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US Sending Aircraft Carrier To Middle East As Region Braces For Iranian Retaliation

Handout photo dated February 7, 2022 of ships of the America and Essex Amphibious Ready Groups, and Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 3, sail in formation in the Philippine Sea with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force during exercise Noble Fusion. Front row: Landing craft, air cushion from Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5. Second row, left to right: USS America (LHA 6), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), USS Essex (LHD 2). Third row, left to right: USS Dewey (DDG 105), JS Kongō (DDG 173), USS Mobile Bay (CG 53), USS Spruance (DDG 111). Back row, left to right: USS Ashland (LSD 48), USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5). TThe US is sending a carrier strike group, a fighter squadron and additional warships to the Middle East as the region braces for an Iranian retaliation to the killing of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran earlier this week. On Friday August 2, 2024, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group to replace the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group, which is currently operating in the Gulf of Oman,

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PFW - Avellano Street Style

Street style, Sephora Kongo arriving at Avellano Fall-Winter 2024-2025 show, held at Rue de Vaugirard, Paris, France, on March 5th, 2024. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM

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PFW - Avellano Street Style

Street style, Sephora Kongo arriving at Avellano Fall-Winter 2024-2025 show, held at Rue de Vaugirard, Paris, France, on March 5th, 2024. Photo by Marie-Paola Bertrand-Hillion/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Season's first snowcap on Mt. Kongo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Nov. 13, 2023, shows Mt. Kongo, straddling the borders of Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan, covered with snow for the first time this season.

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Season's first snowcap on Mt. Kongo

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Kongo covered with snow for the first time this season. The 1,125-meter mountain straddles Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan.

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Season's first snowcap on Mt. Kongo

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Kongo covered with snow for the first time this season. The 1,125-meter mountain straddles Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan.

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Season's first snowcap on Mt. Kongo

Photo taken Dec. 18, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Kongo covered with snow for the first time this season. The 1,125-meter mountain straddles Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan.

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Temple guardian statue to undergo 1st repair in 20 years

NARA, Japan - Buddhist priests stand in front of the "Kongo Rikishi Agyo" wooden guardian statue at Todai-ji temple in the ancient capital of Nara in western Japan on Oct. 6, 2014, before the famous sculpture is subjected to the first repair in about 20 years.

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Pair of Buddhist guardian statues to undergo repair

KASHIHARA, Japan - One of a pair of medieval wooden Buddhist guardian statues, called Kongo-Rikishi Agyo, at the Great South Gate of the Todai-ji temple in Nara, western Japan, is photographed on July 10, 2014, before the twin national treasures undergo repair work.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Myoko (front) and the Kongo, Aegis destroyers carrying SM-3 missile interceptors, leaving the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Sasebo base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2012. A total of three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors left the port for deployment in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Myoko (front) and the Kongo, Aegis destroyers carrying SM-3 missile interceptors, leaving the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Sasebo base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2012. A total of three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors left the port for deployment in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Myoko (front) and the Kongo, Aegis destroyers carrying SM-3 missile interceptors, leaving the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Sasebo base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2012. A total of three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors left the port for deployment in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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Half year after disaster

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - At the site where the main building of the Kongo Temple was swept away by a tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a fire burns in a rite on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The ceremony was attended by Buddhist monks from six prefectures of the Tohoku area of northeastern Japan and some 250 other people. The March 11 disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in the Tohoku area.

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Half year after disaster

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - At the site where the main building of the Kongo Temple was swept away by a tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a fire burns in a rite on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The ceremony was attended by Buddhist monks from six prefectures of the Tohoku area of northeastern Japan and some 250 other people. The March 11 disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in the Tohoku area.

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Wakayama observes year's first snow

KOYA, Japan - Staff at the Kongo-buji Temple in Wakayama Prefecture remove the year's first snow on Dec. 31.

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Cambodia National Assembly head Heng Samrin attends Noh show

KYOTO, Japan - Heng Samrin (L), president of the Cambodian National Assembly, meets with Hisanori Kongo, the head of the Kongo school of Noh, after attending a Noh performance at the Kyoto State Guesthouse on Oct. 19.

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Daiwa Major wins Yasuda Kinen

TOKYO, Japan - Daiwa Major (L) lives up to his billing as the top racehorse in domestic mile races at Tokyo Racecourse on June, winning the Yasuda Kinen to add to his victory at last fall's Mile Championship. Daiwa Major and jockey Katsumi Ando bided their time in the middle of the pack before surging ahead with his trademark strong homestretch run to beat out front-running Kongo Rikishio (R) by a neck at the wire. (Pool photo)

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Daiwa Major wins Yasuda Kinen

TOKYO, Japan - Daiwa Major (L) lives up to his billing as the top racehorse in domestic mile races at Tokyo Racecourse on June, winning the Yasuda Kinen to add to his victory at last fall's Mile Championship. Daiwa Major and jockey Katsumi Ando bided their time in the middle of the pack before surging ahead with his trademark strong homestretch run to beat out front-running Kongo Rikishio (R) by a neck at the wire. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Japanese warship Hiei - Kongo Class Battlecruiser

Hiei - warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War I and World War II. Designed by British naval architect George Thurston, the second of four Kongo-class battlecruisers - formally commissioned in 1914. Battlecruisers carried less armour than Battleships, allowing them more speed, but often had similar weaponry and were of a similar size. Date: circa 1915

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PANTHER GIRL OF THE KONGO

PANTHER GIRL OF THE KONGO MYRON HEALEY, PHYLLIS COATES Date: 1955

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Wakayama observes year's first snow

KOYA, Japan - Staff at the Kongo-buji Temple in Wakayama Prefecture remove the year's first snow on Dec. 31. (Kyodo)

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Cambodia National Assembly head Heng Samrin attends Noh show

KYOTO, Japan - Heng Samrin (L), president of the Cambodian National Assembly, meets with Hisanori Kongo, the head of the Kongo school of Noh, after attending a Noh performance at the Kyoto State Guesthouse on Oct. 19. (Kyodo)

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Niomon Gate,Taiyuin Shrine,Nikko

The Niomon stands at the entrance to Taiyuin, the mausoleum of third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. Taiyuin is the posthumous name bequeathed by Emperor Gokomyo after Iemitsu's death. The gate is 3.2m high and is protected by the two Nio statues Mitsushaku Kongo and Naraen Kongo, the latter being visible here.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number82‐43‐0]

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Niomon Gate,Taiyuin Shrine,Nikko

The Niomon stands at the entrance to Taiyuin, the mausoleum of third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. Taiyuin is the posthumous name bequeathed by Emperor Gokomyo after Iemitsu's death. The gate is 3.2m high and is protected by the two Nio statues Mitsushaku Kongo and Naraen Kongo, the latter being visible here.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number82‐42‐0]

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The god of wind at Niomon Gate,Taiyuin Shrine,Nikko

Naraen-Kongo is one of the two Nio (guardian deities) at Niomon, the entrance gate to Taiyuin. Taiyuin is both the posthumous name give to third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu by Emperor Gokomyo and the name of his mausoleum. The other Nio statue is Mitsushaku-Kongo.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number80‐46‐0]

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The Sanmon Gate at Sensoji Temple

The sanmon (front gate) at Sensoji Temple was called Niomon because statues of the guardian deities Kongo Rikishi were installed on both the right and left (present-day Hozomon). Statues of Monju Bosatsu (Manjusri Bodhisattva) and Shiten (four angels) are installed on the second floor of the gate building. The plaque Sensoji is based on calligraphy by the head priest of the Tendai Sect, Ryosho Hoshin-o. This photograph was taken before brick buildings were erected in the Nakamise commercial area in 1885.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number72‐123‐0]

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Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The Nio Gate of Kiyomizu Temple. There are stone lanterns on both the north and the south sides of the stone stairway in front of the gate. The west gate and the three-story pagoda are visible on the far right. Built during the Muromachi Era (1392-1573), the Nio Gate had three rooms and one door with a hiwadabuki (bark-covered) roof. The statue of Kongo Rikishi is situated in the area surrounded by a kongo fence (a fence made of vertical stakes with decoratively shaped finials resembling the ritual object called kongosho used in esoteric Buddhist rites) with lattice work above it. Today, statues of guardian dogs stand in front of the stone lanterns bearing the inscription Kiyomizu Temple. Taken by Felix Beato.==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number62‐29‐0]

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Statue of nio

A pair of Nio of the Kongo Rikishi, one with the mouth open and the other shut. They are wrathful deities placed on both sides of the main gate to protect the temple. There are no objects in the picture to compare the size of the statues, but they look like coloured clay dolls.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number25‐17‐0]

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The Niomon Gate,Taiyuin Shrine,Nikko

The front gate of Daiyuin, which enshrines the tomb of the Shogun Iemitsu, is called Niomon because a pair of Kongo Rikishi statues are placed in it. It resembles the front gate of Toshogu, with an eight-legged and red-painted gate, but it is done in Buddhist style rather than in a mixture of Shinto and Buddhist styles as in Toshogu. Daiyuin is solemn with its red, black and gold colouring.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number8‐8‐0]

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Half year after disaster

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - At the site where the main building of the Kongo Temple was swept away by a tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a fire burns in a rite on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The ceremony was attended by Buddhist monks from six prefectures of the Tohoku area of northeastern Japan and some 250 other people. The March 11 disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in the Tohoku area. (Kyodo)

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Half year after disaster

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - At the site where the main building of the Kongo Temple was swept away by a tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a fire burns in a rite on Sept. 11, 2011, the six-month anniversary of the March 11 quake and tsunami. The ceremony was attended by Buddhist monks from six prefectures of the Tohoku area of northeastern Japan and some 250 other people. The March 11 disaster killed more than 15,700 people, while 4,000 remain missing, mainly in the Tohoku area. (Kyodo)

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Temple guardian statue to undergo 1st repair in 20 years

NARA, Japan - Buddhist priests stand in front of the "Kongo Rikishi Agyo" wooden guardian statue at Todai-ji temple in the ancient capital of Nara in western Japan on Oct. 6, 2014, before the famous sculpture is subjected to the first repair in about 20 years. (Kyodo)

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Pair of Buddhist guardian statues to undergo repair

KASHIHARA, Japan - One of a pair of medieval wooden Buddhist guardian statues, called Kongo-Rikishi Agyo, at the Great South Gate of the Todai-ji temple in Nara, western Japan, is photographed on July 10, 2014, before the twin national treasures undergo repair work. (Kyodo)

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Season's first snowcap on Mt. Kongo

Photo taken Dec. 15, 2020, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Kongo covered with snow for the first time this season. The 1,125-meter mountain straddles Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan.

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Mt. Kongo covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken Dec. 23, 2019, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Kongo, bordering Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan, capped with the season's first snow. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mt. Kongo covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken Dec. 23, 2019, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Kongo, bordering Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan, capped with the season's first snow. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mt. Kongo covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken Dec. 23, 2019, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Kongo, bordering Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan, capped with the season's first snow. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mt. Kongo covered with season's 1st snow

Photo taken Dec. 23, 2019, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Mt. Kongo, bordering Osaka and Nara prefectures in western Japan, capped with the season's first snow. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police raid pro-N. Korea insurer

Police investigators enter the head office facility of insurer Kongo Hoken, affiliated with the pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo