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New hovercraft unveiled at Oita Port

OITA, Japan - On the 25th, a new building of the amphibious vehicle "Hovercraft", which is scheduled to go into service between Oita Airport and Oita City in 2024, was unveiled at Oita Port in Oita City.

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Security check at venue of stump speech by PM Kishida

A police officer conducts security checks on people at the venue of a stump speech by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 16, 2023, the day after an explosive was thrown at the premier ahead of his speech at a fishing port in the western Japan city of Wakayama. Kishida was not harmed in the blast.

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SDF tank transport drill

OITA, Japan - Tanks and armored vehicles of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force are unloaded from a ferry (back) at Oita port in Oita Prefecture on Nov. 9, 2011. The civilian ferry arrived in the port in southwestern Japan the same day from Hokkaido, northern Japan, carrying 52 armored vehicles and tanks as part of a transportation drill.

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Residents protest U.S. Marines' live-fire drill

Some 700 people join a rally Jan. 29 at Oita port in Oita Prefecture to protest U.S. Marine live-fire drills scheduled for Feb. 4-17 in the prefecture. On the day, two freighters, loaded with weapons and vehicles, arrived at the port from Okinawa where the U.S. Marines are stationed.

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Oita Prefecture's experiment in using drones to deliver packages to remote islands

With the participation of local companies, the project aims to be put to practical use as a mechanism for dealing with the logistics and shopping needs of the aging population in remote island areas. A single-rotor drone provided by ciRobotics (Oita City) was used in the experiment. S.T.K. Technology (same) installed a luggage storage box equipped with a drone port on a solid island. Oita Prefecture has been conducting drone verification experiments in mountainous areas and other areas, but this is the first time the maritime route has been used. There are no shops or clinics on Mukujima, and the island is served by a regular service that makes one or two round trips a day, six days a week, but the annual cost of the service exceeds 10 million yen. (March 19, 2020, Tsukumi City, Oita Prefecture; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Nuclear plant host town steps up tourism

Photo taken in 2015 shows a shopping facility under construction in the Ehime prefectural town of Ikata to sell local produce, such as oranges and seafood, at the port for ferries linking the western Japanese town with Oita Prefecture. The town aims to boost tourism as a means of reducing its dependence on the nuclear power plant. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster drill held at Ikata nuke power plant in western Japan

A Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel leaves a port in Ikata in the western Japanese prefecture of Ehime to transport residents to neighboring Oita Prefecture during an evacuation drill simulating a severe accident at Shikoku Electric Power Co.'s Ikata nuclear plant on Nov. 9, 2015. The plant's No.3 reactor is expected to resume operations next year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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SDF tank transport drill

OITA, Japan - Tanks and armored vehicles of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force are unloaded from a ferry (back) at Oita port in Oita Prefecture on Nov. 9, 2011. The civilian ferry arrived in the port in southwestern Japan the same day from Hokkaido, northern Japan, carrying 52 armored vehicles and tanks as part of a transportation drill. (Kyodo)

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Residents protest U.S. Marines' live-fire drill

Some 700 people join a rally Jan. 29 at Oita port in Oita Prefecture to protest U.S. Marine live-fire drills scheduled for Feb. 4-17 in the prefecture. On the day, two freighters, loaded with weapons and vehicles, arrived at the port from Okinawa where the U.S. Marines are stationed. ==Kyodo