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Landslide in Ehime Pref.

MATSUYAMA, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 12, 2024, shows the aftermath of a landslide on a mountainside beneath Matsuyama Castle (top) in Matsuyama in the western Japan prefecture of Ehime, following torrential rain. Three people died when a wooden house at the foot of the mountain was buried.

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Dogo Onsen bathhouse fully resumes operations

Photo taken on July 9, 2024, shows the Tama-no-yu bathing area for men in the main building of the Dogo Onsen bathhouse in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The bathhouse, listed as a property of national cultural significance, fully resumed operations on July 11 after about five and a half years of repairs.

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Dogo Onsen bathhouse fully resumes operations

Photo taken on July 9, 2024, shows the Kami-no-yu bathing area for men in the main building of the Dogo Onsen bathhouse in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The bathhouse, which is listed as a property of national cultural significance, fully resumed operations on July 11 after about five and a half years of repairs.

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Dogo Onsen bathhouse fully resumes operations

Photo taken on July 9, 2024, shows the Kami-no-yu bathing area for men in the main building of the Dogo Onsen bathhouse in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The bathhouse, which is listed as a property of national cultural significance, fully resumed operations on July 11 after about five and a half years of repairs.

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Dogo Onsen bathhouse fully resumes operations

Photo taken on July 9, 2024, shows the Kami-no-yu bathing area for men in the main building of the Dogo Onsen bathhouse in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The bathhouse, which is listed as a property of national cultural significance, fully resumed operations on July 11 after about five and a half years of repairs.

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Dogo Onsen bathhouse fully resumes operations

People celebrate the full resumption of operations for the main building of the Dogo Onsen bathhouse on July 10, 2024, in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture in western Japan, after about five and a half years of repairs. The bathhouse is listed as property of national cultural significance.

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'Rakugo' comic storyteller speaks at famed resort

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Popular "rakugo" comic storyteller Katsura Bunshi presents one of his original tales at Dogo Onsen Honkan, an old wooden public bathhouse, on Oct. 24, 2014, in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the renovation of the bathhouse dating back to 1894.

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'Rakugo' comic storyteller speaks on famed spa resort

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Popular "Rakugo" comic storyteller Katsura Bunshi performs his original tale titled "Let's go to Dogo Onsen," one of Japan's oldest and most famous hot springs in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2014, to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the renovation of the Dogo Onsen Honkan wooden public bathhouse dating back to 1894.

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Cenotaph built for baseball coach of Taiwan high school

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A ceremony is held on Oct. 6, 2014, in Matsuyama, southwestern Japan, to unveil a cenotaph built in honor of Japanese baseball coach Hyotaro Kondo who led Taiwan's Kagi Norin High School to a runner-up in Japan's national high school baseball tournament in 1936 during the Japanese colonial rule of the island in 1895-1945. Kondo's motto of "Ball is Spirit" is engraved in the baseball-shaped top of the monument.

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Ex-Taiwan high school players sing before coach's cenotaph

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Former baseball players of Taiwan's Kagi Norin High School sing its school song during an unveiling ceremony for a cenotaph built in honor of their coach Hyotaro Kondo in Matsuyama, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 6, 2014. Kondo led the school to a runner-up in Japan's national high school baseball tournament in 1936 during the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan in 1895-1945.

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Japanese baseball coach's motto on ball-like cenotaph

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The motto of "Ball is Spirit" advocated by former Japanese baseball coach Hyotaro Kondo, engraved on the ball-shaped top of a cenotaph built in his honor, is shown at an unveiling ceremony in Matsuyama, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 6, 2014. Kondo led Taiwan's Kagi Norin High School to a runner-up in Japan's national high school baseball tournament in 1936 during the Japanese colonial rule of the island in 1895-1945.

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Century-old store in Ehime village reopens after 20yr hiatus

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The inside of Fukuda Hyakkaten, a general store that had served a mountainous community in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, for about 90 years before going out of business some 20 years ago, is shown on Sept. 14, 2014. It reopened under new owner Futoshi Kuroda (L, standing), with a cafe area.

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Traditional boat race held in Imabari, western Japan

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The 22nd "Suigun Boat Race" is held near Oshima Island in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, on July 27, 2014, using small boats imitating those adopted by pirates called Murakami Suigun around the Inland Sea in the medieval era of Japan.

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Plaintiff group against Ikata nuclear plant

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A plaintiff group proceeds to the Matsuyama district court in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on June 24, 2014, to file a lawsuit seeking to halt the operation of the Ikata Nuclear Power Plant of Shikoku Electric Power Co. The power plant has been idled since the nuclear crisis triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Inn in Dogo Onsen with sliding doors of water plant design

MATSUYAMA, Japan - An inn in the Dogo Onsen hot springs resort in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, unveils a room with sliding doors of a water plant design used for Arita-yaki porcelain on April 8, 2014, before the opening of the Dogo Onsenart 2014 art festival on April 10.

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S. Korea's Ahn captures Japan LPGA money title

MATSUYAMA, Japan - South Korean golfer Ahn Sun Ju takes a shot during the Elleair Ladies Open in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, in November 2010. Ahn became the first foreign female golfer to win the Japan LPGA money rankings title in 19 years on Nov. 21, 2010, after finishing 13th in the tournament.

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S. Korea's Ahn captures money title

MATSUYAMA, Japan - South Korean golfer Ahn Sun Ju receives flowers after securing the money title of the 2010 season in Japan after playing at the Elleair Ladies Open in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Nov. 21, 2010. Ahn became the first foreign golfer to win the Japan LPGA money rankings title in 19 years.

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Boar enters college campus, injures 1 before being shot

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A member of a local hunting group stands next to a boar hanging from a ceiling after it was shot by the group in Matsuyama on Jan. 5, 2010. The wandering boar entered the campus of St. Catherine University, where it injured one male staff member, and later escaped into a residential street where it was killed.

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DPJ head Ozawa says uniting with People's New Party 'an option'

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa speaks at a news conference in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Sept. 15. He said integrating his party with the People's New Party is an option ahead of a possible House of Representatives election.

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LDP presidential candidates present policies to local members

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe, who has declared his candidacy in the upcoming Liberal Democratic Party presidential election, speaks about his policies on Sept. 2 at a convention of the LDP's Shikoku regional chapter in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture.

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LDP presidential candidates present policies to local members

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Three candidates in the upcoming Liberal Democratic Party presidential election encourage their supporters at a convention of the LDP's Shikoku regional chapter in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. From L to R are Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Taro Aso.

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Steady progress seen in 'Independent League' plans

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hiromichi Ishige, former Orix BlueWave manager and now president of Tokyo-based company IBLJ, speaks of his plans to establish a new baseball league in the four prefectures on Shikoku at a press conference in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Dec. 1. He said the plans are making steady progress as advisers and coaching staff have been shortlisted and more than 900 players have applied for tryouts.

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Vietnamese ship runs aground, 4 missing

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The Vietnamese-registered freighter Vihan 05 runs aground Aug. 30 off Ehime Prefecture due to strong winds and high waves caused by the powerful typhoon Chaba, which hit southwestern Japan. Four of its 20 crew members were thrown into the sea and are missing.

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2 Mitsubishi Fuso trucks subject to recall catches fire

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Officials of Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp. investigate the company's heavy-duty truck in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on June 18 after it caught fire while running on a highway in Iyo in the prefecture. Another Mitsubishi Fuso truck caught fire in a parking area on an expressway in Iida, Nagano Prefecture on June 15.

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1 worker dead, 14 ill in CO leak at chemical plant

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Firefighters examine a chemical plant owned by Tokyo-based Teijin Chemicals Ltd. in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on July 9. Fifteen workers were sickened at the plant earlier in the day after carbon monoxide began leaking inside the facility. One worker later died.

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Ehime Maru captain arrives in Japan

MATSUYAMA, Japan - The captain of a Japanese fisheries training ship from Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, sunk early in February by the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville expresses deep sadness over the nine still missing on his return home Feb. 24. ''To return home without the (missing) nine is unbearable for me. I can do nothing but apologize to their family members,'' Hisao Onishi, 58, told a news conference the same night at the Ehime prefectural government office in Matsuyama.

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Ehime residents lose suit over gov't approval of nuke reactor

MATSUYAMA, Japan - A group of local residents walk into the Matsuyama District Court on Dec. 15 to hear the ruling on a lawsuit they filed to cancel the central government's 1977 approval of construction of a new reactor at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. The residents lost the lawsuit.

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Mori speaks in Matsuyama

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori speaks at a public hall in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on June 4. Mori delivered a speech at a lecture meeting held by his Liberal Democratic Party's Ehime prefectural chapter. The House of Representatives was dissolved for a June 25 general election.

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