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Golden Week holiday rush in Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Chuo Expressway's Tokyo-bound lanes (L) in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, packed with cars on May 6, 2024, the final day of the Golden Week holiday season.

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Japan space agency developing world's smallest satellite-launch rocket

SAGAMIHARA, Japan, Nov. 22 Kyodo - Hiroto Habu, an assistant professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, poses with the TRICOM1 ultra small satellite developed by the University of Tokyo, at JAXA's facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2016. JAXA said it will launch the world's smallest rocket, which is around 10 meters long, about 50 centimeters in diameter and weighs 2.6 tons, to put the satellite into Earth orbit from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, by the end of March 2017.

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Seeking Nobel Peace Prize for Japan Constitution

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Naomi Takasu, an executive committee member of a civic group seeking the Nobel Peace Prize for the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, speaks at a press conference in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2014.

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Japan to launch Hayabusa2 space probe

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - File photo taken in August 2014 in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, shows the Hayabusa2 asteroid explorer that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch on Nov. 30, 2014, the successor to the Hayabusa probe that returned to Earth in June 2010 after its unprecedented collection of asteroid surface samples.

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New asteroid explorer

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, unveils a new asteroid explorer, Hayabusa2, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 26, 2012.

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New asteroid explorer

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, unveils a new asteroid explorer, Hayabusa2, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 26, 2012.

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New asteroid explorer

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA, unveils a new asteroid explorer, Hayabusa2, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Dec. 26, 2012.

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Illumination event in Sagamihara

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Photo taken on the night of Nov. 9, 2012, shows an illumination event called ''Sagamiko Illumillion,'' involving 4 million light-emitting diodes, at Pleasure Forest amusement facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Illumination event in Sagamihara

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Photo taken on the night of Nov. 9, 2012, shows an illumination event called ''Sagamiko Illumillion,'' involving 4 million light-emitting diodes, at Pleasure Forest amusement facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Snow falls in Tokyo, vicinity

TOKYO, Japan - A photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a truck that fell on its side on Chuo Expressway in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Jan. 24, 2012. A number of traffic accidents occurred as vehicles skidded on slippery roads after a big snow fall in Tokyo and its vicinity.

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Hayabusa returning home

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency professor Junichiro Kawaguchi (C) shakes hands with a project team member at a JAXA control center in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 9, 2010. The space agency completed adjusting the asteroid probe Hayabusa's trajectory from space as its return to Earth is slated for June 13. (Pool photo)

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Man locks himself in building in Tokyo suburb, fires outside

MACHIDA, Japan - Policemen stand on alert near the apartment on the Tokyo suburb of Machida where a man locked himself and fired nine shots toward the outside. The man is believed to have shot another man in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, just before he came to Machida, police said.