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Flying vehicle test flight field

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2026, shows a field to be used for test flight of a flying vehicle in Yamaguchi, western Japan, unveiled to the media by SkyDrive, based in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. The scheduled demonstration flight on the day was canceled due to strong wind.

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Flying vehicle test flight field

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2026, shows a field to be used for test flight of a flying vehicle in Yamaguchi, western Japan, unveiled to the media by SkyDrive, based in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. The scheduled demonstration flight on the day was canceled due to strong wind.

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Flying vehicle test flight field

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2026, shows a field to be used for test flight of a flying vehicle in Yamaguchi, western Japan, unveiled to the media by SkyDrive, based in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture. The scheduled demonstration flight on the day was canceled due to strong wind.

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Loco regains original luster by volunteer repair

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - An old steam locomotive regains its original luster thanks to repair work by volunteers at a park in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on Nov. 16, 2014. Local children used to call the engine a "ghost loco" due to its serious damage from long exposure to weather.

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2 air refueling tankers arrive at Iwakuni from Futenma

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The second KC-130, a U.S. Marine aerial refueling tanker transferring from Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture, arrives at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on July 15, 2014.

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2 air refueling tankers arrive at Iwakuni from Futenma

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The first KC-130, a U.S. Marine aerial refueling tanker transferring from Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture, is parked at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on July 15, 2014.

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WWII manned torpedo model shown at memorial museum

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A full-scale model of the "Kaiten" manned torpedo is exhibited outside the Kaiten Memorial Museum on Ozushima Island in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on June 24, 2014, the 70th anniversary of the start of a suicide mission from the island during the closing days of World War II.

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Remains of suicide torpedo training base conserved

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The remains of a training base for "Kaiten" manned torpedo pilots on Ozushima Island in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, are photographed on June 24, 2014.

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Photos of suicide torpedo pilots shown at memorial museum

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The photos of 145 "Kaiten" torpedo pilots and maintenance crew members who died during World War II are put on the walls of the Kaiten Memorial Museum on Ozushima Island in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on June 24, 2014.

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WWII manned torpedo model on show at JR station

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A scale model of the "Kaiten" manned torpedo and a large panel depicting its design and suicide mission in World War II are displayed at the Shinkansen bullet train line's Tokuyama Station in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, on July 2, 2014.

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'Time studies' lectured at Japanese university

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Makoto Akashi, a professor at the Research Institute for Time Studies at Yamaguchi University, lectures on the mechanisms of the biological clock in Yamaguchi, western Japan, on April 18, 2014, as he promotes the subject of "time studies" as a new interdisciplinary area.

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Locomotive resumes roundtrip service in Yamaguchi Pref.

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The steam locomotive "SL Yamaguchi" resumes roundtrip service between Shin-Yamaguchi and Jifuku stations on the JR Yamaguchi Line in Yamaguchi Prefecture on March 21, 2014. The train had operated service only one way between these stations from November 2013 after services on the line were partially suspended due to torrential rain damage sustained in July 2013.

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Heavy rain in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2013, shows railway track on the JR Yamaguchi Line severed by a swollen river after heavy rain in Yamaguchi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Heavy rain in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on July 29, 2013, shows railway track on the JR Yamaguchi Line severed by a swollen river after heavy rain in Yamaguchi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Heavy rain in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken on July 29, 2013, shows railway track on the JR Yamaguchi Line severed by a swollen river after heavy rain in Yamaguchi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Heavy rain in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A road is flooded by a swollen river after heavy rain in the city of Yamaguchi, western Japan, on July 28, 2013.

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Heavy rain in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A residential area is flooded after heavy rain in the city of Yamaguchi, western Japan, on July 28, 2013.

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U.S. military imposes curfew on all personnel in Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken at 7:50 p.m. on Oct. 19, 2012, shows an area in front of a gate of the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The U.S. military in Japan imposed the same day a nighttime curfew on all of its personnel, effective immediately, following the alleged rape by two U.S. sailors of a Japanese woman in Okinawa.

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66-cm-long tiger puffer fish

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A researcher measures the length of a tiger puffer fish at the prefectural fisheries research center in the city of Yamaguchi on May 9, 2012. The center said the same day that the female fish, which was captured off Yamaguchi Prefecture, was 66 centimeters long and weighed 6.1 kilograms.

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Death penalty for murder

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 20, 2012, shows flowers and other items placed at the door of an apartment in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where Yayoi Motomura, 23, and her 11-month-old daughter Yuka were murdered by Takayuki Otsuki, then 18, in 1999. The Supreme Court on the day upheld a lower court sentence of capital punishment for Otsuki.

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Human torpedo Kaiten

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 10, 2011 shows the head of the human torpedo Kaiten, which is on exhibit at a city cultural center in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Kaiten is the former Imperial Japanese Navy's suicide attack weapon, a regular torpedo remodeled to allow space for a soldier and automatically launch from a submarine to attack an enemy ship.

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Chemical plant explosions in Yamaguchi Pref.

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows firefighting operations under way on Nov. 14, 2011, the day after explosions occurred at a plant of chemical maker Tosoh Corp. in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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Chemical plant explosions in Yamaguchi Pref.

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows firefighting operations under way on Nov. 14, 2011, the day after explosions occurred at a plant of chemical maker Tosoh Corp. in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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Heavy rain wreaks havoc in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - An aerial view shows a residential area in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, surrounded by flood water on July 15, 2010, following torrential rain which mainly hit western Japan.

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Heavy rain wreaks havoc in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A wide area is flooded around JR Asa Station in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 15, 2010, following torrential rain which mainly hit western Japan.

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Heavy rain wreaks havoc in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A wide area is flooded around JR Asa Station in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 15, 2010, following torrential rain which mainly hit western Japan.

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Heavy rain wreaks havoc in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A wide area is flooded around JR Asa Station in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 15, 2010, following torrential rain which mainly hit western Japan.

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U.S. military begins operating new Iwakuni runway

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A U.S. fighter lands on a new runway at the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture on May 29, 2010. The U.S. military began operating the offshore runway the same day.

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U.S. military begins operating new Iwakuni runway

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - An airplane of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force lands on a new runway at the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture on May 29, 2010. The U.S. military began operating the offshore runway at the base, which is jointly used by the MSDF, the same day.

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Mosaic made of 120,000 smiling face photos sets Guinness record

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - In this photo taken Dec. 31, 2009, residents of the city of Nagato in Yamaguchi Prefecture celebrate the completion of a portrait of a poet from the prefecture made of 120,000 photos of smiling faces. The portrait was certified as the world's largest photo mosaic by the Guinness Book of World Records on Jan. 8, 2010.

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6 killed, 8 missing in Yamaguchi, Tottori due to heavy rain

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Muddy water flows near a nursing home for the elderly in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, after it was hit by mudslides caused by heavy rain on July 21.

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Ancient whaling reenacted in Yamaguchi whaling festival

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The ancient Japanese method of whaling is reenacted at a whaling festival in Kayoi, a former whaling town in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on July 21. Using a 13-meter-long water-spouting whale model, participants in the festival showed how ancient Japanese whalers corner a whale with the use of nets and spears.

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14 taken to hospital after ship explosion

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A photo taken on July 10 shows the Panamanian-registered car carrier Gruz, in which 14 people suffered burns and were taken to hospital following an explosion in the engine room. The 45,000-ton ship is berthed at a dockyard of Shin Kasado Dockyard Co., a shipbuilder and ship-repair firm based in Kudamatsu, Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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Iwakuni city to hold plebiscite on relocation of U.S. fighters

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Katsusuke Ihara, mayor of the city of Iwakuni, briefs reporters at the city office in Iwakuni on Feb. 2 on a plebiscite to ask citizens whether they would accept a plan to relocate U.S. carrier-borne airplanes from Atsugi base near Tokyo.

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2 dead in boat accident off Yamaguchi

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Two people were found dead in an overturned fishing boat in the sea off Yamaguchi Prefecture on Nov. 22, the Japan Coast Guard said. Photo shows the 4-ton Kazuyoshi-Maru No. 3 (bottom), found some 20 kilometers off Hofu in the same prefecture, being towed. As the boat had damage marks on it, the coast guard is investigating the possibility of a hit-and-run incident.

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Death toll from Typhoon Nabi rises to 9, 14 missing

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The Sanyo Expressway in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, is seen cut out by landslides caused by Typhoon Nabi on Sept. 7. The death toll from the typhoon rose to nine, with 14 people missing mainly in western and southwestern Japan.

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Teen sent to prosecutors over school blast

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A car carrying an 18-year-old male high school student is about to leave a police station in Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on June 12. The boy was sent to public prosecutors over the explosion at a high school that injured 58 students.

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500 hours achieved in biomass power generation

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Chugai Ro Co., an Osaka-based industrial furnace manufacturer, succeeded in generating electricity with biomass fuels for 500 consecutive hours, one of the longest records in the world, at a test facility in Yamaguchi, western Japan, company officials said on Feb. 4.

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Shimonoseki-Busan sea route marks centenary of ferry service

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The Japanese ferry Hamayu, operated by Kampu Ferry Co., at Shimonoseki Port in Yamaguchi Prefecture.

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Marines conduct drill to dispose of suspicious objects

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The U.S. Marine Corps in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, opens to reporters on Nov. 26 a drill in which marines operate a remote-controlled robot to dispose of suspicious explosive objects.

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Grass-burning held on Japan's largest limestone plateau

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - An annual grass-burning event is held on Japan's largest limestone plateau Feb. 23 in Akiyoshi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The burning, to help new grass sprout, heralds the arrival of spring.

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4 killed as car collides with train in Yamaguchi

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A wrecked car lies on the railways following a collision with a train at a JR Sanyo Line crossing in Hofu, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Dec. 16. All four persons in the car, two adults and two children, were killed.

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Data on Japanese emigrants to Hawaii to be available online

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - The Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii, located in Oshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, will next month launch a research service to allow the emigrants' descendants to obtain information on their ancestors who sailed to the Pacific islands in the late 19th century. The museum will post information online on about 29,000 Japanese who emigrated to Hawaii to work in the sugar industry between 1885 and 1894, under a government-led program during the Meiji Period (1868-1912).

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Tanker capsizes after colliding with freighter in Yamaguchi

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - A small tanker capsizes Nov. 23 after colliding with a foreign freighter at a wharf in Tokuyama, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The tanker's three crew members were rescued and taken to hospital. Oil has been leaking from the 199-ton tanker Hosei Maru since the 11:30 a.m. collision with the 26,400-ton freighter Copilco.