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Japan: Water Shoots 10 Meters Into Air After Pipe Accident

Water erupted from an underground water pipe at an intersection in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture on Thursday morning, February 12, shooting up to around 10 meters and flooding nearby roads, which were closed to traffic. The prefectural authorities said the incident may have been caused by a contractor’s mistake during air valve replacement work.

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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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[Breaking News]Paris Olympics: Skateboarding

PARIS, France, July 22 Kyodo - Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome, gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympics men's street event, practices in the Paris suburbs on July 21, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics. (Kyodo)

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Paris Olympics: Skateboarding

PARIS, France, July 22 Kyodo - Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome, gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympics men's street event, practices in the Paris suburbs on July 21, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics. (Kyodo)

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Paris Olympics: Skateboarding

Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome, gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympics men's street event, practices in the Paris suburbs on July 21, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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Paris Olympics: Skateboarding

Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome, gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympics men's street event, practices in the Paris suburbs on July 21, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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Paris Olympics: Skateboarding

Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome, gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympics men's street event, practices in the Paris suburbs on July 21, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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Paris Olympics: Skateboarding

Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome, gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympics men's street event, practices in the Paris suburbs on July 21, 2024, ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden is welcomed by Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi upon his arrival at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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Flash mob shows danger of smartphone use while walking

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a dancing group from Toyo University perform in a flash mob at Hitotsubashi University in the suburbs of Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2014, with smartphones in their hands to raise awareness about the danger of using them while walking.

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Yokozuna Hakuho mingles with Mongolian youths

TOKYO, Japan - Yokozuna Hakuho from Mongolia plays basketball at Takushoku University's Hachioji Campus in the suburbs of Tokyo in a cultural exchange event with Mongolian students on Dec. 21, 2014. Fellow Mongolian grand champion Kakuryu also attended.

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Fishing boat left abandoned on empty Aral Sea spot

TOKYO, Japan - A fishing boat is left abandoned on a desert created by the recession of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake, in the suburbs of Aral, Kazakhstan, as seen in this file photo take in April 2010.

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Woman hunter runs guesthouse serving game meat

TOKYO, Japan - Satoko Umeno poses at her guesthouse where she hunts for and serves game to visitors in the suburbs of Tottori in western Japan in this file photo taken on Aug. 17, 2014. She moved to Tottori four years ago to become the region's first woman hunter.

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Blackout in Tokyo suburbs

TOKYO, Japan - A police officer controls traffic at an intersection in Hachioji in suburban Tokyo on the night of April 27, 2014, where traffic signals were cut off by a power outage. Around 300,000 homes in suburban Tokyo lost power in the outage.

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Japanese-American Sen. Daniel Inouye dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Washington in March 2011, shows U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye, a Japanese-American Democrat from Hawaii and World War II veteran. Inoue died of respiratory complications on Dec. 17, 2012, at a hospital in the suburbs of Washington. He was 88.

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N. Korea's Kim Jong Il, Japan PM Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - In this file photo taken in May 2004, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi shake hands at the Taedonggang state guesthouse in the suburbs of Pyongyang. North Korea announced Dec. 19, 2011, that Kim Jong Il died on Dec. 17. He was 69.

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Ex-major league pitcher Irabu found dead

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in August 2009 shows Hideki Irabu, former major league pitcher and Japanese professional baseball player. Police said on July 28, 2011, that Irabu was found dead at his home in the suburbs of Los Angeles the previous day.

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Ex major league pitcher Irabu found dead

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows pitcher Hideki Irabu (L) shaking hands with Senichi Hoshino, manager of Hanshin Tigers, during a press conference held in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan in December 2002, to announce that Irabu was joining the team. Police said on July 28, 2011, that the former major leaguer and Japanese professional baseball player was found dead at his home in the suburbs of Los Angeles the previous day.

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Ex major league pitcher Irabu found dead

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows Hideki Irabu of Lotte Marines pitching in a game against Nippon Ham Fighters in which he achieved his 1,000th strikeout, in Chiba, near Tokyo, in May 1996. Police said on July 28, 2011, that the former major leaguer and Japanese professional baseball player was found dead at his home in the suburbs of Los Angeles the previous day.

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Train goes to dogs in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Dog lovers look after their pets on a chartered train operated by Seibu Railway Co. on Nov. 20, 2010. Some 120 people and 65 dogs took part in the train run event between Tokyo's Shinjuku and an amusement park in the suburbs.

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Syria promotes tourism

TOKYO, Japan - People visit the Greek Orthodox Mar Thecla monastery in Maloula in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, on Oct. 1, 2010.

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Tourists enjoy Japanese plum blossoms in full bloom in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Tourists enjoy Japanese plum blossoms in full bloom on March 15 at a park in Ome in the suburbs of Tokyo, where some 1,500 plum trees of 120 kinds are growing.

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Africa's 'Akiba' featuring secondhand goods draws shoppers

TOKYO, Japan - Retailers carry their newly purchased secondhand TV sets at the Alaba International Market in Lagos to sell them in the city's suburbs and other regions in Nigeria.

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Princess Kiko's daughter Mako returns from homestay in Austria

NARITA, Japan - Princess Mako, the 14-year-old daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, returns to Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Aug. 16 from a two-week homestay trip to Austria. The third-year junior high school student stayed at the home of Norbert and Gabriele Orac in the suburbs of Vienna from Aug. 3 to 15.

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Summer holidaymakers' rush starts at airports, roads

HACHIOJI, Japan - The left-side lanes bound for Nagoya from Tokyo are crowded near Hachioji Interchange on Tokyo's western suburbs on Aug. 7 as vacationers begin returning to their hometowns or tourist spots ahead of the traditional ''bon'' holidays.

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UNEP envoy Kato to perform during Johannesburg summit

TOKYO, Japan - Singer and U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) goodwill ambassador Tokiko Kato will hold concerts in the Johannesburg suburbs on Aug. 28 and 29 to promote conservation, organizers said Aug. 17. The city is the site of the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development from Aug. 26 to Sept. 4. Photo was taken when Kato staged concerts with South African musicians in Tokyo in June 2001.

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Nissan to close Murayama factory

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the Murayama car assembly plant of Nissan Motor Co. in Musashimurayama on western Tokyo suburbs which will be closed March 29. The factory has produced 9,682,000 cars during the past 38 years, Nissan said.

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Empress dowager's funeral procession goes to Hachioji

TOKYO, Japan - A hearse carrying the coffin of Empress Dowager Nagako heads to the Musashino Imperial Mausoleum in Hachioji in the western suburbs of Tokyo on July 25, as crowds line the streets to watch the procession. A funeral ceremony was to take place at a site where a mausoleum for the empress dowager is being built. The empress dowager, widow of late Emperor Hirohito, died of old age June 16 at age 97.

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Projectiles reportedly fired toward U.S. Yokota base

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers check the storage site of a construction company in Musashi-Murayama on Tokyo's western suburbs early on the morning of July 4 to investigate an incident in which two projectiles were fired toward the nearby U.S. air force base at Yokota in what appeared to be an attack by radicals opposed to the U.S. military in Japan.

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Priests prepare ground for empress dowager's mausoleum

TOKYO, Japan - Shinto priests pray June 26 for the safety and security of the planned tomb for the late Empress Dowager Nagako, in a ritual at the Musashino Imperial Mausoleum in the western suburbs of Tokyo. The tomb is to take a year to construct and will be located near that of her husband, the late Emperor Hirohito, posthumously called Emperor Showa. The empress dowager died June 16 at the age of 97.

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Emperor marks 10th anniversary of father's death

Emperor Akihito (C) attends a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the death of his father, Emperor Hirohito, at the Musashino Mausoleum in Hachioji in the western suburbs of Tokyo on Jan. 7.

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Court upholds dismissal of antinoise suit against U.S

Representatives of residents living near a U.S. Air Force base in Tokyo's western suburbs hold a press conference on Dec. 25, after the Tokyo High Court rejected their appeal of a noise pollution suit against the U.S. government. The court upheld the lower court's March 1997 decision.

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U.S. Vice President Harris in Japan

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris disembarks from a plane upon her arrival at the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2022.

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U.S. Vice President Harris in Japan

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris (front, C) is greeted by officials as she lands at the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2022.

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U.S. Vice President Harris in Japan

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris waves after stepping out of an aircraft upon her arrival at the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2022.

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U.S. Vice President Harris in Japan

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris disembarks from a plane upon her arrival at the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden leaves Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden departs from the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 24, 2022, following his first visit to Japan since taking office.

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U.S. President Biden leaves Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden departs from the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 24, 2022, following his first visit to Japan since taking office.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

Air Force One with U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) is welcomed by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel upon his arrival at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) arrives at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden (R) arrives at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden (C, R) is welcomed by Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (C, L) upon his arrival at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden (C, R) is welcomed by Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi (C, L) upon his arrival at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden (top C) arrives at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.

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U.S. President Biden in Japan

U.S. President Joe Biden arrives at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in the suburbs of Tokyo on May 22, 2022.