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UBE signage and logo

UBE signage and logo=June 2,2025,Tokyo

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UBE signage and logo

UBE signage and logo=June 2,2025,Tokyo

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UBE signage and logo

UBE signage and logo=June 2,2025,Tokyo

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UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo

UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo=May 14,2025,Tokyo

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UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo

UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo=May 14,2025,Tokyo

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UBE Corporation signage and logo

UBE Corporation signage and logo=December 10,2024,Tokyo

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UBE Corporation signage and logo

UBE Corporation signage and logo=December 10,2024,Tokyo

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Longest-running outdoor sculpture competition

Photo taken on April 24, 2024, shows a sculpture on display in Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Over 200 sculptures are on display outside in the western Japan city, with Ube Biennale, which has a run of 62 years, certified as the longest-running outdoor sculpture competition by Guinness World Records in March.

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Longest-running outdoor sculpture competition

Photo taken on May 2, 2024, shows a sculpture on display in Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Over 200 sculptures are on display outside in the western Japan city, with Ube Biennale, which has a run of 62 years, certified as the longest-running outdoor sculpture competition by Guinness World Records in March.

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Longest-running outdoor sculpture competition

Photo taken on March 26, 2024, shows a sculpture on display at a park in Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Over 200 sculptures are on display outside in the western Japan city, with Ube Biennale, which has a run of 62 years, certified as the longest-running outdoor sculpture competition by Guinness World Records in March.

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Longest-running outdoor sculpture competition

Photo taken on March 26, 2024, shows a sculpture on display at a park in Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Over 200 sculptures are on display outside in the western Japan city, with Ube Biennale, which has a run of 62 years, certified as the longest-running outdoor sculpture competition by Guinness World Records in March.

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Longest-running outdoor sculpture competition

Photo taken on April 24, 2024, shows a sculpture on display at a park in Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Over 200 sculptures are on display outside in the western Japan city, with Ube Biennale, which has a run of 62 years, certified as the longest-running outdoor sculpture competition by Guinness World Records in March.

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UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo

UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo.=Date:December 22, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo

UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo.=Date:December 22, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo

UBE Mitsubishi Cement signage and logo.=Date:December 22, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Evangelion spear in western Japan park

Employees of a local ironworking company who helped build a giant replica of a spear featured in the popular anime series "Evangelion" pose next to their work made of scrap metal in a park in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 6, 2023. Ube is the hometown of Evangelion director Hideaki Anno.

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Evangelion spear in western Japan park

A giant replica of a spear featured in the popular anime series "Evangelion" is displayed in a park in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 6, 2023. Ube is the hometown of Evangelion director Hideaki Anno.

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Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation

Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation=Date:October 2, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation

Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation=Date:October 2, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation

Mitsubishi UBE Cement Corporation=Date:October 2, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Japan's Crown Prince Fumihito

Japan's Crown Prince Fumihito (L) looks at a white-handed gibbon hanging from a tree branch during his visit to Tokiwa Zoo in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on May 24, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Crown Prince Fumihito

Japan's Crown Prince Fumihito (L) looks at a white-handed gibbon high up in a tree during his visit to Tokiwa Zoo in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on May 24, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown prince in Yamaguchi Pref.

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito (R) visits a swan keeping facility at a park in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on May 23, 2023, after attending a general meeting of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums in the western Japan city earlier in the day. (Pool photo)

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Japan crown prince in Yamaguchi Pref.

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks during a general meeting of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums in Ube in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on May 23, 2023. (Pool photo)

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University venture firm demonstrates feeding robot

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A robot designed to help physically disabled people eat meals is demonstrated on Dec. 17, 2014, at the Institute of Biomedical and Welfare Engineering, a venture business set up in the Faculty of Engineering of Yamaguchi University in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan.

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People queue to buy lottery tickets at 'lucky' booth

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - People wait in line to buy lottery tickets at the Kotoshiba Chance Center in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file photo taken in November 2014. The center sold a first prize-winning ticket for the "Yearend Jumbo Lottery" in three of the last four years.

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Western Japan Shinto shrine sells lucky charms

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Charms with attractive "kanji" characters such as "un" for luck and "qi" for life energy written on them are on sale on Dec. 5, 2014, at Kotozaki Hachimangu, a Shinto shrine in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Dreamliner in engine trouble

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo shows a Boeing 787 Dreamliner of All Nippon Airways Co. at Yamaguchi Ube Airport in western Japan on June 12, 2013. ANA canceled a flight from Yamaguchi to Tokyo's Haneda Airport earlier in the day after the aircraft's engine failed to start.

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Kan's homecoming in Ube

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan expresses delight during his homecoming to Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on June 13, 2010. The sign reads ''Welcome home!! Prime Minister Naoto Kan.''

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Mitarai pessimistic on early employment improvement

UBE, Japan - Fujio Mitarai, outgoing president of the Japan Business Federation, speaks at a press conference in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Feb. 18, 2010. The chief of the country's largest business lobby stuck a pessimistic note over an early improvement of employment in the economic downturn.

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Boy arrested for bus hijacking

NAGOYA, Japan - Police officers investigate after a boy was arrested for hijacking a bus operated JR Tokai Bus Co. at Miai parking area on the Tomei Expressway in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, on July 16. The boy, who was in possession of two knives, told the police he was a 14-year-old second grader at a junior high school in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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S. Korean team probes 1942 fatal coal mine accident in Yamaguchi

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Members of a South Korean government delegation check the air duct to a now-defunct undersea coal mine off Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on April 22 as part of their preliminary investigations into a 1942 accident that killed about 130 Korean forced laborers.

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Iraqi boy visits graves of Japanese journalists who helped him

UBE, Japan - Mohamad Haytham Saleh (C), a 10-year-old Iraqi boy whose eye surgery in Japan was arranged by two Japanese freelance journalists -- Shinsuke Hashida and his nephew, Kotaro Ogawa -- slain in May in Iraq, visits Hashida's gave in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 2. On the left is Hashia's wife Yukiko and Mohamad's father is on the right Haytham. Mohamad also visited Ogawa's grave.

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Ashes of journalists slain in Iraq return to Japan hometown

UBE, Japan - Yukiko Hashida (R), wife of Shinsuke Hashida, and Yoko Ogawa, mother of Kotaro Ogawa, speaks to reporters at Ube Airport in Yamaguchi Prefecture on June 9 after arriving there with the ashes of Hashida and Ogawa. Freelance journalist Hashida and his nephew Ogawa were killed in Iraq in May.

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(3)2 Japanese journalists attacked outside Baghdad

UBE, Japan - Mine Hashida, mother of Japanese freelance jhournalist Shinsuke Hashida, speaks with reporters at her house in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on May 28. A carrying Shinsuke and another freelance journalist Kotaro Ogawa was attacked near Baghdad on May 27. The two are feared killed, local officials and the Japanese government said.

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(4)2 Japanese journalists attacked in Baghdad suburb

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Hiroshi Ogawa, father of freelance journalist Kotaro Ogawa, speaks to reporters in front of his house in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, May 28 following reports his son was attacked in a Baghdad suburb the previous day.

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Wilson takes Ube Kosan Open

UBE, Japan - American Dean Wilson celebrates after winning the 140 million yen Ube Kosan golf tournament at Ube 72 Country Club in Yamaguchi on Nov. 4.

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Fujii talks about Ryuo shogi title

Shogi sensation Sota Fujii attends a press conference in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 14, 2021, a day after winning the Ryuo championship to become the youngest player in history to hold four major titles at 19 years and three months.

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Fujii talks about Ryuo shogi title

Shogi sensation Sota Fujii (top R) attends a press conference in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 14, 2021, a day after winning the Ryuo championship to become the youngest player in history to hold four major titles at 19 years and three months.

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Fujii talks about Ryuo shogi title

Shogi sensation Sota Fujii attends a press conference in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 14, 2021, a day after winning the Ryuo championship to become the youngest player in history to hold four major titles at 19 years and three months.

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Fujii becomes youngest shogi player to hold 4 titles

Teenage shogi player Sota Fujii poses at a hotel in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2021, after clinching Ryuo, shogi's most prestigious title, from Masayuki Toyoshima in the fourth match of the best-of-seven series. At 19 years and three months, Fujii, holder of three other major titles -- Oi, Kisei and Eio -- became the youngest player to hold four of the eight major titles at the same time.

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Fujii becomes youngest shogi player to hold 4 titles

Teenage shogi player Sota Fujii speaks at a press conference at a hotel in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2021, after clinching Ryuo, shogi's most prestigious title, from Masayuki Toyoshima in the fourth match of the best-of-seven series. At 19 years and three months, Fujii, holder of three other major titles -- Oi, Kisei and Eio -- became the youngest player to hold four of the eight major titles at the same time.

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Fujii becomes youngest shogi player to hold 4 titles

Teenage shogi player Sota Fujii poses at a hotel in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2021, after clinching Ryuo, shogi's most prestigious title, from Masayuki Toyoshima in the fourth match of the best-of-seven series. At 19 years and three months, Fujii, holder of three other major titles -- Oi, Kisei and Eio -- became the youngest player to hold four of the eight major titles at the same time.

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Fujii becomes youngest shogi player to hold 4 titles

Teenage shogi player Sota Fujii poses at a hotel in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2021, after clinching Ryuo, shogi's most prestigious title, from Masayuki Toyoshima in the fourth match of the best-of-seven series. At 19 years and three months, Fujii, holder of three other major titles -- Oi, Kisei and Eio -- became the youngest player to hold four of the eight major titles at the same time.

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Fujii becomes youngest shogi player to hold 4 titles

Teenage shogi player Sota Fujii (R) reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima at a hotel in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2021, after clinching Ryuo, shogi's most prestigious title, from him in Game 4 of the best-of-seven series. At 19 years and three months, Fujii, holder of three other major titles -- Oi, Kisei and Eio -- became the youngest player to hold four of the eight major titles at the same time. (Pool photo)

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Fujii becomes youngest shogi player to hold 4 titles

Teenage shogi player Sota Fujii reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima at a hotel in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2021, after clinching Ryuo, shogi's most prestigious title, from him in Game 4 of the best-of-seven series. At 19 years and three months, Fujii, holder of three other major titles -- Oi, Kisei and Eio -- became the youngest player to hold four of the eight major titles at the same time. (Pool photo)

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Fujii becomes youngest shogi player to hold 4 titles

Teenage shogi player Sota Fujii reviews his match against Masayuki Toyoshima at a hotel in the Yamaguchi Prefecture city of Ube, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2021, after clinching Ryuo, shogi's most prestigious title, from him in Game 4 of the best-of-seven series. At 19 years and three months, Fujii, holder of three other major titles -- Oi, Kisei and Eio -- became the youngest player to hold four of the eight major titles at the same time. (Pool photo)

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Sept. 3, 2021, after incumbent Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced his decision not to seek re-election as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Sept. 3, 2021, after incumbent Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced his decision not to seek re-election as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.

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Wilson takes Ube Kosan Open

UBE, Japan - American Dean Wilson celebrates after winning the 140 million yen Ube Kosan golf tournament at Ube 72 Country Club in Yamaguchi on Nov. 4.