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RECAP: Typhoon Peipah Brings Heavy Rain, Flooding, and Tornado Damage Across Japan

Typhoon Peipah made landfall in Japan on Friday, September 5, first near Sukumo City in Kochi Prefecture before dawn and again in northern Wakayama Prefecture around 9 a.m., bringing heavy rain and flooding across western to eastern regions. In Shizuoka Prefecture, a tornado linked to the storm caused major damage in Makinohara, Yoshida, and Yaizu, toppling buildings, ripping apart greenhouses, and overturning trucks.

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Japan: Typhoon Peipah Triggers Suspected Tornadoes in Shizuoka, Injuring Residents 3

Severe weather linked to Typhoon Peipah brought suspected tornado damage to Makinohara City, Kakaegawa City, Yoshida Town, and Yaizu City in Shizuoka Prefecture on Friday, September 5. 23 people were injured, some seriously, and over 200 homes were damaged.

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Japan: Typhoon Peipah Triggers Suspected Tornadoes in Shizuoka, Injuring Residents 2

Severe weather linked to Typhoon Peipah brought suspected tornado damage to Makinohara City, Yoshida Town, and Yaizu City in Shizuoka Prefecture on Friday, September 5. Buildings suffered collapsed walls, damaged roofs, and overturned trucks, while agricultural greenhouses were blown apart. In Yaizu’s Fujimori district, a man in his 40s working inside a strawberry greenhouse was injured when it was torn away, suffering facial fractures. He was hospitalized but conscious. Other injuries from broken glass were also reported.

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Japan: Typhoon Peipah Triggers Suspected Tornadoes in Shizuoka, Injuring Residents

Severe weather linked to Typhoon Peipah brought suspected tornado damage to Makinohara City, Yoshida Town, and Yaizu City in Shizuoka Prefecture on Friday, September 5. Buildings suffered collapsed walls, damaged roofs, and overturned trucks, while agricultural greenhouses were blown apart. In Yaizu’s Fujimori district, a man in his 40s working inside a strawberry greenhouse was injured when it was torn away, suffering facial fractures. He was hospitalized but conscious. Other injuries from broken glass were also reported.

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Child psychiatrist helps troubled parents

TOKYO, Japan - Child psychiatrist Ikuko Natsukari, whose mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia, speaks about the troubled relationship between her parents in front of her mental health clinic in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014. Natsukari and her husband, also a psychiatrist, opened the clinic after persuading local residents to drop their opposition to it.

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59th anniv. of Bikini Atoll test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Marshall Islands Senator Kenneth Kedi speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on March 1, 2013. Protesters called for the elimination of nuclear weapons at the rally held on the 59th anniversary of the exposure of a Japanese tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in 1954.

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Antinuclear rally

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a 78-year-old former crew member of the trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1, 2012. Antinuclear activists called for an end to reliance on nuclear power at the rally on the 58th anniversary of the exposure of the tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954.

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Remote-controlled breakwater

SHIZUOKA, Japan - An experimental remote-controlled breakwater rises from the sea floor in a demonstration at a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 17, 2011. Its developer Hitachi Zosen Corp. aims to introduce the new device to coastal zones where conventional breakwaters have not been installed, due to marine traffic or scenery preservation, to counter high tides or tsunami.

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Remote-controlled breakwater

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 17, 2011, shows an experimental remote-controlled breakwater unveiled to the press at a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Its developer Hitachi Zosen Corp. said the device is designed to rise from the sea floor to counter high tides or tsunami.

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Japan city offers Bikini Atoll peace city alliance

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Hiroshi Shimizu (L), mayor of the city of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, and Bikinian mayor Alson Kelen shake hands in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific, on Aug. 20, 2011. The Japanese mayor offered Bikini Atoll an alliance to promote bids for peace building by the two municipalities which have been affected by U.S. nuclear tests since the mid-20th century.

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Shrine damaged by Shizuoka quake

SHIZUOKA, Japan - A ''torii'' gate collapses at Oi Hachimangu Shrine in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Aug. 11 after a strong earthquake hit the prefecture southwest of Tokyo and its vicinity the same day.

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Shizuoka pier damaged by quake

YAIZU, Japan - Children point at a fissure in a pier of the Kogawa fish market in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, caused by a strong earthquake on Aug. 11. The quake hit the prefecture southwest of Tokyo and its vicinity the same day.

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Fishermen in Japan stay ashore to appeal over high oil costs

YAIZU, Japan - A fish market in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, is quiet July 15 as all member fishermen of the Japan Fisheries Cooperatives and 16 other major fisheries groups in Japan suspended operations in an attempt to raise public awareness of the predicament they face due to soaring fuel costs.

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March held in Shizuoka to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - About 1,000 people march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture on March 1, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons in commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Yaizu-based Japanese fishing ship by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. A march participant carried a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, the ship's chief radio operator who died six months after the irradiation at the age of 40 and became a symbol of the 1954 incident.

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Peace march held to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - People march in the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, after holding a rally to mark the 52nd anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Japanese fishing ship in 1954 by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

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Peace march commemorates 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb blast

YAIZU, Japan - People march through the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to mark the 51st anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of the fishing ship Fukuryu Maru No. 5 in 1954 by fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

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(5)Survivors mark 50th anniversary of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - John Anjain, who was the community leader of Rongelap Island when the U.S. tested the hydrogen bomb ''Bravo'' at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, speaks at an assembly in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, to mark the 50th anniversary of the test.

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(2)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses.

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(3)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses.

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(1)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. About 2,000 people marched to the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, who was chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru.

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(4)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. Photo shows the Fukuryu Maru displayed at Yumenoshima in Tokyo's Koto Ward.

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Emperor, empress release fish fry into sea

YAIZU, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L, front) and Empress Michiko (R) release fry of red sea bream and other fish into the sea from a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, during a national marine festival on Oct. 28.

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Protesters march in Japan for nuclear abolition

Holding a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, who died of irradiation after a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954, a woman and fellow antinuclear group members march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Kuboyama was one of the crew members of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, that was exposed to radioactive fallout near the Bikini Atoll on the same day 45 years ago.

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Peace march commemorates 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb blast

YAIZU, Japan - People march through the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to mark the 51st anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of the fishing ship Fukuryu Maru No. 5 in 1954 by fallout from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo)

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Fishermen in Japan stay ashore to appeal over high oil costs

YAIZU, Japan - A fish market in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, is quiet July 15 as all member fishermen of the Japan Fisheries Cooperatives and 16 other major fisheries groups in Japan suspended operations in an attempt to raise public awareness of the predicament they face due to soaring fuel costs. (Kyodo)

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Bikini Atoll H-bomb test survivor Misaki dies at 90

Photo taken March 2004 shows Yoshio Misaki, chief fisherman aboard a Japanese boat irradiated in a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands. It was reported on March 18, 2016, that Misaki died the previous day of pneumonia at a hospital in his hometown of Yaizu, central Japan, at 90. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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62 yrs since Lucky Dragon hit by hydrogen bomb test

Demonstrators march through the central Japan city of Yaizu on March 1, 2016, to commemorate Aikichi Kuboyama, a crew member of Fukuryu Maru No. 5, known as the Lucky Dragon, who died after the tuna fishing boat encountered U.S. hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands 62 years ago. The participants call for elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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62 yrs since Lucky Dragon hit by hydrogen bomb test

Demonstrators march through the central Japan city of Yaizu on March 1, 2016, to commemorate Aikichi Kuboyama, a crew member of Fukuryu Maru No. 5, known as the Lucky Dragon, who died after the tuna fishing boat encountered U.S. hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands 62 years ago. The participants called for elimination of nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's wheelchair basketball players in Paralympic selection process

Japan wheelchair basketball head coach Shimpei Oikawa (C) talks to his players during a training camp in the central Japan city of Yaizu on Dec. 12, 2015. Twelve members out of around 30 will qualify for the national team for the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics in September 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's wheelchair basketball players in Paralympic selection process

Japan's wheelchair basketball players compete during a training camp in the central Japan city of Yaizu on Dec. 12, 2015. Twelve members out of around 30 will qualify for the national team for the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics in September 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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March held in Shizuoka to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

SHIZUOKA, Japan - About 1,000 people march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture on March 1, calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons in commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Yaizu-based Japanese fishing ship by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. A march participant carried a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, the ship's chief radio operator who died six months after the irradiation at the age of 40 and became a symbol of the 1954 incident. (Kyodo)

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Peace march held to mark 1954 Bikini Atoll H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - People march in the fishing town of Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, after holding a rally to mark the 52nd anniversary of the irradiation of the crew of a Japanese fishing ship in 1954 by a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. (Kyodo)

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Antinuclear rally

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Matashichi Oishi, a 78-year-old former crew member of the trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5, speaks during a rally in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1, 2012. Antinuclear activists called for an end to reliance on nuclear power at the rally on the 58th anniversary of the exposure of the tuna fishing boat to radiation from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954. (Kyodo)

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Japan city offers Bikini Atoll peace city alliance

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - Hiroshi Shimizu (L), mayor of the city of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan, and Bikinian mayor Alson Kelen shake hands in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific, on Aug. 20, 2011. The Japanese mayor offered Bikini Atoll an alliance to promote bids for peace building by the two municipalities which have been affected by U.S. nuclear tests since the mid-20th century. (Kyodo)

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Child psychiatrist helps troubled parents

TOKYO, Japan - Child psychiatrist Ikuko Natsukari, whose mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia, speaks about the troubled relationship between her parents in front of her mental health clinic in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 6, 2014. Natsukari and her husband, also a psychiatrist, opened the clinic after persuading local residents to drop their opposition to it. (Kyodo)

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Remote-controlled breakwater

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 17, 2011, shows an experimental remote-controlled breakwater unveiled to the press at a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Its developer Hitachi Zosen Corp. said the device is designed to rise from the sea floor to counter high tides or tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Remote-controlled breakwater

SHIZUOKA, Japan - An experimental remote-controlled breakwater rises from the sea floor in a demonstration at a port in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Nov. 17, 2011. Its developer Hitachi Zosen Corp. aims to introduce the new device to coastal zones where conventional breakwaters have not been installed, due to marine traffic or scenery preservation, to counter high tides or tsunami. (Kyodo)

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(1)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. About 2,000 people marched to the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, who was chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru. (Kyodo)

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(2)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses. (Kyodo)

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Japan's party leaders campaign for Oct. 22 lower house election

A crowd listens to stump speeches in Yaizu, in central Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 11, 2017, the second day of official campaigning for the Oct. 22 House of Representatives election.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's party leaders campaign for Oct. 22 lower house election

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, greets the crowd after giving a stump speech in Shizuoka Prefecture's Yaizu, central Japan, on Oct. 11, 2017, the second day of official campaigning for the Oct. 22 House of Representatives election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's party leaders campaign for Oct. 22 lower house election

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a stump speech in Yaizu, in central Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 11, 2017, the second day of official campaigning for the Oct. 22 House of Representatives election. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: U.S.-Japan WBC semifinal

A public viewing event is held in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 22, 2017, as Japan played a World Baseball Classic's semifinal against the United States at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The United States won 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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63rd anniv. of Lucky Dragon tragedy

Anti-nuclear weapon campaigners march through the central Japan city of Yaizu on March 1, 2017, the 63rd anniversary of the radiation exposure of the tuna fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, also known as the Lucky Dragon, in a U.S. hydrogen bomb test in the Marshall Islands. The crew of the boat, based in Yaizu, suffered acute radiation sickness, and chief radio operator Aikichi Kuboyama died six months later at age 40. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(5)Survivors mark 50th anniversary of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - John Anjain, who was the community leader of Rongelap Island when the U.S. tested the hydrogen bomb ''Bravo'' at Bikini Atoll on March 1, 1954, speaks at an assembly in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, to mark the 50th anniversary of the test. (Kyodo)

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(4)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. Photo shows the Fukuryu Maru displayed at Yumenoshima in Tokyo's Koto Ward. (Kyodo)

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(3)Survivors mark 50th anniv. of Bikini H-bomb test

YAIZU, Japan - Survivors and peace activists on March 1 mark the 50th anniversary of an incident in which 23 crew members of the Japanese trawler Fukuryu Maru No. 5 from Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Rongelap Island residents were irradiated by a blast from a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. People paid tribute at the grave of Aikichi Kuboyama, chief radio operator of the Fukuryu Maru, with red roses. (Kyodo)

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Over 1,000 march in protest of nuclear programs

YAIZU, Japan - Carrying a photograph of Aikichi Kuboyama, who died from radiation injuries sustained in a U.S. thermonuclear testing in the Bikini Atolls in the Marshall Islands in 1954, a woman walks in a march held March 1 to protest nuclear programs in memory of the first Japanese victim of a testing for peaceful use of atomic energy.

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Protesters march in Japan for nuclear abolition

Holding a photo of Aikichi Kuboyama, who died of irradiation after a U.S. hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific in 1954, a woman and fellow antinuclear group members march in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 1 to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Kuboyama was one of the crew members of the Japanese fishing boat Fukuryu Maru No. 5, that was exposed to radioactive fallout near the Bikini Atoll on the same day 45 years ago. ==Kyodo