MSDF destroyer visits port in Darwin

MSDF destroyer visits port in Darwin

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yahagi is anchored off a port in Darwin, Australia, on June 6, 2025.

MSDF destroyer visits port in Darwin

MSDF destroyer visits port in Darwin

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yahagi is anchored off a port in Darwin, Australia, on June 6, 2025.

Japan PM Kishida visits dam

Japan PM Kishida visits dam

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) visits Yahagi dam in Ena, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, on July 8, 2024. (Pool photo)

(BEIJING2022)CHINA-BEIJING-OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY (CN)

(BEIJING2022)CHINA-BEIJING-OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY (CN)

(220204) -- BEIJING, Feb. 4, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Torch bearer Yahagi Masashi runs with the torch during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Torch Relay at the Grand Canal Forest Park in Tongzhou District of Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 4, 2022. (Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao)

Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 39

Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 39

39 Okazaki - A daimyo's cort觥 crossing the bridge over the Yahagi River towards the village and castle on the further bank; in the background a blue hill, printed from colour blocks only. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, was born in the castle shown in the prints. The bridge over the Yahagi River, flowing west of the castle, was the largest on the entire highway. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

Impromptu collaboration by award-winning artist, calligrapher

Impromptu collaboration by award-winning artist, calligrapher

A piece of impromptu artwork on a set of Japanese "fusuma" papered sliding doors by artist and TV personality Tsurutaro Kataoka and calligrapher Shunkei Yahagi is shown at an award ceremony in Kochi, southwestern Japan, on March 27, 2015. Kataoka received the award for 2015, commemorating 19th-century master calligrapher Yukei Teshima, and Yahagi was given a special award at the ceremony. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo