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French navy ship visits Kyoto

Maizuru Mayor Akitsu Kamoda (R) and Captain Alexis Gollsnich, commander of the French navy frigate Prairial, pose for a photo in the Kyoto prefectural city, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2024, as the French ship makes a call at Maizuru port the same day.

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French navy ship visits Kyoto

The French navy frigate Prairial makes a call at Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2024.

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Japan Coast Guard's new boat enters Maizuru port, western Japan

KYOTO, Japan, March 10 Kyodo - The Japan Coast Guard's new patrol boat Wakasa, equipped with advanced devices for post-disaster rescue operations, sails into the Port of Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on March 6, 2015.

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Kyoto, Hokkaido display products at Russian food show

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Staffers of the Kyoto Maizuru Port Promotion Association in western Japan and the country's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido explain their various specialty food products and drinks at a food show in Russia's Far Eastern city of Vladivostok on Sept. 10, 2014, in their first such joint display.

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Replenishment ships head to Indian Ocean on antiterror mission

YOKOSUKA, Japan - The 4,550-ton destroyer Ikazuchi of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force leaves its base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 20 for its refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. The 13,500-ton fleet support ship Mashu also set off from its port in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, the same day on the mission.

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N. Korean freighter leaves Maizuru port

MAIZURU, Japan - The 670-ton North Korean freighter Kuksabong 2 leaves the Maizuru port on June 13, carrying 11 tons of cargo the Mangyongbong-92 cargo-passenger ferry was supposed to transport from Niigata port. The Mangyongbong-92 was to have arrived at Niigata on June 9 but North Korea canceled its visit following news that Tokyo would ban it from carrying passengers if inspections determined it had violated lifeboat standards.

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(2)N. Korean freighter leaves Maizuru port

KYOTO, Japan - The 298-ton North Korean freighter Namsan 3 leaves Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture on June 13 with a full load of secondhand bicycles after Japan granted permission to leave. It had been decided that previous port state control problems cited by authorities to prevent it leaving had been resolved.

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(1)N. Korean freighter leaves Maizuru port

KYOTO, Japan - The 298-ton North Korean freighter Namsan 3A leaves Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture on June 13 after Japan granted permission to leave. It had been decided that previous problems cited by authorities to prevent it leaving had been resolved. (Kyoto)

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Japan stops N. Korean freighter leaving Kyoto port

KYOTO, Japan - Japan on June 10 ordered the 298-ton North Korean freighter Namsan 3 (in photo) not to leave Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture on the Sea of Japan, saying it has some structural problems. The freighter was set to carry goods to the North in place of the N. Korean ferry Man Gyong Bong-92, which is at the center of arms and espionage allegations.

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Japan searches N. Korea freighter at port in Kyoto Pref.

KYOTO, Japan - Cargo, which was initially to be transported to North Korea from Niigata by the North Korean ferry Man Gyong Bong-92, is loaded onto the North Korean freighter Namsam 3 at Maizuru Port in Kyoto Prefecture on June 10. Japanese authorities searched the freighter at the port as part of enhanced surveillance on North Korean vessels.

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Court orders gov't to compensate Koreans over 1945 ship loss

KYOTO, Japan - Survivors and relatives of those who died in an explosion on the South Korean transport vessel Ukishimamaru on Aug. 24, 1945 speak at a press conference in Kyoto on Aug. 23. after the Kyoto District Court ordered the Japanese government to pay 45 million yen in compensation to 15 South Koreans over the explosion. The 4,730-ton ship carrying 524 Koreans on their way home from Japan exploded and capsized when the ship was nearing entry to Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture.

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U.S. destroyer Cushing arrives in Japan's Maizuru port

MAIZURU, Japan - The U.S. destroyer Cushing (front) is seen arriving in Maizuru, a port in Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan, on Aug. 2 for a five-day stopover for crew leave and provisions. The 9,250-ton vessel is based in Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. It carries Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads.

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Japan stops N. Korean freighter leaving Kyoto port

KYOTO, Japan - Japan on June 10 ordered the 298-ton North Korean freighter Namsan 3 (in photo) not to leave Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture on the Sea of Japan, saying it has some structural problems. The freighter was set to carry goods to the North in place of the N. Korean ferry Man Gyong Bong-92, which is at the center of arms and espionage allegations. (Kyodo)

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Rescue worker points to site of 1945 sinking of naval transport ship

Akio Tosa points to the site of the 1945 sinking of a Japanese naval transport ship in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 2, 2015. He was involved in rescue work following the accident in which the Ukishima Maru carrying Korean laborers and their families from Japan to the Korean port of Busan following the end of World War II apparently hit a U.S. naval mine in Maizuru Bay and sank on Aug. 24, 1945, killing some 550 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Rescue worker recalls 1945 sinking of naval transport ship

Akio Tosa visits a monument dedicated to victims in the 1945 sinking of a Japanese naval transport ship in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 2, 2015. He was involved in rescue work following the accident in which the Ukishima Maru carrying Korean laborers and their families from Japan to the Korean port of Busan following the end of World War II apparently hit a U.S. naval mine in Maizuru Bay and sank on Aug. 24, 1945, killing some 550 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Japanese soldiers return to Japan after Soviet detention

Former Imperial Japanese Army soldiers detained by the Soviet Union after World War II and assigned to hard labor as prisoners of war mainly in Siberia walk on Japanese soil on June 27, 1949, after arriving at Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture aboard the vessel Takasago Maru from Nakhodka in the Soviet Union. After the war, about 660,000 veterans and civilians returning from the Soviet Union, China and the Korean Peninsula arrived at the western Japan port through 1958.

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Kyoto inks MOU with Alaska on LNG imports

Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada (R) and Alaska Gov. Bill Walker shake hands in Tokyo on Sept. 15, 2015, after sighing a memorandum of understanding on the possible import of liquefied natural gas from the U.S. state. The western Japanese prefecture of Kyoto plans to make Maizuru port facing the Sea of Japan its LNG import base. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replenishment ships head to Indian Ocean on antiterror mission

YOKOSUKA, Japan - The 4,550-ton destroyer Ikazuchi of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force leaves its base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, on April 20 for its refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. The 13,500-ton fleet support ship Mashu also set off from its port in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, the same day on the mission. (Kyodo)

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N. Korean freighter leaves Maizuru port

MAIZURU, Japan - The 670-ton North Korean freighter Kuksabong 2 leaves the Maizuru port on June 13, carrying 11 tons of cargo the Mangyongbong-92 cargo-passenger ferry was supposed to transport from Niigata port. The Mangyongbong-92 was to have arrived at Niigata on June 9 but North Korea canceled its visit following news that Tokyo would ban it from carrying passengers if inspections determined it had violated lifeboat standards. (Kyodo)

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(2)N. Korean freighter leaves Maizuru port

KYOTO, Japan - The 298-ton North Korean freighter Namsan 3 leaves Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture on June 13 with a full load of secondhand bicycles after Japan granted permission to leave. It had been decided that previous port state control problems cited by authorities to prevent it leaving had been resolved. (Kyodo)

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(1)N. Korean freighter leaves Maizuru port

KYOTO, Japan - The 298-ton North Korean freighter Namsan 3A leaves Maizuru port in Kyoto Prefecture on June 13 after Japan granted permission to leave. It had been decided that previous problems cited by authorities to prevent it leaving had been resolved. (Kyoto)

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Japan searches N. Korea freighter at port in Kyoto Pref.

KYOTO, Japan - Cargo, which was initially to be transported to North Korea from Niigata by the North Korean ferry Man Gyong Bong-92, is loaded onto the North Korean freighter Namsam 3 at Maizuru Port in Kyoto Prefecture on June 10. Japanese authorities searched the freighter at the port as part of enhanced surveillance on North Korean vessels. (Kyodo)

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U.S. destroyer Cushing arrives in Japan's Maizuru port

MAIZURU, Japan - The U.S. destroyer Cushing (front) is seen arriving in Maizuru, a port in Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan, on Aug. 2 for a five-day stopover for crew leave and provisions. The 9,250-ton vessel is based in Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. It carries Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads.

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U.S. destroyer Cushing arrives in Japan's Maizuru port

MAIZURU, Japan - The U.S. destroyer Cushing (front) is seen arriving in Maizuru, a port in Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan, on Aug. 2 for a five-day stopover for crew leave and provisions. The 9,250-ton vessel is based in Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. It carries Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads.