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Japan: Intense Rain Hits Evening Rush Hour In Tokyo, Trains Suspended 8

Heavy rainfall hit the Tokyo metropolitan area on Wednesday, August 21 disrupting some train services during evening rush hour. Videos posted on social media shows water falling from ceilings like a waterfall inside stations and streets flooded like a river across the city.

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Mayor remains opposed to radioactive waste disposal plan

KAMI, Japan - Mayor Hirobumi Inomata (L) of Kami, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, confers with Senior Vice Environment Minister Shinji Inoue at the town hall on Aug. 20, 2014, over a plan to bury radioactive waste from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at a Kami site for permanent disposal. In the prefecture, Kami remains opposed to the plan but two other places selected as candidate sites for lasting disposal have agreed to accept the plan in principle.

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Mayor conveys objection against radioactive disposal plan

SENDAI, Japan - Hirobumi Inomata (L), mayor of Kami in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, presents a collection of signatures by local residents opposing the possible selection of the town as a final disposal site for radioactive waste from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to senior vice environment minister Shinji Inoue in Tokyo on July 16, 2014.

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Candidate radioactive waste disposal site in Miyagi Pref.

SENDAI, Japan - Senior Vice Environment Minister Shinji Inoue (3rd from L, front row) listens to Kami Mayor Hirofumi Inomata (R) at a candidate site for the final disposal of radioactive waste in Kami Town, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 16, 2014.

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IAEA annual general conference

A video message by Japan's science and technology minister Shinji Inoue is played during the International Atomic Energy Agency's annual general conference on Sept. 20, 2021, in Vienna, Austria.

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Chiba negative about building waste disposal facility

Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai (L) and Senior Vice Environment Minister Shinji Inoue discuss at the city office on Dec. 14, 2015, the issue of building a facility for radiation-tainted waste resulting from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Kumagai said the municipal government will not accept the state's field survey for the construction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Countdown event toward Tokyo Olympics held in Tokyo

Nobuharu Asahara (L), a bronze medalist in the men's 4 x 100 meters relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, speaks to reporters ahead of the "5 Years to Go" countdown event toward the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games at a Tokyo park on July 24, 2015. Also in attendance are other former or active track and field athletes (from 2nd L to R) -- Satoru Inoue, Hitoshi Saito, Shinji Takahira, and Hiroyasu Tsuchie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't seeks support for plan to build radioactive waste disposal site

Environment state minister Shinji Inoue (2nd from R, front row) seeks support from assembly members in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, for the central government's plan to build a disposal site in the northeastern Japanese town for radioactive-contaminated waste during a meeting in Koriyama on Nov. 24, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gov't to delay surveys to pick radioactive waste disposal site

Environment state minister Shinji Inoue (L) informs Miyagi Gov. Yoshihiro Murai during talks at the Miyagi prefectural government office on Nov. 19, 2015, that the central government will abandon planned year-end onsite surveys at three candidate locations in the northeastern Japanese prefecture for disposing of radioactively contaminated waste from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster due to fierce local opposition and anticipated snowfall once winter sets in. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mayor remains opposed to radioactive waste disposal plan

KAMI, Japan - Mayor Hirobumi Inomata (L) of Kami, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, confers with Senior Vice Environment Minister Shinji Inoue at the town hall on Aug. 20, 2014, over a plan to bury radioactive waste from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant at a Kami site for permanent disposal. In the prefecture, Kami remains opposed to the plan but two other places selected as candidate sites for lasting disposal have agreed to accept the plan in principle. (Kyodo)

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Mayor conveys objection against radioactive disposal plan

SENDAI, Japan - Hirobumi Inomata (L), mayor of Kami in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, presents a collection of signatures by local residents opposing the possible selection of the town as a final disposal site for radioactive waste from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to senior vice environment minister Shinji Inoue in Tokyo on July 16, 2014. (Kyodo)

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World Expo in Osaka

Shinji Inoue (2nd from L), Japanese minister in charge of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, poses with the international expositions flag in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2020. The Paris-based Bureau of International Expositions formally approved plans for the 2025 World Exposition in its online general assembly the same day.

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World Expo in Osaka

Shinji Inoue, Japanese minister in charge of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, makes a speech during an online general assembly of the Bureau of International Expositions on Dec, 1, 2020. The Paris-based world exposition body formally approved plans for the 2025 event the same day.

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50th anniversary of 1970 expo in Osaka

Shinji Inoue, Japanese minister for the 2025 World Exposition, speaks at the Expo 1970 Commemorative Park in Suita in Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 10, 2020, during a ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of the event. Osaka will host World Expo 2025.

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World Expo minister Inoue

Shinji Inoue, Japanese minister for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2020.

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World Expo minister Inoue

Shinji Inoue, Japanese minister for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2020.

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World Expo minister Inoue

Shinji Inoue, Japanese minister for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2020.

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New Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Shinji Inoue, minister for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo in the small hours of Sept. 17, 2020, after the launch of new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's Cabinet.

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Members of Japan PM Suga's Cabinet

Combined file photo shows (from L) Japanese Olympic and Paralympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto, who is also in charge of women's empowerment and gender equality, Shinji Inoue, minister for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka and in charge of consumer administration, and Takuya Hirai, minister in charge of digital reform, social security and tax number system. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga formed his Cabinet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Shinji Inoue enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named minister for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.

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Japan's new Cabinet under PM Suga

Shinji Inoue enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2020, after being named minister for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka in the Cabinet of Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.