Fixing disaster-hit Shinto shrine before New Year

Fixing disaster-hit Shinto shrine before New Year

SENDAI, Japan - Volunteer workers on Dec. 21, 2011, clean and repair the surroundings of the Koganeyama Shrine, a Shinto shrine on an island off the Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as well as by a typhoon, prior to the New Year. Many people in Japan customarily visit Shinto shrines on New Year's Day.

Recovering efforts in Ishinomaki

Recovering efforts in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Fishermen (upper L) on April 20, 2011, retrieve buoys used in oyster farming at the Oshika Peninsula in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

JAL in talks with rival NCA to merge air cargo business

JAL in talks with rival NCA to merge air cargo business

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. executive Kunio Hirata (L) and Hitoshi Oshika, corporate officer of Nippon Yusen K.K., attend a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21. JAL said it is negotiating with Nippon Cargo Airlines Co., a Nippon Yusen arm, to merge cargo operations next spring to turn JAL's cargo business around.

Chinese moss found for 1st time in Japan

Chinese moss found for 1st time in Japan

NAGANO, Japan - Moss that has so far only been confirmed to be growing in China's Yunnan Province and in Taiwan has been found in Japan for the first time, a group of researchers says Sept. 18. The group, led by researchers at the Okayama University of Science, has concluded that the moss, found in 1996 in the village of Oshika in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, is neodolichomitra yunnanensis, which belongs to the hypnum plumaeforme family of moss. The photo was supplied by the university's institute.

Recovering efforts in Ishinomaki

Recovering efforts in Ishinomaki

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Fishermen (upper L) on April 20, 2011, retrieve buoys used in oyster farming at the Oshika Peninsula in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

Fixing disaster-hit Shinto shrine before New Year

Fixing disaster-hit Shinto shrine before New Year

SENDAI, Japan - Volunteer workers on Dec. 21, 2011, clean and repair the surroundings of the Koganeyama Shrine, a Shinto shrine on an island off the Oshika Peninsula, Miyagi Prefecture hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as well as by a typhoon, prior to the New Year. Many people in Japan customarily visit Shinto shrines on New Year's Day. (Kyodo)

Whale facility reopens in northeastern Japan

Whale facility reopens in northeastern Japan

Visitors look at a sperm whale skeleton at Whale Town Oshika in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 22, 2020. The facility, also housing restaurants and souvenir shops, reopened the same day for the first time since being devastated in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

Whale facility reopens in northeastern Japan

Whale facility reopens in northeastern Japan

Visitors look at a sperm whale skeleton at Whale Town Oshika in Ishinomaki in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 22, 2020. The facility, also housing restaurants and souvenir shops, reopened the same day for the first time since being devastated in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

JAL in talks with rival NCA to merge air cargo business

JAL in talks with rival NCA to merge air cargo business

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. executive Kunio Hirata (L) and Hitoshi Oshika, corporate officer of Nippon Yusen K.K., attend a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 21. JAL said it is negotiating with Nippon Cargo Airlines Co., a Nippon Yusen arm, to merge cargo operations next spring to turn JAL's cargo business around. (Kyodo)