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Main opposition party head visits disaster-hit Wajima city

Yoshihiko Noda, the new leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, meets the press during a visit on Oct. 5, 2024, to Wajima, a central Japan city ravaged by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day and partially inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September.

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Main opposition party head visits disaster-hit Wajima city

Yoshihiko Noda (front, 2nd from R), the new leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, visits on Oct. 5, 2024, Wajima, a central Japan city ravaged by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day and partially inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September.

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Main opposition party head visits disaster-hit Wajima city

Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R), the new leader of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, visits on Oct. 5, 2024, Wajima, a central Japan city ravaged by a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day and partially inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September.

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (3rd from R) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, a school used as an evacuation center in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, after part of the central Japan city was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (3rd from R) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, a school used as an evacuation center in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, after part of the central Japan city was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, temporary housing for people displaced in a strong earthquake on New Year's Day in Suzu in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa, after it was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, temporary housing for people displaced in a strong earthquake on New Year's Day in Suzu in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa, after it was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from L) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, temporary housing for people displaced in a strong earthquake on New Year's Day in Suzu in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa, after it was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from L) bows on Oct. 5, 2024, during a visit to the site of a mudslide in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, after part of the central Japan city was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from L) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, the site of a mudslide in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, after part of the central Japan city was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, temporary housing for people displaced in a strong earthquake on New Year's Day in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa, after it was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, temporary housing for people displaced in a strong earthquake on New Year's Day in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa, after it was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (back, 2nd from L) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, temporary housing for people displaced in a strong earthquake on New Year's Day in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa, after it was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (far L) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, temporary housing for people displaced in a strong earthquake on New Year's Day in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa, after it was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, an elementary school used as an evacuation center in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, after part of the central Japan city was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, an elementary school used as an evacuation center in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, after part of the central Japan city was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, an elementary school used as an evacuation center in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, after part of the central Japan city was inundated following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) bows on Oct. 5, 2024, during a visit to the site of flooding in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa that swept away residential houses following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (front, C) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, the site of a flood in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa that swept away residential houses following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, the site of a flood in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa that swept away residential houses following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM visits flood-hit central Japan city

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) visits on Oct. 5, 2024, the site of a flood in Wajima in the central Japan prefecture of Ishikawa that swept away residential houses following record-breaking rainfall in September. (Pool photo)

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Fully remodeled Honda N-BOX minicar

Photo taken in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, shows Honda Motor Co.'s fully remodeled N-BOX minivehicle. N-BOX topped the list of best-selling new cars in Japan in the April-September first half of fiscal 2023, with the new model set to be launched on Oct. 6.

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Former volleyball coach Matsudaira dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japan men's national volleyball team head coach Yasutaka Matsudaira being tossed into the air by members of his team after winning the gold medal at the Munich Olympics in September 1972. The Japan Volleyball Association said Jan. 5, 2012, that Matsudaira died from a lung condition at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 31, 2011. He was 81.

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LDP passes rule change that could see Abe remain PM until 2021

TOKYO, Japan, March 5 Kyodo - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the Liberal Democratic Party's annual convention in Tokyo on March 5, 2017. The ruling party decided to extend its term limit for party leaders, potentially allowing Abe to remain LDP president until September 2021.

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Renho to run in Democratic Party leadership race

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 5 Kyodo - Renho, acting leader of the Democratic Party, says in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2016, that she will run in the main opposition party's leadership election in September. The 48-year-old former TV newscaster also underscored that she will protect Japan's war-renouncing Constitution.

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Engine of restored WWII Zero fighter shown to media

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The engine of a Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter is shown to the media in Ayase west of Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2014, following the return of the restored decades-old aircraft to Japan from the United States in September. The legendary fighter was a symbol of Japan's aeronautical engineering might during World War II.

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Main wings, other parts of restored WWII Zero fighter

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Main wings and other parts of a Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter are shown to the press in Ayase west of Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2014, following the return of the restored decades-old aircraft to Japan from the United States in September. The legendary fighter was a symbol of Japan's aeronautical engineering might during World War II.

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Restored WWII Zero fighter returns to Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Parts of a Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter are shown to the media in Ayase west of Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2014, following the return of the restored decades-old aircraft to Japan from the United States in September. The legendary fighter was a symbol of Japan's aeronautical engineering might during World War II.

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Tomita says unknown man placed camera in his bag

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Japanese swimmer Naoya Tomita, who was summarily indicted for allegedly stealing a camera at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, in September 2014. The 25-year-old Tomita told Kyodo News on Nov. 5, 2014, that someone else placed the camera in his bag at the Asian Games swimming venue and that he is looking into filing an appeal in South Korea.

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USJ man credited with bringing Harry Potter attraction

OSAKA, Japan - Tsuyoshi Morioka, an executive officer at USJ Co., speaks of his tough job of bringing the Harry Potter attraction to Universal Studio Japan in Osaka, western Japan, in this photo taken on Sept. 5, 2014. The number of visitors to the theme park set a record monthly high for the second straight month in September after the new attraction opened in mid-July.

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Diplomat Kitera

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Masato Kitera, a Japanese career diplomat acting as assistant chief Cabinet secretary. Sources said on Oct. 5, 2012, that the government began making arrangements to select Kitera as Japan's new ambassador to China, following the sudden death of recently appointed envoy Shinichi Nishimiya in September.

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ANA unit urged to devise steps following belly-up incident

TOKYO, Japan - Futoshi Osada (far L), director general of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Civil Aviation Bureau, gives a written directive to Koichi Uchizono (2nd from L), president of Air Nippon Co., a unit of All Nippon Airways Co., at the ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2011. The ministry ordered the company to take steps to prevent a recurrence of an in-flight operational error that caused one of its aircraft to briefly fly almost belly up when traveling from Okinawa to Tokyo in September.

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Japan-America Society of New Hampshire

PORTSMOUTH, United States - Japanese Consul General in Boston Takeshi Hikihara (L) notifies Charles Doleac, president of the Japan-America Society of New Hampshire, that he will receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, from the Japanese government in recognition of his contributions to promoting friendship between Japan and the United States, during a ceremony held Sept. 5, 2011 at a hotel in suburban Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed near Portsmouth in September 1905, ending the Japan-Russo war.

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B-787 'Dreamliner' in Osaka

ITAMI, Japan - A state-of-the-art Boeing 787 ''Dreamliner'' takes off from Osaka airport in western Japan on July 5, 2011. The airplane will be put into service by All Nippon Airways Co. as early as September.

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Toyota returns to black in April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Satoshi Ozawa is surrounded by reporters after a press conference in Tokyo announcing the company's financial results for the April-September first half of fiscal 2010 on Nov. 5, 2010. Toyota returned to the black in the period as robust global sales more than offset the impact of the strong yen.

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Toyota returns to black in April-Sept., raises profit outlook

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Satoshi Ozawa speaks during a press conference in Tokyo to announce the company's financial results for the April-September first half of fiscal 2010 on Nov. 5, 2010. Toyota returned to the black in the period as robust global sales more than offset the impact of the strong yen.

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Toyota returns to black in April-Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. Executive Vice President Satoshi Ozawa is surrounded by reporters after a press conference in Tokyo announcing the company's financial results for the April-September first half of fiscal 2010 on Nov. 5, 2010. Toyota returned to the black in the period as robust global sales more than offset the impact of the strong yen.

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World Bank hopes Japan will play bigger role in aid to poor countries

TOKYO, Japan - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a World Bank managing director, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo's Yurakucho on Nov. 5, 2009. The former Nigerian finance minister headed a high-level mission of the World Bank group to Japan to meet officials of the new government, launched in mid-September.

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Toyota posts 2nd qtr profit, trims annual loss outlook on cost cuts

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp.'s Executive Vice President Yoichiro Ichimaru speaks during a news conference at its headquarters in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2009, announcing that the auto company returned to the black in the July to September quarter for the first time in four quarters.

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Toyota posts 2nd qtr profit, trims annual loss outlook on cost cuts

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp.'s Executive Vice President Yoichiro Ichimaru speaks during a news conference at its headquarters in Tokyo on Nov. 5, 2009, announcing that the auto company returned to the black in the July to September quarter for the first time in four quarters.

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The Tokyo Game Show '97 Autum opened

The Tokyo Game Show '97 Autum opened on September 5, 1997 with nearly 500 titles on display at Makuhari Messe, an exhibition center in Chiba, near Tokyo. By hardware, more than 200 titles are on display for SONY Corp.'s PlayStation, while Sega Enterprises Ltd.'s Sega Saturn has drawn more than 100 titles. About 20 titles are presented for Nintendo Co.'s NINTENDO 64, a more advanced game console that hit the market recently than PlayStation and Sega Saturn.

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50th anniv. of 1972 Munich Olympics attacks

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach makes a speech at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics attacks on Israeli athletes and team members on the outskirts of Munich, Germany, on Sept. 5, 2022. Members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage on Sept. 5, 1972 at the athletes' village by Palestinians from the Black September group. Rescue efforts developed into gunfire that led to the death of 11 Israelis.