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Campaigning starts for general election

USUKI, Japan - Tadatomo Yoshida, chief of the opposition Social Democratic Party, makes a speech in Usuki in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Oita on Dec. 2, 2014, the first day of official campaigning for the Dec. 14 lower house election.

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Visitors watch stone Buddhas lit by bonfire

USUKI, Japan - Visitors view stone Buddha sculptures under the light of a bonfire in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 30, 2014.

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Ex-wrestler Ueda dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2002 shows former Japanese wrestler Umanosuke Ueda. Ueda died at a hospital in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. He was 71.

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Itai picked as Japan entrant for Miss Universe 2010 pageant

TOKYO, Japan - Maiko Itai (2nd from R) wipes tears after being named Miss Japan at a hotel in Tokyo on March 9, 2010. Itai, who lives in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, was picked from 11 contestants in the final round of the Japanese beauty pageant, which had about 4,000 applicants, and will go to the Miss Universe 2010 beauty pageant in July.

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Itai picked as Japan entrant for Miss Universe 2010 pageant

TOKYO, Japan - Maiko Itai reacts after being named Miss Japan at a hotel in Tokyo on March 9, 2010. Itai, who lives in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, was picked from 11 contestants in the final round of the Japanese beauty pageant, which had about 4,000 applicants, and will go to the Miss Universe 2010 beauty pageant in July.

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Nobuo Otsuki, Japan's oldest person to file tax returns online

OITA, Japan - Nobuo Otsuki (photo), a chartered accountant in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, who continues to run an accountancy business at age 101, joined the ranks of people filing tax returns online Oct. 25 and filed his first tax returns with the use of a personal computer. Officials at the local tax office, who helped him through the online tax filing procedures, said Otsuki is the oldest person in Japan to file tax returns by PC. Japanese tax authorities began accepting online tax returns in 2004.

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Japanese wooden barrel recognized as world's biggest

OITA, Japan - A wooden barrel, measuring nine meters in both height and diameter, is displayed in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on June 15 after being recognized as the world's largest brewing barrel by Guinness World Records in April. The barrel, made by a soy sauce association in the prefecture in 2002, can produce about 300,000 1.8-liter bottles of soy sauce at one time.

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Oita soy ass'n applies to Guinness for largest barrel

USUKI, Japan - A soy sauce association in Kyushu, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 13 submitted an application with the Guinness World Records book, saying it has built the world's largest wooden barrel (right in photo) for brewing purposes. Officials of the Oita soy sauce cooperative association said their Canadian white-cedar barrel measures about 9 meters both in diameter and height and weighs 45 tons, with a cubic capacity of 540 kiloliters.

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Japanese, Dutch crown princes mark ties' 400th anniversary

USUKI, Japan - Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander (C, foreground) and Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (to Dutch prince's left) attend a ceremony marking the 400th anniversary of relations between Japan and the Netherlands in Usuki, Oita Prefecture on April 19. Some 450 people from the two countries participated in the ceremony.

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Usuki gets sculpture of Dutch ship

OITA, Japan - Dutch sculptor Louise Helianthe van Meurs (L) presents Usuki, Oita Prefecture, Mayor Kunitoshi Goto (R) and Toru Matsuzaki, president of the Usuki Junior Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on April 18 with a sculpture she made of the Liefde, a Dutch ship which exactly 400 years ago ran ashore in Usuki's harbor. The event is largely credited with opening ties between Japan and the Netherlands.

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10th anniversary of 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Elementary school students shelter under their desks during an earthquake emergency drill in the Oita Prefecture city of Usuki, southwestern Japan, on March 11, 2021, the 10th anniversary of the earthquake-tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan.

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Japanese wooden barrel recognized as world's biggest

OITA, Japan - A wooden barrel, measuring nine meters in both height and diameter, is displayed in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on June 15 after being recognized as the world's largest brewing barrel by Guinness World Records in April. The barrel, made by a soy sauce association in the prefecture in 2002, can produce about 300,000 1.8-liter bottles of soy sauce at one time. (Kyodo)

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Nobuo Otsuki, Japan's oldest person to file tax returns online

OITA, Japan - Nobuo Otsuki (photo), a chartered accountant in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, who continues to run an accountancy business at age 101, joined the ranks of people filing tax returns online Oct. 25 and filed his first tax returns with the use of a personal computer. Officials at the local tax office, who helped him through the online tax filing procedures, said Otsuki is the oldest person in Japan to file tax returns by PC. Japanese tax authorities began accepting online tax returns in 2004. (Kyodo)

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Itai picked as Japan entrant for Miss Universe 2010 pageant

TOKYO, Japan - Maiko Itai (2nd from R) wipes tears after being named Miss Japan at a hotel in Tokyo on March 9, 2010. Itai, who lives in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, was picked from 11 contestants in the final round of the Japanese beauty pageant, which had about 4,000 applicants, and will go to the Miss Universe 2010 beauty pageant in July. (Kyodo)

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Itai picked as Japan entrant for Miss Universe 2010 pageant

TOKYO, Japan - Maiko Itai reacts after being named Miss Japan at a hotel in Tokyo on March 9, 2010. Itai, who lives in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, was picked from 11 contestants in the final round of the Japanese beauty pageant, which had about 4,000 applicants, and will go to the Miss Universe 2010 beauty pageant in July. (Kyodo)

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Visitors watch stone Buddhas lit by bonfire

USUKI, Japan - Visitors view stone Buddha sculptures under the light of a bonfire in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Aug. 30, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Ex-wrestler Ueda dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2002 shows former Japanese wrestler Umanosuke Ueda. Ueda died at a hospital in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, on Dec. 21, 2011. He was 71. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant swims in a river while carrying the Olympic flame in Usuki in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 24, 2021. (Kyodo)(Pool photo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional swimming event in southwestern Japan

Two men swim in a traditional Japanese swimming event while writing calligraphy off Keireigahama beach in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 3, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional swimming event in southwestern Japan

Men swim in a traditional Japanese swimming event as each holds a sign with a kanji character that together mean "the passing of the Olympic torch flame" off Keireigahama beach in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 3, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional swimming event in southwestern Japan

A man swims with a huge flag in a traditional Japanese swimming event off Keireigahama beach in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 3, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional swimming event in southwestern Japan

A man swims with a huge flag in a traditional Japanese swimming event off Keireigahama beach in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 3, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Traditional swimming event in southwestern Japan

A man swims with a huge flag in a traditional Japanese swimming event off Keireigahama beach in Usuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 3, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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'Love' station in southwestern Japan

Photo taken March 14, 2019, shows a station name sign at JR Usuki Station in the southwestern Japan city and the city's tourism promotion mascot character. The station name contains the Japanese word "suki" meaning "like or love," which is expressed on the sign with an illustration of a heart with an arrow shot by Cupid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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'Love' station in southwestern Japan

Photo taken March 14, 2019, shows a station name sign at JR Usuki Station in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The station name contains the Japanese word "suki" meaning "like or love," which is expressed on the sign with an illustration of a heart with an arrow shot by Cupid. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Campaigning begins for Oct. 22 lower house election

Tadatomo Yoshida, leader of the Social Democratic Party, makes a speech in Usuki, Oita Prefecture on Oct. 10, 2017, the first day of official campaigning for the Oct. 22 House of Representatives election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant crosses a river after swimming there while carrying the torch in Usuki in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 24, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant crosses a river after swimming there while carrying the torch in Usuki in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 24, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

People gather at a riverside in Usuki in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 24, 2021, to watch a Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant swimming in a river while carrying the torch.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant (C) swims in a river while carrying the Olympic flame in Usuki in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 24, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay participant swims in a river while carrying the Olympic flame in Usuki in Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on April 24, 2021.

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Oita soy ass'n applies to Guinness for largest barrel

USUKI, Japan - A soy sauce association in Kyushu, southwestern Japan, on Dec. 13 submitted an application with the Guinness World Records book, saying it has built the world's largest wooden barrel (right in photo) for brewing purposes. Officials of the Oita soy sauce cooperative association said their Canadian white-cedar barrel measures about 9 meters both in diameter and height and weighs 45 tons, with a cubic capacity of 540 kiloliters. (Kyodo)

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Japanese, Dutch crown princes mark ties' 400th anniversary

USUKI, Japan - Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander (C, foreground) and Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (to Dutch prince's left) attend a ceremony marking the 400th anniversary of relations between Japan and the Netherlands in Usuki, Oita Prefecture on April 19. Some 450 people from the two countries participated in the ceremony.

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Usuki gets sculpture of Dutch ship

OITA, Japan - Dutch sculptor Louise Helianthe van Meurs (L) presents Usuki, Oita Prefecture, Mayor Kunitoshi Goto (R) and Toru Matsuzaki, president of the Usuki Junior Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on April 18 with a sculpture she made of the Liefde, a Dutch ship which exactly 400 years ago ran ashore in Usuki's harbor. The event is largely credited with opening ties between Japan and the Netherlands.