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Event to mark 100th anniv. of Koshien Stadium

NISHINOMIYA, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Characters featured in "Touch," a Japanese high school baseball manga series, are projected on the main board of Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya in the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo during an event marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of the ballpark on Aug. 1, 2022.(Kyodo)

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Special train marking 90th anniv. of founding of Tigers

A special train featuring former and current Hanshin Tigers players is unveiled to the media at a Hanshin Electric Railway Co. station near Koshien Stadium, the Central League baseball club's home ballpark in the western Japan city of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on March 5, 2025. The six-car train will operate until mid-December to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Tigers. ==Kyodo

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High school baseball team in quake-hit area to play at Koshien

Japan Aviation High School baseball club members celebrate in Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Jan. 26, 2024, after their team, based in quake-hit Wajima city in Ishikawa Prefecture, was chosen as one of the 32 teams that will take part in the 96th spring invitational national high school championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan. Part of the team members currently train at an affiliated school in Kai after a powerful earthquake hit Wajima and other central Japan areas on Jan. 1.

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High school baseball team in quake-hit area to play at Koshien

Japan Aviation High School baseball club members celebrate in Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Jan. 26, 2024, after their team, based in quake-hit Wajima city in Ishikawa Prefecture, was chosen as one of the 32 teams that will take part in the 96th spring invitational national high school championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan. Part of the team members currently train at an affiliated school in Kai after a powerful earthquake hit Wajima and other central Japan areas on Jan. 1.

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High school baseball team in quake-hit area to play at Koshien

Japan Aviation High School baseball club members celebrate in Kai, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Jan. 26, 2024, after their team, based in quake-hit Wajima city in Ishikawa Prefecture, was chosen as one of the 32 teams that will take part in the 96th spring invitational national high school championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan. Part of the team members currently train at an affiliated school in Kai after a powerful earthquake hit Wajima and other central Japan areas on Jan. 1.

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Shogi match between Habu and Fujii at Koshien Stadium

Japan Shogi Association head Yoshiharu Habu meets the press at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan, on Jan. 13, 2024, as he announces he will play against Sota Fujii, the holder of all eight shogi titles, at a special event at the ballpark on Dec. 8, 2024, to mark the 100th anniversary later this year of both the stadium and the association. Habu held all of the then seven shogi titles in the 1990s.

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Baseball: Sendai Ikuei manager Sue

NISHINOMIYA, Japan, Nov. 19 Kyodo - Photo taken on Aug. 22, 2022, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, shows Wataru Sue, manager of the Sendai Ikuei high school baseball team, prior to the final of the 2022 national high school baseball championship. His team won the title.

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Baseball: Tigers clinch pennant

Hanshin Tigers manager Akinobu Okada is tossed up in the air at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2023, after the team clinched their first Central League baseball title in 18 years and sixth overall following a win over the Yomiuri Giants.

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Baseball: Tigers clinch pennant

Hanshin Tigers manager Akinobu Okada is tossed up in the air at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan, on Sept. 14, 2023, after the team clinched their first Central League baseball title in 18 years and sixth overall following a win over the Yomiuri Giants.

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Holidaymakers' return rush begins

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - The Chugoku Expressway in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, is flooded Aug. 14 with holidaymaker's cars returning to major cities from the annual ''Bon'' midsummer holidays in Japan.

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'Lucky man race' held at Nishonomiya Shrine in western Japan

NISHINOMIYA, Japan, Jan. 10 Kyodo - The top three finishers of a New Year race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man) hold up framed Chinese characters and paintings, all suggesting luck, at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2016. The 16-year-old Michinari Mizuta (C) became the year's "luckiest man" among about 6,000 participants, winning the 230-meter race from the shrine's gate to the main hall.

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Japanese high school baseball c'ship celebrates 100th year

NISHINOMIYA, Japan, Aug. 6 Kyodo - All-time home run king Sadaharu Oh throws the ceremonial first pitch at the start of the national high school baseball championship at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Japan, on Aug. 6, 2015, the 100th year since the inaugural tournament was held.

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Hyogo celebrates "new adults" 20 yrs from devastating quake

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Those attending a Coming of Age Day ceremony in the western Japanese city of Nishinomiya observe a silent prayer to mourn the victims of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that hit the area 20 years ago.

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People pray for prosperity before tuna at shrine

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - A large frozen tuna is offered at Nishinomiya Shrine, known as the head shrine for the "Ebisu" deity of good fortune, in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, during a ceremony to pray for a year of prosperity for businesses on Jan. 8, 2015. People attach coins to the tuna in a traditional manner said to bring economic fortune.

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High school baseball championship opens after typhoon delay

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - The opening ceremony for the 96th National High School Baseball Championship is held on Aug. 11, 2014, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, under clear blue skies after being postponed by two days due to a typhoon.

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Koshien Stadium marks 90th anniversary

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - The second game of Japanese professional baseball's annual all-star series takes place at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on July 19, 2014. The stadium commemorated the 90th anniversary of its opening on Aug. 1.

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Watanabe wins 100m breaststroke on final day at Konami Open

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Kanako Watanabe wins the women窶冱 100-meter breaststroke at the Konami Open swimming championship held at the Konami Sports Club in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 19, 2014, setting a new meet record of 1 minute, 8.50 seconds.

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Japan to go for 2013 WBC

OSAKA, Japan - Japan Professional Baseball Players Association Chairman Takahiro Arai speaks at a press conference in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 4, 2012. Two-time champion Japan will defend its title in March 2013 at the 2013 edition of the World Baseball Classic, Arai said.

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Giants beat Tigers

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Alex Ramirez of the Yomiuri Giants poses for photos after the team beat the Hanshin Tigers 7-6 in Game 2 of the Central League Climax Series at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Oct. 17, 2010. The Giants advanced to the CLCS final stage, where they will face the CL champion Chunichi Dragons in Nagoya.

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Colonel Sanders 'returns' to work

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - A Colonel Sanders statue forms part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark its return to work for the first time in 25 years at a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Nishinomiya in Hyogo Prefecture on March 19, 2010. The life-size statue of the KFC founder, which went missing in 1985 after baseball fans tossed it into a river, was recovered in 2009 during construction work.

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260-kg tuna offered at shrine for business prosperity

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - A child held up by an adult puts a coin atop a 260-kilogram tuna offered at the Nishinomiya Shrine, which enshrines the god of business prosperity, in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 8, 2010. The tuna was offered by a local marine products wholesalers' group to the shrine and worshippers placed coins on its body and prayed for economic fortune as an annual event that started in 1970.

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Himeji Castle cake completed for 2008 confectionery exposition

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - A Himeji Castle-shaped cake along with a procession of feudal lord-shaped cakes are unveiled in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 30 which will be a feature in the National Confectionery Exposition 2008 to open next April in Himeji in the prefecture. The 1.75-meter-high cake measures one-fiftieth of the real castle.

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Lee Dong Hwan wins career 1st in Japan at shortened Mizuno Open

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Lee Dong Hwan lifts his first silverware on the Japanese tour after playing just five holes at the Yomiuri Country Club in Hyogo on June 24 as the final round of the Mizuno Open Yomiuri Classic was canceled due to bad weather. The up-and-coming South Korean shot three straight 68s through the third round and wrapped up the shortened tournament with a 54-hole total of 12-under 204, four strokes clear of six players tied for second.

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Feline rescue

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - A white cat that climbed up a pine tree at Shukugawa Park in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, was rescued unharmed Dec. 8 after it could not manage to climb down on its own.

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Funds raised for Pakistani earthquake victims

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Young relatives of those killed in the 1995 great Hanshin earthquake join a fund-raising campaign in Nishinomiya, Kobe Prefecture, on Oct. 16 for Pakistani victims of the devastating Oct. 8 South Asia earthquake.

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(2)Chand from Fiji wins Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open golf

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Dinesh Chand from Fiji raises the winner's trophy after clinching the Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open golf tournament at Yomiuri Country Club in Hyogo Prefecture on June 20.

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(1)Chand from Fiji wins Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open golf

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Dinesh Chand from Fiji shows emotion after shooting an eagle on the 18th hole to win the Mandom Lucido Yomiuri Open golf tournament at Yomiuri Country Club in Hyogo Prefecture on June 20.

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(1)Statute of limitations expires for reporter's murder

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Hyogo prefectural police head Kaoru Okada (in pool photo) prays May 3 for the repose of Tomohiro Kojiri, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The statute of limitations for the 1987 murder expired at midnight May 2 without an arrest.

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White sparks 10-2 Hanshin win with homer against Giants

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Derrick White is greeted by pitcher Trey Moore after the Hanshin outfielder hit a solo homer at Koshien Stadium that sparked the Tigers to a 10-2 triumph over the Yomiuri Giants on April 20.

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Tokaidai Sagami celebrates first spring championship at Koshien

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - The Tokaidai Sagami team from Kanagawa Prefecture rushes to the mound April 4 to celebrate their first championship in the high school baseball national invitational tournament. Tokaidai Sagami edged Chiben Wakayama 4-2 in the championship final at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture.

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Nat'l high school baseball c'ship gets under way

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - The 81st National High School Baseball Championship got under way on Aug. 7 with an expression of gratitude for all the people who help put on the annual late summer classic. Naritoshi Imai, captain of the Niigata Meikun team, delivered the players' oath in front of 35,000 sun-drenched fans filling Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, and thanked the people who support the tourney as the opening ceremony reached its climax.

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House produced via 3-D printer

Photo taken in the Aichi Prefecture city of Komaki, central Japan, on July 27, 2022, shows a small house produced in a day using a 3-D printer system, carrying a price tag of 3.3 million yen ($24,444) The cube-like concrete house, 3.3 meters in diameter and with a floor space of 9.9 square meters, was produced by Serendix Inc., a start-up firm based in Nishinomiya, western Japan, for use as temporary housing at camping sites and in the event of disasters