Japan: Torrential Rains Hit Western Regions, Causing Widespread Flooding 2

Torrential rains hit western Japan, including the Kyushu, Chugoku, and Kansai regions, on Saturday, November 2, triggering landslide and flooding alerts and disrupting Shinkansen bullet train services.

Crocodile captured at hospital parking lot in Nagoya

Crocodile captured at hospital parking lot in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - This crocodile measuring 43 centimeters long was captured in a parking lot of a hospital in Nagoya's Chikusa Ward on Aug. 18 evening, police said. The reptile was found by a nurse at around 6:30 p.m. and was caught with a net by security guards of Aichi Prefectural Shiroyama Hospital, and was handed over to police.

A-bombed Nagasaki school

A-bombed Nagasaki school

NAGASAKI, Japan - Matsuyoshi Ikeda, who working as a volunteer guide, talks about efforts to preserve relics of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as he stands in front of the remaining section of the former school building of Shiroyama Elementary School in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 22, 2013. The surviving section of the old building, along with three other sets of A-bomb remains in the city, will shortly be given cultural heritage status by the government.

Business storyteller Shiroyama dies at 79

Business storyteller Shiroyama dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - Saburo Shiroyama (in photo taken in May 2003), a leading Japanese writer of business and biographical novels, died on March 22 of interstitial lung disease at a hospital in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, his agent said. He was 79. Brought up in Nagoya, Shiroyama, whose real name is Eiichi Sugiura, pioneered a style of business novel featuring inside stories of corporate Japan in the early 1970s, and also authored a number of books often modeled on existing personalities.

Pugwash confab members visit A-bombed school in Nagasaki

Pugwash confab members visit A-bombed school in Nagasaki

Participants in a session of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs under way in the atomic-bombed southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki visit the former building of Shiroyama Elementary School on Nov. 1, 2015 where about 1,500 people, including children, died in the 1945 bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Pugwash confab participants visit A-bombed school in Nagasaki

Pugwash confab participants visit A-bombed school in Nagasaki

Members of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs attending a session in the atomic-bombed southwestern Japanese city of Nagasaki visit the former building of Shiroyama Elementary School on Nov. 1, 2015. About 1,500 people, including children, died at the school in the 1945 bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Crocodile captured at hospital parking lot in Nagoya

Crocodile captured at hospital parking lot in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - This crocodile measuring 43 centimeters long was captured in a parking lot of a hospital in Nagoya's Chikusa Ward on Aug. 18 evening, police said. The reptile was found by a nurse at around 6:30 p.m. and was caught with a net by security guards of Aichi Prefectural Shiroyama Hospital, and was handed over to police. (Kyodo)

Business storyteller Shiroyama dies at 79

Business storyteller Shiroyama dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - Saburo Shiroyama (in photo taken in May 2003), a leading Japanese writer of business and biographical novels, died on March 22 of interstitial lung disease at a hospital in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, his agent said. He was 79. Brought up in Nagoya, Shiroyama, whose real name is Eiichi Sugiura, pioneered a style of business novel featuring inside stories of corporate Japan in the early 1970s, and also authored a number of books often modeled on existing personalities. (Kyodo)