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AI-incorporated lunar rover

Photo taken on March 12, 2025, shows a prototype of an AI robot for use as a lunar rover unveiled by its developers, including Tohoku University and Kyoto University teams, at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's facility mimicking the lunar surface in Sagamihara in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa.

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Japan: Thunderstorm Delivers Big Hail And Damaging Winds To Tokyo Area 2

A localized thunderstorm swept through the Kanto region on Thursday, September 19. In Hachioji City, located in western Tokyo, there were reports of damage from strong winds and hail. This video shows the heavy rain and fierce winds battering Sagamihara City, south of Tokyo.

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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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Rugby: All Blacks head coach Robertson in Japan

Scott Robertson, head coach of New Zealand's national rugby team, speaks to reporters at Tokyo's Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground on March 17, 2024, after watching a match between Brave Lupus Tokyo and Sagamihara Dynaboars.

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[Breaking News] Japan probe lands on Moon

SAGAMIHARA, Japan Kyodo - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency President Hiroshi Yamakawa and other officials pose for a photo at a press conference in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, in the small hours of Jan. 20, 2024, after JAXA's SLIM spacecraft landed on the Moon successfully, marking Japan's first lunar landing. (Kyodo)

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Japan probe lands on Moon

Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2024, shows a replica of the SLIM lunar lander on display at a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency facility in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. The spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon in the small hours of Jan. 20, marking Japan's first lunar landing.

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Japan probe lands on Moon

Photo taken on Jan. 19, 2024, shows a replica of the SLIM lunar lander on display at a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency facility in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. The spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon in the small hours of Jan. 20, marking Japan's first lunar landing.

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Japan probe lands on Moon

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency President Hiroshi Yamakawa (R) and other officials attend a press conference in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, in the small hours of Jan. 20, 2024, after JAXA's SLIM spacecraft landed on the Moon successfully, marking Japan's first lunar landing

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Japan probe lands on Moon

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency President Hiroshi Yamakawa (R) and other officials pose for a photo at a press conference in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, in the small hours of Jan. 20, 2024, after JAXA's SLIM spacecraft landed on the Moon successfully, marking Japan's first lunar landing.

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Japan probe lands on Moon

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency President Hiroshi Yamakawa (R) and other officials pose for a photo at a press conference in Sagamihara in Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, in the small hours of Jan. 20, 2024, after JAXA's SLIM spacecraft landed on the Moon successfully, marking Japan's first lunar landing.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - A large-scale disaster drill is held in Sagamihara in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa on Sept. 1, 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas, leaving an estimated 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) takes part in a large-scale disaster drill in Sagamihara in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa on Sept. 1, 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas. The disaster left an estimated 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (5th from R) attends a large-scale disaster drill in Sagamihara in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa on Sept. 1, 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas. The disaster left an estimated 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

A large-scale disaster drill is held in Sagamihara in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa on Sept. 1, 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas, leaving an estimated 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

A large-scale disaster drill is held in Sagamihara in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa on Sept. 1, 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas, leaving an estimated 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

A large-scale disaster drill is held in Sagamihara in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa on Sept. 1, 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas, leaving an estimated 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Japan marks centenary of Great Kanto Earthquake

A large-scale disaster drill is held in Sagamihara in the eastern Japan prefecture of Kanagawa on Sept. 1, 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas, leaving an estimated 105,000 people dead or missing.

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Japan astronaut applicants take final exam on mock lunar surface

A Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency official in a dust-proof suit walks on a mock lunar surface at a JAXA facility in Sagamihara near Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2023. Aspiring Japanese astronauts recently took their final exams on the mock lunar environment, with the successful candidates to be announced in February.

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Japan astronaut applicants take final exam on mock lunar surface

A Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency official in a dust-proof suit walks on a mock lunar surface at a JAXA facility in Sagamihara near Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2023. Aspiring Japanese astronauts recently took their final exams on the mock lunar environment, with the successful candidates to be announced in February.

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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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Optical lens for world's biggest telescope

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Glass craftsman Hiroyuki Minamikawa stands with an optical lens featuring zero thermal expansion in Sagamihara, southwest of Tokyo, on Dec. 17, 2014. The lens will be one of 492 pieces constituting the main mirror for the world's biggest telescope called "Thirty Meter Telescope" or TMT set for completion in 2022 on Hawaii Island.

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Ig Nobel winner makes commemorative speech on campus

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kiyoshi Mabuchi, professor of Japan's Kitasato University and winner of this year's Ig Nobel Prize for physics, speaks at the university's Sagamihara campus in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, on Nov. 1, 2014, about his work measuring the extent of friction created when someone steps on a banana skin.

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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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Gov't holds nationwide disaster drills

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) inspects a soup run during a disaster drill in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Sept. 1, 2014. The day is known in Japan as Disaster Prevention Day, after the huge 1923 earthquake hit the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo, killing over 100,000 people.

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Gov't holds nationwide disaster drills

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C front) practices using an Automated External Defibrillator during a disaster drill in Sagamihara, near Tokyo, on Sept. 1, 2014. The day is known in Japan as Disaster Prevention Day, after the huge 1923 earthquake hit the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo, killing over 100,000 people.

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JAXA reveals unmanned space probe Hayabusa 2

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 31, 2014, shows the unmanned space probe Hayabusa 2, which the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency showed to the press at its facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo. JAXA plans to launch Hayabusa 2 as soon as December.

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Japan shows new space probe to press ahead of launch

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency shows its space probe "Hayabusa 2" to the press in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on Aug. 31, 2014. JAXA plans to launch the probe as early as this December on a mission to retrieve organic material from an asteroid.

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Japan shows new space probe to press ahead of launch

TOKYO, Japan - The space probe "Hayabusa 2" is shown to the press by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, west of Tokyo, on Aug. 31, 2014, ahead of its launch expected as early as this December.

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New combat vehicle

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Japan's Defense Ministry shows reporters a prototype combat vehicle in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Oct. 9, 2013.

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Japan Women's Open

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Mika Miyazato (R) and Ai Miyazato embrace after holing out as the sisters were paired in the first round of the Japan Women's Open golf event at Sagamihara Golf Club in Kanagawa Prefecture on Oct. 3, 2013.

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GSDF counterterrorism unit

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Officials from Japan and the United States join hands during a ceremony marking the relocation of the headquarters of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's counterterrorism unit from Tokyo to the U.S. Army's Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, that began operations March 26, 2013.

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GSDF counterterrorism unit

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Photo shows the new headquarters of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's counterterrorism unit that began operations March 26, 2013, at the U.S. Army's Camp Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, completing its relocation from the capital.

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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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Noda in stump speech

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (C) shakes hands with voters after making a stump speech in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 24, 2012, ahead of the Dec. 16 general election.

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Noda in stump speech

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda makes a stump speech in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 24, 2012, ahead of the Dec. 16 general election.

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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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U.S. forces open medical drill to media

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - U.S. Army soldiers conduct a medical exercise at a field hospital set up at a depot in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, which was opened to the media, on Aug. 28, 2012.

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Ex-AUM member Kikuchi's hideout in Sagamihara

TOKYO, Japan - Journalists and onlookers on June 4, 2012 crowd the area surrounding a house (C) in which former AUM Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi had been hiding in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture. Kikuchi, who had been wanted for years for alleged involvement in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, was captured the day before in Sagamihara, southwest of Tokyo.

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Ex-AUM cult member Kikuchi arrested

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Police officers walk around a house in which former AUM Shinrikyo cult member Naoko Kikuchi had been hiding, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on June 4, 2012. Kikuchi, who had been wanted for years for alleged involvement in the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, was arrested the previous day in Tokyo after being captured in Sagamihara, southwest of Tokyo.

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Narita airport marks 800 millionth traveler

NARITA, Japan - Fuminori Ogiso (C) and his wife Yuki from Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, receive a commemorative gift from Narita International Airport Corp. President Kosaburo Morinaka (R) at the airport in Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 6, 2012. The couple, who were on their way to Germany for a sightseeing trip in Europe, took the total number of travelers to have used the airport since its opening on May 20, 1978, above the 800 million mark.

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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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New U.S. Army training facility

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Maj. Randall G. Baucom gives explanations as the U.S. Army showed to reporters its new training facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 8, 2011. The facility to conduct computer simulation drills on war and disasters will open Aug. 4.

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New U.S. Army training facility

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The U.S. Army shows to reporters its new training facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on July 8, 2011. The facility to conduct computer simulation drills on war and disasters will open Aug. 4.

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Akatsuki fails in Venus mission

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Masato Nakamura (front), a project manager at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks during a press conference at JAXA's Sagamihara Campus in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 8, 2010. He said Japanese space probe Akatsuki failed to enter orbit around Venus.

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Akatsuki fails in Venus mission

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Masato Nakamura (R), a project manager at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks during a press conference at JAXA's Sagamihara Campus in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 8, 2010. He said Japanese space probe Akatsuki failed to enter orbit around Venus.

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Venus probe Akatsuki

SAGAMIHARA, Japan - Personnel involved in Japan's planetary exploration mission with Venus probe Akatsuki stare at monitors at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Sagamihara Campus in Kanagawa Prefecture on Dec. 7, 2010, as communication with the probe was temporarily lost. Akatsuki was set to go into orbit around Venus on the same day. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)