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Hakodate city suit over MOX reactor

TOKYO, Japan - A June 2013 photo taken from a Kyodo News airplane shows the Oma nuclear power plant (bottom) under construction in Aomori Prefecture. At top is the city of Hakodate, Hokkaido, across the Tsugaru Strait. The city of Hakodate filed a lawsuit on April 3, 2014, against the Japanese state government and Electric Power Development Co. seeking suspension of the construction of a plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor at the Oma plant due to safety concerns.

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Australian swimmer Palfrey

HAKODATE, Japan - Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey (L) and her husband Chris pose for photos in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Sept. 19, 2011, a day before their challenge to swim across the Tsugaru Strait between Japan's largest main island Honshu and northernmost main island Hokkaido. Palfrey, who is trying to achieve solo-swimming across the seven major channels in the world, conquered the Japanese channel, her sixth, on the following day, leaving only one more to go to accomplish the feat called the ''Ocean's Seven.'' Chris Palfrey attempted to cross the Tsugaru Strait via a different route but failed to complete the swim.

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Helicopter salvaged after crash off Aomori

OMA, Japan - A helicopter that crashed July 6 in the Tsugaru Strait off Oma, Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, is salvaged July 10 for an investigation into the cause of the accident. The four people aboard went missing in the accident and the body of one of them -- Hiromitsu Kikuchi, 43, the copilot -- was recovered July 9 by divers from inside the wreckage.

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Adventurer set to cross Tsugaru Strait

HAKODATE, Japan - Adventurer Ken Igarashi poses to photographers July 17 in the seaside of southern Hokkaido. Igarashi, 46, is poised to begin early Sunday a 30-kilometer swim across the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Hokkaido and the largest main island of Honshu.

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Ex-PM Koizumi speaks against Oma nuclear plant construction

Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, on Oct. 29, 2015. He said Hakodate's opposition to Electric Power Development Co.'s nuclear power plant under construction in the town of Oma in Aomori Prefecture, across the Tsugaru Strait, is natural given its geographical proximity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Prime Ministers Koizumi, Hosokawa visit Hakodate

Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (2nd from R) checks the location of the planned Oma nuclear plant located in Aomori Prefecture across the Tsugaru Strait, from the Hakodate municipal office in Hokkaido on Oct. 29, 2015. Earlier, Koizumi and former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa met with Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo. The two former prime ministers are jointly working to eliminate nuclear power generation while Hakodate city filed a lawsuit in April 2014 seeking the suspension of a plan to build the Oma plant, the world's first plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Prime Ministers Koizumi, Hosokawa visit Hakodate

(From L) Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Hakodate Mayor Toshiki Kudo and former Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa speak to reporters at the municipal office in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Oct. 29, 2015, after their talks. The two former prime ministers are jointly working to eliminate nuclear power generation while Hakodate city filed a lawsuit in April 2014 seeking the suspension of a plan to build the Oma nuclear plant, the world's first plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel reactor located in Aomori Prefecture across the Tsugaru Strait. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Survivor recalls 1945 U.S. air raid on cross-strait ferries

Mikio Miura recounts in an interview on July 14, 2015, in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, his terrifying experience as a crew member aboard the No. 6 Seikan Maru, one of 12 ferries linking Aomori and Hakodate across the Tsugaru Strait that were attacked by U.S. planes in July 1945 toward the end of World War II. The attack killed about 400 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakodate mayor reelected

Toshiki Kudo, mayor of the northern Japan city of Hakodate, smiles after being reelected in a mayoral race on April 26, 2015. Kudo has taken the initiative in filing a lawsuit seeking suspension of the construction of a nuclear power plant across the Tsugaru Strait due to safety concerns. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakodate city gathers many signatures against Oma nuke plant

Mayor Toshiki Kudo (L) of Hakodate in Hokkaido Prefecture and local community group leader Tadashi Shinya see in the northern Japanese city on March 20, 2015, a list of signatures from 146,184 people against Electric Power Development Co.'s construction of a nuclear power plant in Oma, Aomori Prefecture, across the Tsugaru Strait. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Helicopter salvaged after crash off Aomori

OMA, Japan - A helicopter that crashed July 6 in the Tsugaru Strait off Oma, Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan, is salvaged July 10 for an investigation into the cause of the accident. The four people aboard went missing in the accident and the body of one of them -- Hiromitsu Kikuchi, 43, the copilot -- was recovered July 9 by divers from inside the wreckage. (Kyodo)

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Australian swimmer Palfrey

HAKODATE, Japan - Australian swimmer Penny Palfrey (L) and her husband Chris pose for photos in Hakodate, Hokkaido, on Sept. 19, 2011, a day before their challenge to swim across the Tsugaru Strait between Japan's largest main island Honshu and northernmost main island Hokkaido. Palfrey, who is trying to achieve solo-swimming across the seven major channels in the world, conquered the Japanese channel, her sixth, on the following day, leaving only one more to go to accomplish the feat called the ''Ocean's Seven.'' Chris Palfrey attempted to cross the Tsugaru Strait via a different route but failed to complete the swim. (Kyodo)

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1964 Tokyo Olympics torch relay

File photo taken in September 1964 shows the Tokyo Summer Olympics torch relay held on the deck of a Japanese ship while crossing the Tsugaru Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido in northern Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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73-year-old man completes 30-km open water swim in northern Japan

Toshio Tominaga celebrates on a ship after successfully completing a 30-kilometer swim between Japan's main island of Honshu and its northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Sept. 7, 2016. The 73-year-old man became the oldest swimmer to achieve the feat of crossing the Tsugaru Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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73-year-old man completes 30-km open water swim in northern Japan

Toshio Tominaga swims off the coast of the town of Fukushima in Hokkaido, northern Japan, during his attempt to complete a 30-kilometer swim between Japan's main island of Honshu and its northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Sept. 7, 2016. The 73-year-old man became the oldest swimmer to achieve the feat of crossing the Tsugaru Strait between Aomori Prefecture and Hokkaido. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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73-year-old man starts 30-km open water swimming in northern Japan

Toshio Tominaga speaks to reporters in the northeastern Japan town of Sotogahama on the morning of Sept. 7, 2016, before starting a 30-kilometer swim between Japan's main island of Honshu and its northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. If he succeeds, the 73-year-old will become the oldest swimmer to achieve the feat of crossing the Tsugaru Strait between Aomori and Hokkaido prefectures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Adventurer set to cross Tsugaru Strait

HAKODATE, Japan - Adventurer Ken Igarashi poses to photographers July 17 in the seaside of southern Hokkaido. Igarashi, 46, is poised to begin early Sunday a 30-kilometer swim across the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Hokkaido and the largest main island of Honshu.

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Adventurer set to cross Tsugaru Strait

HAKODATE, Japan - Adventurer Ken Igarashi poses to photographers July 17 in the seaside of southern Hokkaido. Igarashi, 46, is poised to begin early Sunday a 30-kilometer swim across the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Hokkaido and the largest main island of Honshu.