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Arimori runs in Angkor Wat half marathon

SIEM REAP, Cambodia - Japanese Olympic medalist marathoner Yuko Arimori (L) runs in the 19th Angkor Wat International Half Marathon in Siem Reap in northwestern Cambodia on Dec. 7, 2014, to call for the elimination of antipersonnel mines.

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Arimori runs with kid in Angkor Wat half marathon

SIEM REAP, Cambodia - Japanese Olympic medalist marathoner Yuko Arimori (C) runs with a child in the 19th Angkor Wat International Half Marathon in Siem Reap in northwestern Cambodia on Dec. 7, 2014, to support a ban on antipersonnel mines.

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Half marathon at Angkor relics

SIEM REAP, Cambodia - Japanese two-time Olympic women's marathon medalist Yuko Arimori (front R) runs in an international half marathon at the Angkor Watt relics in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 4, 2011. The event was held at the World Heritage site area to call for abolition of antipersonnel land mines.

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Japan eliminates stockpile of antipersonnel land mines

SHINASAHI, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gives a signal at a ceremony in Shinasahi, Shiga Prefecture, on Feb. 8 to a Hokkaido firm on a satellite hookup to detonate the last 25 mines of about 1 million antipersonnel land mines held by the Self-Defense Forces. Japan thus destroyed its land mine stockpile in line with the Ottawa Treaty.

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Obuchi urged to promote banning of land mines

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) is urged in Tokyo on March 1 by Chisa Shibata (R), a 5th-year primary school pupil in Aichi Prefecture, to promote the banning of land mines. Shibata, who won the top prize in a poster contest in Japan to ban land mines, delivered her work to the prime minister. An international treaty banning the use, production and storage of antipersonnel land mines went into effect the same day.

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Obuchi meets Hun Sen

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) meets Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Tokyo on Feb. 26. Obuchi reaffirmed Japan's cooperation on the removal of antipersonnel land mines in Cambodia.

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Japan ratifies land mine treaty

Hisashi Owada, Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations, (L) files ratification instruments for a global treaty banning antipersonnel land mines with an unidentified U.N. official at the U.N. Headquarters on Wednesday Sept. 30. Japan is the 43rd nation to ratify the treaty, which will come into effect March 1.

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Japan eliminates stockpile of antipersonnel land mines

SHINASAHI, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gives a signal at a ceremony in Shinasahi, Shiga Prefecture, on Feb. 8 to a Hokkaido firm on a satellite hookup to detonate the last 25 mines of about 1 million antipersonnel land mines held by the Self-Defense Forces. Japan thus destroyed its land mine stockpile in line with the Ottawa Treaty. (Kyodo)

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Japan's former peacekeeper says security bills "halfway measures"

Ryoji Takayama, who served as a battalion commander aide-de-camp on the Japanese Self-Defense Forces' first deployment to U.N. peacekeeping operations in Cambodia in 1992, shows a dummy antipersonnel mine during a speech in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2015. Takayama said that while he believes it necessary for Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense to be able to fully take part in international community obligations, the government's package of national security bills are "halfway measures" that merely seek to comply with U.S. expectations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Half marathon at Angkor relics

SIEM REAP, Cambodia - Japanese two-time Olympic women's marathon medalist Yuko Arimori (front R) runs in an international half marathon at the Angkor Watt relics in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 4, 2011. The event was held at the World Heritage site area to call for abolition of antipersonnel land mines. (Kyodo)

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Chiba Univ. group produces robot to detect land mines

CHIBA, Japan - A Chiba University research group unveils on Feb. 22 a prototype of a spider-like robot that can detect antipersonnel land mines by remote control. The group, led by Kenzo Nonami, professor at the state-run university's engineering faculty, plans to put the 120-kilogram machine into mass production.

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SDF, Asahi Chemical begin destroying land mines

SHINASAHI, Japan - Photo shows the ''explosion dome'' of Asahi Chemical Industry Co. in Shinasahi, Shiga Prefecture, where the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) and Asahi began destroying nearly one million antipersonnel land mines belonging to the SDF on Jan. 17. The action is in line with an international treaty that bans the devices.

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Japan begins destroying land mines

SHINASAHI, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (2nd from L) pushes a button sending a signal to destroy antipersonnel land mines belonging to the Self-Defense Forces (SDF), in a ceremony held Jan. 17 at an Air Self-Defense Force base located next to an ''explosion dome'' in Shinasahi, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. The action was taken under the 1997 Ottawa treaty to ban antipersonnel land mines, which took effect in March last year. The SDF and Asahi Chemical Industry Co., which has been commissioned for the task, will destroy nearly one million antipersonnel land mines belonging to the SDF by 2003.

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