from a 10-meter fall during the Kansai western Japan regional competition of the Egg Drop Koshien on Nov. 3, 2013 on the Ritsumeikan University campus in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture.

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Kobe students help clear rubble at tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Student volunteers from Maiko High School in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, clear away rubble and mud at an elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 7, 2011. Some 20 students and staff at the high school from the city, which suffered in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, visited the area, devastated by the March 11 tsunami, to help reopen the elementary school.

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Classes resume at last flu-hit high school in Kobe

KOBE, Japan - Students at Kobe Gakuin University High School arrive at school June 3 as classes resumed the same day. The school was the last in Kobe to remain closed due to new-influenza infections. A total of 11 students were infected with the flu.

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2 high schools hit hard by new flu reopen after 2-week closure

KOBE, Japan - Students at Hyogo High School in Kobe wear face masks on May 30 as they go to school for the first time in about two weeks. Hyogo High School and Kobe High School, both hit hard by new-flu infections, reopened the same day after closing for about two weeks to prevent the spread of the flu.

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Schools in flu-hit Osaka, Hyogo reopen after 1-week closure

KOBE, Japan - Junior high school students wash their hands during a break at a school in Kobe on May 25. Schools in Osaka and Hyogo prefectures resumed classes the same day after closing for about a week, in line with Japan's new policy of relaxing restrictions in areas hit hard by a new strain of influenza.

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Schools in flu-hit Osaka, Hyogo reopen after 1-week closure

KOBE, Japan - Junior high school students wear masks as they go to school in Kobe on May 25. Schools in Osaka and Hyogo prefectures resumed classes the same day after closing for about a week, in line with Japan's new policy of relaxing restrictions in areas hit hard by a new strain of influenza.

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1st domestic infection of new flu confirmed in Japan

KOBE, Japan - People rush to buy masks at a drug store in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, after the first domestic infection of the new strain of influenza A virus was detected the same day in a 17-year-old male high school student in Kobe who has no record of overseas travel.

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1st domestic infection of new flu confirmed in Japan

KOBE, Japan - People rush to buy masks at a drug store in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, after the first domestic infection of the new strain of influenza A virus was detected the same day in a 17-year-old male high school student in Kobe who has no record of overseas travel.

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1st domestic infection of new flu confirmed in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe prepares for a news conference at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare building on May 16 after the first domestic infection of the new strain of influenza A virus was detected the same day in a 17-year-old male high school student with no record of overseas travel in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.

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1st domestic infection of new flu confirmed in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The government convened a meeting of senior government officials to tackle the spread of the new strain of influenza A virus on May 16 at the prime minister's office after the first domestic infection of the new strain was detected the same day in a 17-year-old male high school student with no record of overseas travel in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.

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1st domestic infection of new flu confirmed in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Takeo Kawamura heads to the prime minister's office on May 16 after the first domestic infection of the new strain of influenza A virus in Japan was detected the same day in a 17-year-old male high school student with no record of overseas travel in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.

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1st domestic infection of new flu confirmed in Japan

KOBE, Japan - People wearing masks walk through the Chinatown district of Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, after the first domestic infection of the new strain of influenza A virus was detected the same day in a 17-year-old male high school student with no record of overseas travel in Kobe.

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Events held to commemorate 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake

KOBE, Japan - Three female junior high school students pray for the 6,434 people who died in the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, during a memorial event held at Higashi Yuenchi Park in Kobe's Chuo Ward, Hyogo Prefecture, before daylight on Jan. 17. At 5:46 a.m., the time the magnitude 7.3 quake originating in the northern part of the prefecture's Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea hit the western Japan area 14 years ago, about 5,500 people offered silent prayers in the event at the park, where candles in about 7,000 memorial lanterns were lit.

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Japanese female student inks pro baseball contract

KOBE, Japan - High school pitcher Eri Yoshida, 16, smiles during a news conference in Kobe on Dec. 2 after an announcement that she has joined the Kobe 9 Cruise baseball team in the Kansai independent league to be inaugurated next April. Yoshida is the first woman to be granted the opportunity of playing professional baseball alongside male players in Japan.

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High school student to become 1st female pro baseball player

OSAKA, Japan - High school student Eri Yoshida poses for photos after she was drafted Nov. 16 to play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in the Kansai independent league to be inaugurated next April. Yoshida will be the first woman to play professional baseball alongside male players in Japan.

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Youth climate summit begins in Kobe for 3-day run

KOBE, Japan - Students declare the opening of an international youth meeting on the environment in Kobe on May 22. The three-day meeting brings together about 100 students, mostly elementary and junior high school students, from 20 countries and Taiwan.

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Kobe marks 13th anniversary of devastating earthquake

KOBE, Japan - A senior high school girl lights bamboo lanterns during a memorial service held in Kobe on Jan. 17 to mark the 13th anniversary of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. She was three years old when she experienced the disaster that took more than 6,400 lives.

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Eating utensils donated to Niigata quake victims

NIIGATA, Japan - Students of the Kashiwazaki Comprehensive High School in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture use their school gymnasium to sort out eating utensils donated by people around Japan to victims of the July 16 earthquake in Niigata. The donation campaign was launched by a Kobe-based non-profit organization after the city was destroyed by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. Isao Arai, head of the NPO Himawari-no-Yume Kikaku (Project Sunflower Dream), says the utensils would be distributed to the quake victims from mid-August after they move into temporary housing being built by the government. Phone number for inquiries on the donation campaign: 078-787-7387.

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(1)Mika Miyazato youngest to win amateur c'ship matchplay

KOBE, Japan - Okinawa junior high school student Mika Miyazato watches her tee shot during the women's amateur championship matchplay tournament at Rokko Kokusai Golf Club in Hyogo Prefecture on June 26. She defeated Shinobu Moromizato by three strokes to become the youngest ever to win the tournament.

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(2)Mika Miyazato youngest to win amateur c'ship matchplay

KOBE, Japan - Mika Miyazato, a third-year student at Matsushima Junior High School in Okinawa Prefecture, smiles with her cups in hands after winning the women's amateur championship matchplay tournament at Rokko Kokusai Golf Club in Hyogo Prefecture on June 26. Miyazato, at 14 years and eight months, is the youngest ever to win the tournament and first junior high school student to achieve the feat.

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Japanese high school baseball tourney opens

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Baseball players from 32 senior high schools across Japan march in an opening ceremony of the 76th national baseball tournament at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Kobe Prefecture, on March 23.

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Boy, 14, youngest ever passes weather forecaster test

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Okajima, a second-grader at Nada Junior High School in Kobe, speaks to reporters about passing a test for certified weather forecasters in January at age 14 years and 1 month. He broke the previous record set by a boy of 14 years and 8 months.

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Fisheries school asks U.S. to continue search for 9 missing

UWAJIMA, Japan - Uwajima Fisheries High School students submit a petition to the United States calling for the search for the nine Japanese missing in the Feb. 9 collision between their fisheries training ship and a U.S. submarine to continue and for the trawler to be raised as soon as possible. Etsuko Yamaguchi, deputy head of a student council, handed the petition of about 140 signatures to Robert Ludan (R), U.S. Consul General for Osaka and Kobe, who visited the school Feb. 17 to apologize for the accident. The Greeneville crashed into and sank the 499-ton Ehime Maru during a rapid-surfacing drill off Hawaii. Four students and two teachers at the school and three crew members of the ship are still missing.

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Boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

OSAKA, Japan - Ryo Sunagawa, 14, a third-year student at a junior high school in Kobe, western Japan, leaves Osaka for the United States on July 15 with his parents and doctors for a heart transplant. He will be hospitalized at a heart clinic in Texas. His parents said Ryo had a heart attack in February this year and now relies on a mechanical heart to sustain his life.

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Schoolchildren escorted by parents

Escorted by parents, schoolchildren at Tainohata Elementary School in Kobe city, in the western Japan, walk to school on May 28, a day after the severed head of a missing 11-year-old boy was found placed vertically in front of the school's main gate with two hand-written notes in the mouth. (Later, it was found out that the killer was a 14-year old junior high school student.)

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Parents escort schoolchildren

Escorted by parents, schoolchildren at Tainohata Elementary School in the western Japan city of Kobe, walk to school after the severed head of a missing 11-year-old boy was found, on May 27, placed vertically in front of the school's main gate with two hand-written notes in the mouth. (Later, it was found out that the killer was a 14-year old junior high school student.)

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27th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

High school students place bamboo lanterns at a park in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 15, 2022, for a memorial event being held there on Jan. 17, the 27th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people.

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27th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

High school students place bamboo lanterns at a park in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 15, 2022, for a memorial event being held there on Jan. 17, the 27th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people.

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27th anniversary of Great Hanshin Earthquake

High school students place bamboo lanterns at a park in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 15, 2022, for a memorial event being held there on Jan. 17, the 27th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that struck the western Japan city and its vicinity, killing more than 6,000 people.

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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki in game vs. women's team

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki (C) poses for a photo after his Kobe Chiben team's exhibition game against the women's high school baseball all-star team on Dec. 18, 2021, at Hotto Motto Field Kobe in Kobe, western Japan.

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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki in game vs. women's team

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki bats during his Kobe Chiben team's exhibition game against the women's high school baseball all-star team on Dec. 18, 2021, at Hotto Motto Field Kobe in Kobe, western Japan.

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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki in game vs. women's team

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki pitches against the women's high school baseball all-star team in his Kobe Chiben team's exhibition game at Hotto Motto Field Kobe in Kobe, western Japan, on Dec. 18, 2021.

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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki in game vs. women's team

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki bats during his Kobe Chiben team's exhibition game against the women's high school baseball all-star team on Dec. 18, 2021, at Hotto Motto Field Kobe in Kobe, western Japan.

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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki in game vs. women's team

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki pitches against the women's high school baseball all-star team in his Kobe Chiben team's exhibition game at Hotto Motto Field Kobe in Kobe, western Japan, on Dec. 18, 2021.

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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki in game vs. women's team

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki pitches against the women's high school baseball all-star team in his Kobe Chiben team's exhibition game at Hotto Motto Field Kobe in Kobe, western Japan, on Dec. 18, 2021.

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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki in game vs. women's team

Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki bats during his Kobe Chiben team's exhibition game against the women's high school baseball all-star team on Dec. 18, 2021, at Hotto Motto Field Kobe in Kobe, western Japan.

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High school student to become 1st female pro baseball player

OSAKA, Japan - High school student Eri Yoshida poses for photos after she was drafted Nov. 16 to play for the Kobe 9 Cruise in the Kansai independent league to be inaugurated next April. Yoshida will be the first woman to play professional baseball alongside male players in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Japanese female student inks pro baseball contract

KOBE, Japan - High school pitcher Eri Yoshida, 16, smiles during a news conference in Kobe on Dec. 2 after an announcement that she has joined the Kobe 9 Cruise baseball team in the Kansai independent league to be inaugurated next April. Yoshida is the first woman to be granted the opportunity of playing professional baseball alongside male players in Japan. (Kyodo)