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Centennial of birth of gold-medal swimmer Maehata

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Masaomi Hyodo (far L), a son of legendary Olympic gold-medal swimmer Hideko Maehata, sees some 50 exhibits of his mother during a centennial ceremony of her birth at a gymnasium in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on July 31, 2014. Maehata is best remembered by many Japanese for a live NHK radio broadcast of the 200-meter breaststroke final in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in which an announcer repeatedly shouted "Ganbare (Go for it), Maehata!"

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Olympic gold medalist Maehata's 100th birthday commemorated

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Visitors look at mementoes commemorating the 100th birthday of the late Hideko Maehata, the first Japanese female swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal, at an exhibition held in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, on April 1, 2014. Maehata won her gold at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

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Commander apologizes for fire at U.S. Navy's ammunition depot

SASEBO, Japan - Capt. Tilghman Payne (R), commander at the Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base, meets with Sasebo Mayor Akira Mitsutake at the city hall on Oct. 22 to convey his apologies for worrying city residents about the fire that occurred at a woodworking shop at the Maehata ammunition depot the previous day.

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Fire breaks out in compound of U.S. Navy ammunition depot in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woodworking facility at the Maehata ammunition depot of the U.S. Navy in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, belches black smoke on Oct. 21. No request for help has been made to the Sasebo fire department by the U.S. military, which said the facility is located far from where ammunitions are stored, the fire department and police said.

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Fire breaks out in compound of U.S. Navy ammunition depot in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woodworking facility blazes up at the Maehata ammunition depot of the U.S. Navy in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Oct. 21. Officials at the Sasebo base of the U.S. military said the facility is located far from where ammunitions are stored.

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Commander apologizes for fire at U.S. Navy's ammunition depot

SASEBO, Japan - Capt. Tilghman Payne (R), commander at the Fleet Activities Sasebo naval base, meets with Sasebo Mayor Akira Mitsutake at the city hall on Oct. 22 to convey his apologies for worrying city residents about the fire that occurred at a woodworking shop at the Maehata ammunition depot the previous day. (Kyodo)

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Fire breaks out in compound of U.S. Navy ammunition depot in Nag

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woodworking facility blazes up at the Maehata ammunition depot of the U.S. Navy in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Oct. 21. Officials at the Sasebo base of the U.S. military said the facility is located far from where ammunitions are stored. (Kyodo)

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Fire breaks out in compound of U.S. Navy ammunition depot in Nag

NAGASAKI, Japan - A woodworking facility at the Maehata ammunition depot of the U.S. Navy in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, belches black smoke on Oct. 21. No request for help has been made to the Sasebo fire department by the U.S. military, which said the facility is located far from where ammunitions are stored, the fire department and police said. (Kyodo)

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Centennial of birth of gold-medal swimmer Maehata

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Masaomi Hyodo (far L), a son of legendary Olympic gold-medal swimmer Hideko Maehata, sees some 50 exhibits of his mother during a centennial ceremony of her birth at a gymnasium in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on July 31, 2014. Maehata is best remembered by many Japanese for a live NHK radio broadcast of the 200-meter breaststroke final in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in which an announcer repeatedly shouted "Ganbare (Go for it), Maehata!" (Kyodo)