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New Japan Coast Guard patrol boat Soya

The Japan Coast Guard's new patrol vessel, the icebreaker Soya, arrives at Kushiro port in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 28, 2025. The 4,200-ton vessel replaced the JCG's oldest patrol vessel with the same name, which was decommissioned in November after traveling about 1.91 million kilometers, equivalent to 48 trips around the Earth, during 47 years of operation.

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New Japan Coast Guard patrol boat Soya

The Japan Coast Guard's new patrol vessel, the icebreaker Soya, arrives at Kushiro port in Kushiro in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Dec. 28, 2025. The 4,200-ton vessel replaced the JCG's oldest patrol vessel with the same name, which was decommissioned in November after traveling about 1.91 million kilometers, equivalent to 48 trips around the Earth, during 47 years of operation.

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Sumo association marks 100th anniversary

A ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Japan Sumo Association's founding is held at the Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena in Tokyo on Dec. 23, 2025. About 800 people, including grand champions Onosato and Hoshoryu, attended the ceremony commemorating the establishment of the association's predecessor organization on Dec. 28, 1925.

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Sumo association marks 100th anniversary

Japan Sumo Association head Hakkaku (3rd from L) and two grand champions -- Onosato (2nd from L) and Hoshoryu (3rd from R) -- open the cask during a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the association's founding at the Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena on Dec. 23, 2025. About 800 people attended the ceremony commemorating the establishment of the association's predecessor organization on Dec. 28, 1925.

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Passenger ferry resumes between Shanghai and 2 Japanese cities

Photo taken on June 28, 2025, shows a ferry at a port in Shanghai ahead of its departure to Osaka, Japan, with around 30 Chinese passengers aboard. Commercial services between Shanghai and Osaka, and between Shanghai and Kobe resumed the same day for the first time in about five years, following a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Drone illumination ahead of World Exposition

About 500 drones fly in the night sky in Tokyo's Toyosu area on March 28, 2025, to create an illumination showing the image of Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, ahead of the start on April 13 of the event in the western Japan city.

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Drone illumination ahead of World Exposition

About 500 drones fly in the night sky in Tokyo's Toyosu area on March 28, 2025, to create an illumination showing the image of Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, ahead of the start on April 13 of the event in the western Japan city.

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Drone illumination ahead of World Exposition

About 500 drones fly in the night sky in Tokyo's Toyosu area on March 28, 2025, to create an illumination showing the image of Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, ahead of the start on April 13 of the event in the western Japan city.

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Photos of WWII Japanese soldiers

Photo taken on July 28, 2024, at Misaka shrine in the western Japan city of Yamaguchi. During World War II, photos of Japanese soldiers were sent to the shrine by family members as it was believed that doing so would help the photographed person dodge bullets and survive. The shrine has been trying to return the photos to the families since the end of the war but about 14,000 photos still remain.

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Kyoto tour boat with 30 aboard capsized

Tomoya Toyota, head of the Hozugawa Yusen Kigyo Kumiai river cruise operator, meets the press to explain how a boat overturned in the Hozu River on March 28, 2023, in Kyoto Prefecture's Kameoka, western Japan. One of the company's traditional tourist boats capsized the same day, after becoming stranded while on a cruise with about 30 people on board.

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Kyoto tour boat with 30 aboard capsized

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 28, 2023, shows a traditional wooden tourist boat that capsized in the Hozu River in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, after becoming stranded while on a popular river cruise with about 30 people on board.

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Kyoto tour boat with 30 aboard capsized

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 28, 2023, shows a traditional wooden tourist boat that capsized in the Hozu River in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, after becoming stranded while on a popular river cruise with about 30 people on board.

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Kyoto tour boat with 30 aboard stranded

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on March 28, 2023, shows a traditional wooden tourist boat that capsized in the Hozu River in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, after becoming stranded while on a popular river cruise with about 30 people on board.

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Kyoto tour boat with 30 aboard stranded

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a traditional wooden tourist boat that capsized in the Hozu River in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 28, 2023 after becoming stranded while on a popular river cruise with about 30 people on board.

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Kyoto tour boat with 30 aboard stranded

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a traditional wooden tourist boat that capsized in the Hozu River in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, on March 28, 2023 after becoming stranded while on a popular river cruise with about 30 people on board.

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Butter shortage felt at supermarkets

TOKYO, Japan - A major Tokyo supermarket puts up a notice limiting shoppers to one pack of butter each at a time on Nov. 28, 2014, due to unstable supply caused by the shortage of raw milk. But dairy firms have promised to increase their butter supply about 33% in December ahead of the Christmas shopping season.

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Overnight Osaka-Sapporo train

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a Twilight Express train at JR Osaka Station in western Japan on May 28, 2014. West Japan Railway Co. said the same day that the train, its luxurious overnight express train linking Osaka with Sapporo, known for the longest travel distance in Japan, will finish service in the spring of 2015 due to the aging of the rolling stock produced about 40 years ago. It began operations in July 1989.

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Chinese scholar returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Zhu Jianrong, a professor of Chinese politics and diplomacy at Toyo Gakuen University, at Tokyo's Haneda airport following his return from China on Feb. 28, 2014, after about seven months. The Japan-based Chinese scholar was detained by Chinese authorities in July 2013 on suspicion of illegal intelligence-gathering activities.

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Deserted city near Chernobyl plant

PRIPYAT, Ukraine - Photo taken Sept. 28, 2013, shows a woman who returned by herself in 1997 to her home about 20 kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine after being forced to evacuate due to the 1986 disaster.

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Common seals in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Fishermen pull in a net in the Pacific Ocean about 1.5 kilometers off Cape Erimo in Hokkaido on Aug. 28, 2013, after the season for catching autumn salmon with fixed nets began.

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Okinawa municipalities against Ospreys

TOKYO, Japan - Naha Mayor Takeshi Onaga (2nd from L in front row) and other leaders of about 30 municipalities in Okinawa Prefecture hold a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 28, 2013. They handed a petition to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calling on him to rescind the Japanese government's approval of the deployment of Osprey transport aircraft at a U.S. base in the island prefecture.

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Train malfunction

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows passengers moving from a train to elevated tracks of the JR Keiyo Line in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. A malfunction caused the train to stall on the tracks, forcing some 1,500 passengers to walk along the tracks for about 1 kilometer, according to its operator East Japan Railway Co., or JR East.

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Train malfunction

TOKYO, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows passengers moving from a train to elevated tracks of the JR Keiyo Line in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2012. A malfunction caused the train to stall on the tracks, forcing some 1,500 passengers to walk along the tracks for about 1 kilometer, according to its operator East Japan Railway Co., or JR East.

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Tokyo child facility to close

TOKYO, Japan - File photo in July 2000 shows the National Children's Castle, a large-scale children's facility in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. The facility will close down at the end of March 2015 due partly to the aging of the building, where programs aimed at nurturing children have been offered for about 30 years, government officials said on Sept. 28, 2012.

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1 and a half years after quake

SENDAI, Japan - Combination photos from a Kyodo News helicopter show an area in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on March 28, 2011 (top), after the March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake, and about one and a half years later on Sept. 3, 2012 (bottom).

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English-Japanese dictionary of crime lingo compiled

MATSUE, Japan - Masayoshi Yamada (R), a professor emeritus at Shimane University, is pictured with copies of an English-Japanese dictionary with about 3,000 entries on crime and law enforcement terms (front) he has compiled, in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on May 28, 2012.

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Poster project to support disaster-hit areas

MIYAKO, Japan - About 150 people gather for a photo shoot in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Jan. 28, 2012, for the poster project ''A Beacon of Rebirth'' which aims to support the reconstruction of areas hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The levee in the back was swallowed by the tsunami on March 11, 2011. The proceeds from sales of the posters will be donated to disaster-hit municipalities.

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Kumamoto's bear mascot wins popularity contest

KUMAMOTO, Japan - ''Kuma-mon'' -- a black bear mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan -- receives a hug from Gov. Ikuo Kabashima at the entrance of the prefectural government office on Nov. 28, 2011. The governor congratulated the mascot for his winning of a popularity contest between about 350 local mascots the previous day.

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Kumamoto's bear mascot wins popularity contest

KUMAMOTO, Japan - ''Kuma-mon'' -- a black bear mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan -- is congratulated by local people at the entrance of the prefectural government office on Nov. 28, 2011. The mascot won a popularity contest between about 350 local mascots the previous day.

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Paper lanterns in Iwate Pref.

MIYAKO, Japan - Residents of temporary housing units in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, for people affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami craft paper lanterns using milk cartons on July 28, 2011. They plan to light up about 2,000 lanterns on Aug. 11 to mark five months since the disaster, around the Obon holiday season in mid-August.

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Sony Chairman Stringer

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Sony Corp. Chairman and President Howard Stringer. Stringer apologized to shareholders and customers on June 28, 2011, over a massive data leak involving about 100 million accounts, mainly of its PlayStation gaming systems.

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Sony shareholders' meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Sony Corp. shareholders enter a building for a meeting in Tokyo on June 28, 2011. During the meeting, Sony Chairman and President Howard Stringer apologized for a massive data leak involving about 100 million accounts mainly of its PlayStation gaming systems.

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Residents seek nighttime flight ban at U.S. base in Okinawa

OKINAWA, Japan - Plaintiffs and their supporters holding a banner that reads ''give us back our peaceful nights,'' enter the Okinawa branch of the Naha District Court to file a lawsuit demanding a nighttime flight ban at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture on April 28, 2011. About 22,000 residents around the base filed the noise pollution suit, also demanding compensation from the Japanese government.

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JAL to ax about 170 pilots, flight attendants

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. President Masaru Onishi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2010. Onishi announced that the struggling airline will dismiss about 170 pilots and flight attendants.

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JAL to ax about 170 pilots, flight attendants

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines Corp. President Masaru Onishi (L), beside Chairman Kazuo Inamori, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 28, 2010. Onishi announced that the struggling airline will dismiss about 170 pilots and flight attendants.

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Japanese youth at Shanghai World Expo

SHANGHAI, China - A Chinese man who appears to be a security guard blocks Japanese reporters from taking photos of Japanese youth at the Shanghai World Expo on Oct. 28, 2010. A group of about 680 youth are on a stay to promote exchanges with Chinese youth after their trip was postponed due to a bilateral spat stemming from maritime collisions near the disputed Senkaku Islands.

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Japanese youth at Shanghai World Expo

SHANGHAI, China - A group of about 680 Japanese youth leave the China Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo on Oct. 28, 2010. They are on a stay to promote exchanges with Chinese youth after their trip was postponed due to a bilateral spat stemming from maritime collisions near the disputed Senkaku Islands.

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Japanese youth at Shanghai World Expo

SHANGHAI, China - A group of about 680 Japanese youth leave the China Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo on Oct. 28, 2010. They are on a stay to promote exchanges with Chinese youth after their trip was postponed due to a bilateral spat stemming from maritime collisions near the disputed Senkaku Islands.

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Japanese youth at Shanghai World Expo

SHANGHAI, China - A Chinese man who appears to be a security guard blocks Japanese reporters from taking photos of Japanese youth at the Shanghai World Expo on Oct. 28, 2010. A group of about 680 youth are on a stay to promote exchanges with Chinese youth after their trip was postponed due to a bilateral spat stemming from maritime collisions near the disputed Senkaku Islands.

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Shipments of square watermelons begin in Kagawa Prefecture

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Workers at an agricultural cooperative in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, check square-shaped watermelons on June 28, 2010, before shipment. The cooperative will ship about 600 of the watermelons, mainly for use in display, with a price tag of about 10,000 yen.

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Kawasaki Heavy gets order for Washington subway cars

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows an illustration of subway cars Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. plans to sell to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority in the United States. Kawasaki Heavy said May 28, 2010, it has been unofficially awarded an order worth about $880 million to deliver 428 subway cars.

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Apple's iPad goes on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Masayoshi Son (R), chairman and chief executive officer of Softbank Corp., a parent company of Softbank Mobile Corp., shakes hands with a customer who bought an Apple iPad at Softbank Mobile's Omotesando outlet in Tokyo's Shibuya district on May 28, 2010, the first day of sales for the product in Japan. Apple Inc. began selling the iPad the same day in Japan at about 180 Apple stores, major electronics retailers and Softbank Mobile Corp. branches.

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Apple's iPad goes on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People hold up their purchased Apple iPad at Softbank Mobile Corp.'s Omotesando outlet in Tokyo's Shibuya district on May 28, 2010. Apple Inc. began selling the iPad the same day in Japan at about 180 Apple stores, major electronics retailers and Softbank Mobile Corp. branches.

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Apple's iPad goes on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People enter an Apple store in Osaka's Chuo Ward on May 28, 2010, to buy Apple Inc.'s iPad. Apple began selling the iPad the same day in Japan at about 180 Apple stores, major electronics retailers and Softbank Mobile Corp. branches.

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Chile quake death toll rises to over 700

SANTIAGO, Chile - A destroyed pedestrian overpass is seen at a closed international airport in a suburb near Santiago on Feb. 28, 2010, a day after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake hit the country. About 500,000 homes were reportedly seriously damaged with the death toll climbing over 700.

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Fire destroys 10 shops in Osaka arcade

OSAKA, Japan - A midday fire rages at a shopping center in Daito, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 28, 2001. The fire, possibly triggered by a propane gas cylinder, destroyed about 10 shops but no one was reported injured.

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Governors visit Abe assassination site

Governors from about 20 prefectures in Japan pray on July 28, 2022, during a visit to the site of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination in Nara. Abe was shot while delivering an election campaign speech on July 8.