Koyo to enter binary cycle generation business

Koyo to enter binary cycle generation business

UNZEN, Japan - Koyo Electronic Co. President Yoshihiro Yamamoto (R) speaks at a press conference in Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, on June 24, 2014. The company announced its decision to enter the binary cycle power generation business using facilities in the southwestern Japanese city.

Crown prince attends tree planting festival in Nagasaki

Crown prince attends tree planting festival in Nagasaki

UNZEN, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (R) cuts a branch of a cypress tree planted by Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko in 1990 at Hyakkadai forest park in Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Oct. 4, 2009. The prince later attended this year's national tree planting ceremony at prefectural Hyakkadai park.

Japanese hot-spring area makes 'happi' coats for Obama family

Japanese hot-spring area makes 'happi' coats for Obama family

NAGASAKI, Japan - The proprietress of a Japanese-style inn Yumiko Kusano (2nd from L) and three members of a tourism association in the Obama hot-spring area of Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, pose Jan. 14 wearing and showing blue ''happi'' coats. They specially made them for U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters to celebrate his upcoming inauguration. Kusano is secretary general of the group ''Change Obama no kai (Change Obama association)'' which consists of proprietresses and other local people. The group tailored the Japanese coats, with ''President Obama'' written on one of the collars and ''Nagasaki, Obama Hot Spring'' on the other in white for the couple, getting their measurements via the Internet.

China's Li visits volcanic eruption-hit area in Nagasaki

China's Li visits volcanic eruption-hit area in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - China's senior Communist Party leader Li Ruihuan (fourth from left, wearing glasses) visits a memorial park which shows houses and facilities damaged by a 1991 volcanic eruption of Mt. Fugen in Unzen, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Dec. 16. Li, ranked fourth in the Chinese Communist Party, was winding up his nine-day tour of Japan with the visit to the foot of Mt. Fugen.