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Athletics: Mito Invitational championships

Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi competes en route to winning gold in the women's javelin throw event at the Mito Invitational national athletics championships on May 5, 2024, in Mito, eastern Japan.

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Athletics: Mito Invitational championships

Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi competes en route to winning gold in the women's javelin throw event at the Mito Invitational national athletics championships on May 5, 2024, in Mito, eastern Japan.

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Athletics: Mito Invitational championships

Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi competes en route to winning gold in the women's javelin throw event at the Mito Invitational national athletics championships on May 5, 2024, in Mito, eastern Japan.

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Athletics: Mito Invitational championships

Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi competes en route to winning gold in the women's javelin throw event at the Mito Invitational national athletics championships on May 5, 2024, in Mito, eastern Japan.

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Athletics: Mito Invitational championships

Reigning world champion Haruka Kitaguchi competes en route to winning gold in the women's javelin throw event at the Mito Invitational national athletics championships on May 5, 2024, in Mito, eastern Japan.

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Tougher penalties for road rage incidents

MITO, Japan, June 30 Kyodo - Police officers line up in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, before a shift on June 30, 2020, as a law to impose tougher penalties for road rage incidents took effect in Japan the same day.

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Britons exhibit photos to show life, people in Fukushima town

MITO, Japan, May 21 Kyodo - Anthony Ballard from Britain points to one of the photos at an exhibition jointly held in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on May 16, 2015, by him and compatriot Phillip Jellyman to show life and people in Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, still off-limits due to the 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi power plant. The two Britons are English teachers at one of the town's junior high schools.

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Contestants gulp 'natto' beans at speed-eating competition

MITO, Japan, March 4 Kyodo - Contestants gulp "natto" fermented sticky beans on rice at a speed-eating world competition in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Feb. 28, 2015.

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Hauho conducts ring-entering rite for sumo legend

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho performs a ring-entering ceremony in front of the statue of the late grand champion Hitachiyama in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Dec. 20, 2014, to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the sumo legend's birth.

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Oarai Anglerfish Festival draws large crowd

MITO, Japan - A local cook demonstrates how to cut an anglerfish while the fish is hung up on a triangular stand in front of a large crowd during the Oarai Anglerfish Festival in the town of Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 16, 2014.

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Colorful boats sail in Kashima Shrine's festival

MITO, Japan - A flotilla of colorful boats sail out in a river on Sept. 2, 2014, to celebrate the "Mifune Matsuri," a festival that has been held since about 1,700 years ago in the Year of the Horse. The festival is held by the Kashima shrine in Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan.

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4 Kanto cities to support each other in disasters

MITO, Japan - Utsunomiya Mayor Eiichi Sato, Mito Mayor Yasushi Takahashi, Maebashi Mayor Ryu Yamamoto and Takasaki Mayor Kenji Tomioka (from L) pose for photos at the city hall in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2014, after signing an agreement on mutual support in times of disaster.

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People visit repaired Kodokan school of Mito clan

MITO, Japan - People visit the repaired Kodokan, the Mito clan's school for the feudal domains in the 19th century that was damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on March 27. 2014. The school, opened in 1841, was closed in 1872.

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'Natto' speed-eating contest in Mito

MITO, Japan - A participant eats a bowl of "natto" fermented soybeans during an annual natto speed-eating contest in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on March 22, 2014. The eastern Japan city is a famous producer of the fermented beans.

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Restaurant in Mito serves 'Mito Komon' ramen

MITO, Japan - A restaurant in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, offers ramen noodles, shown in this undated photo, duplicating what Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628-1700), a prominent Japanese feudal lord known as "Mito Komon," is believed to have eaten. The ramen is served with five spices.

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Bungee jumping in Japan

MITO, Japan - A man engages in bungee jumping in Hitachiota, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2014. A total of nine men and women did a bungee jump from a 100-meter-high bridge, making it the highest bungee jumping spot in Japan, the same day to commemorate their coming of age.

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Myanmar Airways to start flights to Japan

MITO, Japan - Ibaraki Gov. Masaru Hashimoto (L) and Khin Maung Latt (R), chairman of Myanmar Airways International, hold a press conference at the Ibaraki prefectural hall in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2013. They agreed on the launch of regular flights linking Yangon and Ibaraki Airport.

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Quake-damaged Kairakuen garden fully opened

MITO, Japan - Kobuntei, the restored three-story wooden villa of Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Nariaki at the Kairakuen garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, is reopened to the public on Feb. 7, 2012. The villa is the last of the facilities at the renowned Japanese garden to reopen to the public 11 months after last March's earthquake damaged the site.

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Quake-damaged Kairakuen garden fully opened

MITO, Japan - Kobuntei, the restored three-story wooden villa of Mito feudal lord Tokugawa Nariaki at the Kairakuen garden in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, is reopened to the public on Feb. 7, 2012. The villa is the last of the facilities at the renowned Japanese garden to reopen to the public 11 months after last March's earthquake damaged the site.

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Ultraman, Ultraseven exhibition at museum in Mito

MITO, Japan - Photo shows figures of Ultraman (L) and Ultraseven (R), characters from popular Japanese TV hero series aired since the 1960s, on display at the Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Nov. 2, 2011. An exhibition entitled ''Ultraman Art! Times and creation Ultraman & Ultraseven'' runs from Nov. 3, 2011, through Jan. 15, 2012.

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Drifted fishing gears from Miyagi Pref.

MITO, Japan - An official of the Oarai town office in Ibaraki Prefecture organizes buoys for aquafarming on Sept. 8, 2011, which were retrieved from waters off Oarai in July 2011, before shipping them back the following day to the Miyagi prefectural fishery cooperative, which owns the gear. About 120 buoys had drifted there from Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, some 300 kilometers away, after the March 11 tsunami.

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Retired ASDF planes to be on public display

MITO, Japan - A retired RF-4 scout airplane of the Air Self-Defense Force is set for an exhibition at Ibaraki airport park in Omitama, Ibaraki Prefecture, on June 29, 2011. The public exhibition is scheduled to start from July 23, 2011.

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2 men acquitted of murder 43 years after arrests

MITO, Japan - This file photo shows postcards that Shoji Sakurai and Takao Sugiyama, both 64, sent to each other while they were detained in isolation cells at the Tokyo Detention House. On May 24, 2011, the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court acquitted them of murder in a retrial, clearing their names more than 43 years after their arrests. The two men had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1970 for the August 1967 robbery and murder of Shoten Tamamura, a 62-year-old carpenter, and were freed on parole in 1996.

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Annual 'natto' bean speed eating contest held with 8 foreigners

MITO, Japan - Participants of the annual ''natto'' fermented soybean speed eating contest eat sticky natto beans mixed with a bowl of rice in Mito city, Ibaraki Prefecture, on March 6, 2010. The contest drew 72 people including regulars in competitive eating from various parts of Japan and eight people from Austria and other foreign countries.

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'World's No. 1' coffee to be offered in Japan

MITO, Japan - This Nov. 25, 2009 photo shows Panama's Esmeralda Especial coffee beans, said to be the world's most expensive coffee, which Japanese cafe chain operator Saza Coffee Co., based in Ibaraki Prefecture, plans to offer for 1,200 yen per cup starting Dec. 2. Saza, which has paid $117.50 per pound for the coffee, 100 times the cost of average coffee beans, became the first company in Japan to buy the high-quality beans through an auction.

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Super-lightweight planes enjoy popularity despite accidents

MITO, Japan - A super-lightweight plane crashes in the town of Goka in Ibaraki Prefecture on March 29, killing the two people on board.

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Traditional bride-on-the-boat wedding ceremony

MITO, Japan - A bride wearing a pure white wedding costume is taken by boat to her bridegroom in a traditional wedding ceremony reenacted during the annual Iris Festival in Itako, Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 24.

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Free farmland for rent in Ibaraki

MITO, Japan - The township of Daigo, located in the northwestern corner of Ibaraki Prefecture, is offering farmland for a 20-year rent-free lease to dwellers willing to make their home there. The township has 16 lots of state-provided land, at sizes ranging from 750 square meters to 1,745 square meters. Potential renters must be under age 65 and willing to live at least 90 days a year on the farmland. Applications will be accepted until Dec. 28, and they will be screened next spring. About 600 people showed up for an on-site briefing Nov. 23, Daigo officials said, adding that the move is aimed at invigorating the local economy as the local population has been declining, from a peak of 42,000 to around 21,000 now. The photo shows a couple inspecting some of the farmland offered for free rent.

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Japanese youngsters taking up golf in droves

TOKYO, Japan - Eri Tobita, 12, who won the national championship for girls in primary school last year, practices at the driving range of Ace Golf Stadium in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Court accepts petition for retrial of 1967 murder case

MITO, Japan - The Mito District Court decided Sept. 21 to allow a retrial of a 1967 murder-robbery case in the town of Tone, Ibaraki Prefecture, accepting petition from Shoji Sakurai (L) and Takao Sugiyama (R), two convicted men who have pleaded innocent. Their life sentences were finalized at the Supreme Court in 1978, and they had served 29 years in prison since their arrest before being released on parole in 1996.

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DPJ's Okada highlights pension reforms over postal policies

MITO, Japan - Opposition Democratic Party of Japan leader Katsuya Okada stumps in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Aug. 22. He said the pension system is the main issue in the Sept. 11 general election to counter Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's attempt to make the election a referendum on his defeated postal privatization bills.

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Freighter collides with Malaysian ship, 1 dead, 2 missing

MITO, Japan - The 7,633-ton Malaysian-flagged Thailine 6 suffered damage to its bow when it collided with the 498-ton Japanese freighter Shinwa Maru No. 8 off Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 30. The Japanese vessel sank, leaving one of the four crew members on the freighter dead and two others missing, Japan Coast Guard officials said.

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(2)Australia's Johnson breaks 10 second barrier

MITO, Japan - Australia's Patrick Johnson poses for photographers beside a display showing his winning time of 9.93 seconds in the 100 meters at a stadium in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 5.

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(1)Australia's Johnson breaks 10 second barrier

MITO, Japan - Patrick Johnson of Australia wins an international athletic meet in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on May 5 with a time of 9.93 seconds, becoming the first Australian to break the 10-second barrier in the 100 meters.

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Clinton urges Japanese students to work for peace

MITO, Japan - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) is presented with flowers after speaking to 1,700 Japanese high school students in the city of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture on international affairs and Japan-U.S. relations Nov. 19. Clinton urged the students to interact with people of different nationalities and religions to create a better world.

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Fire burns 1,000 junked cars in Ibaraki Pref.

MITO, Japan - A fire that broke out at a car-scrapping factory in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 5 burnt about 1,000 junked vehicles, police said. About 3,000 vehicles had been piled up at the plant.

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Drill marks 2nd anniversary of Tokaimura nuclear accident

MITO, Japan - A resident in the village of Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, receives a radiation check on Sept. 29 during a nuclear disaster drill conducted by the Ibaraki prefectural government. The drill was held a day ahead of the second anniversary of Japan's worst nuclear accident in the village.

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Remaining uranium solution transported from Tokaimura plant

MITO, Japan - An operation to transport uranium solution remaining at the site of Japan's worst nuclear accident in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, to a nearby nuclear fuel reprocessing plant is completed on April 14. The last four stainless steel containers (C) are carried on a truck from the conversion building at the uranium processing plant operated by JCO Co. to the reprocessing plant of Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute, also in the village of Tokaimura.

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Greenpeace briefs press on nuclear accident

MITO, Japan - Jan Rispens of Greenpeace International shows reporters in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture on Oct. 7 the environmental group's analysis of the nuclear accident that occurred Sept. 30 at a uranium-processing company in Tokaimura in the same prefecture.

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Workers used buckets at Tokaimura plant for 7-8 years

MITO, Japan - The photo shows a stainless steel bucket identical to the ones used for mixing a uranium solution at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where Japan's worst-ever nuclear accident took place on Sept. 30. Plant officials, exhibiting the bucket at a press conference at the prefecture government office on Oct. 5, admitted such buckets were used in violation of safety regulations for 7-8 years.

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Civic group holds protest meeting against nuclear policy

MITO, Japan - An antinuclear civic group holds a meeting in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 3 to protest the government's nuclear policy in the wake of the Sept. 30 radiation leakage at a uranium processing plant in Tokaimura in the prefecture.

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Northern Japan hit by flooding

MITO, Japan - A photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter July 14 shows wide areas of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, flooded after continued torrential rain.