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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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Rice price futures index's listing

(from L) SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga break a sake cask in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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Ceremony to mark 160th anniv. of Japan-Switzerland diplomatic ties

Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland Yoshinori Fujiyama (L) prepares to break a sake cask during a ceremony in Bern on Feb. 6, 2024, to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Japan and Switzerland.

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Reprocessed nuclear waste arrives in Japan from Britain

AOMORI, Japan - A shipping cask containing vitrified radioactive waste is lifted by crane from a freighter at Mutsu Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on March 9, 2010. The nuclear waste from fuel used in Japanese plants was transported back to Japan after being reprocessed in Britain, the first shipment of its kind to arrive from the country.

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Giants' Hara celebrates his team's Japan Series victory

TOKYO, Japan - Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara raises a cask contributed in commemoration of his team's first Japan Series title in seven years at the club office in Tokyo on Nov. 9, 2009.

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Marukome fetes completion of 1st ever overseas plant in California

LOS ANGELES, United States - Marukome Co. President Tokio Aoki (far left) and other officials crack open a cask of rice wine in a ceremony to dedicate the company's first miso (fermented bean paste) factory in Irvine, California, on Dec. 5. ''I am pleased to be able to contribute to the health of Americans through miso,'' Aoki said at the ceremony.

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Marukome fetes completion of 1st ever overseas plant in Californ

LOS ANGELES, United States - Marukome Co. President Tokio Aoki (far left) and other officials crack open a cask of rice wine in a ceremony to dedicate the company's first miso (fermented bean paste) factory in Irvine, California, on Dec. 5. ''I am pleased to be able to contribute to the health of Americans through miso,'' Aoki said at the ceremony. (Kyodo)

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Japanese sumo wrestlers arrive in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, United States - Mongolian yokozuna (grand champions) Asashoryu (R) and Hakuho (2nd from L) crack open a cask of rice wine in a ceremony at a welcoming party in Los Angeles on June 4. Japanese sumo wrestlers arrived in the U.S. city the same day for an exhibition tour. The two-day event to be held at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena will take place June 7-8, featuring wrestlers from the top-tier makuuchi division in mini tournaments. (Kyodo)

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Nuclear expert von Hippel meets press in Tokyo

Frank von Hippel, a professor emeritus at Princeton University and a former assistant director for national security in the White House Office of Science and Technology, meets the press in Tokyo on June 19, 2015. He suggested dry cask storage as an alternative to spent fuel reprocessing for managing Japan's spent nuclear fuel and separated plutonium on economic and nonproliferation grounds. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A tattooed man sitting on a cask

This photograph from the Farsari & Co. album shows a tattooed man sitting on a sake barrel inscribed with the word Uki. He is posing, holding a teacup and a sake bottle. The tinted tattoo seems faithful to the original design.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐50‐0]

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Oxen and labourers carrying loads

A powerful bull is carrying a komokaburi rice wine cask wrapped in a rush straw mat. The new sake is produced in November and shipped around March. The cow herder wears a head towel and looks gallant.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐41‐0]

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Reprocessed nuclear waste arrives in Japan from Britain

AOMORI, Japan - A shipping cask containing vitrified radioactive waste is lifted by crane from a freighter at Mutsu Ogawara port in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, on March 9, 2010. The nuclear waste from fuel used in Japanese plants was transported back to Japan after being reprocessed in Britain, the first shipment of its kind to arrive from the country. (Kyodo)

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Distillery in Hokkaido

A worker fills a cask with whisky at Akkeshi Distillery in Hokkaido on Dec. 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan power companies face surging nuclear fuel recycling costs

File photo taken in June 2010 shows a mixed oxide fuel cask being unloaded from a transport vessel that arrived at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear plant in Takahama in Japan's Fukui Prefecture. Kyodo News learned on Dec. 16, 2017 that the cost of recycling spent nuclear fuel has surged since Japan started using such fuel in 1999, adding to questions about the economics of nuclear fuel reprocessing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MOX fuel arrives at Takahama plant

Workers measure the amount of radiation from a mixed oxide fuel cask at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama plant on the Sea of Japan coast on Sept. 21, 2017. The MOX fuel will be used for the No. 4 reactor under the "pluthermal" project. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Giants' Hara celebrates his team's Japan Series victory

TOKYO, Japan - Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara raises a cask contributed in commemoration of his team's first Japan Series title in seven years at the club office in Tokyo on Nov. 9, 2009. (Kyodo)