Construction work begins for new Ehime Maru

Construction work begins for new Ehime Maru

IMABARI, Japan - Construction began in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on April 17 of a new fishery training ship to succeed the Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii in 2001 after being rammed by a U.S. submarine, with the loss of nine lives. Hisao Onishi (C), captain of the sunken Ehime Maru, were among about 20 people who attended the keel-laying ceremony at a shipbuilding yard of Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co.

Construction work begins for new Ehime Maru

Construction work begins for new Ehime Maru

IMABARI, Japan - Construction began in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, on April 17 of a new fishery training ship to succeed the Ehime Maru, which sank off Hawaii in 2001 after being rammed by a U.S. submarine, with the loss of nine lives. Hisao Onishi (C), captain of the sunken Ehime Maru, were among about 20 people who attended the keel-laying ceremony at a shipbuilding yard of Shin Kurushima Dockyard Co.

Okuma Shigenobu in traditional attire

Okuma Shigenobu in traditional attire

Okuma Shigenobu sits on a chair, posing in front of an alcove in his residence with a cane and Western shoes. He wore a prosthesis after losing his right leg in 1889, the year after he became Minister of Foreign Affairs. Kurushima Tuneyuki of the right-wing political organization Genyosha threw a bomb at him in front of the Department of Foreign Affairs. He formed the first party cabinet in 1898 after becoming prime minister. This photograph was taken around 1907, when he became chancellor of Waseda University.==Date:1904, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐72‐0]

Shimanami Kaido cycling route

Shimanami Kaido cycling route

File photo taken April 27, 2019, shows the Kurushima Kaikyo bridge on Shimanami Kaido, a world renowned cycling route connecting Onomichi in Hiroshima Prefecture with Imabari in Ehime Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Shimanami Kaido cycling route

Shimanami Kaido cycling route

File photo taken April 27, 2019, shows the Kurushima Kaikyo bridge on Shimanami Kaido, a world renowned cycling route connecting Onomichi in Hiroshima Prefecture with Imabari in Ehime Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sea of clouds observed in western Japan

Sea of clouds observed in western Japan

Photo taken May 24, 2018, shows a sea of clouds covering waters in the Kurushima Strait off the western Japan city of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Sea of clouds observed in western Japan

Sea of clouds observed in western Japan

Photo taken May 24, 2018, shows parts of a suspension bridge, which links small islands in the Seto Inland Sea in western Japan, above a sea of clouds spreading over waters in the Kurushima Strait off Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

7 die in accident at bridge cons

7 die in accident at bridge cons

Seven workers die and one is seriously injured June 10 when the trolley in which they were working falls from a bridge girder at a construction site in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, police say. The trolley fell after a temporary girder beneath it plunged 60 meters to the ground, police said. The Kurushima Bridge under construction is part of an expressway that connects Japan's main island of Honshu to Shikoku, the smallest of the country's four main islands. ==Kyodo