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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

MOTOMIYA, Japan, Feb. 28 Kyodo - Britain's Prince William spends time with children at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Evacuated Fukushima schools still running at satellite campuses

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 27, 2013 shows the Fukushima Prefectural Namie High School's satellite campus set up in prefabricated buildings in the prefectural city of Motomiya. Namie High School's home campus remains evacuated as a result of the nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi power plant that began in March 2011.

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Evacuated Fukushima schools still running at satellite campuses

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tatsuma Hangai, a student at the Fukushima Prefectural Namie High School, attends classes at a satellite campus in the prefectural city of Motomiya on Feb. 27, 2013. Namie High School's home campus remains evacuated as a result of the nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi power plant that began in March 2011.

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Fukushima beef cattle auction

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A beef cow raised in Fukushima Prefecture is auctioned at a market in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 12, 2011, after excessive levels of radioactive cesium were detected in beef from cows in the prefecture hit by a nuclear crisis.

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Sony eyes making batteries for electric vehicles

TOKYO, Japan - This July 12, 2011 photo shows a building at Sony Energy Devices Corp.'s new factory in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, for making batteries. Parent company Sony Corp. is in talks with automakers inside and outside of Japan to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles from the middle of the 2010s, expecting a sharp increase in demand.

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (far L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (center L) are welcomed at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (C) talks to a boy at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (L front) receives a letter from a girl when visiting an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (behind him) on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William visits Fukushima with Abe

Britain's Prince William (2nd from L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (far L) watch children bounce on a trampoline at an athletic facility for children in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 28, 2015. The 32-year-old Duke of Cambridge, who arrived Feb. 26 on his first visit to Japan, visited Fukushima with Abe to help dispel safety concerns in the prefecture hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farmer harvests rice driving from seeds gathered in Nagasaki after A-bombing

Kikuo Sakai examines a bunch of harvested rice stalks grown from seeds deriving from those collected in Nagasaki in 1945 after the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city, as seen in this photo taken in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2015. Sakai, who is among more than 20 farmers cultivating such "radiated rice" to remember the A-bombing tragedy, says half of rice ears are empty due to chromosomal aberrancy stemming from the lingering effects of radiation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Farmer harvests rice driving from seeds gathered in Nagasaki after A-bombing

Kikuo Sakai examines a bunch of harvested rice stalks grown from seeds deriving from those collected in Nagasaki in 1945 after the atomic bombing of the southwestern Japanese city, as seen in this photo taken in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2015. Sakai, who is among more than 20 farmers cultivating such "radiated rice" to remember the A-bombing tragedy, says half of rice ears are empty due to chromosomal aberrancy stemming from the lingering effects of radiation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

An arched bridge over the pond in a garden, with women dressed in kimono and hair done in Japanese style. In front stands a woman, and one of the two women in the centre holds an umbrella. The rickshaw man holds the pole, and the woman on the rickshaw holds an umbrella.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐22‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

A view of Hakkeitei with Tsukiyama in the background. A woman dressed in a kimono with hair done in Japanese style stands holding an umbrella. On the boat floating on the lake, two women dressed in kimono stand in the centre, one holding an umbrella. At the bow of the boat is the boatman.There is a man sitting at the stern and the helmsman holds a pole upright, standing with one foot on the edge of the boat.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐21‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyu-en is the garden at the former second residence of the Ii family in the San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. It was completed by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi Domain, Ii Naooki, in 1679. The name is derived from the villa of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (685-763) of the Tang Dynasty. The Rinchi-kaku and other buildings are carefully positioned around the pond with trees and unusual stones. The building in the photograph was used as an inn and restaurant from the Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐44‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyu-en is the garden at the former second residence of the Ii family in the San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. It was completed by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi Domain, Ii Naooki, in 1679. A garden of the chisenkaiyu style, it incorporates features of the Chinese Eight Scenes of Xiaoxiang and the Eight Scenes of Oumi and to this day provides an excellent example of early Edo Period landscaping. The name is derived from the villa of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (685-763) of the Tang Dynasty.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐27‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyu-en is the garden at the former second residence of the Ii family in the San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. It was completed by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi Domain, Ii Naooki, in 1679. A garden of the chisenkaiyu style, it incorporates features of the Chinese Eight Scenes of Xiaoxiang and the Eight Scenes of Oumi and to this day provides an excellent example of early Edo Period landscaping. The name is derived from the villa of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (685-763) of the Tang Dynasty.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐26‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyu-en is the garden at the former second residence of the Ii family in the San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. It was completed by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi Domain, Ii Naooki, in 1679. The name is derived from the villa of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong (685-763) of the Tang Dynasty. The Rinchi-kaku and other buildings are carefully positioned around the pond with trees and unusual stones. The building in the photograph was used as an inn and restaurant from the Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐60‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Two women admire wisteria blossoms. The title Hikone suggests that this was taken in Genkyu-en, the garden of the former second residence of the Ii family in the north San-no-maru section of Hikone Castle. The chisenkaiyu-style garden (with a path meandering through the garden around a central pond) was completed in 1679 by the 4th feudal lord of the Oumi domain, Ii Naooki.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number51‐165‐0]

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Priests of Futarasan Shrine

The photograph is entitled Shinto Priests at Futarasan Shinto Shrine, but the scene does not correspond to present-day Futarasan Shinto Shrine, Motomiya Shinto Shrine, or Takino'o Shinto Shrine in Nikko-Sannai by Lake Chuzenji. However, the torii gate and stairs to the right may be those at the entrance to Okumiya, within the precincts of Chugushi at Futarasan Shinto Shrine.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number47‐43‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

The Hakkeitei from the lake. A woman leans on the handrail of the Hakkeitei veranda and looks at the camera. A boat comes nearby, with three women dressed in kimono. One sits, and two others stand holding umbrellas. The boatman stands at the helm and the man in the stern holds a pole.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐35‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

The Hakkeitei is seen to the left facing the lake. The roof of the irimoya and the white shoji (paper doors) can be seen clearly. In front is a bridge from the bank. A Japanese boat floats on the lake with a helmsman and passenger aboard.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐20‐0]

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Motomiya Garden,Hikone

Genkyuen stands to the east of the Rakurakuen, near the Kuro Gate facing the inner moat to the north of Hikone Castle. It is fed by Lake Biwa, with the pond and fountain-style garden imitating the eight scenic spots of Shukusho in China. The fourth lord of the Ii family, Naosuke built this garden in the midst of Genroku cultural prosperity. Irises grow in the lake and a bridge connects the inner island. Several people stand on the bridge.==Date:unknown, Place:Shiga, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐38‐0]

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Fukushima beef cattle auction

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - A beef cow raised in Fukushima Prefecture is auctioned at a market in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 12, 2011, after excessive levels of radioactive cesium were detected in beef from cows in the prefecture hit by a nuclear crisis. (Kyodo)

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Sony eyes making batteries for electric vehicles

TOKYO, Japan - This July 12, 2011 photo shows a building at Sony Energy Devices Corp.'s new factory in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, for making batteries. Parent company Sony Corp. is in talks with automakers inside and outside of Japan to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles from the middle of the 2010s, expecting a sharp increase in demand. (Kyodo)

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Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 17, 2019, shows disaster waste piled up outside a drugstore in Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after the area was inundated by Typhoon Hagibis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan

Disaster waste is seen piled up in a residential area in Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 15, 2019, after the area was inundated by Typhoon Hagibis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe visits typhoon-affected areas

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gives encouragement to Self-Defense Force personnel during his visit to a disaster-hit area in the northeastern Japan city of Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 17, 2019, after powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped through wide areas of the country the previous week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe visits typhoon-affected areas

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) inspects a disaster-hit area in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 17, 2019, after powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped through wide areas of the country the previous week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe visits typhoon-affected areas

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits an evacuation center in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 17, 2019, after powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped through wide areas of the country the previous week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan PM Abe visits typhoon-affected areas

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) inspects a disaster-hit area in the city of Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 17, 2019, after powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped through wide areas of the country the previous week. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 15, 2019, shows waste piled up on a road in Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after a nearby river overflowed during Typhoon Hagibis on Oct. 12. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 15, 2019, shows waste piled up on a road in Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after a nearby river overflowed during Typhoon Hagibis on Oct. 12. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 15, 2019, shows waste piled up on a road in Motomiya in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, after a nearby river overflowed during Typhoon Hagibis on Oct. 12. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Powerful Typhoon in Japan

A Self-Defense Forces member carries an elderly woman to safety in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2019, after the northeastern Japan city was inundated due to Typhoon Hagibis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Powerful typhoon in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 13, 2019, shows an auto dealership in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, inundated after a nearby river overflowed due to Typhoon Hagibis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Powerful typhoon in Japan

Residents are taken to safety by boat in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Oct. 13, 2019, after a nearby river overflowed due to Typhoon Hagibis, submerging the northeastern Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emperor's visit to typhoon-hit areas

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako (C) bow at a river in Motomiya, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by deadly Typhoon Hagibis in October, on Dec. 26, 2019. The river was flooded during the typhoon. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emperor's visit to typhoon-hit areas

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako (R) inspect a river in Motomiya, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by deadly Typhoon Hagibis in October, on Dec. 26, 2019. The river was flooded during the typhoon. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emperor's visit to typhoon-hit areas

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako meet people in Motomiya, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by deadly Typhoon Hagibis in October, on Dec. 26, 2019. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese emperor's visit to typhoon-hit areas

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako meet people in Motomiya, a Fukushima Prefecture town hit hard by deadly Typhoon Hagibis in October, on Dec. 26, 2019. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis

An elderly man reads a newspaper article on Japanese Emperor Naruhito's Nov. 10 enthronement parade at an evacuation center in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 12, 2019, a month after Typhoon Hagibis hit the northeastern Japan city on Oct. 12. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aftermath of Typhoon Hagibis

Sixty-eight-year-old Misako Obama sorts out photo albums at her home in Motomiya, Fukushima Prefecture, on Nov. 11, 2019, about one month after Typhoon Hagibis hit the northeastern Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo