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Univ. students volunteer to help post-disaster work

OSAKA, Japan - Female students of Kobe Shukugawa Gakuin University volunteer to help post-disaster work in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, on Nov. 24, 2014, hit by landslides caused by torrential rains in August. The students participated in the work before the 20th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that devastated the western Japan prefecture in 1995.

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Chicken farm operator in bird flu scandal shuts down

KOBE, Japan - Hideaki Asada, president of Asa Nosan Co., an operator of a chicken farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, hit by a bird flu outbreak in February, speaks to reporters in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 30. Asada Nosan has dismissed some 200 employees and shut down its business.

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Gov't starts capturing wild birds to check flu infection route

KYOTO, Japan - Researchers under the sponsorship of the Environment Ministry and the Kyoto prefectural government started capturing wild birds March 6 in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, as part of efforts to determine the infection route of a bird flu outbreak in the town in late February.

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(2)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - An aerial photo shows a huge hole in a mountain forest north of Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 5. The hole was created to bury chickens, which were culled to prevent the spread of the bird flu.

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(1)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Members of the Ground Self-Defense Force, clad in protective suits, head for Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 5 to help in disinfection operations there. The farm had more than 200,000 birds. Many of them died and the rest are being culled.

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GSDF team in Kyoto town for bird flu cleanup

KYOTO, Japan - A disaster-prevention squad from the Ground Self-Defense Force deploys in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, March 5 to join local bird flu cleanup efforts. The team is expected to dig holes to bury around 15,000 chickens from Takada farm, the second farm in the town to be hit by bird flu.

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(4)Gov't eyes legal action against Kyoto firm over bird flu

TAMBA, Japan - Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada (R) speaks to reporters after visiting the operator of a farm hit by an outbreak of bird flue in the town of Tamaba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 4.

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(3)Gov't eyes legal action against Kyoto firm over bird flu

TAMBA, Japan - Photo taken March 4 shows Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm (center left), where tens of thousands of chickens died due to bird flu.

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(4)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Kyoto prefectural government officials wearing protective suits cull chickens at the Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 4.

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(2)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - A woman covers her mouth as she walks by a masked policeman near Takada poultry farm where bird flu virus was detected in a preliminary test on dead chickens.

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(3)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - A tourist disinfects her shoes before she gets on a bus to leave a lodging facility in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 4. The facility was temporarily closed because bird flu virus was detected at a poultry farm near it.

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(1)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - A policeman wearing a mask stands guard near Takada poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, after the bird flu virus was detected in a preliminary test on dead chickens at the farm. The farm is located near Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm, where an outbreak of bird flu occurred last month.

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(4)Bird flu scare in Japan

TAMBA, Japan - Hideaki Asada, president of Asada Nosan, leaves the company's Funai poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, by car on March 1. The farm reportedly planned to ship all its chickens to a chicken processor even though birds had been dying there in large numbers.

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Chickens disposed of at Kyoto farm

TAMBA, Japan - Kyoto prefectural workers on March 1 prepare to dispose of chickens that died of bird flu at Asada Nosan Co.'s Funai farm in the town of Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture. Chickens on the farm started dying en masse Feb. 20.

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(4)Kyoto poultry farm disinfected after mass deaths

TAMBA, Japan - A Kyoto prefectural government staffer sprays disinfectant at the Asada Nosan Funai Nojo poultry farm in Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture, Feb. 28 after the discovery of an outbreak of bird flu there that has killed thousands of chickens.

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(2)Bird flu detected in Kyoto, 10,000 chickens dead

KYOTO, Japan - About 10,000 chickens have died over the past week at a chicken farm (shown in photo) in the town of Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture. Preliminary tests found some of the dead birds had avian influenza, the prefectural government said Feb. 27.

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(1)Bird flu detected in Kyoto, 10,000 chickens dead

KYOTO, Japan - About 10,000 chickens have died over the past week at a chicken farm (shown in photo) in the town of Tamba, Kyoto Prefecture. Preliminary tests found some of the dead birds had avian influenza, the prefectural government said Feb. 27.