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Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergartners take part in picking "mikan" at an orange grove in the Fukushima prefectural town of Hirono on Dec. 15, 2014. The town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was once designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 nuclear disaster in the northeastern Japanese prefecture.

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Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergartners take part in picking "mikan" at an orange grove in the Fukushima prefectural town of Hirono on Dec. 15, 2014. The town was once designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 nuclear disaster in the northeastern Japanese prefecture. The orange grove resumed fruit picking in 2013 due to progress in decontamination work.

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Garuda purser died serving his passengers, his Japanese wife says

Garuda purser died serving his passengers, his Japanese wife says

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Fatima Miki Yamamoto, Japanese wife of Wiranto Wooryono, an Indonesian purser who died in a Garuda 737-400 crash at Yogyakarta airport in central Java, poses with her son Mikan holding his father's photo at their house in Jakarta on March 10.

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6 popular mascot characters line up in Nagoya

6 popular mascot characters line up in Nagoya

Six popular mascot characters line up at an event in Nagoya, central Japan, on Sept. 23, 2015, where a decision was made to hold next year's national popularity contest for such characters in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan. Second from L is Mican with a "mikan" (orange)-shaped face of Ehime, a leading mikan-producing region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Garuda purser died serving his passengers, his Japanese wife say

Garuda purser died serving his passengers, his Japanese wife say

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Fatima Miki Yamamoto, Japanese wife of Wiranto Wooryono, an Indonesian purser who died in a Garuda 737-400 crash at Yogyakarta airport in central Java, poses with her son Mikan holding his father's photo at their house in Jakarta on March 10. (Kyodo)

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Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergartners take part in picking "mikan" at an orange grove in the Fukushima prefectural town of Hirono on Dec. 15, 2014. The town was once designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 nuclear disaster in the northeastern Japanese prefecture. The orange grove resumed fruit picking in 2013 due to progress in decontamination work. (Kyodo)

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Rural railway in western Japan

Rural railway in western Japan

Photo taken Aug. 3, 2018, shows a statue of "Kagami Mikan," a character created by Japanese cartoonist Takashi Yanase, at Kagami station in Konan, Kochi Prefecture, western Japan. It is one of the characters created by Yanase for each of 20 stations on the Gomen-Nahari Line operated by Tosa Kuroshio Tetsudo (Railway) Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fruit picking in Fukushima

Fruit picking in Fukushima

A kindergarten child picks "mikan" mandarin oranges at a grove in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2017. The town was designated as an evacuation zone for six months after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fruit picking in Fukushima

Fruit picking in Fukushima

Kindergarten children eat "mikan" mandarin oranges at a grove in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2017. The town was designated as an evacuation zone for six months after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fruit picking in Fukushima

Fruit picking in Fukushima

Kindergarten children eat "mikan" mandarin oranges at a grove in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2017. The town was designated as an evacuation zone for six months after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Orange juice faucet no longer running joke thanks to Matsuyama airport

Orange juice faucet no longer running joke thanks to Matsuyama airport

A girl drinks orange juice in front of the "mikan jaguchi" (orange juice faucet) at newly-opened Orange Bar at Matsuyama airport in the western Japan prefecture of Ehime on July 20, 2017. The orange juice faucet is a long-running joke in Ehime, a major orange production area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Orange juice faucet no longer running joke thanks to Matsuyama airport

Orange juice faucet no longer running joke thanks to Matsuyama airport

Orange Bar, a new stand selling juice and desserts using local citrus fruits, opens at Matsuyama airport in the western Japan prefecture of Ehime on July 20, 2017. The stand features a "mikan jaguchi," a faucet pumping out orange juice, a long-running joke in Ehime which is known as a major orange production area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Orange juice faucet no longer running joke thanks to Matsuyama airport

Orange juice faucet no longer running joke thanks to Matsuyama airport

Orange Bar, a new stand selling juice and desserts using local citrus fruits, opens at Matsuyama airport in the western Japan prefecture of Ehime on July 20, 2017. The stand features a "mikan jaguchi," a faucet pumping out orange juice, a long-running joke in Ehime which is known as a major orange production area. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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