Boats capsize in student tour in Okinawa

Boats capsize in student tour in Okinawa

Doshisha International Junior and Senior High School principal Kikuo Nishida holds a press conference at his school in Kyotanabe in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on March 17, 2026, after one high school student died when two boats carrying a total of 18 students of the school capsized off Nago in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa during a peace education tour the previous day

Boats capsize in student tour in Okinawa

Boats capsize in student tour in Okinawa

Doshisha International Junior and Senior High School principal Kikuo Nishida (C) holds a press conference at his school in Kyotanabe in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on March 17, 2026, after one high school student died when two boats carrying a total of 18 students of the school capsized off Nago in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa during a peace education tour the previous day

Boats capsize in student tour in Okinawa

Boats capsize in student tour in Okinawa

Doshisha International Junior and Senior High School principal Kikuo Nishida holds a press conference at his school in Kyotanabe in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on March 17, 2026, after one high school student died when two boats carrying a total of 18 students of the school capsized off Nago in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa during a peace education tour the previous day

Boats capsize in student tour in Okinawa

Boats capsize in student tour in Okinawa

Doshisha International Junior and Senior High School principal Kikuo Nishida (2nd from R) bows in apology during a press conference at his school in Kyotanabe in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on March 17, 2026, after one high school student died when two boats carrying a total of 18 students of the school capsized off Nago in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa during a peace education tour the previous day.

People compete in chair race in Kyotonabe

People compete in chair race in Kyotonabe

OSAKA, Japan - Participants sitting on office chairs compete in a race at a shopping district in the city of Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 29, 2014. About 40 three-person teams took part in the race, in which teams competed to see how many laps of a 180-meter course they could complete in two hours.

Participants in chair race go through shopping arcade

Participants in chair race go through shopping arcade

OSAKA, Japan - Participants of a chair race go through a shopping street in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, while sitting on office chairs on March 29, 2014.

Wheelchair-bound woman 1st to attend university with dog

Wheelchair-bound woman 1st to attend university with dog

KYOTO, Japan - Chikako Tatebayashi (C) attends the entrance ceremony at private Doshisha University's campus in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on April 2 with her Labrador retriever. Tatebayashi, 21, became the first wheelchair-bound person with an assistant dog to study at a Japanese university. She lost the use of the lower half of her body in a 1998 traffic accident.

Wheelchair-bound woman 1st to attend university with dog

Wheelchair-bound woman 1st to attend university with dog

KYOTO, Japan - Chikako Tatebayashi (C) attends the entrance ceremony at private Doshisha University's campus in Kyotanabe, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on April 2 with her Labrador retriever. Tatebayashi, 21, became the first wheelchair-bound person with an assistant dog to study at a Japanese university. She lost the use of the lower half of her body in a 1998 traffic accident.