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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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Japanese recipients of U.S. volunteer award visit Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Kiyotaka Tanaka (L), a second-year student at Rikkyo High School in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, and Tomoko Mori R), a third-year student at Shinoi Nishi Junior High School in Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, who won this year's Prudential Volunteer Award pose for pictures May 9 during their four-day stay in Washington for a series of get-togethers and discussions with youth volunteer leaders in the United States. Tanaka, 17, and Mori, 14, were chosen for the prestigious award from among 1,500 Japanese entries.

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Nippon Shimpo's drill used in the previous deep drilling of the Antarctic ice sheet

Nippon Shinkan (Niiza City, Saitama Prefecture) has delivered high-precision aluminum tubes to the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) for their deep drilling of the Antarctic ice sheet. This is the first time in 17 years that Nippon Shintube has supplied aluminum tubes to the National Institute of Polar Research since 2002, when the company supplied them to the institute's 2003-2007 drilling project. According to the Polar Research Institute, the first drill is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year. In order not to collide with the rotary drill stored inside, a high degree of precision was achieved with a length of 5 meters and a bending accuracy of 0.3 mm or less. "There are no molds left. We had to redo everything, including the materials," said Takeo Kitazawa, general manager of the Technology Development Department, Safety & Environment Department, and Management Department. Photo taken on June 21, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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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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Missing Saitama girl taken into custody in Tokyo after 2 years

A car carrying a 15-year-old girl, who was taken into custody by police after having gone missing from her home two years ago, leaves the Niiza Police Station in Saitama Prefecture on March 27, 2016. Police are looking for a man in his 20s, who is suspected of having held her. The girl had last been seen speaking with a young man in front of her home in Asaka in Saitama Prefecture on March 10, 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese-Brazilian hurdler aiming high in Rio Olympics

Photo taken Dec. 11, 2015, in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, shows Mahau Sugimachi, a Japanese-Brazilian hurdler, at his team's track. Sugimachi will represent Brazil at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Kyodo) ==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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Ex-LDP lawmaker who allegedly abused secretary loses seat

Mayuko Toyoda, a former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker who made headlines after allegations that she physically and verbally abused a secretary, sheds tears on Oct. 22, 2017, in the city of Niiza, near Tokyo, after losing her seat in the House of Representatives election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-LDP lawmaker who allegedly abused secretary loses seat

Mayuko Toyoda, a former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker who made headlines after allegations that she physically and verbally abused a secretary, sheds tears on Oct. 22, 2017, in the city of Niiza, near Tokyo, after losing her seat in the House of Representatives election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Probe into Tokyo blackout

Police officials and firefighters investigate a fire at an electric power facility in Niiza in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct 13, 2016, following the previous day's temporary blackout in some areas of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Probe into Tokyo blackout

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows police officials and firefighters investigating fire damage at an electric power facility in Niiza in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct 13, 2016, following the previous day's temporary blackout in some areas of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Blackout in parts of Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows black smoke rising from an electric power facility in Niiza in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 12, 2016. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said the fire may have caused a temporary blackout in a wide area of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Blackout in parts of Tokyo

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows black smoke rising from an electric power facility in Niiza in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 12, 2016. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said the fire may have caused a temporary blackout in a wide area of the capital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Blackout in parts of Tokyo

Black smoke rises from an electric power facility in Niiza in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on Oct. 12, 2016. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said the fire may have caused a temporary blackout in a wide area of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Blackout in parts of Tokyo

Photo taken from western Tokyo shows black smoke rising from an electric power facility in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, on Oct. 12, 2016. Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said the fire may have caused a temporary blackout in a wide area of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Blackout hits parts of Tokyo, affecting some train services

People inquire about the situation at Tokyo's Seibu Shinjuku train station as Seibu Shinjuku Line services are halted following a blackout affecting a wide area of the capital on Oct. 12, 2016. Up to 350,000 households and buildings were affected by the power outage, which Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. said may have been caused by a fire at a facility in Niiza, near Tokyo. (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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Japanese recipients of U.S. volunteer award visit Washington

WASHINGTON, United States - Kiyotaka Tanaka (L), a second-year student at Rikkyo High School in Niiza, Saitama Prefecture, and Tomoko Mori R), a third-year student at Shinoi Nishi Junior High School in Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, who won this year's Prudential Volunteer Award pose for pictures May 9 during their four-day stay in Washington for a series of get-togethers and discussions with youth volunteer leaders in the United States. Tanaka, 17, and Mori, 14, were chosen for the prestigious award from among 1,500 Japanese entries.

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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.