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Sport climbing Olympic medalist opens gym

Tokyo Olympics sport climbing silver medalist Miho Nonaka is pictured on May 4, 2025, in a climbing gym she opened the same day in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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Sport climbing Olympic medalist opens gym

Tokyo Olympics sport climbing silver medalist Miho Nonaka poses on May 4, 2025, in a climbing gym she opened the same day in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan.

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Sport climbing Olympic medalist opens gym

Tokyo Olympics sport climbing silver medalist Miho Nonaka is pictured on May 4, 2025, in a climbing gym she opened the same day in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan.

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Sport climbing Olympic medalist opens gym

Tokyo Olympics sport climbing silver medalist Miho Nonaka meets the press in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 4, 2025, as she opens a climbing gym the same day.

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Sport climbing Olympic medalist opens gym

Photo taken on May 4, 2025, in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, shows the interior of a climbing gym that was opened the same day by Tokyo Olympics sport climbing silver medalist Miho Nonaka.

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Nobel Peace Prize winning Japanese atomic bomb survivors group

Terumi Tanaka, a cochair of Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, and survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks over the phone with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2024, a day after the group won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Nobel Peace Prize winning Japanese atomic bomb survivors group

Terumi Tanaka, a cochair of Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, and survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2024, a day after the group won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Terumi Tanaka of Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, meets the press in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after the entity won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Terumi Tanaka of Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, meets the press in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after the entity won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Terumi Tanaka of the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations meets the press in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Japan: Roads Turn Into River After Intense Rainfall In Tokyo Area

About 100 millimeters of rain fell in an hour in Tokyo and neighboring Saitama Prefecture on Wednesday evening, July 31. Videos posted on social media show roads and highways flooded like a river across the region.

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Daughter finds Tezuka's drawings in locked desk

TOKYO, Japan - Rumiko Tezuka, daughter of famed Japanese manga creator Osamu Tezuka, speaks at Tezuka Productions' studio in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on April 1, 2014, about newly discovered drawings and other items found in her father's desk drawers that had remained locked since his death in 1989. The drawers of the desk, kept at the studio, were opened for the first time in 25 years on March 27.

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Vietnamese study nutritional science at Japan university

TOKYO, Japan - Students from Vietnam who study nutritional science at Jumonji University's graduate school are pictured in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on March 5, 2014. The university plans to "export" its nutritional science educational curriculum to Hanoi Medical University later this year.

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Return rush after Golden Week begins at roads, airports

NIIZA, Japan - The left-side lane of Kan-etsu Expressway is packed with Tokyo-bound cars near the Niiza Toll Gates in Saitama Prefecture as the annual rush of people returning home after the Golden Week holidays begins on May 6.

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(1) SDF to be more efficient, better at anti-terror: Koizumi

NIIZA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) stands on the stand along with Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono (R) to review an annual parade of Ground Self-Defense Force troops at the GSDF Asaka training site in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 7.

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(2)SDF to be more efficient, better at anti-terror: Koizumi

NIIZA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses Ground Self-Defense Force troops takin part in at an annual review at the GSDF Asaka training site in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 7. The premier said that Japan will make the Self-Defense Forces a more streamlined entity and better at combating terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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Kanetsu Expressway jammed with returning vacationers

NIIZA, Japan - A toll at Niiza, Saitama Prefecture on the Kanetsu Expressway is jammed with vacationers returning home Jan. 3 after the New Year holiday.

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'Bon' summer holiday return rush starts to peak

NIIZA, Japan - Vacationers returning to the Tokyo metropolitan area Aug. 15 after ''Bon'' midsummer holidays jam near the Niiza toll gate on the Kanetsu expressway in Saitama Prefecture.

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No. of vacationers returning from hometowns peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo-bound cars line up at the Niiza tollgate on the Kanetsu Expressway in Saitama Prefecture Jan. 3 as the number of vacationers returning to the capital and other major cities from New Year's holidays in hometowns and resorts peaked. A 23-kilometer traffic jam blocked the expressway near the Higashi-Matsuyama Interchange in Saitama. Routes and connection points saw more travelers than last year, when many people stayed home due to fears about the Y2K computer problem.

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Kanetsu Expressway jammed with returning vacationers

NIIZA, Japan - A toll at Niiza, Saitama Prefecture on the Kanetsu Expressway is jammed with vacationers returning home Jan. 3 after the New Year holiday.

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(1) SDF to be more efficient, better at anti-terror: Koizumi

NIIZA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) stands on the stand along with Defense Agency Director General Yoshinori Ono (R) to review an annual parade of Ground Self-Defense Force troops at the GSDF Asaka training site in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 7. (Kyodo)

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(2)SDF to be more efficient, better at anti-terror: Koizumi

NIIZA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses Ground Self-Defense Force troops takin part in at an annual review at the GSDF Asaka training site in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 7. The premier said that Japan will make the Self-Defense Forces a more streamlined entity and better at combating terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. (Kyodo)

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Return rush after Golden Week begins at Narita, Kansai airports

NIIZA, Japan - The left-side lane of Kan-etsu Expressway is packed with Tokyo-bound cars near the Niiza Toll Gates in Saitama Prefecture as the annual rush of people returning home after the Golden Week holidays begins on May 6. (Kyodo)

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'Bon' summer holiday return rush starts to peak

NIIZA, Japan - Vacationers returning to the Tokyo metropolitan area Aug. 15 after ''Bon'' midsummer holidays jam near the Niiza toll gate on the Kanetsu expressway in Saitama Prefecture.

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Tennis: Australian Open women's final

Children celebrate in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Jan. 26, 2019, after Naomi Osaka of Japan beat Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the women's final of the Australian Open in Melbourne earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tennis: Australian Open women's final

Children celebrate in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Jan. 26, 2019, after Naomi Osaka of Japan beat Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in the women's final of the Australian Open in Melbourne earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress enjoy leaf-viewing at Heirinji Temple

NIIZA, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and Empress Michiko take a stroll to see the autumn leaves in the precincts of Heirinji Temple in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Nov. 26, 2009. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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No. of vacationers returning from hometowns peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo-bound cars line up at the Niiza tollgate on the Kanetsu Expressway in Saitama Prefecture Jan. 3 as the number of vacationers returning to the capital and other major cities from New Year's holidays in hometowns and resorts peaked. A 23-kilometer traffic jam blocked the expressway near the Higashi-Matsuyama Interchange in Saitama. Routes and connection points saw more travelers than last year, when many people stayed home due to fears about the Y2K computer problem.

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Congestion on inbound lanes to Tokyo marks holiday's end

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Kan-Etsu Expressway's Niiza toll gate in Saitama Prefecture on Jan. 3. Traffic was congested on inbound lanes to Tokyo on the final day of the New Year's holiday. This picture was taken from a Kyodo News helicopter.