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Heavy rain in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on July 26, 2024, shows a railway track partially flooded in Yurihonjo in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Akita following heavy rain.

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Japan: Severe Flooding Hits Akita Following Record Heavy Rains

Severe flooding hit Akita on Wednesday, July 24, following heavy rains in the region. Damage to homes due to the flooding were reported in Nikaho, Yurihonjo, Yokote, Yuzawa, and Ugo town. Landslide damage has also been reported in Nikaho, Yurihonjo, and Yokote cities. In Higashiyuri, Yurihonjo City, the 24-hour rainfall up to 6 a.m. on the 25th reached 196.5 mm, equivalent to the average for one month in July, making it the heaviest rainfall on record since statistics began to be collected.

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Japan shale oil extraction

YURIHONJO, Japan - A man holds a beaker containing shale oil, which has undergone centrifuge separation, after being extracted from the Ayukawa oil and gas field in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2012. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. succeeded in the test drilling of shale oil at the field, extracting such oil for the first time in Japan.

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Japan shale oil extraction

YURIHONJO, Japan - Liquid containing shale oil is pumped to the surface at the Ayukawa oil and gas field in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2012. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. succeeded in the test drilling of shale oil at the field, extracting such oil for the first time in Japan.

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Japan shale oil extraction

YURIHONJO, Japan - Photo shows shale oil (upper part of liquid in the beaker) which has undergone centrifuge separation after being extracted from the Ayukawa oil and gas field in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2012. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. succeeded in the test drilling of shale oil at the field, extracting such oil for the first time in Japan.

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Japan shale oil extraction

YURIHONJO, Japan - A man holds a beaker containing shale oil, which has undergone centrifuge separation, after being extracted from the Ayukawa oil and gas field in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2012. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. succeeded in the test drilling of shale oil at the field, extracting such oil for the first time in Japan.

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Japan shale oil extraction

YURIHONJO, Japan - Liquid containing shale oil is pumped to the surface at the Ayukawa oil and gas field in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2012. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. succeeded in the test drilling of shale oil at the field, extracting such oil for the first time in Japan.

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Japan shale oil extraction

YURIHONJO, Japan - Liquid containing shale oil is pumped to the surface at the Ayukawa oil and gas field in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Oct. 3, 2012. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. succeeded in the test drilling of shale oil at the field, extracting such oil for the first time in Japan.

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Japan tests extraction of shale oil

YURIHONJO, Japan - Photo shows the Ayukawa oil and gas field in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2012. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. has begun test extraction of shale oil at the field in the first such trial in Japan.

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Japan tests extraction of shale oil

YURIHONJO, Japan - Photo shows the Ayukawa oil and gas field in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2012. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. has begun test extraction of shale oil at the field in the first such trial in Japan.

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Men Found on Boat in North East Japan Say they came From N. Korea

AKITA, Japan,-Nov. 24 Kyodo - A boat carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea has washed ashore in the north eastern Japan prefecture of Akita, police said Friday. The police received a call from a resident in the city of Yurihonjo around 11:30 p.m. Thursday about suspicious men at the seaside. They later found the men on the wooden boat at a nearby marina. The men had no life-threatening injuries and appeared to speak Korean, the police said. They have been taken into protective custody. Hachiro Okonogi, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, told reporters after a Cabinet meeting that the men have said they were fishing before the boat broke down and washed ashore. In November 2015 a wooden boat drifted ashore in the city of Noshiro in Akita and skeletal remains of two men were found inside the vessel and nearby.

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Battery train makes 22-kilometer round trip

A train carriage powered by 600 size D batteries runs in the city of Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeaster Japan, on Nov. 3, 2015. The train carrying nine people completed a 22.615-kilometer round-trip in two hours and 47 minutes in two hours and 47 minutes at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Battery train makes 22-kilometer round trip

A train carriage powered by 600 size D batteries arrives at a station in the city of Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeaster Japan, on Nov. 3, 2015 after completing a 22.615-kilometer round-trip in two hours and 47 minutes. The train produced by students at Kawagoe Technical High School in Saitama Prefecture carried nine people and ran at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour. Guinness World Records recognized the distance as the first one traveled by a train on batteries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Akita women to apply for "largest thread ball" record with Guinness

Photo taken in March 2015 shows a thread ball, measuring 2.16 meters in diameter and weighing 440 kilograms, in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan. A group of local women spent about half a year creating the ball with a firework motif, using the techniques of Honjo Gotemmari, a thread ball and local folk art. They plan to apply to Guinness World Records for recognition as the world's largest thread ball. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Akita women to apply for "largest thread ball" record with Guinness

Toshiko Abe, 71, head of an association preserving Yurihonjo folk crafts, makes stitches on a thread ball, measuring 2.16 meters in diameter and weighing 440 kilograms, in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, in March 2015. A group of local women led by Abe spent about half a year creating the ball with a firework motif, using the techniques of Honjo Gotemmari, a thread ball and local folk art. They plan to apply to Guinness World Records for recognition as the world's largest thread ball. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsunami-hit high school yacht clubs practice

AKITA, Japan - Members of high school yacht clubs from tsunami-hit Miyagi Prefecture pull a boat from the water after practice in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 4, 2011. Yacht clubs from three high schools in Iwate and Miyagi, who lost all of their yachts in the March 11 devastating tsunami, began camping in the prefecture to prepare for a national competition, using yachts rented or given to them from other high schools. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Part of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay is held in the Koyoshi River in the Akita Prefecture city of Yurihonjo, northeastern Japan, on June 8, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Part of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay is held in the Koyoshi River in the Akita Prefecture city of Yurihonjo, northeastern Japan, on June 8, 2021.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Part of the Tokyo Olympic torch relay is held in the Koyoshi River in the Akita Prefecture city of Yurihonjo, northeastern Japan, on June 8, 2021.

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Men found on boat in northeast Japan say they came from N. Korea

Photo taken Nov. 24, 2017, shows a wooden boat that washed ashore in the city of Yurihonjo in Japan's Akita Prefecture. The boat was carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Missing N. Korean fishing vessel found on seabed

A machine believed to belong to a North Korean fishing boat that has been found at the bottom of the seabed is delivered to a police station in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, on Nov. 28, 2017. The 20-meter-long fishing vessel was found washed ashore on Nov. 23 and eight North Korean men were detained. A day later, the vessel was no longer at the breakwater where it had been moored, possibly due to rough weather. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Missing N. Korean fishing vessel found on seabed

Part of a North Korean fishing boat that has been found on the seabed is lifted by a crane in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Nov. 28, 2017. The 20-meter-long fishing vessel was found washed ashore on Nov. 23 and eight men were detained. A day later, the vessel was no longer at the breakwater where it had been moored, possibly due to rough weather. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Missing N. Korean fishing vessel found on seabed

Part of a North Korean fishing boat that has been found on the seabed is lifted by a crane in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Nov. 28, 2017. The 20-meter-long fishing vessel was found washed ashore on Nov. 23 and eight men were detained. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Boat found may be missing N. Korean vessel

A boat carrying Japanese police searches for a missing North Korean fishing boat on Nov. 28, 2017, off the shores of Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture. The North Korean boat washed ashore the previous week, but later disappeared. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korean fishermen's boat in Japan

A boat carrying Japanese police patrols the sea around Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on Nov. 25, 2017, where a North Korean fishing boat had been moored since the previous day. The police say the boat disappeared after the eight men aboard were taken to a Japanese facility. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Men found on boat in northeast Japan say they came from N. Korea

Photo taken Nov. 24, 2017, shows a wooden boat that washed ashore in the city of Yurihonjo in Japan's Akita Prefecture. The boat was carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Men found on boat in northeast Japan say they came from N. Korea

Photo taken Nov. 24, 2017, shows a wooden boat that washed ashore in the city of Yurihonjo in Japan's Akita Prefecture. The boat was carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Men found on boat in northeast Japan say they came from N. Korea

Photo taken Nov. 24, 2017, shows a wooden boat that washed ashore in the city of Yurihonjo in Japan's Akita Prefecture. The boat was carrying eight men claiming to be fishermen from North Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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