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Strong quakes hit western Japan

Photo taken on Jan. 6, 2026, shows a partially collapsed ceiling in the city hall of Yonago in the western Japan Prefecture of Tottori, after powerful earthquakes hit the region earlier in the day.

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Strong quakes hit western Japan

JR Yonago Station in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, is closed after railway services were suspended following a series of earthquakes in Tottori and Shimane prefectures, western Japan, on Jan. 6, 2026.

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Princess Kako's trip to western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako plays maracas to music performed by disabled people in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Sept. 21, 2024, during her trip to the western Japan prefecture. (Pool photo)

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Princess Kako's trip to western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako waves to well-wishers at Yonago airport in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Sept. 21, 2024, as she embarks on a trip to the western Japan prefecture.

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Princess Kako's trip to western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako waves to well-wishers at Yonago airport in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Sept. 21, 2024, as she embarks on a trip to the western Japan prefecture.

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Sign language contest in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako arrives at the venue of a national high school sign language contest in the Tottori Prefecture city of Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 22, 2024.

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Sign language contest in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako speaks in sign language during the opening ceremony of a national high school sign language contest in the Tottori Prefecture city of Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 22, 2024.

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Sign language contest in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako speaks in sign language during the opening ceremony of a national high school sign language contest in the Tottori Prefecture city of Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 22, 2024.

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Sign language contest in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako speaks in sign language during the opening ceremony of a national high school sign language contest in the Tottori Prefecture city of Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 22, 2024.

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Japanese Princess Kako in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako chats with high school students scheduled to take part in a national sign language contest in the western Japan city of Yonago on Sept. 21, 2024.

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Japanese Princess Kako in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako chats with high school students scheduled to take part in a national sign language contest in the western Japan city of Yonago on Sept. 21, 2024.

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Sign language contest in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako arrives at the venue of a national high school sign language contest in the Tottori Prefecture city of Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 22, 2024.

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Sign language contest in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako speaks in sign language during the opening ceremony of a national high school sign language contest in the Tottori Prefecture city of Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 22, 2024.

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Sign language contest in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako speaks in sign language during the opening ceremony of a national high school sign language contest in the Tottori Prefecture city of Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 22, 2024.

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Sign language contest in western Japan

Japanese Princess Kako speaks in sign language during the opening ceremony of a national high school sign language contest in the Tottori Prefecture city of Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 22, 2024.

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Spider lilies in western Japan

Spider lilies are in full bloom at ruins of Kamiyodo Haiji temple in Yonago in western Japan's Tottori Prefecture on Sept. 29, 2023.

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Spider lilies in western Japan

Spider lilies are in full bloom at ruins of Kamiyodo Haiji temple in Yonago in western Japan's Tottori Prefecture on Sept. 29, 2023.

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Manga character guide panels in Tottori Pref.

TOTTORI, Japan - Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai (C) poses for photos with characters of the comic series "Gegege no Kitaro" holding guide panels at the Tottori prefectural office in Tottori City on June 23, 2014. The panels are set to be installed along a road connecting Yonago and Sakaiminato.

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Lily festival in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - A lily festival featuring rare lilies from across Japan begins at Tottori Hanakairo Flower Park in Nanbu, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on June 21, 2014.

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Snow crab fishermen head out to sea as fishing season starts

YONAGO, Japan - Sent off by family members and other well-wishers, a Japanese snow crab boat heads out to sea from Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture on Aug. 31 as the fishing season for snow crab in the Sea of Japan starts on Sept. 1. According to the fishermen's cooperative in Sakaiminato, Japan's largest crab fishing port, the volume of snow crabs caught in the Sea of Japan has been declining gradually partly due to over-trapping. To conserve the snow crab population, snow crab fishermen in Japan have imposed a ceiling on the volume of snow crabs to be caught starting this year. Fishermen are also required to use trapping baskets with 9.5-centimeter rings to enable smaller crabs to escape when trapped. Japanese fishermen caught 10,952 tons of crabs in the Sea of Japan last year, 60 percent of them snow crab.

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Salvia flowers paint Tottori park in red

YONAGO, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Salvia flowers bloom in red at the Tottori Hanakairo flower park in Nambu, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 22, 2018.

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Princess Kako makes speech using sign language

YONAGO, Japan, Sept. 22 Kyodo - Princess Kako, the 20-year-old second daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko, uses a sign as she makes a speech at a national sign language performance event for high school students in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, in western Japan on Sept. 22, 2015.

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Over 2 mil. tourists visit Mizuki road in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - Tourists and "yokai" (demon) characters created by manga artist Shigeru Mizuki pose for photos at Mizuki Shigeru Road in the city of Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 28, 2014, during an event to commemorate the number of the tourists having surpassed the 2 million mark for five straight years. The shopping district features bronze statues of more than 150 yokai characters.

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Kitaro hangs New Year decoration on bronze statue

YONAGO, Japan - A person in a costume of Kitaro, the main character in the "GeGeGe no Kitaro" comic series, helps put a New Year ornament on the bronze statue of another character on Mizuki Shigeru Road in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Dec. 26, 2014. The western Japan city is the birthplace of comic author Shigeru Mizuki.

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Comic character effigy gets New Year sacred rope

YONAGO, Japan - Workers put a sacred Shinto rope of rice straw around the neck of a huge stone figure of the "GeGeGe no Kitaro" comic character as a customary New Year decoration in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Dec. 25, 2014. The western Japan city is the birthplace of comic author Shigeru Mizuki.

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Year-end event in Yonago to clear lies by eating tofu

YONAGO, Japan - A young boy puts a piece of paper after writing lies he told this year into a post set up next to a huge tofu in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan, on Dec. 6, 2014. The event was held based on a local tradition that liars are forgiven if they eat tofu at the end of the year.

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Capybaras enjoy hot bath in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - A pair of capybaras warms themselves in a hot bath, brought from a nearby hot spring facility, at Daisen Tom-Sawyer Pasture in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 1, 2014.

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Shrine displays lucky people's wooden plaques

YONAGO, Japan - A visitor to Kamochi Shrine in Hino, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, examines wooden plaques dedicated by lottery winners and other lucky people on Nov. 19, 2014. The Shinto shrine, whose name can be read as "kanemochi" or the rich, has opened a corner to display such plaques.

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Tottori Flower Gallery illuminated with 1 mil. lights

YONAGO, Japan - Flowers and trees at Tottori Flower Gallery (Hanakairo) in the town of Nambu, Tottori Prefecture, are illuminated with some 1 million electric lights on Nov. 18, 2014. The popular winter illuminations in the western Japan park will open to the public from Nov. 21.

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Some 1 mil. lights illuminate Tottori Flower Gallery

YONAGO, Japan - Visitors savor the atmosphere of Tottori Flower Gallery (Hanakairo) in the town of Nambu, Tottori Prefecture, as some 1 million electric lights illuminate the western Japan park on Nov. 18, 2014, prior to its public opening on Nov. 21.

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Competition held for piling 'geta' wooden clogs

YONAGO, Japan - Participants pile up "geta" wooden clogs in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Nov. 9, 2014, during a competition to heap up the signature footwear of a main character in the popular comic series "GeGeGe no Kitaro" authored by Shigeru Mizuki, a native of the western Japanese city.

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Tottori students win comic strip contest

KOCHI, Japan - This three-panel comic strip drawn by a group of students from Yonago High School in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, is awarded the top prize on Nov. 3, 2014, in a manga contest held for students in Tottori and Kochi prefectures, both of which boast of being the hometowns to great cartoon artists. Under the designated theme "47th place," the winning manga highlights how Tottori's population remains the least among Japan's 47 prefectures.

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About 500 Mandarin ducks arrive in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - Some 500 Mandarin ducks fly to the Hino River in the town of Hino in Tottori Prefecture, known as a popular stopover for the birds in the wintering season, on Oct. 31, 2014.

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TV personality Imoto's photo exhibition starts in Tottori Pref.

YONAGO, Japan - Popular TV personality Ayako Imoto's photo exhibition starts on Oct. 29, 2014, at Shoji Ueda Museum of Photography in her hometown of Hoki, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan.

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Comic lovers sit for exam on monster knowledge

YONAGO, Japan - Characters from the popular comic series "GeGeGe no Kitaro" cheer on participants in a quiz on the ghostly monsters drawn by Shigeru Mizuki on Oct. 26, 2014, in the author's hometown of Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan.

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Old purses burned for good fortune at wealth-tied shrine

YONAGO, Japan - Some 250 old purses are burned in a good fortune-inviting ritual at Kamochi Shrine in Hino, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 25, 2014, with the Shinto shrine considered a lucky place for its name associated with "kanemochi" or wealthy people.

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Infants in ancient costumes parade at west Japan temple

YONAGO, Japan - Many infants clad in ancient costumes walk with their parents in a procession on the approach to the Daisen-ji Buddhist temple on the slopes of the Daisen mountain in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, as part of the temple's autumn festival on Oct. 24, 2014.

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Luxury ship from Shanghai calls at western Japan port

YONAGO, Japan - Some 3,500 passengers aboard the luxury liner Mariner of the Seas from Shanghai, China, are welcomed by citizens in Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Oct. 23, 2014, as it calls at the western Japan port on the Japan Sea for the first time. Over 90% of the passengers are Chinese.

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Season's 1st group of Bewick's swans arrives for wintering

YONAGO, Japan - Bewick's swans gather at a water bird sanctuary in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 12, 2014, the first group of swans to arrive in the wintering season.

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1st group of Bewick's swans arrives in western Japan

YONAGO, Japan - Bewick's swans fly to a water bird sanctuary in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Oct. 12, 2014, the first group of swans to arrive in the wintering season.

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Giant youth FW Hatanaka to join Tottori top team

TOTTORI, Japan - Gainare Tottori's youth team forward Makito Hatanaka (2nd from R), who stands 203cm, and General Manager Masayuki Okano (far L) attend a press conference on Sept. 30, 2014, in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture. Hatanaka will join the J3 club's top team from the next season and become the tallest Japanese J-League player.

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Salvia flowers paint Tottori park in red

YONAGO, Japan - Salvia flowers blooming in red cover a hill at the Tottori Hanakairo (flower corridor) park in Nanbu, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 27, 2014.

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'GeGeGe no Kitaro' mascots parade for traffic safety

YONAGO, Japan - Mascot characters from the popular comic series "GeGeGe no Kitaro" parade through the streets of Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Sept. 23, 2014, with kindergarten students during an autumn campaign for road safety. The series' author, Shigeru Mizuki, grew up in the western Japanese city.

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Pictures of scenery, masks displayed on JR train

YONAGO, Japan - Workers affix pictures of local scenery and masks used in the "Iwami Kagura" Shinto sacred dance to a JR Sanko Line train at a rail yard in Yonago, western Japan, on Sept. 21, 2014.

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Comic character costume contest held in western Japan

YONAGO, Japan - Participants dressed up as characters from "GeGeGe no Kitaro," a popular comic series, pose in Sakaiminato, Shimane Prefecture, for a costume contest on Sept. 20, 2014. Its author, Shigeru Mizuki, hails from the western Japan city.

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Fantastic mythological artwork looms on resort path

YONAGO, Japan - A spectacular mythological scene drawn with special fluorescent paint looms at night when lit by black light on a coastal path at the Kaike hot spring resort in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 12, 2014, as part of an event linked to a myth set in the region.

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Black light-lit painting at western Japan hot spring resort

YONAGO, Japan - A mythological scene drawn with special fluorescent paint becomes visible at night when lit by black light on a coastal path at the Kaike hot spring resort in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 12, 2014, as part of an event linked to a myth set in the region.

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Mother, children eat red snow crab meat

YONAGO, Japan - A mother and her children eat the season's first red snow crab meat on Sept. 7, 2014, at the port city of Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on the Sea of Japan.

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Season's 1st red snow crabs landed at western Japan port

YONAGO, Japan - The season's first red snow crabs are put in containers on Sept. 6, 2014, after being landed at the port of Sakaiminato in Tottori Prefecture, western Japan, on the Sea of Japan coast.

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Bus with comic characters runs in author's hometown

YONAGO, Japan - A bus decorated with the paintings of comic characters is shown together with the family of "Gegege no Kitaro," a phantom boy created by comic artist Shigeru Mizuki, in his hometown of Sakaiminato, Tottori Prefecture, on Sept. 4, 2014. The "Hama Loop Bus" is operated by the western Japan city.