Child psychiatrist helps troubled parents

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.

Remote-controlled breakwater

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.

Shizuoka pier damaged by quake

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.

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

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.

Protesters march in Japan for nuclear abolition

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.