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CHINA-JILIN-GERMAN ENGINEER-LANTERN FESTIVAL (CN)

(240224) -- CHANGCHUN, Feb. 24, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sascha Schuerrer (2nd R) and Johanna Garzon-Schuerrer (1st R) have a meeting with colleagues in office in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Feb. 23, 2024. German engineers Sascha Schuerrer and his wife Johanna Garzon-Schuerrer, together with their daughter Julia, spend their first Lantern Festival, the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which falls on Feb. 24 this year, in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province. In order to strengthen the cooperation between China and Germany in the automobile industry, more than 200 foreign experts from Audi AG, Volkswagen Group and other well-known enterprises have arrived in Changchun from all over the world, and their families have also moved to Changchun. Cooperating with China's leading automaker FAW Group Co., Ltd., the Audi FAW NEV project, with total investment expected to surpass 35 billion yuan (about 4.9 billion U.S. dollars), broke ground in June 2022 in the northeaster

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Floats clash at festival in tsunami-hit north Japan region

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Two floats clash with each other at a "fighting star festival" in the Kesen district of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 7, 2014, before the launch of land reclamation for housing construction after the March 2011 disaster that hit the northeaster Japan region.

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People draw floats at festival in tsunami-hit north Japan

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - People draw floats at a "moving star festival" in the Takata district of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 7, 2014, before the launch of land reclamation for housing construction after the March 2011 disaster that hit the northeaster Japan region.

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Koizumi stresses 'calm, resolute' dealing in consulate incident

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on May 13 after Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi released Japan's probe into the May 8 seizure of North Korean asylum seekers by Chinese police officers at the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeaster China. Koizumi said he will deal with the matter ''calmly and resolutely.''

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Battery train makes 22-kilometer round trip

A train carriage powered by 600 size D batteries runs in the city of Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeaster Japan, on Nov. 3, 2015. The train carrying nine people completed a 22.615-kilometer round-trip in two hours and 47 minutes in two hours and 47 minutes at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Battery train makes 22-kilometer round trip

A train carriage powered by 600 size D batteries arrives at a station in the city of Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeaster Japan, on Nov. 3, 2015 after completing a 22.615-kilometer round-trip in two hours and 47 minutes. The train produced by students at Kawagoe Technical High School in Saitama Prefecture carried nine people and ran at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour. Guinness World Records recognized the distance as the first one traveled by a train on batteries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People draw floats at festival in tsunami-hit north Japan

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - People draw floats at a "moving star festival" in the Takata district of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 7, 2014, before the launch of land reclamation for housing construction after the March 2011 disaster that hit the northeaster Japan region. (Kyodo)

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Japan marks 6th anniv. of quake, tsunami, nuclear disasters

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a government-sponsored memorial service in Tokyo on March 11, 2017, the sixth anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in northeaster Japan. Abe said that reconstruction in the affected regions has "reached a new stage," citing restoration of infrastructure and the lifting of evacuation orders in Fukushima. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Koizumi stresses 'calm, resolute' dealing in consulate incident

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi speaks to reporters at his office in Tokyo on May 13 after Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi released Japan's probe into the May 8 seizure of North Korean asylum seekers by Chinese police officers at the Japanese Consulate General in Shenyang, northeaster China. Koizumi said he will deal with the matter ''calmly and resolutely.''