Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Parade Bel Espoir - Marseille

Nautical parade in Marseille Bay to mark the end of the MED25 maritime odyssey for peace in the Mediterranean, undertaken by young people of all faiths on the boat Bel Espoir, in Marseille, France, on October 25, 2025. Photo by Laurent Coust/ABACAPRESS.COM

E

Historic anti-nuke vessel in San Francisco

Steve Buck (R), captain of the Golden Rule anti-nuclear protest vessel, and Gerry Condon (L), a Vietnam-era veteran and senior member of Veterans for Peace, stand in front of the boat in San Francisco on Aug. 5, 2025. The 10-meter-long wooden ketch is famous for attempting to sail into the Marshall Islands in 1958 to stop U.S. nuclear bomb testing.

E

Anti-nuke event in Iceland

Norwegian Nobel Institute Director Kristian Berg Harpviken (L) speaks during an event hosted by Peace Boat in Reykjavik, Iceland, on June 21, 2025. Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs took part in the event, held during Peace Boat's port call in the Icelandic capital.

E

Navy Day Celebrate in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, CHINA - APRIL 23, 2024 - A medical facility inside the Peace Boat is seen on the ship's Open Day in Shanghai, China, April 23, 2024.

E

CHINA-PLA NAVY-ESCORT MISSION-15 YEARS (CN)

(231228) -- BEIJING, Dec. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff members aboard an escorted Chinese deep-sea fishing boat fly banners to express their affection for motherland China and appreciation for Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on June 4, 2022. Since December 2008, China has been dispatching naval ships to carry out vessel protection operations in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia. Over the past 15 years, 45 consecutive fleets, 150 vessels and 35,000 personnel of the PLA Navy have joined the efforts, escorting more than 7,200 Chinese and foreign vessels, including 12 World Food Program ships. TO GO WITH "China Focus: Chinese navy's 15-year quest for peace in Gulf of Aden, waters off Somalia" (Photo by Yang Jie/Xinhua)

E

Ambassadors call for peace in Gaza

Ambassadors to Japan gather in Yokohama on Dec. 6, 2023, to call for an end to the killing in Gaza in an event hosted by the Japan-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat.

E

Ambassadors call for peace in Gaza

Ambassadors to Japan gather in Yokohama on Dec. 6, 2023, to call for an end to the killing in Gaza in an event hosted by the Japan-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat.

E

Bangladeshi Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha festival

STORY: Bangladeshi Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha festival DATELINE: July 1, 2023 LENGTH: 0:04:36 LOCATION: Dhaka CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of cattle being transported by boat 2. various of cattle markets STORYLINE: Bangladeshi Muslims celebrated Eid al-Adha on Thursday, one of two major festivals in the South Asian country. In the capital Dhaka and elsewhere in Bangladesh, Muslims offered special prayers seeking divine blessings, peace and prosperity in tens of thousands of congregations of Eid al-Adha, also known as the festival of animal sacrifice. Cattle markets have been brimming with sacrificial animals. Bangladeshi Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim said the demand for sacrificial animals stood at 10 million this year, while more than 12.5 million animals were available for the ritual. Millions of Muslims and non-Muslim poor people in Bangladesh, who can not afford to buy meat even once in a year, get a chance of eating meat up to satisfaction as rich people will distr

E

Canadian expat experiences dragon boat racing in China's Zhongshan

STORY: Canadian expat experiences dragon boat racing in China's Zhongshan DATELINE: June 21, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:24 LOCATION: ZHONGSHAN, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the dragon boat racing 2. SOUNDBITE (English): ADRIAN BERZENJI, Canadian expat living in China's Zhongshan STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE (English): ADRIAN BERZENJI, Canadian expat living in China's Zhongshan "The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is approaching. The people of Zhongshan love to celebrate the Dragon Boat (Festival) with eating Zongzi, racing their dragon boats and praying for peace and prosperity. But what is it about the unique charm of the dragon boats that attract people year after year? Well, today we're gonna take a look at the unique culture and experiences of the Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the city of Zhongshan will hold many dragon boat races here on the Qijiang River. This year I will get to participate in one of the smaller competitions. But how can an amateur like me participate in a dr

E

G7 Hiroshima Summit - Japan

A police boat patrols past the Genbaku Dome in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, during the G7 Summit on May 21, 2023 in Hiroshima, Japan. Photo by Adrian Wyld/CP/ABACAPRESS

E

Peace Boat resumes voyages after COVID hiatus

Peace Boat's ship departs from Yokohama port near Tokyo on April 7, 2023, for a 108-day trip with stops in 17 countries, as the nongovernmental organization resumes ocean voyages after a hiatus of around three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

E

42 Japanese hurt as bus falls from cliff in South Africa

DURBAN, South Africa - Rescuers help a Japanese traveler who was injured after a bus carrying 44 people fell from a cliff in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, on Feb. 8. Forty Japanese tourists aged between 22 and 77 were on the bus, along with a tour attendant and an interpreter as well as a locally hired driver and a guide. The group was making a stop in South Africa as part of an around-the-world cruise with Japanese NGO Peace Boat.

E

Peace Boat Hibakusha Project

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki participating in the Peace Boat Orizuru Project pose for photos in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 24, 2014, after returning from a 104-day journey visiting 18 countries to campaign against what they consider the inhumanity of nuclear weapons.

E

Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Sayaka Takahashi from Ishinomaki, one of the cities most severely damaged by the 2011 tsunami in northeastern Japan, speaks before departing aboard a ship from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 disaster, including Takahashi, departed on an 85-day around-the-world voyage organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

E

Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shigeko Sasamori, who survived the 1945 U.S atomic bombing of Hiroshima at age 13, speaks before departing aboard a ship from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including Sasamori, and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan, departed on an 85-day around-the-world voyage organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

E

Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Participants of an 85-day voyage around the world, organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, pose for photos before departing from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan are among the participants of the voyage to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

E

Voyage with antinuclear message

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A ship departs on an 85-day voyage around the world from Yokohama port on July 18, 2013. Survivors of the 1945 U.S atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan are among the participants of the voyage, organized by Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Peace Boat, to share their experiences and advocate the abolition of nuclear power and weapons.

E

Film about A-bomb survivors premiers at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - A film that follows more than 100 atomic bomb survivors as they travel around the world on the ''Peace Boat'' premiered at U.N. headquarters on Oct. 26, 2009. Directed by Costa Rica's Erika Bagnarello, the film, ''FLASHES OF HOPE: Hibakusha Traveling the World,'' captured the voices of 103 victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

E

Films by young directors shed new light on A-bomb survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Setsuko Thurlow (R) and her fellow atomic-bomb survivors pose at Yokohama port Sept. 7, 2008, before their global voyage. Two documentaries on their voyage as members of a group of 103 such survivors invited by the nongovernmental group Peace Boat are being shown around Japan prior to a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May 2010.

E

Civic groups protest Japan's troop deployment extension in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Peace Boat, a Japan-based nongovernmental organization working for peace and human rights, gather outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 9 to protest the government decision to extend the deployment of Self-Defense Forces troops in Iraq.

E

(1)Gov't decision on troops dispatch draw protests

TOKYO, Japan - Members of ''Peace Boat,'' a non-governmental organization, hold placards outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 9 to express their opposition to the government's plan to send noncombat troops to Iraq.

E

Peace Boat sets off for Kobe on antiwar protest

TOKYO, Japan - A cruise ship chartered by the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Peace Boat leaves Tokyo's Harumi pier for Kobe port March 14 to protest a possible U.S.-led attack on Iraq. The 16,000-ton ship is scheduled to arrive in Kobe on March 15, a day designated for more global peace rallies in at least 400 cities around the world.

E

NGO appeals to stop harassment of Koreans in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Peace Boat, a Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization (NGO), hand leaflets to pedestrians near JR Shinjuku Station on Sept. 19, calling for an end to threats and harassment against pro-Pyongyang schools and Korean residents of Japan following revelation that eight Japanese abducted to North Korea are dead.

E

570 on Peace Boat set sail to visit disputed island

KOBE, Japan - A cruiser chartered by Peace Boat, a nongovernmental organization, leaves Kobe port on Aug. 15, taking some 570 passengers on a voyage to places including Kunashiri Island, despite a Foreign Ministry request not to visit the disputed territory.

E

Peace Boat members protest Israeli actions

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the pacifist group Peace Boat protest Israeli military actions against Palestinians in front of the Israeli embassy in Tokyo on April 4.

E

Peace Boat members demand gov't explain NGO issue

TOKYO, Japan - About 20 members of the nongovernmental organization Peace Boat call on the government Jan. 30 to explain the initial exclusion of two NGOs from a recent Afghan aid conference. The issue led to the dismissal Jan. 29 of both Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka and Vice Foreign Minister Yoshiji Nogami. The members gathered in front of the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo.

E

NGO urges Fujimori to go home with plane ticket

TOKYO, Japan - About 50 people from Japan, Peru and five other countries march Jan. 16 to the house in Tokyo where deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is staying, to hand him a letter urging him to return home as well as an economy-class air ticket to Peru. The demonstrators from the Japanese civic organization Peace Boat were unable to hand over the ticket, with police in front of the house in Tokyo's Ota Ward maintaining nobody was home. The house belongs to Japanese writer Ayako Sono.

E

Monument to tuna contaminated by H-bomb test

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 14, 2000 shows a stone "tuna monument" erected in the yard of the Daigo Fukuryu Maru Exhibition Hall on Yumenoshima in Tokyo's Koto Ward and Matashichi Oishi, a former crew member of the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, a tuna fishing boat exposed to contamination by the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, who created the monument in 1999 as a reminder of the dreadful effects of the test and a symbol of peace.

E

Peace Boat members protest Israeli actions

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the pacifist group Peace Boat protest Israeli military actions against Palestinians in front of the Israeli embassy in Tokyo on April 4.

E

Civic groups protest Japan's troop deployment extension in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Peace Boat, a Japan-based nongovernmental organization working for peace and human rights, gather outside the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 9 to protest the government decision to extend the deployment of Self-Defense Forces troops in Iraq. (Kyodo)

E

Peace Boat sets off for Kobe on antiwar protest

TOKYO, Japan - A cruise ship chartered by the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Peace Boat leaves Tokyo's Harumi pier for Kobe port March 14 to protest a possible U.S.-led attack on Iraq. The 16,000-ton ship is scheduled to arrive in Kobe on March 15, a day designated for more global peace rallies in at least 400 cities around the world. (Kyodo)

E

Peace Boat returns from global voyage

Nobuo Miyake (C), one of the eight atomic bomb survivors on board a Peace Boat ship, poses with other passengers at Yokohama Port, Japan, on July 25, 2015, after their global voyage seeking of a nuclear-free world. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

A-bomb survivor on Peace Boat returns from world voyage

Masao Ito, one of the eight atomic bomb survivors on board a Peace Boat ship among some 1,000 passengers, speaks at a press conference in Yokohama, Japan, on July 25, 2015, after touring the world to tell of the inhumanity of nuclear weapons based on his experience. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

A-bomb survivor on Peace Boat meets press after world voyage

Nobuo Miyake (C), one of the eight atomic bomb survivors on board a Peace Boat ship, meets the press in Yokohama, Japan, on July 25, 2015, after their global voyage seeking a nuclear-free world. Miyake delivered a speech at the Greek parliament during the trip, calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Foreign minister's speech not enough to change status quo

Terumi Tanaka (L), secretary general of the Japan Confederation of A- and H- Bomb Sufferers Organizations, and Peace Boat co-representative Kawasaki Akira listen to Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida's speech at the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty review conference in New York on April 27, 2015. Tanaka said he did not recognize Kishida's avowed determination to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Peace Boat with A-bomb survivors departs from Yokohama

A ship of the nonprofit group Peace Boat sets sail from the Port of Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on April 12, 2015, with eight World War II atomic bombing survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on board. The A-bomb survivors are poised to convey in 24 countries their experience of being witness to the bombs' horrors during their voyage of some 100 days. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

E

Films by young directors shed new light on A-bomb survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Directors Erika Bagnarello (L) from Costa Rica and Takashi Kunimoto from Japan chat in Tokyo on April 12, 2010. Their documentaries on a 2008 global voyage by 103 atomic-bomb survivors organized by the nongovernmental group Peace Boat are being shown around Japan prior to a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May. (Kyodo)

E

Films by young directors shed new light on A-bomb survivors

TOKYO, Japan - Setsuko Thurlow (R) and her fellow atomic-bomb survivors pose at Yokohama port Sept. 7, 2008, before their global voyage. Two documentaries on their voyage as members of a group of 103 such survivors invited by the nongovernmental group Peace Boat are being shown around Japan prior to a U.N. conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May 2010. (Kyodo)

E

42 Japanese hurt as bus falls from cliff in South Africa

DURBAN, South Africa - Rescuers help a Japanese traveler who was injured after a bus carrying 44 people fell from a cliff in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, on Feb. 8. Forty Japanese tourists aged between 22 and 77 were on the bus, along with a tour attendant and an interpreter as well as a locally hired driver and a guide. The group was making a stop in South Africa as part of an around-the-world cruise with Japanese NGO Peace Boat. (Kyodo)

E

Film about A-bomb survivors premiers at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - A film that follows more than 100 atomic bomb survivors as they travel around the world on the ''Peace Boat'' premiered at U.N. headquarters on Oct. 26, 2009. Directed by Costa Rica's Erika Bagnarello, the film, ''FLASHES OF HOPE: Hibakusha Traveling the World,'' captured the voices of 103 victims of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. (Kyodo)