Train with interior resembling old folk house

Train with interior resembling old folk house

MORIOKA, Japan - Sanriku Railway Co. shows on March 25, 2014, its new train called "Sanriku Hamakaze," which has an interior designed to resemble an old folk house, in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture. The train will be used starting April 6 when all of the railway's lines will be back in operation after services were partially suspended following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Interior of train resembling old folk house

Interior of train resembling old folk house

MORIOKA, Japan - Sanriku Railway Co. shows on March 25, 2014, the interior of its new train called "Sanriku Hamakaze," which is designed to resemble an old folk house, in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture. The train will enter service on April 6 when all of the railway's lines will be back in operation after services were partially suspended following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Model for "Amachan" grandma

Model for "Amachan" grandma

MORIOKA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 8, 2013 shows Kunie Kudo holding a sea urchin boxed lunch at the Sanriku Rias-Tei restaurant on the premises of Sanriku Railway Kuji Station in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture. Kudo is said to be one of the models for Natsu Amano, the charismatic grandmother of the main character Aki Amano in the NHK drama titled "Amachan."

Fossil of carnivorous dinosaur found in Japan

Fossil of carnivorous dinosaur found in Japan

KUJI, Japan - Photo taken in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture on March 29, 2013, shows a fossil found in the city in May 2012 which has since been confirmed as a toe bone of a Coelurosauria, a carnivorous dinosaur living in the latter part of the Cretaceous period around 85 million years ago.

Fossil of carnivorous dinosaur found in Japan

Fossil of carnivorous dinosaur found in Japan

KUJI, Japan - Photo taken in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture on March 29, 2013, shows Takato Sasaki, a 13-year-old junior high school student from neighboring Aomori Prefecture. A fossil found in Kuji in May 2012 by Sasaki has been confirmed as a toe bone of a Coelurosauria, a carnivorous dinosaur living in the latter part of the Cretaceous period around 85 million years ago, a researcher said the same day.

Fossil of carnivorous dinosaur found in Japan

Fossil of carnivorous dinosaur found in Japan

KUJI, Japan - Takato Sasaki, a 13-year-old junior high school student from Aomori Prefecture, holds a fossil in Kuji, Iwate Prefecture on March 29, 2013. The fossil found in Kuji in May 2012 by Sasaki has been confirmed as a toe bone of a Coelurosauria, a carnivorous dinosaur living in the latter part of the Cretaceous period around 85 million years ago, a researcher said the same day.

Efforts to prevent suicides being made in northern Japan

Efforts to prevent suicides being made in northern Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A training seminar for mental nursing was held in the city of Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, in June.