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Express train hits 4 rail maintenance workers, 2 die

TOTTORI, Japan - Rescue workers try to save a maintenance worker stuck beneath a train in Kofu Town, Tottori Prerecture, on Jan. 24. An express train hit four West Japan Railway Co. workers engaged in rail maintenance work, killing two of them and injuring the other two.

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(2)GSDF starts removing collapsed houses blocking roads in Niigata

UONUMA, Japan - A mother and her children watch Ground Self-Defense Force personnel remove their quake-hit house in Uonuma City, Niigata Prerecture, on Nov. 19.

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(3)Chickens to be buried near poultry yard in Tamba

TAMBA, Japan - An alley at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in the town of Tamaba, Kyodo Prerecture, where a large number of chicken died of bird flu, looks whitish with sprayed disinfectant on March 3.

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(1)Justice minister says watch on Pana Wave group to continue

VILLAGE OF IZUMI, Japan - Members of the white-robed doomsday group Pana Wave Laboratory take rest in the village of Izumi in Fukui Prefecture during their move from adjoining Gifu Prerecture on May 9. In Tokyo, Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said that a watch will continue on the group, which has been moving around central Japan in a caravan of white motor vehicles.

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Alpinists crowd Mt. Hotaka

NAGANO, Japan - Alpinists taking advantage of the ''Golden Week'' holidays pitch their colorful tents on the snow-covered slope of Mt. Hotaka in Nagano Prerecture, central Japan, on May 4.

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Temperature rises above 40 C for 1st time in Japan this summer

TATEBAYASHI, Japan - Children play in the water at a park in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prerecture, as the mercury climbed to 40.2 C, rising above 40 C for the first time in Japan this summer. The photo was provided by the Jomo Shinbun. (Kyodo)

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Express train hits 4 rail maintenance workers, 2 die

TOTTORI, Japan - Rescue workers try to save a maintenance worker stuck beneath a train in Kofu Town, Tottori Prerecture, on Jan. 24. An express train hit four West Japan Railway Co. workers engaged in rail maintenance work, killing two of them and injuring the other two. (Kyodo)

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(2)GSDF starts removing collapsed houses blocking roads in Niiga

UONUMA, Japan - A mother and her children watch Ground Self-Defense Force personnel remove their quake-hit house in Uonuma City, Niigata Prerecture, on Nov. 19. (Kyodo)

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(3)Chickens to be buried near poultry yard in Tamba

TAMBA, Japan - An alley at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in the town of Tamaba, Kyodo Prerecture, where a large number of chicken died of bird flu, looks whitish with sprayed disinfectant on March 3. (Kyodo)

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(1)Justice minister says watch on Pana Wave group to continue

VILLAGE OF IZUMI, Japan - Members of the white-robed doomsday group Pana Wave Laboratory take rest in the village of Izumi in Fukui Prefecture during their move from adjoining Gifu Prerecture on May 9. In Tokyo, Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said that a watch will continue on the group, which has been moving around central Japan in a caravan of white motor vehicles. (Kyodo)

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Alpinists crowd Mt. Hotaka

NAGANO, Japan - Alpinists taking advantage of the ''Golden Week'' holidays pitch their colorful tents on the snow-covered slope of Mt. Hotaka in Nagano Prerecture, central Japan, on May 4. (Kyodo)