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"Mikoshi" shrine cruises bay in northeastern Japan

A ship carrying a "mikoshi" portable shrine from Shiwahiko shrine in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, cruises across Matsushima Bay, escorted by about 100 fishing boats decorated with traditional Japanese fishermen's flags, during Shiogama Minato Festival on July 15, 2024.

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"Mikoshi" shrines cruise bay in northeastern Japan

"Mikoshi" portable shrines from two shrines in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, are carried onto ships for cruise across Matsushima Bay, escorted by about 100 fishing boats decorated with traditional Japanese fishermen's flags, during Shiogama Minato Festival on July 15, 2024.

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"Mikoshi" shrine cruises bay in northeastern Japan

A ship carrying a "mikoshi" portable shrine from Shiogama shrine in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, cruises across Matsushima Bay, escorted by about 100 fishing boats decorated with traditional Japanese fishermen's flags, during the Shiogama Minato Festival on July 15, 2024.

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Shiogama Port Festival in Miyagi Pref. gets PM award

TOKYO, Japan - Kankuro Abe (L), head of the executive committee of Shiogama Port Festival in Miyagi Prefecture, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga (C) pose for a photograph at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 26, 2014, after the festival was awarded the Prime Minister's prize for an event contributing to regional development.

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Univ. of Tokyo installs tidal power devices off Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - The University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science installs a tidal power generation device in coastal waters of Sabusawa Island, Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014. Two devices were installed for a demonstration experiment to provide electricity for the fisheries association of the island starting in February 2015.

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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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Tsunami-hit shop offers sea salt-flavored chocolate

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken in January 2014 at Cleauventerre in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, shows chocolate maker Seiji Watanabe holding "Moshio Chocolat," chocolates flavored with sea salt from the area, which was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Tsunami-hit shop offers sea salt-flavored chocolate

SENDAI, Japan - Photo taken in January 2014 at Cleauventerre in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, shows "Moshio Chocolat," chocolates flavored with sea salt from the area, which was hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Duty to work led midwife to put others' safety 1st in tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 19, 2013 shows part of a page of the business diary at maternity hospital Ikeno Clinic in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, where midwife Yukie Aoyama works as a chief nurse. Written in the section of March 11, 2011 were encircled characters meaning a big earthquake. (Photo by Yohei Kanasashi)

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M6.0 quake jolts northeastern Japan

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Photo taken in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 18, 2013, shows a road that was flooded due to a damaged water pipe, after an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted northeastern Japan and surrounding areas the same day.

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British woman adventurer returns safe

SENDAI, Japan - British adventurer Sarah Outen (C) is met by friends at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on June 10, 2012, following her arrival on a Japan Coast Guard vessel after being rescued during her solo rowing voyage across the Pacific Ocean.

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Railroad soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show part of JR Senseki Line rail track in the city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 6, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom). Services on the line have been partly resumed.

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Seafood market in disaster-hit Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - People examine fish and other marine products at a store in the intermediate wholesaler market in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 14, 2011. Almost all of some 350 shops in the market have resumed business more than two months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, while the store has been buying fish from the Hokkaido and Kyushu areas to overcome shortages of local products.

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Auctioneers examine tuna at a fish market in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011. A haul of tuna was landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11.

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Tuna are landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on April 14, 2011. Hundreds of tuna were landed at the port, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern and eastern Japan.

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Hundreds of tuna are laid down at a fish market in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, after being landed at Shiogama port on April 14, 2011, for the first time since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11. The port is one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan.

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Tuna are landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on April 14, 2011. Hundreds of tuna were landed at the port, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern and eastern Japan.

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Dog rescued off tsunami-devastated coast

SHIOGAMA, Japan - A member of the Japan Coast Guard carries a rescued dog as he arrives at the port of Shiogama, in Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. Coast guard members aboard a helicopter found the dog on a roof, believed to have been washed away by the March 11 tsunami, drifting some 1.8 kilometers off the coast, the previous day.

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck.

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(2)Briton in failed solo Pacific voyage arrives in Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - A Japan Coast Guard ship brings back to Shiogama port, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 16 the 7-meter-long rowboat of Mick Dawson, a British man, after rescuing Dawson the previous day. Dawson was trying to row solo from Japan to the United States and made a distress call off Miyagi because of a broken rudder.

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(1)Briton in failed solo Pacific voyage arrives in Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Mick Dawson, a British man who was attempting to row solo from Japan to the United States, arrives at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on June 16. Dawson was rescued the previous day after making a distress call off Miyagi because of a broken rudder.

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Japanese trawler sinks in Bering Sea

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the 379-ton Japanese trawler Anyo Maru No. 1, from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, which sank in the Bering Sea in a snowstorm Dec. 10. The Japanese coast guard listed 12 of its 36 crew members as missin.

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Fish-cake cooking oil converted to bio-diesel fuel in Miyagi

SENDAI, Japan - The city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan's largest fish-cake processing base, has been producing bio-diesel from cooking oil disposed by fish-cake makers in the city, selling the product at 105 yen per liter, substantially cheaper than ordinary diesel sold at gas filling stations. Each year, fish-cake makers in Shiogama dispose of more than 500,000 liters of used cooking oil, which had been sold to outside dealers for use as fat in pet food or as ink solvent. The city started converting used cooking oil to bio-diesel in November 2006 with subsidies from the Ministry of Environment. The photo shows an employee at the bio-diesel fuel station in Shiogama filling up a diesel truck. (Kyodo)

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(1)Briton in failed solo Pacific voyage arrives in Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Mick Dawson, a British man who was attempting to row solo from Japan to the United States, arrives at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on June 16. Dawson was rescued the previous day after making a distress call off Miyagi because of a broken rudder. (Kyodo)

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(2)Briton in failed solo Pacific voyage arrives in Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - A Japan Coast Guard ship brings back to Shiogama port, Miyagi Prefecture, on June 16 the 7-meter-long rowboat of Mick Dawson, a British man, after rescuing Dawson the previous day. Dawson was trying to row solo from Japan to the United States and made a distress call off Miyagi because of a broken rudder. (Kyodo)

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Powerful quake hits northeastern Japan

Photo taken March 20, 2021, shows collapsed parts of a cliff in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, after a powerful earthquake struck northeastern Japan.

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Powerful quake hits northeastern Japan

Photo taken March 20, 2021, shows collapsed parts of a cliff in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, after a powerful earthquake struck northeastern Japan.

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Japan whale research vessel

People see off a Japanese whale research ship on Dec. 2, 2019, at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The vessel left the same day for Japan's first whale research since it withdrew from the International Whaling Commission on June 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsushima

The island on the right is Hikidojima and that on the left, Rakanjima, both situated near Fukuurajima Island. Katsurajima and Ishihamajima of the Urato Island group of Shiogama City can be seen in the background. This is the site of a shell mound dating from theJomon Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Matsushima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number86‐17‐0]

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Matsushima

This is a view of Matsushima Bay from Oshima, which is known as a holy place. Some islands, Shiogama City, and the Urato Islands are visible in the distance, as well as the horizon of the Pacific Ocean. The wind fills the sails of the chabune in the foreground. Such boats no longer exist.==Date:unknown, Place:Matsushima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐52‐0]

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Seafood market in disaster-hit Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - People examine fish and other marine products at a store in the intermediate wholesaler market in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on May 14, 2011. Almost all of some 350 shops in the market have resumed business more than two months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, while the store has been buying fish from the Hokkaido and Kyushu areas to overcome shortages of local products. (Kyodo)

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Dog rescued off tsunami-devastated coast

SHIOGAMA, Japan - A member of the Japan Coast Guard carries a rescued dog as he arrives at the port of Shiogama, in Miyagi Prefecture, on April 2, 2011. Coast guard members aboard a helicopter found the dog on a roof, believed to have been washed away by the March 11 tsunami, drifting some 1.8 kilometers off the coast, the previous day. (Kyodo)

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Tuna are landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on April 14, 2011. Hundreds of tuna were landed at the port, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern and eastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Hundreds of tuna are laid down at a fish market in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, after being landed at Shiogama port on April 14, 2011, for the first time since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11. The port is one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Tuna are landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture on April 14, 2011. Hundreds of tuna were landed at the port, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the March 11 devastating earthquake and tsunami in northeastern and eastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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1st fish haul landed at Shiogama port since quake-tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Auctioneers examine tuna at a fish market in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 14, 2011. A haul of tuna was landed at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the biggest fishing bases in northeastern Japan, for the first time since the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern and eastern Japan on March 11. (Kyodo)

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Railroad soon after quake, now

TOKYO, Japan - Photos show part of JR Senseki Line rail track in the city of Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 6, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and the same location on March 4, 2012 (bottom). Services on the line have been partly resumed. (Kyodo)

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Fire at industrial complex in Shiogama

NIIGATA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a burning industrial complex in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 13, 2011, two days after earthquake and tsunami disasters. (Kyodo)

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Univ. of Tokyo installs tidal power devices off Shiogama

SHIOGAMA, Japan - The University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science installs a tidal power generation device in coastal waters of Sabusawa Island, Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014. Two devices were installed for a demonstration experiment to provide electricity for the fisheries association of the island starting in February 2015. (Kyodo)

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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. (Kyodo)

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Crane accident in northeastern Japan

An overturned crane is seen at a construction site in Shiogama in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 18, 2019. One man was killed and six injured in the accident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crane accident in northeastern Japan

Photo shows a car crushed by an overturned crane at a construction site in Shiogama in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 18, 2019. One man was killed and six injured in the accident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crane accident in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 18, 2019, shows an overturned crane at a construction site in Shiogama in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. One man was killed and six injured in the accident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crane accident in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 18, 2019, shows an overturned crane at a construction site in Shiogama in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. One man was killed and six injured in the accident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crane accident in northeastern Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 18, 2019, shows an overturned crane at a construction site in Shiogama in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. One man was killed and six injured in the accident. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan whale research vessel

People see off a Japanese whale research ship on Dec. 2, 2019, at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The vessel left the same day for Japan's first whale research since it withdrew from the International Whaling Commission on June 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan whale research vessel

Photo taken Dec. 2, 2019, shows a Japanese whale research ship at Shiogama port in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. The vessel left the same day for Japan's first whale research since it withdrew from the International Whaling Commission on June 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese trawler sinks in Bering Sea

SENDAI, Japan - Photo shows the 379-ton Japanese trawler Anyo Maru No. 1, from Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, which sank in the Bering Sea in a snowstorm Dec. 10. The Japanese coast guard listed 12 of its 36 crew members as missin.