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Expressway ETC lanes closed in 8 Japanese prefectures

KOMAKI, Japan, April 7 Kyodo - Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Komaki in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on April 7, 2025, due to a system outage. A similar problem that started the previous day spread to over 100 interchanges in eight prefectures in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Expressway ETC lanes closed in 8 Japanese prefectures

Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Komaki in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on April 7, 2025, due to a system outage. A similar problem that started the previous day spread to over 100 interchanges in eight prefectures in Japan.

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Expressway ETC lanes closed in 8 Japanese prefectures

Electronic toll collection lanes are closed at a toll gate of the Chuo Expressway's interchange in Komaki in the central Japan prefecture of Aichi on April 7, 2025, due to a system outage. A similar problem that started the previous day spread to over 100 interchanges in eight prefectures in Japan.

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2023 Xinjiang Animation Festival concludes in Karamay

STORY: 2023 Xinjiang Animation Festival concludes in Karamay DATELINE: Sept. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:04 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the 2023 Xinjiang Animation Festival 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): PAN DONGXUE, Performer 3. various of the exhibition hall STORYLINE: The 2023 Xinjiang Animation Festival concluded on Sunday in Karamay City. The three-day event is the first large-scale comprehensive animation exhibition in Xinjiang, featuring performances, cartoon movie shows, and all kinds of displays of cartoon-related products. In the animation exhibition hall, 14 prefectures and cities, and eight universities and presses of Xinjiang displayed their animation works and other cultural and creative products. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): PAN DONGXUE, Performer "Personally, I like the animation of Chinese style very much, and I hope we can continue to promote our traditional Chinese culture." Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Urumqi, China. (XHTV)

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McCafe debuts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Shop staff wait on customers at McDonald's ''McCafe'' in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Aug. 29 as McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. opened seven McCafe shops in Tokyo and eight in neighboring Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama and Ibaraki prefectures, as well as Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan. The opening of McCafe shops is an effort by McDonald's to diversify its business and cultivate new customers.

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S. Korea sends team to Japan to review import ban

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuyoshi Honkawa (R), director general of Japan's Fisheries Agency, speaks at the outset of a meeting with a South Korean expert team at the agency in Tokyo on Dec. 15, 2014. South Korea is expected to discuss easing of import restrictions imposed on fishery products from eight Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima, following the 2011 nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan.

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Mythological Shinto god dance performed in western Japan

YONAGO, Japan - A shrine priest performs a sword dance at a festival on the 1,143-meter Mt. Sentsu straddling Tottori and Shimane prefectures, western Japan, on July 28, 2014, symbolizing a mythological fight between an eight-headed monster serpent and Shinto god Susanoo-no-Mikoto.

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Ama divers in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo shows "ama" divers in Toba, Mie Prefecture, in June 2013. Eight prefectures in Japan announced on Jan. 24, 2014, the creation of a joint committee to promote and preserve the "ama" diving culture and have it designated an UNESCO intangible cultural heritage. Ama -- literally sea women -- are free-divers who collect pearls, shellfish, sea urchins and seaweed.

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S. Korea bans fish from part of Japan

SEOUL, South Korea - An employee checks radiation levels of fish at a fish corner of a market near Seoul Station on Sept. 4, 2013. South Korea said on Sept. 6, 2013, it has banned the import of any fisheries products from eight Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima.

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S. Korea bans fishery imports from 8 Japan prefs.

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga holds a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 6, 2013. On South Korea's announcement the same day that it has placed an import ban on all fisheries products from eight Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima, the top government spokesman said Tokyo will continue to ask Seoul to "take measures based on scientific facts."

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Suntory to put 'world's first' blue roses on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A woman shows off the world's first ''blue'' roses produced by a unit of beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd. in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2009. The roses, named ''blue rose applause,'' will be put on sale in eight major Japanese prefectures including Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi on Nov. 3.

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Suntory to put 'world's first' blue roses on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A woman shows off the world's first ''blue'' roses produced by a unit of beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd. in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2009. The roses, named ''blue rose applause,'' will be put on sale in eight major Japanese prefectures including Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi on Nov. 3.

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Terrestrial digital TV broadcasts cover all prefectures in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a ceremony held at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 1 to mark the start of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts in eight prefectures in western Japan, which made it possible for people to view the high quality broadcasts in all 47 prefectures.

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2 men held for alleged theft using skimming devices, spy cameras

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the skimming devices confiscated by Nagoya policy on March 7. The police served fresh arrest warrants on two men who are suspected of installing either skimming devices or spy cameras at seven unmanned bank outlets in Aichi and Gifu prefectures and stealing more than 11 million yen from eight customers' accounts.

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263 municipalities may be affected by Tokai quake: panel

NAGOYA, Japan - More than 30 additional municipalities, including Nagoya (in file photo) may be affected in the event of a massive quake in the Tokai region in central Japan, expanding the state-designated areas requiring special caution to 263 municipalities in eight prefectures, the government's Central Disaster Prevention Council said after a meeting in Tokyo on April 9.

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Ballot counting begins in 8 LDP presidency primaries

FUKUOKA, Japan - Fukuoka prefectural branch officials of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) count ballots cast in an LDP primary election at a hotel in Fukuoka city on April 21. Primary elections in eight of Japan's 47 prefectures began ahead of the party presidential election on April 24 to choose a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori.

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Snow Brand pres. offers to quit over food poisoning

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Tetsuro Ishikawa, president of Snow Brand Milk Products Co., who announced July 6 he will resign to take responsibility for a recent outbreak of food poisoning caused by the company's milk products. More than 11,000 people in eight prefectures in western Japan have fallen ill in the past week after consuming low-fat and calcium-enriched milk produced by the leading dairy products maker at its Osaka plant.

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High school students of G-8 nations start summit in Okinawa

GINOWAN, Japan - Thirty high school students from the Group of Eight (G-8) major nations kick off a youth summit on June 24 at the Okinawa Convention Center in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, covering such issues as peace, the environment and the economy ahead of next month's G-8 summit. The two-day G-8 ''Youth Summit,'' bringing together three students each from Okinawa, Fukuoka and Miyazaki prefectures and three each from the seven other G-8 members, opened with section meetings on three major themes -- peace and conflict, ways to stop environmental destruction and the role of developed nations in achieving prosperity.

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito is pictured as a vehicle carrying him and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures.

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

A vehicle carrying Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures.

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

A vehicle carrying Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures.

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

A vehicle carrying Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures. (Pool photo)

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Crown Prince Fumihito, Princess Kiko in Mie Prefecture

A vehicle carrying Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko arrives at Ise Jingu shrine in the Mie Prefecture city of Ise on April 20, 2022, after traveling for eight and a half hours over a distance of about 480 kilometers. The couple are visiting the central Japan city on the first leg of their four-day trip to Mie, Nara and Kyoto prefectures.

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JAPAN-TOKYO-EARTHQUAKE-POWER SUPPLY

(220322) -- TOKYO, March 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Some display devices are turned off to save power at a supermarket in Tokyo, Japan, March 22, 2022. Japan's industry ministry said on Tuesday that a power outage could occur at around 8 p.m. local time, with as many as 3 million households affected in Tokyo and other areas in Japan's east and northeast. The latest warning from the government follows Industry Minister Koichi Hagiuda earlier Tuesday urging people living in Tokyo and eight other prefectures to lower the amount of electricity they consume due to a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck last week knocking out some thermal power plants. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-EARTHQUAKE-POWER SUPPLY

(220322) -- TOKYO, March 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Some display devices are turned off to save power at a supermarket in Tokyo, Japan, March 22, 2022. Japan's industry ministry said on Tuesday that a power outage could occur at around 8 p.m. local time, with as many as 3 million households affected in Tokyo and other areas in Japan's east and northeast. The latest warning from the government follows Industry Minister Koichi Hagiuda earlier Tuesday urging people living in Tokyo and eight other prefectures to lower the amount of electricity they consume due to a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck last week knocking out some thermal power plants. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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JAPAN-TOKYO-EARTHQUAKE-POWER SUPPLY

(220322) -- TOKYO, March 22, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Some display devices are turned off to save power at a supermarket in Tokyo, Japan, March 22, 2022. Japan's industry ministry said on Tuesday that a power outage could occur at around 8 p.m. local time, with as many as 3 million households affected in Tokyo and other areas in Japan's east and northeast. The latest warning from the government follows Industry Minister Koichi Hagiuda earlier Tuesday urging people living in Tokyo and eight other prefectures to lower the amount of electricity they consume due to a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck last week knocking out some thermal power plants. (Xinhua/Zhang Xiaoyu)

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Japan sees tsunami but no major damage after Tonga volcano eruption

Japan saw tsunami waves of about 1 meter high in coastal areas on Sunday but no major damage or flooding after the eruption of an underwater volcano off Tonga led to evacuation orders for nearly 230,000 citizens. Japan's weather agency issued tsunami warnings and advisories in the early hours for the Pacific coast from Hokkaido to Okinawa, but these were all lifted in the afternoon, after around 14 hours. Up to 229,000 people in eight prefectures -- Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Chiba, Tokushima, Kochi, Miyazaki and Kagoshima -- were asked to flee from the seaside, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

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Japan halts use of 1.63 mil. Moderna vaccine doses over contamination

Japan's health ministry said Thursday foreign materials were found in some portions of unused doses of Moderna Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine and the use of around 1.63 million doses manufactured in the same production line has been suspended as a precaution. Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., which is in charge of sales and distribution of the vaccine in the country, said it has yet to see any reports of safety issues. Some of the 1.63 million doses distributed to 863 vaccination centers have already been used. The size of foreign substances confirmed in 39 vials is believed to be a few millimeters, with their elements being unknown. Moderna is conducting an investigation into the materials, according to the ministry and Takeda. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said foreign substances have been confirmed since Aug. 16 at eight vaccination sites in the prefectures of Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Gifu and Aichi. Takeda reported them to the ministry on Wednesday.

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Japan decides to expand COVID-19 state of emergency to 8 more prefs.

The Japanese government decided Wednesday to place eight more prefectures under its COVID-19 state of emergency as the country battles to contain a surge of infections increasingly driven by younger people and prevent a stretched medical system from collapse. The addition of Hokkaido, Miyagi, Gifu, Aichi, Mie, Shiga, Okayama and Hiroshima means that 21 of Japan's 47 prefectures are now under the state of emergency that includes Tokyo and Osaka, affecting over 75 percent of the population. The measure will run from Friday to Sept. 12.

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Japan's fight against coronavirus

People wearing masks for protection against the coronavirus walk in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 25, 2021. The Japanese government decided to place eight more prefectures, including Miyagi, under its COVID-19 state of emergency.

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Japan's fight against coronavirus

People wearing masks for protection against the coronavirus walk in Sendai, northeastern Japan, on Aug. 25, 2021. The Japanese government decided to place eight more prefectures, including Miyagi, under its COVID-19 state of emergency.

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Japan decides to expand COVID-19 state of emergency to 8 more prefs.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces at his office in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2021, the government's decision to place eight more prefectures under its COVID-19 state of emergency as the country grapples with its largest wave of infections. The eight are Hokkaido, Miyagi, Gifu, Aichi, Mie, Shiga, Okayama and Hiroshima.

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Japan decides to expand COVID-19 state of emergency to 8 more prefs.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announces at his office in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2021, the government's decision to place eight more prefectures under its COVID-19 state of emergency as the country grapples with its largest wave of infections. The eight are Hokkaido, Miyagi, Gifu, Aichi, Mie, Shiga, Okayama and Hiroshima.

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Terrestrial digital TV broadcasts cover all prefectures in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a ceremony held at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 1 to mark the start of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts in eight prefectures in western Japan, which made it possible for people to view the high quality broadcasts in all 47 prefectures. (Kyodo)

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McCafe debuts in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Shop staff wait on customers at McDonald's ''McCafe'' in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Aug. 29 as McDonald's Co. (Japan) Ltd. opened seven McCafe shops in Tokyo and eight in neighboring Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama and Ibaraki prefectures, as well as Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan. The opening of McCafe shops is an effort by McDonald's to diversify its business and cultivate new customers. (Kyodo)

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1st Japan peach summit held in Yamanashi Pref.

The first nationwide peach summit is held in Fuefuki in the central Japanese prefecture of Yamanashi on April 17, 2015, with the participation of 32 organizations from eight prefectures, to boost peach exports. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Students, young scholars discuss peace activities

Students, young scholars and professionals from around the world who are participating in the 9th International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) Conference in Nagasaki exchange opinions on peace activities with university students from eight Japanese prefectures on Oct. 31, 2015, a day before the opening of the 61st Pugwash Conference in the southwestern Japanese city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 men held for alleged theft using skimming devices, spy cameras

NAGOYA, Japan - Photo shows the skimming devices confiscated by Nagoya policy on March 7. The police served fresh arrest warrants on two men who are suspected of installing either skimming devices or spy cameras at seven unmanned bank outlets in Aichi and Gifu prefectures and stealing more than 11 million yen from eight customers' accounts. (Kyodo)

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Suntory to put 'world's first' blue roses on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A woman shows off the world's first ''blue'' roses produced by a unit of beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd. in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2009. The roses, named ''blue rose applause,'' will be put on sale in eight major Japanese prefectures including Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi on Nov. 3. (Kyodo)

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Suntory to put 'world's first' blue roses on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A woman shows off the world's first ''blue'' roses produced by a unit of beverage maker Suntory Holdings Ltd. in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2009. The roses, named ''blue rose applause,'' will be put on sale in eight major Japanese prefectures including Tokyo, Osaka and Aichi on Nov. 3. (Kyodo)

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Scene in Kobe after COVID-19 state of emergency

People wearing face masks walk in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Hyogo and eight other prefectures. Hyogo Prefecture shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Scene in Nagoya after COVID-19 state of emergency

People walk in Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Aichi and eight other prefectures. Aichi Prefecture shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Scene in Tokyo after COVID-19 state of emergency

People wearing face masks walk in front of JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and eight other prefectures. Tokyo shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Scene in Osaka after COVID-19 state of emergency

People wearing face masks walk in Osaka's Umeda area on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Osaka and eight other prefectures. Osaka Prefecture shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Scene in Tokyo after COVID-19 state of emergency

People wearing face masks walk in front of JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and eight other prefectures. Tokyo shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Scene in Osaka after COVID-19 state of emergency

People wearing face masks walk in Osaka's Umeda area on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Osaka and eight other prefectures. Osaka Prefecture shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Scene in Osaka after COVID-19 state of emergency

People wearing face masks walk in Osaka's Umeda area on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Osaka and eight other prefectures. Osaka Prefecture shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Scene in Nagoya after COVID-19 state of emergency

People wearing face masks walk in Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Aichi and eight other prefectures. Aichi Prefecture shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Scene in Tokyo after COVID-19 state of emergency

People wearing face masks walk in front of JR Tokyo Station in the Japanese capital on June 21, 2021, during the first morning after Japan ended the COVID-19 state of emergency in Tokyo and eight other prefectures. Tokyo shifted to a quasi-state of emergency until July 11 amid concern about a rebound in infections.

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Mythological Shinto god dance performed in western Japan

YONAGO, Japan - A shrine priest performs a sword dance at a festival on the 1,143-meter Mt. Sentsu straddling Tottori and Shimane prefectures, western Japan, on July 28, 2014, symbolizing a mythological fight between an eight-headed monster serpent and Shinto god Susanoo-no-Mikoto. (Kyodo)