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Fire breaks out in spa resort

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 3, 2015, shows firefighters extinguishing a fire that broke out at the Kinosaki spa resort in the western Japan city of Toyooka crowded with New Year holiday vacationers. Eight buildings, including houses and shops, burnt down, while four others were partially burnt. One person was killed.

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Fire breaks out in spa resort

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 3, 2015, shows firefighters extinguishing a fire that broke out at the Kinosaki spa resort in the western Japan city of Toyooka crowded with New Year holiday vacationers. Eight buildings, including houses and shops, burnt down, while four others were partially burnt. One person was killed.

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Stork flies to rice paddy in Yonago on Japan Sea coast

YONAGO, Japan - An Oriental white stork feeds in a rice paddy in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on the Japan Sea coast on Aug. 13, 2014. Identification tags attached to both legs suggest that the bird flew from the Hyogo Park of the Oriental White Stork in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, where it left its nest in June.

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Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame

TOYOOKA, Japan - Former pro baseball player Hideo Nomo holds a press conference in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Jan. 17, 2014, after being elected to Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Light aircraft overruns runway

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 21, 2013, shows firefighters examining the site where a light aircraft crashed into a grove after overrunning the runway as it made an emergency landing at Tajima Airport in the city.

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Light aircraft overruns runway

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Tajima Airport in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, where a light aircraft overran the runway and fell into a forest (front) on July 21, 2013.

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Artificially bred storks released to the wild

TOYOOKA, Japan - One of the three artificially bred storks takes flight after being released in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 22 in a two-year-old program to get the bird to live in the wild. Storks are designated in Japan as a special natural treasure.

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Crab fishing begins in Sea of Japan

TOYOOKA, Japan - A man sorts out snow crabs landed in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, as the annual crab fishing season begins in the Sea of Japan on Nov. 6.

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Donut-shaped water tank attracts tourists

TOYOOKA, Japan - Visitors to the Kinosaki Marine World in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, enjoy watching fish from inside a donut-shaped water tank just completed at the aquarium on May 2.

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Season's first haul of snow crabs landed

TOYOOKA, Japan - The season's first haul of snow crabs is landed on the Japan Sea city of Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 6.

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywhere

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork (top right) released into the wild for the first time in the world in Hyogo Prefecture flies high above people on Sept. 24. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko.

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywhere

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork released into the wild for the first time in the world flies over the paddies in Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 24. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko.

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Artificially bred storks released into wild for 1st time anywhere

TOYOOKA, Japan - An artificially bred white oriental stork is released into the wild for the first time in the world in Hyogo Prefecture on Sept. 24 in a ceremony attended by Prince Akishino (2nd from R) and his wife Princess Kiko (R) -- more than three decades after the species became extinct in the wild in Japan. Two male and three female storks aged between 2 and 7 were released from a breeding farm in the city of Toyooka.

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Koizumi visits typhoon-devastated area in Hyogo Pref.

TOYOOKA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from R) chats with local people in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, which was battered by powerful Typhoon Tokage, on Oct. 27 during a visit there to inspect the damage.

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(2)Year's worst typhoon batters Japanese archipelago

TOYOOKA, Japan - Local people wait for rescuers on the second-floor balcony of their house, inundated by floods caused by Typhoon Togake in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on Oct. 21.

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Mirror from Hyogo tomb mound identified as Chinese

KOBE, Japan - This mirror, unearthed from a tomb mound in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture in 1917, was made in China some 2,000 years ago and is the oldest mirror discovered in the northern Kinki region, western Japan, archeologists said Feb. 20. The mirror discovered at the Morio mound was determined by experts to have been made during China's Wang Mang period (A.D. 8-23) based on its form and inscriptions.