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Japan upper house election campaign

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, makes a stump speech in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on July 19, 2025, a day before the House of Councillors election.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A person watches the sunrise at a beach in the Arahama area in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on the morning of March 11, 2025, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

A person walks at a beach in the Arahama area in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on the early morning of March 11, 2025, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People offer prayers at a beach in the Arahama area in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on the morning of March 11, 2025, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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14th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

People offer prayers at a beach in the Arahama area in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on the morning of March 11, 2025, the 14th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

People of Fukushima Prefecture's Waraji festival group parade through a street carrying a gigantic waraji straw sandal during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai

A colorful paper lantern float from Aomori Prefecture's Nebuta summer festival is paraded through a street during the Tohoku Kizuna Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 9, 2024. The event features parades involving six northeastern Japan prefectures, with the aim of revitalizing the region following the 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Baseball: Japan's Matsui to test MLB free agent market

Yuki Matsui, a Japanese left-handed pitcher at the Rakuten Eagles pro baseball team who aims to sign with a major league club as a free agent this offseason, speaks at a press conference in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Nov. 8, 2023.

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Baseball: Japan's Matsui to test MLB free agent market

Yuki Matsui, a Japanese left-handed pitcher at the Rakuten Eagles pro baseball team who aims to sign with a major league club as a free agent this offseason, speaks at a press conference in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Nov. 8, 2023.

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CORRECTED: BOJ Gov. Kuroda and next governor nominee Ueda

Incumbent Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda (L) and Kazuo Ueda (R) attend a symposium on May 20, 2016, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Ueda, former BOJ Policy Board member, is being eyed as the central bank's next governor, a source familiar with the matter said Feb. 10, 2023.

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Foster home children write Xmas, New Year cards for inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Christmas and New Year cards for inmates sent to "Mother House," a nonprofit organization to support convicts and those released from prisons, from children at a foster home in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, is shown at the NPO in Tokyo in 2014. (Photo by Toshihiro Ariyoshi)

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Kindergarten OKs 60 mil. yen in damages over tsunami deaths

SENDAI, Japan - The relatives of four kindergarteners who died in a pickup bus that was swamped by high waves in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, in March 2011, attend a press conference in Sendai in the prefecture on Dec. 3, 2014, holding the photos of the children, after a settlement at the Sendai High Court. The privately run Hiyori kindergarten admitted it did not take sufficient measures to deal with a tsunami, agreeing to pay 60 million yen in damages and offer an apology over their deaths.

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Art museum for local painter opens in northwest Japan

SENDAI, Japan - A newly completed art museum remodeled from an old community center opens in Kamaishi, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2014, to exhibit drawings by the late local painter Jun Sugimura who mainly painted landscapes in the northeastern Japan city.

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Kakefu hits single from Egawa in Giants-Tigers old timers' game

SENDAI, Japan - Former Hanshin Tigers slugger Masayuki Kakefu hits a single from his old nemesis former Yomiuri Giants ace Suguru Egawa during an old timers' game between the popular Japanese professional baseball clubs at Kobo Stadium Miyagi in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 16, 2014.

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Osprey arrives to participate in disaster drill

SENDAI, Japan - A U.S. MV-22 Osprey tilt-motor aircraft arrives at the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Kasuminome Station in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 7, 2014, to participate in a local earthquake-tsunami disaster drill.

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School band plays at concert for post-quake recovery

SENDAI, Japan - A brass band of Miyagi Technical High School performs jointly with a jazz band, led by Japanese musician Kenichi Tsunoda, during an international concert in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 1, 2014, the first day of a nine-day music event to support reconstruction from the 2011 disaster that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

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Exhibition on 2011 quake memories through survivors' meals

SENDAI, Japan - A woman looks at a photo at an exhibition on survivors' meals in the immediate aftermath of the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 28, 2014. Visitors can write about their own experiences or other comments on sticky notes and post them beneath the photo exhibits.

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Tohoku region eyes smartphone app to boost tourism

SENDAI, Japan - The first meeting by entities concerned toward developing "Guide Tohoku," a smartphone application that will provide tourist information on the Tohoku region and archives on the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, is held in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2014. Six northeastern Japan prefectures and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Tohoku Regional Bureau announced the plan the same day.

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Newly built patrol boat 'Matsushima' displayed to press

SENDAI, Japan - The Miyagi office of the Japan Coast Guard displays to the press the newly built patrol vessel "Matsushima" with enhanced disaster-response equipment at the Port of Sendai-Shiogama in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 24, 2014.

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'Matchbox Magazine' wins Tohoku souvenir award

SENDAI, Japan - A set of travel brochures squeezed into matchboxes, dubbed "Matchbox Magazine," is given the top prize in the lifestyle segment of a contest to find new attractive souvenirs in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku held in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Oct. 21, 2014.

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Iwate snacks picked as one of best new souvenirs from Tohoku

SENDAI, Japan - Snacks from Iwate Prefecture under the brand "Iwate no oishisa pecco" win the top prize for the food category of a contest to pick new souvenirs representing the Tohoku region in northeastern Japan on Oct. 21, 2014, held in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

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Rakuten Eagles unveils new manager Okubo

SENDAI, Japan - Hiromoto Okubo (L), the new manager of the Japanese professional baseball team Tohoku Rakugen Golden Eagles, speaks at a press conference in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Oct. 14, 2014, as the club's president Yozo Tachibana looks on.

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Kesennuma city before and after 2011 disaster

SENDAI, Japan - An aerial view of Kesennuma (above), Miyagi Prefecture, photographed from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 12, 2011, the day after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan, marks a sharp contrast with another photo of the same place (below) taken on Sept. 1, 2014, following the readjustment of tsunami-erased land lots in the area.

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Coastal breakwater rebuilding in progress in north Japan

SENDAI, Japan - The severed coastal breakwater (L) in the town of Yamamoto, Miyagi Prefecture, is seen from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 19, 2011, eight days after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region. Rebuilding of the breakwater in the same area (R) is in progress on Sept. 3, 2014.

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2011 disaster: farmland then and now

SENDAI, Japan - Farmland devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami still appeared unfertile a year and a half later, as shown in the photo (top) taken in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2012. Most of the same farmland now is planted with crops, as shown in the photo (bottom) taken on Sept. 1, 2014.

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Temporary housing in Sendai

SENDAI, Japan - Lights remain off on the night of Aug. 5, 2014, at a temporary housing facility in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. An increasing number of residents who had taken shelter at the facility since the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster have moved out, while some 90,000 people still live in the prefabricated temporary housing in the prefectures of Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima.

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Miyagi Pref. to accept assessment for radioactive waste site

SENDAI, Japan - A meeting of local municipal leaders in Miyagi Prefecture is held on Aug. 4, 2014, in Sendai. Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai announced the same day his decision to accept an assessment by the government to narrow down the list of candidate sites for a final disposal facility for radioactive waste generated by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Keidanren to request extending support for Tohoku

SENDAI, Japan - Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation), speaks at a press conference in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on July 9, 2014. Sakakibara said he will urge the government to extend the 5-year intensive reconstruction period for damage caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, after a meeting with business leaders in the Tohoku region.

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Decorations for Sendai Tanabata Festival

SENDAI, Japan - A woman makes decorative paper banners for the Sendai Tanabata Festival in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 4, 2014.

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Preparations for Sendai Tanabata Festival

SENDAI, Japan - Making of decorative paper banners for the Sendai Tanabata festival is under way in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 4, 2014.

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Miyagi Pref., Tokyo Olympics organizer ink cooperation pact

SENDAI, Japan - Governor Yoshihiro Murai (L) of Miyagi Prefecture and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, chairman of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, hold a joint statement on cooperation after signing it at the former's office in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on June 16, 2014.

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Woman weeps before monument for March 2011 victims

SENDAI, Japan - A woman weeps before a monument listing the names of people killed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster at a park in Iwanuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 10, 2014.

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Symposium to support disabled people in disasters

SENDAI, Japan - A symposium is held in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 22, 2014, to study how to support persons with disabilities in times of major disasters.

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Mascot Onokun mingles with fans in Higashi-matsushima

SENDAI, Japan - The mascot Onokun mingles with his ardent fans in Higashi-matsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on April 20, 2014, commemorating the two-year anniversary of the birth of the character for craftwork in the form of a monkey made in the hope of the recovery of the 2011 disaster-hit city.

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Model of Onagawa Station designed by Pritzker winner Ban

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken on March 25, 2014 shows a model of East Japan Railway Co.'s new Onagawa Station in Onagawa Town, Miyagi Prefecture, designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The northeastern Japan town was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Guardian deity carved out of tsunami-hit cherry trees

SENDAI, Japan - A 60-centimeter-tall Jizo, a guardian deity of children, made of wood from two cherry trees that temporarily survived the March 2011 massive tsunami in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, is pictured on March 12, 2014. A consecration ceremony was held in the town the same day.

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3 years after Japan quake-tsunami

KURASHIKI, Japan - Players of the Rakuten Eagles offer a moment of silence before practice in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, on March 11, 2014, the third anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. The professional baseball team is based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, a northeastern Japanese city hit hard by the disaster.

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show an area of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 25, 2011 (top), two weeks after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show the Yuriage area of Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (L), a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 4, 2014 (R).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from a Kyodo News helicopter show the Shizugawa area of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 1, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show the Arahama area of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on March 4, 2014 (bottom).

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3 years after quake-tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Photos taken from Kyodo News helicopter show an area of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 12, 2011 (top), a day after the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and on Feb. 28, 2014 (bottom).

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Remains of disaster-hit residential area in Sendai, Japan

SENDAI, Japan - The remains of a residential area in the Arahama district in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, where about 720 homes were washed away in the March 2011 tsunami, are pictured on Feb. 23, 2014. Sendai municipal authorities are planning to preserve part of the area as a reminder of the disaster (Photo taken with fisheye lens).

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Tohoku governors meet for symposium to fuel regional tourism

SENDAI, Japan - The governors of six prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku and other officials concerned gather in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, for a symposium designed to promote regional tourism.

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Sendai rink in focus as gold medalist Hanyu's former training base

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 14, 2014, shows Ice Rink Sendai in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, a former training base of Yuzuru Hanyu, the gold medalist in the men's figure skating competition at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia.

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Hanyu's authgraphs, messages on display at Sendai rink

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 14, 2014, shows Sochi Olympics figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu's autographs and messages on a bulletin board calling for support for post-disaster reconstruction work at Ice Rink Sendai, a former training base for Hanyu in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Miyagi was one of the three prefectures in northeastern Japan ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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1,000 banners project to promote Sanriku oysters

SENDAI, Japan - A banner is set up in front of a restaurant in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 27, 2014, to promote oysters from the Sanriku region in northeastern Japan. Oyster farmers in Miyagi Prefecture are distributing banners to restaurants and shops for free as part of "Sanriku oyster 1,000 banners project" to promote Sanriku oysters, since shipments of the local specialty have yet to recover to levels prior to the 2011 disaster.

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Mogul skier Endo vows to win medal at Sochi Olympics

SENDAI, Japan - Japanese freestyle mogul skier Sho Endo makes a speech at a send-off ceremony in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2014, vowing to do his best to bring back a medal from the Sochi Olympic Games in February. It will be his second Winter Games medal bid.

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U.S. college students pray for American victim

SENDAI, Japan - A group of students from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia visit the municipal Inai Junior High School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2014, after praying in the city for Taylor Anderson, a graduate of the college who was killed in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami while working as an English teacher in Ishinomaki. A foundation set up in memory of Anderson has donated books to the junior high school.

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U.S. college students pray for American victim

SENDAI, Japan - A group of students from Randolph-Macon College in Virginia offer prayers for Taylor Anderson, a graduate of the college, in the area where her body was found in the wake of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2014. Anderson was killed in the disaster while working as an English teacher in Ishinomaki.