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Forest fire in Japan

A forest fire continues on Feb. 28, 2025, in Otsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Forest fire in Japan

A forest fire continues on Feb. 28, 2025, in Otsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture.

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Japan: Wildfire Breaks Out In Otsuki, Yamanashi, Burning More Than 80 Hectares 2

A wildfire broke out at Ozawa district in Otsuki city, Yamanashi, on February 26, burning 80 hectares of forest and destroying an empty house as of Friday.

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Japan: Wildfire Breaks Out In Otsuki, Yamanashi, Burning More Than 80 Hectares

A wildfire broke out at Ozawa district in Otsuki city, Yamanashi, on February 26, burning 80 hectares of forest and destroying an empty house as of Friday.

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S. Korean DJ groping incident

CEO Rakuyo Otsuki (C) and other representatives from event organizer TryHard Japan Co. hold a press conference in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 21, 2023, after filing a criminal complaint the same day over an incident in which a popular South Korean DJ was allegedly groped by audience members during a music event she attended.

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Japan's Thomas-themed train to retire

TOKYO, Japan, March 12 Kyodo - Photo taken on Jan. 25, 2018, shows a Thomas the Tank Engine train that runs in Otsuki, central Japan. Its operator Fuji Kyuko Co. has decided to retire the aging train in February 2019.

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Evacuee briefly returns in Katsurao, Fukushima Pref.

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Yukichi Otsuki finds moss phlox in his deserted garden in the Noyuki district in Katsurao Village, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 30, 2014. Otsuki has evacuated to Miharu Town in the prefecture following the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Collapsed tunnel fully reopens

OTSUKI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopters shows the Sasago Tunnel, a twin-bore tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, becoming fully operational on Feb. 8, 2013, after a 68-day hiatus following a collapse of its ceiling in December 2012, killing nine.

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Collapsed tunnel fully reopens

OTSUKI, Japan - The Sasago Tunnel, a twin-bore tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, becomes fully operational on Feb. 8, 2013, after a 68-day hiatus following a collapse of its ceiling in December 2012, killing nine.

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Collapsed tunnel fully reopens

OTSUKI, Japan - The Sasago Tunnel, a twin-bore tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, becomes fully operational on Feb. 8, 2013, after a 68-day hiatus following a collapse of its ceiling in December 2012, killing nine.

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Sasago tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - The site of the fatal collapse of an interior roof on Dec. 2, 2012, in the Sasago Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, is shown to reporters on Feb. 3, 2013, for the first time since the accident. Flowers are laid where vehicle fires happened.

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Schindler-made elevator accident

KANAZAWA, Japan - Michiaki Otsuki (L), representative director of Schindler Elevator, leaves the family home in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture, of a woman who died when she became wedged between the floor of an ascending elevator and the frame of the doorway at a hotel in Kanazawa in the prefecture. Otsuki visited the woman's relatives on Nov. 2, 2012, to apologize and pay respects.

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Japan proposes to S. Korea taking isles dispute to ICJ

SEOUL, South Korea - Kotaro Otsuki (C), an official at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, arrives at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Aug. 21, 2012, to deliver Japan's formal proposal for the two countries to jointly seek a resolution at the International Court of Justice for their dispute over a group of sparsely inhabited islands in the Sea of Japan. South Korea has already indicated it would reject the offer over the disputed isles, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, which are controlled by Seoul but claimed by Tokyo.

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Japan proposes to S. Korea taking isles dispute to ICJ

SEOUL, South Korea - Kotaro Otsuki (C), an official at the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, is surrounded by reporters at the South Korean Foreign Ministry in Seoul on Aug. 21, 2012, after delivering Japan's formal proposal to the ministry for the two countries to jointly seek a resolution at the International Court of Justice for their dispute over a group of sparsely inhabited islands in the Sea of Japan. South Korea has already indicated it would reject the offer over the disputed isles, known as Takeshima in Japan and Dokdo in South Korea, which are controlled by Seoul but claimed by Tokyo.

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Death penalty for murder

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows flowers and other items placed at the door of an apartment in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where Yayoi Motomura, 23, and her 11-month-old daughter Yuka were murdered by Takayuki Otsuki, then 18, in 1999. The Supreme Court on the day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for Otsuki.

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Nobuo Otsuki, Japan's oldest person to file tax returns online

OITA, Japan - Nobuo Otsuki (photo), a chartered accountant in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, who continues to run an accountancy business at age 101, joined the ranks of people filing tax returns online Oct. 25 and filed his first tax returns with the use of a personal computer. Officials at the local tax office, who helped him through the online tax filing procedures, said Otsuki is the oldest person in Japan to file tax returns by PC. Japanese tax authorities began accepting online tax returns in 2004.

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Japanese cities experience summer-day weather

TOKYO, Japan - A boy and a girl enjoy bathing at Odaiba seaside park on Tokyo Bat on May 1. Cities in Kanto and eastern regions of Japan had summer-like weather with temperatures topping 30C due to effects of warm winds coming in from south, meteorological agency officials said. Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, recorded 33.4C, Otsuki in the same prefecture logged 32.5C, and Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture had 32.0C.

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Japan feels heat as mercury soars to 30.2 C

TOKYO, Japan - Men nap their time away at Hibiya Park in Tokyo as temperatures soared to more than 20 C in the metropolis on April 6. The city of Otsuki, just west of Tokyo, recorded a temperature of 30.2 C, topping the 30 C threshold for the earliest-ever time in the city.

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Bus carrying 41 Thai tourists catches fire in tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - Police officers examine a burnt sightseeing bus April 5 near the Sasago Tunnel in the Tokyo-bound lane of Chuo Expressway in Otsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, after the bus carrying 41 Thai tourists caught fire in the tunnel. Two girls were wounded in the fire while evacuating the bus.

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Maglev train runs at record speed

A manned high-speed train of Central Japan Railway Co. hits a record speed of 501 kilometers per hour Nov. 28 at a test center in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo. The new record velocity of superconducting magnetically levitated linear motor vehicle, or Maglev as it is popularly called, reached the milestone on an 18.4-km track built between Tsuru and Otsuki.

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Japan feels heat as mercury soars to 30.2 C

TOKYO, Japan - Men nap their time away at Hibiya Park in Tokyo as temperatures soared to more than 20 C in the metropolis on April 6. The city of Otsuki, just west of Tokyo, recorded a temperature of 30.2 C, topping the 30 C threshold for the earliest-ever time in the city. (Kyodo)

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Maglev train runs at record spee

A manned high-speed train of Central Japan Railway Co. hits a record speed of 501 kilometers per hour Nov. 28 at a test center in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo. The new record velocity of superconducting magnetically levitated linear motor vehicle, or Maglev as it is popularly called, reached the milestone on an 18.4-km track built between Tsuru and Otsuki.

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Tsunami survivor grows pine seedlings in northeastern Japan

Hisao Otsuki holds a black pine seedling in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2015. He is the leader of volunteers growing pine seedlings to be planted to create a bulwark forest along the city's coast, part of northeastern Japan devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese cities experience summer-day weather

TOKYO, Japan - A boy and a girl enjoy bathing at Odaiba seaside park on Tokyo Bat on May 1. Cities in Kanto and eastern regions of Japan had summer-like weather with temperatures topping 30C due to effects of warm winds coming in from south, meteorological agency officials said. Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, recorded 33.4C, Otsuki in the same prefecture logged 32.5C, and Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture had 32.0C. (Kyodo)

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Nobuo Otsuki, Japan's oldest person to file tax returns online

OITA, Japan - Nobuo Otsuki (photo), a chartered accountant in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, who continues to run an accountancy business at age 101, joined the ranks of people filing tax returns online Oct. 25 and filed his first tax returns with the use of a personal computer. Officials at the local tax office, who helped him through the online tax filing procedures, said Otsuki is the oldest person in Japan to file tax returns by PC. Japanese tax authorities began accepting online tax returns in 2004. (Kyodo)

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Saruhashi

Sarubashi (Monkey Bridge) spans Katsura River in Sarubashi-cho, Otsuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture. This bridge is considered one of the three most unusual bridges in Japan, together with Kiso-no-Kakehashi (Gifu Prefecture) and Kintai-kyo of Suo (Yamaguchi Prefecture). It was designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 1932. Sarubashi is designed in hijikiketa style, which is characterized by a lack of vertical supports. This is a view of the bridge from upstream. Many people are on the bridge. The date is unknown.==Date:unknown, Place:Yamanashi, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number82‐47‐0]

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A suspension bridge by the Koshu Road

This photograph depicts a river with a suspension bridge in the background. Neither the name of the bridge nor the location is known, but since the inscription says, Along the Koshu Highway, and the scenery around Katsura River was similar at the time, this seems to be the area east of Otsuki City, Yamanashi Prefecture. However, this site could not be positively identified in Yamanashi, so it may also be a scene along the highway on the Sagami side of the river.==Date:unknown, Place:Yamanashi, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number65‐13‐0]

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Death penalty for murder

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows flowers and other items placed at the door of an apartment in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where Yayoi Motomura, 23, and her 11-month-old daughter Yuka were murdered by Takayuki Otsuki, then 18, in 1999. The Supreme Court on the day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for Otsuki. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

Photo taken April 23, 2020, shows bottles of spirits with an alcoholic strength of 77 percent volume, distilled by Sasaichi Sake Brewery in Otsuki in Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan. The brewery produces the product with high alcohol content as an alternative for disinfectant which has seen a shortage due to a surge in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A worker holds bottles of spirits with an alcoholic strength of 77 percent volume, distilled by Sasaichi Sake Brewery in Otsuki in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan, on April 23, 2020. The brewery produces the product with high alcohol content as an alternative for disinfectant which has seen a shortage due to a surge in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken April 23, 2020, shows bottles of spirits with an alcoholic strength of 77 percent volume, distilled by Sasaichi Sake Brewery in Otsuki in Yamanashi Prefecture, eastern Japan. The brewery produces the product with high alcohol content as an alternative for disinfectant which has seen a shortage due to a surge in demand amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2nd anniversary of mass murder at care home

Kazuma Otsuki (R), who heads the group formed by bereaved families of a fatal stabbing rampage at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care home for the mentally disabled near Tokyo, meets the press at the facility along with the home's head Kaoru Irikura (L) on July 26, 2018, two years after the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FOCUS: LGBT books targeting elementary school students grab spotlight

Yu Iwashita, chief editor of Otsuki Shoten Co., talks in May 2017 in Tokyo about recent publications aimed at teaching elementary school children about issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. "It is important to have the books readily available at libraries and schools for when someone's interest is piqued," said Iwashita. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FOCUS: LGBT books targeting elementary school students grab spotlight

Photo shows "Watashirashiku, LGBTQ" (L) published by Otsuki Shoten Co. and "Iro-iro na Sei, Iro-iro na Ikikata" published by Poplar Publishing Co., both aimed at teaching elementary school children about issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bus carrying 41 Thai tourists catches fire in tunnel

OTSUKI, Japan - Police officers examine a burnt sightseeing bus April 5 near the Sasago Tunnel in the Tokyo-bound lane of Chuo Expressway in Otsuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, after the bus carrying 41 Thai tourists caught fire in the tunnel. Two girls were wounded in the fire while evacuating the bus. (Kyodo)