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Cargo ship collides with fishing boat off Mie Pref.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the stern of a sport fishing boat after colliding with a cargo ship off Toba in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 20, 2026.

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Cargo ship collides with fishing boat off Mie Pref.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the stern of a sport fishing boat after colliding with a cargo ship off Toba in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 20, 2026.

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Cargo ship collides with fishing boat off Mie Pref.

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the bow of a sport fishing boat after colliding with a cargo ship off Toba in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 20, 2026.

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Emperor, empress in Mie Prefecture

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako watch a sea otter at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, on Nov. 8, 2025. The imperial couple are visiting the central Japan prefecture to attend a fishery industry promotional event ceremony. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress in Mie Prefecture

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako visit Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, on Nov. 8, 2025. The imperial couple are visiting the central Japan prefecture to attend a fishery industry promotional event ceremony. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress in Mie Prefecture

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako visit Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, on Nov. 8, 2025. The imperial couple are visiting the central Japan prefecture to attend a fishery industry promotional event ceremony. (Pool photo)

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Emperor, empress in Mie Prefecture

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako wave upon arriving at Toba Station in Toba, Mie Prefecture, on Nov. 8, 2025. The imperial couple are visiting the central Japan prefecture to attend a fishery industry promotional event ceremony. (Pool photo)

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[Breaking News]Fishing vessel capsizes off central Japan

TOBA, Japan, Oct. 24 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 24, 2024, shows Japan Coast Guard personnel conducting a search operation around a capsized fishing vessel off Toshi Island in Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan. (Kyodo)

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Fishing vessel capsizes off central Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 24, 2024, shows a capsized fishing vessel off Toshi Island in Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan.

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Fishing vessel capsizes off central Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 24, 2024, shows Japan Coast Guard personnel conducting a search operation around a capsized fishing vessel off Toshi Island in Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan.

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Fishing vessel capsizes off central Japan

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Oct. 24, 2024, shows a capsized fishing vessel off Toshi Island in Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan.

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Japanese Princess Aiko's trip to visit Ise Jingu shrine

Japanese Princess Aiko arrives at Toba Station in the central Japan prefecture of Mie on March 26, 2024, during her trip to visit Ise Jingu shrine.

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Japanese Princess Aiko's trip to visit Ise Jingu shrine

Japanese Princess Aiko is greeted by Mie Gov. Katsuyuki Ichimi upon her arrival at Toba Station in the central Japan prefecture of Mie on March 26, 2024, during her trip to visit Ise Jingu shrine.

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Fire festival at Aichi Pref. shrine

Men jump into flames rising from two giant torches at Toba Shinmei shrine in the Aichi Prefecture city of Nishio, central Japan, on Feb. 12, 2023. The men are competing for sacred trees placed in the fires at the annual fire festival, held after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Japan's first lady promotes tradition of female pro divers

TSU, Japan, Nov. 11 Kyodo - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie (C) attends a gathering of "ama" female professional divers from across Japan and South Korea on Nov. 7, 2015, in Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan. She expressed hope to introduce their culture at next year's summit of the Group of Seven economic powers in the prefecture's Ise-Shima region, which is the home to about half of Japan's female pro divers.

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Murakawa beats Iyama to win 'Oza' title in 'go' game

TOBA, Japan - Challenger Daisuke Murakawa reacts after dethroning Yuta Iyama in a professional "go" board game to grab the "Oza" title, one of the game's seven major crowns, by 3-2 in Toba, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 16, 2014. It was 24-year-old Murakawa's first major title.

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Iyama upset by Murakawa, loses 'Oza' title in 'go' game

TOBA, Japan - Yuta Iyama (R) loses his "Oza" title to challenger Daisuke Murakawa in a professional "go" board game in Toba, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 16, 2014. The defeat reduced Iyama's holdings of major titles to five.

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16th-century shogun Hideyoshi's letter unveiled

KOBE, Japan - Kobe University in western Japan releases on Dec. 8, 2014, a sealed letter sent by 16th-century shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi to a clan leader in Toba, Mie Prefecture, to thank him for his assistance in Hideyoshi's aggression of the Korean Peninsula.

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Letters by medieval warlords Nobunaga, Hideyoshi found

KOBE, Japan - Kobe University in western Japan unveils on Dec. 8, 2014, sealed letters sent by warlords Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi to a clan in Toba, Mie Prefecture, in the 16th century. A woman in her 40s in Kobe had kept the letters after inheriting them from her grandfather, and asked the university to use them for research.

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Dried red seabream lined up for world record

TOBA, Japan - Persons in charge of measuring the length of a line of 1,000 dried wild "madai" red seabream on Toshi Island, Toba, Mie Prefecture, go about their work on Nov. 9, 2014, as they seek to have the display registered as the longest line of edible fish in the Guinness World Records.

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Artificial objects found in deep-sea organisms

TOKYO, Japan - What seems to be a piece of cardboard, found in a giant isopod's excrement, is shown at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 11, 2014. This finding raises concerns that man-made waste is contaminating the abyssal floor, a habitat of giant isopods.

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Artificial objects found in deep-sea organisms

TOKYO, Japan - Rubber bands and what seem to be chemical fibers, found in the stomach of a deceased giant isopod, are shown at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 11, 2014. The findings raise concerns that man-made waste is contaminating the abyssal floor, a habitat of giant isopods.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy poses before pearl king Mikimoto's statue

TOBA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (3rd from L) and her husband Edwin Schlossberg (4th) pose in front of the statue of Kokichi Mikimoto, a Japanese entrepreneur credited with creating the first cultured pearl, in Toba, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on April 16, 2014.

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Nautilus at aquarium keeps world's longest breeding record

TSU, Japan - A nautilus kept at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file phone taken in March, has kept rewriting the world's longevity record for a nautilus bred in captivity, now about four years and nine months, since its birth there in July 2009.

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New aquarium recruits start by cleaning fish tank from inside

TSU, Japan - Two male recruits, Asuka Imagawa (L), 20, and Ryosuke Okita, 23, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, clean the inside wall of a fish tank using sponges during an underwater initiation ceremony on March 31, 2014, as fish and turtles swim around.

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JAMA presents replica of 'miracle pine' to disaster-hit town

MORIOKA, Japan - Akio Toyoda (R), president of Toyota Motor Corp. and chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, and Futoshi Toba, mayor of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, stand on March 27, 2014, in front of a replica of the "miracle pine" that survived the March 2011 tsunami. JAMA presented the replica to the city.

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Aquarium keeper in Mie studying giant isopods

TOBA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 27, 2014 shows Takeya Moritaki, a keeper at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, who is studying giant isopods in the hope of unraveling the mysteries of the deep-sea creatures.

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Ama divers in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo shows "ama" divers in Toba, Mie Prefecture, in June 2013. Eight prefectures in Japan announced on Jan. 24, 2014, the creation of a joint committee to promote and preserve the "ama" diving culture and have it designated an UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. Ama -- literally sea women -- are free-divers who collect pearls, shellfish, sea urchins and seaweed.

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Giant isopod not eating

TOBA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 2, 2014, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, shows a giant isopod, a creature often called a "scavenger of the deep." The crustacean from Mexico, measuring about 29 centimeters and weighing about 1 kilogram, was near bait (L), but did not eat. According to the aquarium, it has not eating anything since it ate fish in January 2009.

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Kennedy in disaster-stricken region

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (front R) looks up at the lone "miracle pine" that remained after the tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, with Rikuzentakata Mayor Futoshi Toba (far L), on Nov. 26, 2013, the second day of her tour through the region affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Kennedy in disaster-stricken region

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - New U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (L) is escorted by Rikuzentakata Mayor Futoshi Toba (front R) after arriving at the city hall in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Nov. 26, 2013, the second day of her tour through the region affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Initiation ceremony in aquarium tank

TOBA, Japan - Yuya Tanaka (L) and Shiho Endo, newly hired employees at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, wave to visitors during an initiation ceremony in a tank at the aquarium on March 31, 2013.

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Initiation ceremony in aquarium tank

TOBA, Japan - Shiho Endo (R), a newly hired employee at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, receives a letter of appointment during an initiation ceremony in a tank at the aquarium on March 31, 2013.

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Giant isopod stays alive for 4 years despite not eating

TSU, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 6, 2013, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, shows a giant isopod, a creature often called a "scavenger of the deep." According to the aquarium, the crustacean, measuring 29 centimeters and weighing one kilogram, has remained healthy despite not eating anything for more than four years.

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Kin visit city where U.S. man perished in tsunami

SENDAI, Japan - Futoshi Toba (C), mayor of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, poses for photos with Americans Shelly Dickson (L) and Ian Dickson (R) at the Rikuzentakata city hall on July 18, 2012. The Dicksons visited the city in northeastern Japan where their brother Montgomery Dickson was killed by the March 2011 tsunami while working there as an English teacher.

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New employees take the plunge

NAGOYA, Japan - New employees of Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, pose for photos in a tank of the aquarium during their initiation ceremony on March 31, 2012.

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Aquarium's initiation ceremony in water tank

TSU, Japan - New employees of Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, participate in an entrance ceremony with fish and a sea turtle in an aqua tank on March 31, 2011.

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Rikuzentakata Mayor Futoshi Toba

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Rikuzentakata Mayor Futoshi Toba, whose wife Kumi remains missing, assists disaster victims in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture on March 14, 2011, three days after Japan's strongest recorded earthquake hit the country.

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Initiation ceremony in water at aquarium

TSU, Japan - Visitors watch an initiation ceremony for a new employee in an acrylic water tank at the Toba Aquarium in the city of Toba, Mie Prefecture, on April 1. Chiaki Sawayama, surrounded by about 300 fish and turtles of 100 kinds, received a letter of approval for her recruitment from a deputy chief of the aquarium during the ceremony. An estimated 820,000 new recruits marked their first day of work across Japan the same day.

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1 body, another crewman found after sinking of freighter

TOBA, Japan - Coast Guard members examine a rescue raft belonging to the South Korean freighter Zenith Light, which sank in the Pacific Ocean off Mie Prefecture on Feb. 14, at Toba Port in the prefecture on Feb. 15.

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First listed firm-run senior high school opened

TOBA, Japan - Students of Wits Aoyama Gakuen Senior High School in Iga, Mie Prefecture, get on-the-spot experience of how manatees are kept at the Toba Aquarium in the city of Toba, Mie Prefecture on Feb. 25.

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GSDF helicopters collide, killing 2 crew

TOBA, Japan - Two Ground Self-Defense Force helicopters collided during training and crashed on a mountain in Toba, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 23, killing two crew members and injuring two others.

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Korean tanker collides with Thai container ship

NAGOYA, Japan - The South Korean tanker Woo Ryong, with 12 crew members, is seen in the Pacific Ocean off Toba, Mie Prefecture, on July 5 following its collision with the 1,318-ton Thai container ship Ratanathida, with 19 crew members, earlier in the day. The 1,448-ton Woo Ryong spilled 2,600 liters of heavy fuel oil. One of its crew members was injured, the Japan Coast Guard said.

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Daiei chief likely to resign over shady stock deal

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Tadasu Toba, president of Daei Inc., who company sources said Oct. 10 is likely to resign over his controversial purchase of the stocks of Daiei OMC Inc. (DOMC), a Daiei group credit-card firm.

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Daiei chairman, president quit over stock scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Isao Nakauchi, founder and chairman of Daiei Inc., is surrounded by reporters Oct. 10 after he announced at a news conference both he and President Tadasu Toba are resigning following a stock trading scandal involving Toba. Nakauchi said he will serve as a supreme adviser with the right to represent the company and added he will step down as a board member at a shareholders' meeting next May.

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Daiei chief repents 'undue procedure' in group stock deals

TOKYO, Japan - Tadasu Toba, president of Daiei Inc., bows deeply at a press conference on Oct. 3 at the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry to express repentance for ''undue procedure'' in trading in shares in a group company last year. Toba donated his 15.9 million yen in profit from the share deals to three organizations, including the Japan Committee for UNICEF, after the adviser pointed out that the purchase might be regarded as a case of insider trading.

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Daiei announces downward revision of earnings performance

TOKYO, Japan - Tadasu Toba, president of Daiei Inc., announces downward revision of earnings performance in the first half of 1999 business year through Aug. 31 at a Tokyo Stock Exchange news conference Aug. 31.

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Daiei unveils restructuring plan

Chairman Isao Nakauchi (R) and President Tadasu Toba of Japan's top supermarket chain operator Daiei Inc. speak at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25. They announced a three-year restructuring plan that called for a reduction of 3,000 jobs and halving the number of directors.