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G-7 education ministers meeting in Toyama

The Group of Seven education ministers hold the first day of a three-day meeting in Toyama, central Japan, on May 13, 2023. (Pool photo)

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G-7 education ministers meeting in Toyama

The Group of Seven education ministers take part in a photo session on the first day of a three-day meeting in Toyama, central Japan, on May 13, 2023. (Pool photo)

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G-7 education ministers meeting in Toyama

The Group of Seven education ministers hold the first day of a three-day meeting in Toyama, central Japan, on May 13, 2023. (Pool photo)

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G-7 education ministers meeting in Toyama

Keiko Nagaoka (C), Japanese minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, speaks on the first day of a three-day meeting of the Group of Seven education ministers in Toyama, central Japan, on May 13, 2023. (Pool photo)

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G-7 education ministers meeting in Toyama

The Group of Seven education ministers begin a three-day meeting in Toyama, central Japan, on May 13, 2023. (Pool photo)

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G-7 education ministers meeting in Toyama

Keiko Nagaoka (C), Japanese minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, speaks at the outset of a three-day meeting of the Group of Seven education ministers in Toyama, central Japan, on May 13, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Swimming: Ikee trains in Toyama

Swimmer Rikako Ikee takes part in a training camp in Toyama, central Japan, on March 19, 2023.

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Victims, Mitsui settle fight over cadmium pollution

TOYAMA, Japan - Kunihiro Takagi (R), leader of a sufferers' group, and Mitsui Mining & Smelting Co. President Sadao Senda shake hands, holding documents of agreement, in Toyama, Japan, on Dec. 17, 2013. The compensation issue over one of Japan's four major pollution-caused disease cases reached a complete settlement, as sufferers of cadmium poisoning, known as "Itai-Itai Disease," and the company responsible signed an agreement on it.

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Zoo starts crowdfunding campaign to protect endangered bird

TOYAMA, Japan, Dec. 16 Kyodo - A file photo taken July 6, 2017, shows a male wild rock ptarmigan.

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Annual water discharge begins at Kurobe Dam

TOYAMA, Japan, June 26 Kyodo - Annual water discharge begins at Kurobe Dam in the town of Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, on June 26, 2016. Japan's tallest arch-style dam at 186 meters in height, a popular tourist site, discharges 10 to 15 tons of water per second during daylight until Oct. 15.

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G-7 environment ministerial meeting begins, climate in spotlight

TOYAMA, Japan, May 15 Kyodo - Japanese Environment Minister Tamayo Marukawa addresses environment ministers and representatives from the Group of Seven countries and the European Union in Toyama on the Sea of Japan coast on May 15, 2016, as they start a two-day meeting.

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Tourists attracted to snow wall in central Japan

TOYAMA, Japan, April 16 Kyodo - Visitors shout for joy while walking along 19-meter snow walls, a part of the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in the town of Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on April 16, 2015. The event, called Snow Wall Walk, started the same day and will run until June 22.

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Giant squid dried, displayed at Japan shopping mall

TOYAMA, Japan - A 4-meter-long dried giant squid, some 10 times the size of a normal dried squid, is displayed at a shopping mall in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture, central Japan, on Jan. 7, 2015.

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Sub-species of Japanese grouse raised at Toyama park

TOYAMA, Japan - A Svalbard ptarmigan, a sub-species of the Japanese grouse, is shown at the Toyama Municipal Family Park in Toyama, central Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014. The Environment Ministry is planning a test to rear the Japanese grouse, an endangered species designated as a special natural treasure, at a zoo after collecting its eggs.

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Sub-species of Japanese grouse raised at Toyama park

TOYAMA, Japan - A Toyama Municipal Family Park staff member observes Svalbard ptarmigan, hatched and reared from eggs provided by the University of Tromso in Norway, in Toyama, central Japan, on Nov. 18, 2014. The Environment Ministry is planning a test to rear the Japanese grouse, an endangered species designated as a special natural treasure, at a zoo after collecting its eggs.

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Toyama Airport lobby crowed with Taiwanese tourists

TOYAMA, Japan - The arrival lobby of Toyama Airport, central Japan, is crowded with Taiwanese tourists on Sept. 19, 2014, as the Toyama prefectural government is promoting tourism during a period other than the popular Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route snow wall season.

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Jomon period woman's skull at Toyama museum

TOYAMA, Japan - The skull of a woman from the early Jomon period excavated from the Odake shell mound in Toyama City in 2008 is shown at Kitadai Jomon museum in the city on July 25, 2014.

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Zoo pioneer looks to connect people, nature, community

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken May 27, 2014 shows Shigeyuki Yamamoto, director of the Toyama Municipal Family Park Zoo, standing inside the Tombo no Sawa (dragonfly forest) at the zoo in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara)

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Zoo pioneer looks to connect people, nature, community

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken May 28, 2014 shows a mother and her child walking inside the Tombo no Sawa (dragonfly forest) at the Toyama Municipal Family Park Zoo in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture. (Photo by Tatsuya Hagiwara)

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Kurobe Gorge train resumes operations

TOYAMA, Japan - The Kurobe Gorge train that runs in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, resumes operations on April 20, 2014, after services were suspended for the winter season.

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Central Japan's snow-walled mountain road fully reopens

TOYAMA, Japan - The entire Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route reopens to traffic on April 16, 2014, after wintertime closure, with a large number of tourists visiting the snow-walled mountainous sightseeing stretch between Tateyama, Toyama Prefecture, and Omachi, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan.

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'Floor Chandelier' eyed at new bullet train gate

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 16, 2013 shows a trial piece of a "Floor Chandelier" in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture. With the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line in the spring of 2015, Toyama City plans to build the floor chandelier -- 800 glass blocks embedded in the floor that will reflect red and blue lights on the ceiling -- in front of the bullet train ticket gate of JR Toyama Station.

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'Floor Chandelier' eyed at new bullet train gate

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 15, 2013 shows Takeyoshi Mitsui making a glass block to be used for a "Floor Chandelier" at Toyama Glass Studio in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture. Toyama City plans to build the floor chandelier -- 800 glass blocks embedded in the floor that will reflect red and blue lights on the ceiling -- in front of the bullet train ticket gate of JR Toyama Station.

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"Wolf Children" model home

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo on Oct. 4, 2012, shows Masami Yamazaki and his wife Yoriko Yamazaki, who own an old house in the town of Kamiichi, Toyama Prefecture, which is the model for the home of the heroine and her children in the hit animation film "Okami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki" (The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki).

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"Wolf Children" model home

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo on Oct. 4, 2012, shows an approximately 120-year-old house in the town of Kamiichi, Toyama Prefecture. The old folk dwelling has attracted fans as it is the inspiration for the home of the heroine and her children in the hit animation film "Okami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki" (The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki).

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Surgeons begin extracting organs from brain-dead boy for transplant

TOYAMA, Japan - A cooler box containing the heart extracted from a brain-dead boy is loaded onto a vehicle at Toyama University Hospital in Toyama on June 15, 2012. Three surgical teams began extracting the heart, liver and kidneys from the boy at the hospital. The heart will be transplanted to a girl in Osaka Prefecture.

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Kurobe Gorge train

TOYAMA, Japan - A Kurobe Gorge Railway train runs on a bridge over the Kurobe Gorge in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, on April 18, 2012. The railway partially resumed its operation the same day after a five-month winter suspension period.

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Cadmium-polluted farmland restored in Toyama

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows an area along the Jinzu River in Toyama on the Sea of Japan on March 16, 2012. A ceremony held on March 17, 2012, marked the completion of a 33-year project to restore the cadmium-polluted farmland along the river, the cause of one of Japan's four major pollution-related diseases in the postwar era of economic growth.

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'Yukhye' with new safety standard served in Toyama

TOYAMA, Japan - A woman shows Korean ''yukhye'' raw beef dishes that cleared the stricter new safety standards for raw meat served at a barbecue restaurant in Toyama on Dec. 1, 2011. The restaurant ''Yakiniku Daishogun'' which has three outlets in the city started serving the food the same day.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers after getting off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a helicopter taking off from the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Hida, in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The helicopter was carrying nine probable defectors from North Korea-- six adults and three children -- found earlier in the day on a wooden boat. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers after getting off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Probable N. Korea defectors in Japan

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows nine probable defectors from North Korea being escorted by officers as they get off a helicopter aboard the Japan Coast Guard patrol ship Echigo in the Sea of Japan off Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Sept. 13, 2011. The coast guard found a wooden boat carrying the nine -- six adults and three children -- and took them to Kanazawa port. A man among them told the coast guard that they are relatives and they left a North Korean port on Sept. 8 in the hope of going to South Korea.

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Ptarmigan chicks at zoo

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 1, 2011, shows a Svalbard ptarmigan and one of its two chicks at Toyama Municipal Family Park zoo in Toyama City. The zoo said the same day the chicks hatched in late July in the first successful breeding of the Arctic bird species in Japan.

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Deep-sea fish giving marine experts food for thought

TOYAMA, Japan - This rarely seen deep-sea fish called ''Ryugu no Tsukai'' (slender oarfish) -- or ''Messenger from the Sea God's Palace'' -- drifted ashore in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, in December 2009 and is now on display as a specimen at Uozu Aquarium in the same prefecture on Feb. 3, 2010.

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Traditional Japan village on verge of losing scenery

TOYAMA, Japan - This photo shows an inland area at dusk in Toyama Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast in May where houses are scattered in rice paddy fields. The 220-square-kilometer region in the city of Tonami, regarded as a typical Japanese agricultural village, draws avid photographers during a rice-planting period in May. But the area is now on the verge of losing its scenery as more rice fields are turning into residential areas due to a fall in the number of rice growers.

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Kurobe gorge trolley train runs open partially

TOYAMA, Japan - Tourists enjoy the scenic view from a trolley train which the Kurobe Gorge Railway Co. began operating partially April 20 for this season in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan. The 20.1 kilometer railway between Unazuki and Keyakidaira will fully open May 1.

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'Dance of the Wind' Bon festival

TOYAMA, Japan - Dancers in traditional Japanese attire perform the Dance of the Wind at the Bon festival of Owara in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture on Sept. 1 to pray for mild weather during the autumn harvest season. City officials expect a turnout of 200,000 visitors during the three-day festival.

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Red-crested white crane hatched in Toyama from egg laid elsewhere

TOYAMA, Japan - A baby red-crested white crane hatched at the Toyama Family Park municipal zoo in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture on May 27 from one of two fertilized eggs laid at the Hamura municipal zoo in Tokyo. According to Toyama Family Park officials, this is the third successful case of red-crested white crane hatching in Japan from eggs laid elsewhere. The Toyama park has been trying to hatch red-crested white cranes but none of the eggs laid at the zoo was fertilized, zoo officials say. The egg that hatched was laid in April and sent to Toyama on May 15. The photo shows a crane tending the newly-hatched chick inside the Toyama zoo.

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Snow being removed on highland bus route in Northern Alps

TOYAMA, Japan - A long line is seen in the Northern Alps in central Japan on March 24 as heavy snow on a highland bus route through the mountain area is being removed to make a bus route. The 23-kilometer route, connecting Toyama in Toyama Prefecture and Omachi in Nagano Prefecture, will be completed in the middle of April.

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Snow-covered Gassho-style farmhouses

TOYAMA, Japan - These ''gassho-style'' farmhouses in Ainokura, Toyama Prefecture, are covered by a one-meter layer of snow on Dec. 13. The houses, which were registered on the World Heritage list in 1995, feature thatched gable roofs that slope down at an angle of 60 degrees. The roofs help the snow to slip off and prevent the houses from collapsing.

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Pakistanis in Japan raise funds for quake victims

TOYAMA, Japan - Pakistanis living in Toyama Prefecture receive Pakistani Ambassador Kamran Niaz (2nd from R) in the prefectural town of Kosugi on Oct. 28, asking him to send funds they have raised to their home country to help victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake.

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(4)Year's worst typhoon batters Japanese archipelago

TOYAMA, Japan - The Kaiwo Maru, a sailing ship belonging to the National Institute for Sea Training, is inundated with water at Toyama Port on Oct. 21 after crashing against a breakwater due to high waves caused by Typhoon Tokage the previous day.

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''Keze-no-Bon'' dance festival begins in Toyama

TOYAMA, Japan - Locals enjoy dancing in the city of Yao as ''Owara Kaze-no-Bon'' dance festival, one of traditional attractions in Toyama Prefecture, gets under way on Sept. 1.

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(2)N. Korea ship leaves for China

TOYAMA, Japan - The 874-ton North Korean freighter Suyangsan leaves a port in Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, for Dandong, China on June 27 after being refueled by a Japanese ship. The freighter had been stranded off a Toyama port over the past two weeks because of a dispute over safety issues.

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(1)N. Korea ship in Toyama leaves for China

TOYAMA, Japan - The 874-ton North Korean freighter Suyangsan (R) is refueled at a port in Shinminato, Toyama Prefecture, on June 27. Later, the freighter, which had been stranded off a Toyama port over the past two weeks because of a dispute over safety issues, left for Dandong, China.

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(3)Tanaka overjoyed at winning 2002 Nobel Prize for chemistry

TOYAMA, Japan - Yuko Tanaka looks at newspapers reporting that her husband Koichi Tanaka won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at her parents' home in Toyama City on Oct. 10.

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Autumn scene in Tateyama mountain area

TOYAMA, Japan - Leaves turn red and yellow Oct. 3 along the Tateyama-Kurobe alpine route in Toyama Prefecture.

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Sato Kogyo to seek legal bankruptcy proceedings

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken on March 2 shows the head office of the debt-saddled midsize general construction contractor Sato Kogyo Co. in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, which has given up efforts to rehabilitate itself and plans resort to seeking legal bankruptcy proceedings.

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200 Pakistanis flock to Toyama to protest Koran destruction

TOYAMA, Japan - About 200 Muslim Pakistanis from across Japan protest the alleged destruction of a copy of the Koran at a gathering in the town of Kosugi in Toyama Prefecture on May 22.