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Japan: Typhoon Jangmi Lashes Okinawa and Amami Islands With Destructive Winds

Typhoon Jangmi brought heavy rain and damaging winds to Okinawa and Amami islands, southern Japan, as it approached Okinawa's main island on Monday, June 1. All flights to and from Naha Airport were cancelled, while public transport, schools, and businesses were also shut for the day.

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Japan: High Waves Pound Yoron Island Shore as Typhoon Jangmi Approaches

Typhoon Jangmi brought strong winds to Okinawa and Amami islands, southern Japan on Monday, June 1 as it approached the Okinawa main island.

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US: Palisades Fire Visible From Flights Near LAX As 30,000 Evacuate 4

Huge plumes of smoke were visible from flights arriving and departing from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as a wildfire rapidly spread through Pacific Palisades fueled by Santa Ana winds on Tuesday, January 7. The fire has scorched more than 2,900 acres, prompting the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents and causing several road closures. Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to provide additional support to the affected communities.

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US: Palisades Fire Smoke Visible From Flights Near LAX As 30,000 Evacuate 2

Huge plumes of smoke were visible from flights arriving and departing from Los Angeles International Airport as a wildfire rapidly spread through Pacific Palisades fueled by Santa Ana winds on Tuesday, January 7. The fire has scorched more than 2,900 acres, prompting the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents and causing several road closures. Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency to provide additional support to the affected communities.

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Memorial service for WWII female post office workers

SAPPORO, Japan - Chieko Kuriyama speaks in front of the photos of her nine former colleagues at a post office in Maoka (currently Kholmsk in Sakhalin, Russia) during a memorial service held for them in Wakkanai on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Aug. 8, 2014. Working as telephone exchange operators, the nine young Japanese women committed suicide by taking poison on the same date in 1945 when Russian forces invaded the town. (Photo by Daisuke Suzuki)

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Demand for Japan's dental technology growing in Russia

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - A Russian dentist treats a patient at his clinic in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on the Far Eastern island of Sakhalin as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 18, 2014, amid growing local demand for Japan's advanced dental technology.

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Russia opens new airport on Japan-claimed Etorofu

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Sakhalin Gov. Alexander Horoshavin (far R) cuts the ribbon at a ceremony to open a new airport on Etorofu Island -- one of four Russian-held, Japanese-claimed islands off Hokkaido -- on Sept. 22, 2014.

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Memorial remembers suicides of 9 women before Soviet invasion

WAKKANAI, Japan - A memorial service is held in Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 20, 2014, for nine female postal office workers who killed themselves on the same day in 1945 in a town in the southern half of the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin, then controlled by Japan, in the face of an invasion by Soviet troops during the closing days of World War II. The town, then known as Maoka, is called Kholmsk today.

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Chorus remembers suicides of 9 women before Soviet invasion

WAKKANAI, Japan - Women sing in chorus at a memorial service held in Wakkanai in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 20, 2014, for nine female postal office workers who killed themselves on the same day in 1945 in a town in the southern half of the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin, then controlled by Japan, in the face of an invasion by Soviet troops during the closing days of World War II. The town, then known as Maoka, is called Kholmsk today.

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Wooden model for Taiho's statue

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows sculptor Toshio Kamada unveiling a wooden model he has carved for a statue of the late sumo great Taiho (1940-2013), whose real name was Koki Naya, in the village of Ogata in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 22, 2014. After being cast by Kamada, the bronze statue of Taiho, who held sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is expected to be donated around August 2014 to Poronaysk on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, Taiho's birthplace.

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Wooden model for Taiho's statue

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows sculptor Toshio Kamada unveiling a wooden model he has carved for a statue of the late sumo great Taiho (1940-2013), whose real name was Koki Naya, in the village of Ogata in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 22, 2014. After being cast by Kamada, the bronze statue of Taiho, who held sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is expected to be donated around August 2014 to Poronaysk on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, Taiho's birthplace.

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Japanese restaurant owner in Russia spreads friendship

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo taken Aug. 7, 2013 shows Yutaka Miyanishi, honorary citizen of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, who worked for the lighting-up of the Sakhalin Regional Museum in the Far Eastern city, formerly known as the Karafuto-cho (Karafuto Government Office) Museum, which the Japanese government built in 1937 when it controlled the south part of Sakhalin island.

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U.S. firm to build wind power plant on Kunashiri

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Photo taken in February 2013 shows the headquarters of Sakhalin Machinery LLC in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. The company, owned by Tiger Machinery LLC based in the U.S. state of Alabama, won an order to build a wind power generation plant on Kunashiri Island, a senior Sakhalin Province official said on March 29, 2013. Kunashiri is one of four-Russian held islands claimed by Japan.

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former Karafuto Prefecture museum, now a Sakhalin state local history museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II by the Japanese prefectural government. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945.

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Sakhalin restores Japanese cultural assets to attract tourists

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Photo shows the former branch of now-defunct Japanese bank Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, now a Sakhalin state museum, in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia, which was built before World War II. The provincial government of Sakhalin is restoring with the help of Japanese experts buildings and other cultural assets the Japanese left behind after the war with a view to attracting Japanese tourists to the southern region of the island north of Hokkaido which was ruled by Japan between 1905 and 1945.

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Japan, Russia to cooperate to save endangered eagles

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows an endangered Steller's sea eagle flying over drift ice off the town of Rausu on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido. The Russian Natural Resources Ministry announced Feb. 26 that experts from Japan and Russia will cooperate to carry out a conservation project to artificially breed the eagles in a zoo in Sapporo, Hokkaido, and release them in Russia's Sakhalin Province, where the birds breed. The bird is said to be the world's heaviest eagle.

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Support rate for Aso Cabinet hits new low

PRIGORODNOYE, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taso Aso delivers a speech during a ceremony to start production of liquefied natural gas at a plant in Prigorodnoye, southern Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. Public discontent with the already shaky Aso's Cabinet has grown after the resignation of his finance minister with the support rate for Aso's Cabinet down to 13.4 percent in a Kyodo News survey.

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso shake hands in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18 prior to their talks. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) sit down for talks in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso arrives in Russia to meet with Medvedev

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso arrives in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Feb. 18 for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Aso is the first Japanese premier in the postwar period to set foot on the island. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Aso arrives in Russia to meet with Medvedev

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso waves as he leaves Tokyo's Haneda airport on Feb. 18 for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sakhalin Island.

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Russia vows completion of Sakhalin-2 project

TOKYO, Japan - Russian Ambassador to Japan Alexander Losyukov briefs reporters at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 20 on Russia's decision to put on hold an international oil and gas development project off Sakhalin island.

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Man who returned to Japan from Russia after 67 years leaves for home

SAPPORO, Japan - Yoshiteru Nakagawa, 79, a Japanese man who remained on Sakhalin Island after World War II and returned to Japan on July 2 for the first time in 67 years, gives a banzai as he leaves New Chitose airport for his current home in Russia's southern republic of Kamlykiya on July 16.

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Sakhalin 2 project operator confident of profitability

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Ian Craig, president of Sakhalin Energy Investment Co., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yushno-Sakhalinsk on Oct. 21. He indicated the firm is confident of securing profitability in connection with its Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas development project off the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East.

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(2)Sakhalin oil, gas project seen threatening sea eagles

NOGLIKI, Russia - Photo shows a fledgling sea eagle which was found in Nogliki on the island of Sakahlin by a joint team of academics from Moscow University and Japan's Wildlife Preservation Bureau of Hokkaido, a nonprofit organization.

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(1)Sakhalin oil, gas project seen threatening sea eagles

NOGLIKI, Russia - Researchers from Moscow University and Japan's Wildlife Preservation Bureau of Hokkaido, a nonprofit organization, check the health condition of a fledgling sea eagle in Nogliki in the northeastern part of the island of Sakhalin in late July.

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Kasyanov calls for Japanese investment in Eastern Siberia

KYOTO, Japan - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, addressing a business luncheon in Kyoto on Dec. 17, urges Japan and other countries to invest in natural resources projects in Eastern Siberia. Kasyanov praised Japanese investment in Sakhalin for leading to successful energy projects on the Russian Far East island.

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Sakhalin 2 project operator confident of profitability

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Ian Craig, president of Sakhalin Energy Investment Co., speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yushno-Sakhalinsk on Oct. 21. He indicated the firm is confident of securing profitability in connection with its Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas development project off the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East. (Kyodo)

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Japanese envoy conveys regrets over canceling of Sakhalin-2 proj

MOSCOW, Russia - Photo shows a drilling rig of Sakhalin-2 international oil and gas development project located off Russia's Sakhalin island. Japanese Ambassador to Russia Yasuo Saito met with Russian Natural Resources Minister Yurii Trutnev on Sept. 18 to convey Japan's regret over his ministry's decision to revoke government approval of the project. (Kyodo)

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Russia vows completion of Sakhalin-2 project

TOKYO, Japan - Russian Ambassador to Japan Alexander Losyukov briefs reporters at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 20 on Russia's decision to put on hold an international oil and gas development project off Sakhalin island. (Kyodo)

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Aso arrives in Russia to meet with Medvedev

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso arrives in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island on Feb. 18 for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Aso is the first Japanese premier in the postwar period to set foot on the island. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso shake hands in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18 prior to their talks. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Aso arrives in Russia to meet with Medvedev

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso waves as he leaves Tokyo's Haneda airport on Feb. 18 for talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Sakhalin Island. (Kyodo)

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Support rate for Aso Cabinet hits new low

PRIGORODNOYE, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taso Aso delivers a speech during a ceremony to start production of liquefied natural gas at a plant in Prigorodnoye, southern Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. Public discontent with the already shaky Aso's Cabinet has grown after the resignation of his finance minister with the support rate for Aso's Cabinet down to 13.4 percent in a Kyodo News survey. (Kyodo)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) sit down for talks in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Aso, Medvedev hold summit talks in Sakhalin

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, Russia - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (L) speaks to reporters after talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the capital of Sakhalin Island, on Feb. 18. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Sakhalin's Koreans angry over delay in cultural center

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia - Park Hae Yong, president of the pro-Seoul Korean Residents' Association on Sakhalin, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhlin. Park spoke of the anger among his patriots in Sakhalin over what they see as Japan's failure to keep its promise to build a cultural center for the ethnic Koreans stranded on the Russian-ruled island as a result of Japan's past colonial policy.

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Sea lions on Hokkaido uninhabited isle

WAKKANAI, Japan Kyodo - Photo shows sea lions on Benten Island off Soya Cape in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 24, 2020. The marine mammals have appeared around the uninhabited isle from November to June in recent years from near Sakhalin, with thousands of them seen at peak times in spring in search of food.

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Remains of Japanese soldiers cremated

Remains believed to be of 31 Japanese soldiers recovered in the Kuril Islands and the island of Sakhalin are cremated in Smirnykh, Russia, on Nov. 9, 2015. The Japanese side will receive the ashes from Russia on Nov. 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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North Japan city eyes joint ferry link to Russia with private sector

Hiroshi Kudo, mayor of Wakkanai in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido, briefs the municipal assembly on Oct. 1, 2015, on a plan for a joint venture with the private sector to operate a regular ferry service between the city and Korsakov on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin. The city aims to resume next June the deficit-running service that its operator ended in September. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WWII survivor keeps wartime memory alive with ink drawings

Kazuo Inamura explains his "sumie" black-ink drawing of a girl in Sapporo in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido on Aug. 14, 2015. The girl died along with about 1,700 others when Soviet submarines attacked three ships carrying Japanese evacuees from the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin on Aug. 22, 1945. Inamura survived the tragedy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suicides of Japanese women after WWII surrender remembered

Women recite a poem at a memorial service in Wakkanai, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Aug. 20, 2015, for nine female telephone operators at a Japanese post office in Maoka, now Kholmsk, on the southern portion of the island of Sakhalin, who committed suicide on Aug. 20, 1945, during a Soviet attack in the area after Japan's surrender in World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Suicides of Japanese women after WWII surrender remembered

Chieko Kuriyama puts her palms together on Aug. 20, 2015, in front of a cenotaph in Wakkanai, Hokkaido, northern Japan, dedicated to nine female telephone operators at a Japanese post office in Maoka, now Kholmsk, on the southern portion of the island of Sakhalin, who committed suicide on Aug. 20, 1945, during a Soviet attack in the area after Japan's surrender in World War II. Kuriyama was a coworker of the nine. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Seminar on cross-border tourism held in Sapporo, northern Japan

Panelists discuss cross-border tourism between Wakkanai, a city on the northern tip of Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, and Sakhalin in the Russian Far East as well as its role to revitalize local economies during a seminar in the Hokkaido capital of Sapporo on July 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Univ. professor speaks on tourism between north Japan, Russia

Akihiro Iwashita, a professor at Hokkaido University, speaks about the purpose of cross-border tourism between Wakkanai, a city on the northern tip of Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido, and Sakhalin in the Russian Far East during a seminar held in the Hokkaido capital of Sapporo on July 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Russian Railways chief interested in Sakhalin-Hokkaido railroad

Vladimir Yakunin, president of state-owned Russian Railways, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 6, 2015. He said connecting Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East and Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido via railroad is technically possible. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sea lions on Hokkaido uninhabited isle

Photo shows sea lions on Benten Island off Soya Cape in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 24, 2020. The marine mammals have appeared around the uninhabited isle from November to June in recent years from near Sakhalin, with thousands of them seen at peak times in spring in search of food.