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Guinness officially recognizes Ishikawa as youngest golf winner

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Ishikawa, winner of the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup at Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club in Okayama, Japan on May 20, poses with the framed certificate issued by the Guinness World Records after he was officially recognized Sept. 3 as the youngest winner on the men's professional golf tour at age 15 years, 8 months and 4 days. The certificate was presented to Ishikawa, a senior high school student in Tokyo, at an official recognition ceremony in Tokyo on Sept. 3.

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World confab on ESD under way in western Japan

OKAYAMA, Japan - Participants in a panel meeting on Africa exchange views as part of the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development under way in Okayama, western Japan, from Nov. 5, 2014.

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Flowerbeds made of recycled uranium fuel containers

OKAYAMA, Japan - The Japan Atomic Energy Agency's Environmental Engineering Center shows to the press flowerbeds made of cylindrical aluminum containers once used for uranium fuel-enriching centrifuges in Kagamino, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 1, 2014.

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Relief of late PM Inukai displayed in his hometown

OKAYAMA, Japan - A relief of former Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai, who was assassinated by junior navy officers in the May 15 incident of 1932, is put on display at the Inukai Bokudo Memorial Museum on Sept. 11, 2014, in his native city of Okayama, western Japan, following donation by a U.S. citizen.

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Kurozumi-kyo grassroots Shinto chief chants sunrise prayer

TOKYO, Japan - Muneharu Kurozumi (L), chief patriarch of the Kurozumi-kyo school of grassroots Shinto, chants a purification sunrise prayer at the sect's headquarters in Okayama, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 7, 2014. The practice has continued since the foundation of the sect in 1814, with this year marking its 200th anniversary.

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Inukai’s letter concerning militarism discovered

OKAYAMA, Japan - A newly discovered letter, sent by Tsuyoshi Inukai, Japan窶冱 prime minister in 1931-1932, to a friend of his to express concern about the nation窶冱 rising militarism, discovered in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, is photographed on May 15, 2014.

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1st freshwater-bred bluefin tuna auctioned in Japan

OKAYAMA, Japan - Toshimasa Yamamoto, an associate professor at Okayama University of Science, shows a freshwater-bred tuna, the only one successfully raised among 30 in the university's laboratory, auctioned at a wholesale market in Okayama, western Japan, on May 15, 2014. The tuna grew up in freshwater containing sodium and other elements of seawater.

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Okayama Univ.'s cooling device to reduce brain damage

OKAYAMA, Japan - Yoshimasa Takeda, an associate professor at Okayama University, introduces a pharyngeal cooling device on March 18, 2014, in Okayama, western Japan, that enables brain temperature to be reduced efficiently regardless of cardiac conditions to help minimize brain damage when trying to resuscitate patients under cardiac arrest.

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'Evangelion' Japanese swords to be exhibited in Europe

OKAYAMA, Japan - Japanese swords modeled after weapons that appear in the Japanese animated film series "Evangelion" are exhibited at the Hayashibara Museum of Art in Okayama, Japan, on Feb. 7, 2014, before being exhibited in Europe later this year.

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Swordsmith shows 'Evangelion' sword he made

OKAYAMA, Japan - Swordsmith Ichiro Matsuba stands by "Bizen Osafune," a Japanese sword he made after a sword that appears on the Japanese animated film series "Evangelion," during an exhibit at the Hayashibara Museum of Art in Okayama, Japan, on Feb. 7, 2014. The exhibited swords are scheduled to be on display in Europe later this year.

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S. Korean student wins Japanese speech contest

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Kim Nae Yong, a 17-year-old South Korean high school student, after winning the top award in a Japanese-language speech contest in Okayama, western Japan, on Nov. 15, 2013.

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Huge dog statue in "Dog island"

OKAYAMA, Japan - A 5-meter-long dog statue arrives at Inujima (Dog Island) in the Seto Inland Sea in the city of Okayama on May 20, 2013. The bust of a prone dog will be set up at a house resembling a kennel as part of the Inujima "Art House Project."

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Modifying troubled Boeing 787 jets

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 22, 2013, shows an All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet parked at Okayama airport in western Japan. ANA and Japan Airlines Co. began modifying the same day their grounded Boeing 787 jets due to battery-related incidents, exchanging their batteries for modified ones.

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Modifying troubled Boeing 787 jets

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken April 22, 2013, shows an All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet parked at Okayama airport in western Japan and workers repairing it. ANA and Japan Airlines Co. began modifying the same day their grounded Boeing 787 jets due to battery-related incidents, exchanging their batteries for modified ones.

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Modifying troubled Boeing 787 jets

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 22, 2013, shows an All Nippon Airways Co. Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet parked at Okayama airport in western Japan. ANA and Japan Airlines Co. began modifying the same day their grounded Boeing 787 jets due to battery-related incidents, exchanging their batteries for modified ones.

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ANA flight canceled due to smoke from engine

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft of All Nippon Airways Co. at Okayama airport on Sept. 5, 2012. A flight by the aircraft was canceled earlier the same day after white smoke emerged from one of its engines before it was due to depart for Tokyo's Haneda airport. None of passengers and crew was injured.

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Tunnel flood at refinery

OKAYAMA, Japan - Divers search for five workers missing after seawater flooded an undersea tunnel under construction at JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp.'s Mizushima oil refinery in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, on Feb. 7, 2012.

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Lunar eclipse

OKAYAMA, Japan - A combination photo shows (from L to R) the beginning at 9:45 p.m. on Dec. 10, 2011, to the end at 1:18 a.m. on Dec. 11, of a lunar eclipse with the total eclipse at the center observed in Okayama, western Japan.

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ANA puts Boeing 787 in regular scheduled service

OKAYAMA, Japan - The Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet lands at Okayama airport in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan from Tokyo shortly after 9 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2011, as All Nippon Airways Co. put the plane into regular scheduled service.

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21 injured in school bus accident

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a school bus and a truck-mounted crane in Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, after a collision on Feb. 7, 2011. Twenty elementary school students and a man were injured in the accident.

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Samurai underwear proving soft touch for female gift-givers

OKAYAMA, Japan - A female customer takes a look at a pair of short tights featuring patterns from samurai warrior armor at an outlet of the department store chain Tenmaya Co. in Okayama on May 25.

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1st-type shinkansen train ends regular run

OKAYAMA, Japan - About 2,000 railway geeks pack Okayama Station on Nov. 30 to see off a round-nose ''0 Series'' shinkansen bullet train, one of Japan's first types of shinkansen bullet train models, as the train leaves for Hakata Station on its last regular run, 44 years after the model made its debut.

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Disinfection work begins at Okayama farm hit by bird flu

OKAYAMA, Japan - An official from the Okayama prefectural government wearing protective clothing disinfects a poultry farm in the city of Takahashi in the prefecture on Jan. 28 one day after the agriculture ministry said that the farm had probably been hit by bird flu.

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Tora-fugu now can be raised in a tank of fresh water

OKAYAMA, Japan - The Japanese delicacy tora-fugu is a species of puffer fish that lives in sea water. Now, a research team at Okayama University of Science Professional Training College in Okayama Prefecture has succeeded breeding them in fresh water. The trick, the researchers there say, is to add a small amount of electrolytes into the water. The taste of fresh water-raised tora-fugu, the students involved in the project say, is ''really tasty.''

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26 injured in train derailment in Okayana Pref.

OKAYAMA, Japan - A two-car train lies on its side on West Japan Railway Co.'s Tsuyama line in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 19. All its 25 passengers and driver were injured in the accident, fire department officials said. Of them, three were taken to hospital but there is no threat to their lives, they said.

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26 injured in train derailment in Okayana Pref.

OKAYAMA, Japan - A two-car train lies on its side on West Japan Railway Co.'s Tsuyama line in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, on Nov. 19. All its 25 passengers and driver were injured in the accident, fire department officials said.

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Radar facility to track space debris opens in Okayama Pref.

OKAYAMA, Japan - The Kamisaibara Space Guard Center, which is the world's first radar station dedicated only to the observation of space debris, opens in the village of Kamisaibara, Okayama Prefecture, on April 6. The facility is capable of detecting an object 1 meter in diameter from 600 kilometers away and tracking up to 10 pieces of space debris simultaneously.

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2 Japanese die in Seto Inland Sea ship collision

OKAYAMA, Japan - Two Japan Coast Guard ships search for debris near the 1,573-ton Honduras-registered freighter Rose-River which collided with a small Japanese cargo ship in the Seto Inland Sea on June 5. The collision left two Japanese crewmen of the cargo ship dead.

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Slovenia arrive at Okayama for World Cup finals

OKAYAMA, Japan - The Slovenian national soccer squad arrives at Okayama airport in western Japan on May 20 to take part in the World Cup finals that begin May 31.

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Forest fire spreads, 76 households urged to evacuate

OKAYAMA, Japan - A fire burns forests in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, on April 4, forcing the city office to issue an evacuation advisory to 76 households.

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Cat's eye pierced with nail, but sight saved by vet

OKAYAMA, Japan - A cat whose left eye was pierced with a 7-centimeter nail recovers at an animal hospital in the city March 7 after undergoing an operation to remove it. The cat's eyesight was saved.

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School for international volunteer workers to open

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 4 shows the building of a new training center for international volunteer workers in the town of Tetta, Okayama Prefecture, which will be formally opened Sept. 8. The school to be run by a group affiliated with the Association of Medical Doctors in Asia (AMDA), will train personnel in emergency relief operations with AMDA's in-house medical doctors and volunteers serving as instructors. The school was converted from a closed-down municipal elementary school.

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Boy accused of killing mother goes to family court

OKAYAMA, Japan - A van carrying a 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of killing his mother and beating four baseball teammates with a bat in June heads for the Okayama Family Court on Aug. 7. The court will detain the boy for up to four weeks to examine his family circumstances and check his physical and mental condition. It will then decide whether to send him to a reformatory or send his case back to the prosecutors. The boy was arrested July 6 after spending 16 days on the run after allegedly bludgeoning the four boys with a bat and beating his 42-year-old mother to death at home.