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Cross-prefecture joint disaster drill

SAITAMA, Japan, Sept. 1 Kyodo - Firefighters conduct a disaster drill at a park in Saitama near Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2025, the 102nd anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Police officers, Self-Defense Force members and medical staff as well as firefighters from four prefectures and five cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area were mobilized for the joint drill as authorities warn that a megaquake has a 70 percent probability of hitting the Tokyo area within the next 30 years. (Kyodo)

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Cross-prefecture joint disaster drill

Firefighters conduct a disaster drill at a park in Saitama near Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2025, the 102nd anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Police officers, Self-Defense Force members and medical staff as well as firefighters from four prefectures and five cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area were mobilized for the joint drill as authorities warn that a megaquake has a 70 percent probability of hitting the Tokyo area within the next 30 years.

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Cross-prefecture joint disaster drill

Firefighters conduct a disaster drill at a park in Saitama near Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2025, the 102nd anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Police officers, Self-Defense Force members and medical staff as well as firefighters from four prefectures and five cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area were mobilized for the joint drill as authorities warn that a megaquake has a 70 percent probability of hitting the Tokyo area within the next 30 years.

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Cross-prefecture joint disaster drill

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (2nd from R) inspects a cross-prefecture disaster drill at a park in Saitama near Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2025, the 102nd anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Police officers, Self-Defense Force members and medical staff as well as firefighters from four prefectures and five cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area were mobilized for the joint drill as authorities warn that a megaquake has a 70 percent probability of hitting the Tokyo area within the next 30 years.

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Cross-prefecture joint disaster drill

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during the closing ceremony of a cross-prefecture disaster drill at a park in Saitama near Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2025, the 102nd anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Police officers, Self-Defense Force members and medical staff as well as firefighters from four prefectures and five cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area were mobilized for the joint drill as authorities warn that a megaquake has a 70 percent probability of hitting the Tokyo area within the next 30 years.

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Cross-prefecture joint disaster drill

Firefighters conduct a disaster drill at a park in Saitama near Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2025, the 102nd anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Police officers, Self-Defense Force members and medical staff as well as firefighters from four prefectures and five cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area were mobilized for the joint drill as authorities warn that a megaquake has a 70 percent probability of hitting the Tokyo area within the next 30 years.

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Cross-prefecture joint disaster drill

A cross-prefecture disaster drill is conducted at a park in Saitama near Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2025, the 102nd anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Police officers, Self-Defense Force members and medical staff as well as firefighters from four prefectures and five cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area were mobilized for the joint drill as authorities warn that a megaquake has a 70 percent probability of hitting the Tokyo area within the next 30 years.

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Cross-prefecture joint disaster drill

Firefighters conduct a disaster drill at a park in Saitama near Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2025, the 102nd anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Police officers, Self-Defense Force members and medical staff as well as firefighters from four prefectures and five cities in the Tokyo metropolitan area were mobilized for the joint drill as authorities warn that a megaquake has a 70 percent probability of hitting the Tokyo area within the next 30 years.

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Vienna Boys Choir in Japan

Vienna Boys Choir members sing during a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2023, held before the 525-year-old choir holds its first concert tour in Japan in four years following a COVID-19 hiatus. The choir will visit 15 prefectures for 28 performances.

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Vienna Boys Choir in Japan

Vienna Boys Choir members sing during a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2023, held before the 525-year-old choir holds its first concert tour in Japan in four years following a COVID-19 hiatus. The choir will visit 15 prefectures for 28 performances.

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Vienna Boys Choir in Japan

Vienna Boys Choir members sing during a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2023, held before the 525-year-old choir holds its first concert tour in Japan in four years following a COVID-19 hiatus. The choir will visit 15 prefectures for 28 performances.

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Vienna Boys Choir in Japan

Vienna Boys Choir members sing during a press conference in Tokyo on May 1, 2023, held before the 525-year-old choir holds its first concert tour in Japan in four years following a COVID-19 hiatus. The choir will visit 15 prefectures for 28 performances.

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Man in Japan also employed "Luffy" username to organize robberies

Police suspect that a man in Japan also employed the "Luffy" online username to organize a string of robberies in the country, in addition to the alleged ringleader who is currently detained in the Philippines, sources close to the matter said Saturday. Japanese police have requested that the four men in Manila be transferred to Japan, after obtaining arrest warrants for fraud. The police plan to investigate the possible involvement of the four men in the spate of robberies since last year. According to Japan's National Police Agency, there have been at least 20 cases of theft and robbery in 14 prefectures since last year, including a murder-robbery at the home of 90-year-old Kinuyo Oshio in the city of Komae in western Tokyo on Jan. 19. Over 30 suspects have been arrested in connection with the crimes.

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Mascot characters form "party" to vivify local economies

SAITAMA, Japan - Six mascot characters from as many cities in four prefectures (Iwate, Tochigi, Saitama and Kanagawa) gather at JR Omiya Station in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Aug. 25, 2014, to form a "Yuru-to" party to make a sales pitch for their respective regional economies.

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Heads of 5 prefectures mull ways of beating harmful rumors

MAEBASHI, Japan - Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato (standing) speaks at a meeting with his counterparts from four other prefectures in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on July 30, 2014, concerning the negative reputation caused by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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4 disaster-hit prefectures urge continued gov't aid

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of four prefectures in northeastern Japan ravaged by the 2011 disaster present a joint request to Reconstruction Minister Takumi Nemoto (extreme R) for continuation of intensive government support for reconstruction work in Tokyo on July 10, 2014. (From L) Vice Governor Yuji Aoyama of Aomori, Vice Governor Fumio Murata of Fukushima, Governor Takuya Tasso of Iwate and Governor Yoshihiro Murai of Miyagi.

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Water supply halted in 4 cities in Chiba

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 19, 2012, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Karasu River in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. Hazardous formaldehyde has been detected at some water plants in Gunma, Saitama and Chiba prefectures, leading to the water supply being cut off in four cities in Chiba the same day. Officials of Saitama Prefecture said that the upstream area of the Karasu River could be a potential source of the contamination, noting that there are local businesses dealing with substances that generate formaldehyde.

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Japanese quake-hit youths visit Moscow school

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian students (back) cheer as Japanese students (front) sing ''The One and Only Flower in the World'' at a school in Moscow on Dec. 19, 2011. A group of 17 Japanese high school and university students who lost their relatives in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster visited the school to meet Russian youths. The Japanese from four high schools and two universities in Miyagi and Iwate prefectures were invited to Moscow's school No. 1535 by Russia's educational authorities on a goodwill program.

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Cattle shipment ban lifted

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano attends a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2011 to announce the Japanese government lifted its ban on cattle shipments from Iwate, Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures the same day, saying sufficient measures are now in place to ensure that livestock are protected from radioactive contamination. With the latest move, cattle shipments will be resumed for all four prefectures that were instructed by the government between late July and early August to stop cattle shipments.

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Cattle shipment ban lifted

OSHU, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 25, 2011 shows Maesawa beef cattle, one of the finest beef brands in Japan, in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture. The Japanese government lifted its ban on cattle shipments from Iwate, Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures the same day, saying sufficient measures are now in place to ensure that livestock are protected from radioactive contamination. With the latest move, cattle shipments will be resumed for all four prefectures that were instructed by the government between late July and early August to stop cattle shipments.

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Cattle shipment ban lifted

OSHU, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 25, 2011 shows one of a herd of Maesawa beef cattle, among the finest beef brands in Japan, in Oshu, Iwate Prefecture. The Japanese government lifted its ban on cattle shipments from Iwate, Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures the same day, saying sufficient measures are now in place to ensure that livestock are protected from radioactive contamination. With the latest move, cattle shipments will be resumed for all four prefectures that were instructed by the government between late July and early August to stop cattle shipments.

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Shikoku prefectures personified

KOCHI, Japan - A poster featuring characters meant to personify the four prefectures of Shikoku Island, western Japan, was issued in May 2011. The female characters, drawn in a style similar to popular animated series, are aimed at promoting the use of the Seto Ohashi network of bridges linking Japan's mainland Honshu and Shikoku Island, and have become popular among Internet users after their images were posted on the Net in July.

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Regional elections across Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto casts his ballot in the election on April 10, 2011, to choose members of the Osaka prefectural assembly at a polling station in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The first of two unified rounds of regional polls slated for April were held the same day to pick governors of 12 of Japan's 47 prefectures, mayors of four cities and assembly members of 41 prefectures and 15 of the country's major cities. (Pool photo)

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Peruvian ambassador in quake-hit Onagawa

ONAGAWA, Japan - Peruvian Ambassador to Japan Juan Carlos Capunay (L) talks with Amira Abe (2nd from R), a Peruvian national, at an evacuation shelter in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, on April 7, 2011, about four weeks after the earthquake and tsunami disaster. About 70 Peruvian nationals in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures have been affected by the disaster, according to the Peruvian Embassy.

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Elderly deaths in record snowfall

SENDAI, Japan - A man removes snow on a rooftop of a garage in Akita Prefecture's Yokote City where snow has accumulated over 150 centimeters, more than double in the average year, on Jan. 20, 2011. At least 23 people have died in Akita and four other northeastern Japan prefectures from snow-related accidents, with 70 percent of the victims being 60 years old and above.

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Elderly deaths in record snowfall

SENDAI, Japan - An elderly person walks into her snow-covered home in Akita Prefecture's Yokote City where snow has accumulated over 150 centimeters, more than double in the average year, on Jan. 21, 2011. At least 23 people have died in Akita and four other northeastern Japan prefectures from snow-related accidents, with 70 percent of the victims being 60 years old and above.

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DPJ gearing up for local elections

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Katsuya Okada, secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, hang a signboard for the DPJ task force on nationwide local elections in April at party headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2011. The ruling party set up the task force the same day ahead of unified local elections on April 10, when gubernatorial elections will be held in 13 prefectures, including Tokyo and Fukuoka, while mayoral and prefectural assembly elections will be held in five major cities and 44 prefectures. Other local elections taking place every four years will be held on April 24.

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107 lawmakers from 4 parties join group on decentralization

TOKYO, Japan - Masayasu Kitagawa (2nd from R), a former governor of Mie Prefecture, who heads a group consisting of the governors of 13 prefectures, municipal chiefs and experts, speaks during a joint meeting with a multiparty group of 107 lawmakers from four parties, including both ruling and opposition parties, at a Tokyo hotel on March 3. The two groups aim to promote decentralization.

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Ex-abductee Soga voices gratitude for support

SADO, Japan - Former abductee Hitomi Soga speaks at a news conference in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 17 as she marks the fifth anniversary of her repatriation from North Korea. Soga and four other Japanese abductees, abducted by North Korean agents in three separate cases in 1978 from Niigata and Fukui prefectures, were repatriated to Japan on Oct. 15, 2002.

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Campaigning for governor polls in Tokyo, 12 prefectures begins

TOKYO, Japan - Incumbent Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara speaks at his election campaign office in Tokyo on March 22 after filing his candidacy for the April 8 gubernatorial election. Ishihara is seeking his third four-year term.

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Campaigning for governor polls in Tokyo, 12 prefectures begins

TOKYO, Japan - Incumbent Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara makes an election campaign speech in Tachikawa on March 22 after filing his candidacy for the April 8 gubernatorial election. Ishihara is seeking his third four-year term.

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Campaigning for governor races in Tokyo, 12 prefectures to begin

TOKYO, Japan - Candidates contesting the Tokyo gubernatorial election in April attend a public debate in Nakano Ward, Tokyo on March 15 on the issue whether Tokyo should bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. From L to R: architect Kisho Kurokawa, former Adachi Ward mayor Manzo Yoshida, former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano, and incumbent Shintaro Ishihara, who is running for a third four-year term. Campaigning for gubernatorial elections in Tokyo and 12 other prefectures is set to begin March 22.

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Death toll from rain-triggered disasters rises to 14

KYOTANGO, Japan - Self-Defense Force troops and rescue workers search a man and his daughter missing after being buried under mudslides iKyotango, Kyoto Prefecture, on JUly 20. The death toll from floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rain has risen to 14 in six prefectures, while the number of missing people came to 10 in four prefectures, police said on July 20.

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Steady progress seen in 'Independent League' plans

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hiromichi Ishige, former Orix BlueWave manager and now president of Tokyo-based company IBLJ, speaks of his plans to establish a new baseball league in the four prefectures on Shikoku at a press conference in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Dec. 1. He said the plans are making steady progress as advisers and coaching staff have been shortlisted and more than 900 players have applied for tryouts.

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Plans to form new baseball league set to be revealed

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Former Orix BlueWave manager Hiromichi Ishige speaks about a plan to establish a new baseball league in the four prefectures of Shikoku Island at the Tokushima prefectural government in Tokushima on Sept. 29 after talks with Tokushima Gov. Kamon Iizumi.

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(2)Tokyo barred from expropriating land for highway

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs rejoice after the Tokyo District Court April 22 barred the Tokyo metropolitan government from expropriating land in Akiruno, western Tokyo, for a state project to build a 300-kilometer highway ringing Tokyo and four neighboring prefectures.

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(1)Tokyo barred from expropriating land for highway

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs enter the Tokyo District Court April 22 for a ruling in a land expropriation suit. The court barred the Tokyo metropolitan government from expropriating land in Akiruno, western Tokyo, for a state project to build a 300-kilometer highway ringing Tokyo and four neighboring prefectures.

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(3)Court bars Tokyo from expropriating land for highway

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 20 shows the Akiruno Interchange in western Tokyo, part of a 300-kilometer highway under construction to ring Tokyo and four neighboring prefectures. The Tokyo District Court April 22 barred the Tokyo metropolitan government from expropriating land in Akiruno for the highway.

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(1)Campaign begins for 11 governorship elections

TOKYO, Japan - Incumbent Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, who seeks his second four-year term, speaks in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on March 27 as campaigns began the same day for the April 13 gubernatorial elections in Tokyo and 10 other prefectures. He is backed by the Liberal Democratic Party.

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Gov't counts on help from 'Tama-chan' to clean up rivers

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry's construction office in Yokohama said Nov. 12 it will prepare about 54,000 copies of a four-page pamphlet featuring a popular but elusive wild seal named ''Tama-chan'' (shown in photo) for help in a campaign to clean up rivers. The bearded seal was spotted in the Tama River, the Tsurumi River and the Katabira River in Tokyo and Kanagawa prefectures.

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Koizumi plans to integrate, privatize 4 gov't road entities

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks at a public meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 18. He said he plans to integrate four government-backed highway construction entities and privatize the resulting organization as part of his administrative reform program. The meeting is the last of the ''town meetings'' his cabinet has been holding in each of Japan's 47 prefectures.

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4 Afghans ask gov't to grant them refugee status

TOKYO, Japan - Khodadad (L, front) and three other Afghan nationals, who filed requests for refugee status with Japan's Justice Ministry, speak at a news conference Oct. 15 in Tokyo. The four men, ranging in age from 29 to 50 and belonging to ethnic minority groups opposed to the Taliban, came to Japan between 1998 and 1999 and live in prefectures including Osaka and Chiba.

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1 of 3 given death for murders committed as minors

NAGOYA, Japan - The Nagoya District Court sentenced one of three defendants to death July 9 for killing four men over 11 days in 1994 in Gifu, Aichi and Osaka prefectures when the defendants were minors, while giving the two others indefinite imprisonment. It was the third time since 1983 that the death penalty was given to a defendant who committed a crime when a minor.

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Governors call for legislation favoring Ariake fisheries

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe (C) meets with four prefectural governors -- Kumamoto Gov. Yoshiko Shiotani (L), Saga Gov. Isamu Imoto (2nd from L), Fukuoka Gov. Wataru Aso (2nd from R) and Nagasaki Gov. Genjiro Kaneko -- at the farm ministry in Tokyo on May 18. The governors, whose prefectures are being affected by the poor ''nori'' seaweed harvest in the Ariake Sea, southwestern Japan, asked Takebe for legislation to conserve the area's ecology.

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Police raid locations linked to 4 Red Army members

TOKYO, Japan - Police on April 7 search one of locations in Tokyo linked to four Japanese Red Army members arrested and detained in Japan last month after being deported from Lebanon. More than 30 locations in 11 prefectures linked to the four were raided by police that day. The four members are Masao Adachi, 60, Mariko Yamamoto, 59, Haruo Wako, 51, and Kazuo Tohira, 47.

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4th anniversary of western Japan rain disaster

Photo taken on July 6, 2022, in the Okayama Prefecture city of Kurashiki, western Japan, shows temporary housing for people displaced by torrential rain exactly four years earlier that caused flooding and mudslides, claiming the lives of 304 people in 14 prefectures.

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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)