Late actor Yujiro Ishihara's message plate unveiled

Late actor Yujiro Ishihara's message plate unveiled

NAGANO, Japan - Actor Satoshi Tokushige holds a helmet said to have been used by late actor Yujiro Ishihara in a popular movie "Kurobe no Taiyo" beside a framed handwritten message by Ishihara on June 5, 2014 at the Kurobe Dam Station, a trolleybus station in Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture.

Fishing boat wreckage recovered

Fishing boat wreckage recovered

TOKYO, Japan - The two broken halves of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru are lifted onto a salvage barge in the Pacific off Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, on Feb. 20 a day after it collided with Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer Atago, which is equipped with high-tech Aegis radar systems.

Fishing boat wreckage recovered

Fishing boat wreckage recovered

TOKYO, Japan - The two broken halves of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru are lifted onto a salvage barge in the Pacific off Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, on Feb. 20 a day after it collided with Maritime Self-Defense Force's destroyer Atago, which is equipped with high-tech Aegis radar systems.

Fishing boat wreckage recovered

Fishing boat wreckage recovered

TATEYAMA, Japan - The two broken halves of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru which collided with the Japanese destroyer Atago off Chiba Prefecture on Feb. 19 are lifted to the deck of a support vessel on Feb. 20. Coast Guard investigators will examine the wreckage to help determine the cause of the accident. Two fishermen -- father and son -- on board the Setoku Maru remain missing.

Drill to intercept weapons of mass destruction starts off Japan

Drill to intercept weapons of mass destruction starts off Japan

TATEYAMA, Japan - A Japan-hosted maritime drill on preventing weapons of mass destruction from proliferating started Oct. 13 in the Pacific off Izu Oshima Island, south of Tokyo, with personnel, aircraft and naval vessels from seven countries participating. Photo shows British naval personnel descend from a helicopter onto a ''suspicious'' ship. (Pool photo)

Philippine, Japanese freighters collide off Tokyo

Philippine, Japanese freighters collide off Tokyo

TATEYAMA, Japan - The Filipino freighter Eastern Challenger (fore) is in danger of sinking after suffering some damage and taking in water following a collision with the Japanese freighter Tsugaru Maru about 9 kilometers northwest of Sunosaki Lighthouse in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, on the Boso Peninsula on April 13.