Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

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)

E

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)

E

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)

E

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)

E

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.

E

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.

E

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.

E

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.

E

Queen Elizabeth in Japan in 1975+

TOBA, Japan, Sept. 9 Kyodo - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visit a pearl processing house in Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 11, 1975.

E

Queen Elizabeth in Japan in 1975+

TOBA, Japan, Sept. 9 Kyodo - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (R) and Prince Philip (2nd from L) watch "ama" female divers hunting for pearl oysters in waters off Toba, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on May 11, 1975.