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'Super Eco-Ship' launched in Sasebo

FUKUOKA, Japan - The ''Super Eco-Ship'' tanker Nadeshiko Maru, an environmentally friendly vessel that is driven by electric motors, was launched in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture on Sept. 11. The 749-ton oil tanker, built with assistance from the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency, uses a contra-rotating propulsion system driven by two electric motors, with electricity supplied by four generators. Compared with diesel engine ships, the design supposedly improves energy efficiency and reduces the emission of carbon dioxide by about 10 percent.

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New U.S. amphibious assault ship deployed in Sasebo

SASEBO, Japan, Dec. 9 Kyodo - Photo taken Dec. 6, 2019, shows the deck of the U.S. Navy's newest amphibious assault ship America at Sasebo base in southwestern Japan. The vessel was deployed at the base the same day, replacing the Wasp.

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Welfare center received warning about teen held for murder

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken July 31, 2014, shows a child welfare center in Sasebo in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Nagasaki. The center was informed last month that a 16-year-old girl arrested for allegedly killing and partially dismembering a classmate had exhibited disturbing behavior.

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Teen planned murder of classmate: police

SASEBO, Japan - People who attended a funeral service for Aiwa Matsuo, a 15-year-old high school student who was allegedly murdered by a classmate, send off her coffin in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on July 29, 2014. The arrested classmate has admitted to planning the murder.

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Teen planned murder of classmate: police

SASEBO, Japan - People who attended a funeral service for Aiwa Matsuo, a 15-year-old high school student who was allegedly murdered by a classmate, cry as they send off her coffin in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on July 29, 2014. The arrested classmate has admitted to planning the murder.

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Teen planned murder of classmate: police

SASEBO, Japan - A mourner extends her hand to a hearse carrying the coffin of Aiwa Matsuo, a 15-year-old high school student who was allegedly murdered by a classmate, as people who attended her funeral service send it off in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Japan on July 29, 2014. The arrested classmate has admitted to planning the murder.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers on July 28, 2014, carry a large item that looks like a mattress from the apartment building where a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate two days earlier in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - Police officers on July 28, 2014, carry a large item that looks like a mattress from the apartment building where a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate two days earlier in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - A car carrying a 16-year-old girl under arrest for allegedly murdering a high-school classmate, leaves the Sasebo Police Station for the local prosecutors' office in Nagasaki Prefecture on July 28, 2014. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day. The victim's head and left hand were severed.

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16-yr-old girl arrested for murder says she wanted to kill someone

SASEBO, Japan - A sheet shields on July 28, 2014, the balcony of the apartment in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture where two days earlier a 16-year-old girl allegedly murdered a high-school classmate and mutilated the body. The suspect, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor under age 20, said she "wanted to kill someone" and suggested she also wanted to dismember a body, investigative sources said the same day.

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New GSDF members in training

SASEBO, Japan - New members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Western Army Infantry Regiment are briefed on the features of a boat at Camp Ainoura in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 24, 2014, during training.

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Sand dragon

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 5, 2013, shows a sand sculpture of a dragon at the entrance of theme park Huis Ten Bosch in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. Sand sculptor Katsuhiko Chaen created the work using sand from Tottori Prefecture.

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Sand dragon

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 5, 2013, shows a sand sculpture of a dragon at the entrance of theme park Huis Ten Bosch in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. Sand sculptor Katsuhiko Chaen created the work using sand from Tottori Prefecture.

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Japan deploys missile interceptors

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Chokai, an Aegis destroyer carrying an SM-3 missile interceptor, leaving the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Sasebo base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 6, 2012. A total of three Aegis destroyers armed with SM-3 missile interceptors left the port for deployment in the East China Sea and Sea of Japan to intercept a North Korean rocket if it appears to be falling on Japanese territory. North Korea says it plans to launch a rocket carrying an "earth observation satellite" sometime between Dec. 10 and 22.

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Japan defense chief

SASEBO, Japan - Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto attends a ceremony at a base of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2012.

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U.S. flattop wraps up disaster support in Japan

SASEBO, Japan - The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan's skipper, Capt. Thom Burke, speaks in a press conference aboard the vessel at Sasebo port in Nagasaki Prefecture on April 19, 2011. The Ronald Reagan called at the port the same day after concluding its participation in the U.S. forces' Operation Tomodachi to provide relief in northeastern Japan areas hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Heart-shaped oysters

SASEBO, Japan - A woman holds farmed oysters with heart-shaped shells in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Feb. 1, 2011. A local fisheries cooperative announced the same day that it has begun producing them.

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Anonymous gifts for children

SAGA, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 11, 2011, shows children's books donated to Nagasaki Prefecture's support center for children, women and handicapped people in Sasebo, southwestern Japan, by an anonymous donor under the name ''Naoto Date,'' a cartoon pro wrestler who fights wearing a tiger mask. Anonymous donations of cash, books, school bags and other items for children, mostly to facilities for underprivileged children, under the names of ''Tiger Mask'' and other cartoon heroes have been spreading across Japan since the Christmas period.

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Sasebo spinning tops

SASEBO, Japan - Sasebo spinning top craftsman Sadaemon Yamamoto decorates spinning tops with painting of rabbits at his shop ''Sasebo Koma Hompo'' in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 28, 2010, to mark the coming year of rabbit in 2011.

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Sojitz begins shipment of farmed bluefin tuna

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken on Dec. 8, 2010, in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture, shows Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Co.'s first shipment of farmed bluefin tuna ahead of the high-demand yearend and new-year season. Major trading house Sojitz Corp., which wholly owns Sojitz tuna farm, is the first Japanese trading company to enter into tuna farming, while an international commission decided to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011.

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Sojitz begins shipment of farmed bluefin tuna

SASEBO, Japan - People involved with a tuna farming project pose for photos during a ceremony to commemorate Sojitz Tuna Farm Takashima Co.'s first shipment of farmed bluefin tuna on Dec. 8, 2010, in Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture. Major trading house Sojitz Corp., which wholly owns Sojitz tuna farm, is the first Japanese trading company to enter into tuna farming, while an international commission decided to slightly reduce the bluefin tuna fishing quota for 2011.

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Sorry, grandpa

SASEBO, Japan - A scarecrow resembling an abandoned human skeleton forms part of a piece commenting on cases in which families were unaware of, or hid, the deaths of elderly relatives, in some cases to unlawfully claim their pensions, on Sept. 25, 2010. In the foreground is a sign reading, ''Are you there, grandpa...? Sorry about being unaware for 30 years.'' About 100 scarecrows have been displayed for the annual ''Onigigo Tanada Matsuri'' festival in rice paddies in the town of Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Dolphins' visual capacities tested in Japan

SASEBO, Japan - This June 2010 photo shows a dolphin looking at a screen at the Umikirara Aquarium on Kujuku Island in Nagasaki Prefecture. A team of researchers in Japan has been conducting an experiment to determine the extent to which dolphins use their vision to tell their fellow sea mammals apart.

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Theme park Huis Ten Bosch targets Asian visitors

SASEBO, Japan - Huis Ten Bosch Co. President Hideo Sawada (2nd row, 4th from L) poses with performers during a media preview event at the company's theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 27, 2010, a day before the struggling attraction reopens to the public. Sawada, who took his post in March, said he aims to attract half a million visitors from other Asian countries this year.

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Hanshin catcher Jojima starts workout

SASEBO, Japan - Hanshin Tigers catcher Kenji Jojima throws a ball during a workout in his hometown of Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2010. Jojima who left the Seattle Mariners the previous season started practicing prior to the formal start of the club's spring training.

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Hanshin catcher Jojima starts workout

SASEBO, Japan - Hanshin Tigers catcher Kenji Jojima (C) works out in his hometown of Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Jan. 9, 2010. Jojima who left the Seattle Mariners the previous season started practicing prior to the formal start of the club's spring training.

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Chinese defense chief on board high-tech Japanese Aegis vessel

SASEBO, Japan - China's Defense Minister Liang Guanglie (L) is greeted by crew members of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer Chokai in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Nov. 30, 2009, before he boards the vessel equipped with the Aegis combat system.

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Japan's Aegis destroyers sent to Sea of Japan

SASEBO, Japan - The Japanese Aegis guided-missile destroyer Kongou leaves its base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, for the Sea of Japan on March 28 to prepare to intercept a rocket North Korea plans to launch if it falls into Japanese territory.

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Japan's Aegis destroyers sent to Sea of Japan

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken March 28 shows a system to launch missile interceptors on the Japanese Aegis guided-missile destroyer Choukai, which left its base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, for the Sea of Japan on March 28 to prepare to intercept a rocket North Korea plans to launch if the rocket falls into Japanese territory.

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Japan's Aegis destroyers sent to Sea of Japan

SASEBO, Japan - The Japanese Aegis guided-missile destroyer Choukai leaves its base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, for the Sea of Japan on March 28 to prepare to intercept a rocket North Korea plans to launch if it falls into Japanese territory.

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U.S. nuclear sub calls at Sasebo

SASEBO, Japan - The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine La Jolla enters the U.S. naval base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Aug. 4 after another U.S. nuclear-powered sub was found to have leaked a small amount of radiation at the port in March.

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U.S. warship Nimitz visits Sasebo

SASEBO, Japan - The U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz makes its first port call at Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Feb. 11. The 91,487-ton Nimitz is the ninth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to stop at Sasebo port.

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U.S. warship Nimitz visits Sasebo

SASEBO, Japan - The U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz makes its first port call at Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Feb. 11. The 91,487-ton Nimitz is the ninth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to stop at Sasebo port.

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Handicapped teenager emerges as genius artist

FUKUOKA, Japan - Tsuyoshi Kakeya uses his knuckles to play ''Kira Kira Boshi'' (Twinkle, twinkle, little star) at his home in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Handicapped teenager emerges as genius artist

FUKUOKA, Japan - Tsuyoshi Kakeya, a 14-year-old genius artist despite visual and mental impairments, plays an electronic organ at his home in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier calls at Sasebo

SASEBO, Japan - The nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln is seen off Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture on May 25. Later in the day, the 102,000-ton flattop with about 6,000 crew members entered Sasebo port for a five-day stay aimed at providing rest for its personnel and to replenish supplies.

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Million tulips in full bloom at Huis Ten Bosch

SASEBO, Japan - One million tulips of four hundred kinds are in full bloom at Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Feb. 15, the opening day of the Tulip Festival which will run until April 10.

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(1)Destroyer, plane leave for Sumatra to help tsunami victims

SASEBO, Japan - The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Kurama (front), carrying a crew of 330, leaves Sasebo port in Nagasaki Prefecture on Jan. 14 to take part in the ongoing tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia's northern Sumatra Island.

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Girl in Sasebo classmate killing to be institutionalized

SASEBO, Japan - A car carrying an 11-year-old girl charged with killing a classmate in June at their school departs from the Sasebo branch of the Nagasaki Family Court on Sept. 15. The court decided to institutionalize the girl. The decision provides for a compulsory measure where the girl's freedom of movement may be restricted for two years at an institution for the rehabilitation of delinquent children.

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(1)U.S. nuclear-powered flattop stops in Sasebo

SASEBO, Japan - The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John C. Stennis (C) enters Sasebo port in Nagasaki Prefecture on Aug. 21, guarded by patrol boats, ahead of making a port call. At left are boats carrying people protesting the visit.

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Ex-Nomura Securities exec. revives bankrupt theme park

TOKYO, Japan - Daisuke Takeuchi, chief executive officer of cash-trapped Huis Ten Bosch, begins his day by feeding ducks and swans swimming in a canal near his house in the theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.

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(3)Internet messaging trouble cited as motive in school murder

NAGASAKI, Japan - A car carrying an 11-year-old girl, believed to have murdered her classmate at an elementary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, is covered with a sheet on arrival at a juvenile classification office in the city of Nagasaki from a family court in Sasebo on June 2.

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(2)Internet messaging trouble cited as motive in school murder

SASEBO, Japan - A car carrying an 11-year-old girl, who is believed to have murdered her classmate at an elementary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, leaves the Sasebo branch office of the Nagasaki Family Court on June 2. The girl has told police she had a conflict involving Internet messaging with the victim and summoned her with the intention of killing her, investigative sources said.

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Internet messaging trouble cited as motive in school murder

SASEBO, Japan - A policeman stands guard in front of Okubo Elementary School in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 2, one day after an 11-year-old girl stabbed her classmate Satomi Mitarai to death in a study room. The girl told police she had argued with the victim over their Internet messages.

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2 high-speed, guided-missile patrol boats deployed at Sasebo

SASEBO, Japan - Two 200-ton, high-speed, guided-missile patrol boats of the Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) are anchored at the MSDF's base in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on March 26. The MSDF deployed the two boats as part of its efforts to defend against unidentified vessels.

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(3)Huis Ten Bosch theme park files for bankruptcy

SASEBO, Japan - Huis Ten Bosch Co. President Michitake Moriyama (R) bows at a news conference in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Feb. 26. The company, which operates the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo with estimated liabilities of 228.9 billion yen at the end of last year, applied for bankruptcy at the Sasebo branch of the Nagasaki District Court under the Corporate Rehabilitation Law.

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(2)Huis Ten Bosch theme park files for bankruptcy

SASEBO, Japan - A public relations official (C) of Huis Ten Bosch Co., the operator of the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, answers questions from reporters Feb. 26. The company filed with a court for protection from creditors the same day.

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(1)Huis Ten Bosch theme park files for bankruptcy

SASEBO, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 19 shows a panoramic view of the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. On Feb. 26, the park's operator filed for court protection from creditors.

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(2)Aegis-equipped Kongou living quarters shown to press

SASEBO, Japan - The physical training room of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis-equipped Kongou is shown to the press on Jan. 17 at Sasebo Base in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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(1)Aegis-equipped Kongou's living quarters shown to press

SASEBO, Japan - The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis-equipped Kongou is seen at Sasebo Base in Nagasaki Prefecture on Jan. 17, the same day its living quarters were shown to the press.