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Japan: Heavy Snowfall Hits Sea Of Japan Coast 3

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video shows whiteout conditions in Yoichi, a town located on the southeastern edge of the Shakotan Peninsula in Hokkaido.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (far L) speaks during a meeting of foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Australia alongside Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara (2nd from L) in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Japan-Australia foreign and defense ministers' meeting

Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara (2nd from L) speaks during a meeting of foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Australia alongside Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (far L) in Queenscliff, in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, on Sept. 5, 2024.

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Heavy rain in southeastern Japan

A car travels on a flooded road in the town of Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan on July 3, 2023 after heavy rain hit the area.

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Heavy rain in southeastern Japan

Cars pass by on a flooded road in the town of Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan on July 3, 2023 after heavy rain hit the area.

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 returns to Earth

STORY: NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 returns to Earth DATELINE: March 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:52 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of NASA's astronauts 2. various of re-entry capsule opens its parachute 3. various of NASA's workers report landings in real time STORYLINE: NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down safely off the coast of the southeastern U.S. state of Florida on Saturday, NASA said. The four-member international crew, consisting of NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, returned to Earth in a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, at 9:02 p.m. Eastern Time (0202 Sunday GMT). The spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station at 2:20 a.m. Saturday Eastern Time (0720GMT). The mission was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Oct. 5 last year and docked

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Syrian refugees in Turkey gather to return home

TOKYO, Japan - Syrian refugees in southeastern Turkey gather at a border point with Syria on Sept. 25, 2014, to return to their conflict-torn home country.

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Syrian refugee girls cross over into Turkey

TOKYO, Japan - Syrian girls fleeing from their conflict-torn home country seek shelter in southeastern Turkey on Sept. 25, 2014, with one of them holding a baby in her arms.

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Syrian man carries mattress on refuge trail

TOKYO, Japan - A man from conflict-torn northern Syria carries a mattress as he seeks shelter in southeastern Turkey on Sept. 25, 2014.

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Syrian men flood into Turkey to seek shelter

TOKYO, Japan - Syrian men fleeing from their conflict-torn home country pour into southeastern Turkey to seek shelter on Sept. 25, 2014, carrying their belongings.

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Syrians flood into Turkey to seek refuge

TOKYO, Japan - Syrians fleeing from their conflict-torn home country seek shelter in southeastern Turkey on Sept. 25, 2014, displaying fears over the Islamic State militant group's offensive and U.S. airstrikes.

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Syrian refugee girl holds biscuits in Turkey

TOKYO, Japan - A refugee girl from conflict-torn Syria holds a bag of biscuits provided as humanitarian relief goods for refugees in southeastern Turkey on Sept. 25, 2014.

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French researcher finds historical papers for Tomioka Silk Mill

MAEBASHI, Japan - Christian Polak, a French researcher of Franco-Japanese relations, points to trademarks of silk products from the Tomioka Silk Mill, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, at a museum in Yokohama south of Tokyo in June 2014. He discovered in southeastern France historical papers containing the design of silk-reeling machines used at the early stage of the mill.

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A-bomb survivors offer prayers for victims in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, western Japan, offer silent prayers for compatriot victims at a memorial ceremony in Hapcheon County, South Gyeongsang Province, southeastern South Korea, on Aug. 6, 2014. Many Koreans were taken to Japan from the Korean Peninsula when it was under Japan's colonial rule.

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Memorial service for A-bomb victims held in S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - South Koreans pay floral tribute to compatriots killed in the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, western Japan, at a memorial ceremony in Hapcheon County, South Gyeongsang Province, southeastern South Korea, on Aug. 6, 2014. Many Koreans were taken to Japan from the Korean Peninsula when it was under Japanese colonial rule.

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Defense officials explain Osprey's flight to Camp Fuji

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Defense Ministry officials brief municipalities and landowners on the MV-22 Osprey aircraft's planned flight from Okinawa to Camp Fuji in Gotemba on the southeastern flank of Mt. Fuji on July 10, 2014.

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7 Japanese divers missing off Bali since Feb. 14

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2014, shows a beach on Nusa Lembongan off the southeastern coast of Bali, Indonesia. Local police said on Feb. 15 that seven Japanese women -- five tourists and two diving instructors -- have been missing since the previous day while diving in waters near Lembongan.

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7 Japanese divers missing off Bali since Feb. 14

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 5, 2014, shows Nusa Lembongan off the southeastern coast of Bali, Indonesia. Local police said on Feb. 15 that seven Japanese women -- five tourists and two diving instructors -- have been missing since the previous day while diving in waters near Lembongan.

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Last flight

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Crewmembers pose for photos before departure on Japan Airlines' last regular flight to Narita, near Tokyo, at Sao Paolo airport in southeastern Brazil on Sept. 27, 2010. The struggling Japanese carrier has decided to end the Narita-Sao Paulo route that had run since 1978 as part of its rehabilitation efforts.

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Emperor welcomes Cambodian king

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (C), Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni (L) and Japanese Empress Michiko attend a ceremony to welcome King Sihamoni at the premises of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. It was the first visit by a Cambodian king to Japan since the monarchy was restored in the Southeastern Asian country in 1993. (Pool photo)

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Emperor welcomes Cambodian king

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (front right), Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni (front center) and Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito (center left) walk to attend a ceremony to welcome King Sihamoni at the premises of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. It was the first visit by a Cambodian king to Japan since monarchy restored in the Southeastern Asian country in 1993. (Pool photo)

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Emperor welcomes Cambodian king

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (front right) chats with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni (L) during a ceremony to welcome him at the premises of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on May 17, 2010. It was the first visit by a Cambodian king to Japan since monarchy restored in the Southeastern Asian country in 1993. (Pool photo)

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Ex-S. Korean President Roh dead, left suicide note

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows Roh Moo Hyun (R) taking an oath at his inaugural ceremony in Seoul in February 2003 to succeed Kim Dae Jung as South Korea's president. Roh's wife stands in center and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at left. Former President Roh died May 23 after falling from a mountain near his residence in southeastern S. Korea amid a probe into a bribery scandal.

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Ex-S. Korean President Roh dead, left suicide note

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo shows South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun (L) shaking hands with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) before their summit talks in Ibusuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, in December 2004. Former President Roh died May 23 after falling from a mountain near his residence in southeastern S. Korea.

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Red-crested cranes leave Kushiro wetlands as winter nears

KUSHIRO, Japan - Red-crested cranes gather for food on Oct. 28 at Tsurumidai in Tsurui village on the outskirts of the Kushiro Wetland National Park in southeastern Hokkaido. The cranes, designated by the state as special national treasures, spend spring and summer in the national park breeding and raising chicks and fly to Tsurui in late autumn to spend the winter.

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Red-crested cranes leave Kushiro wetlands as winter nears

KUSHIRO, Japan - Red-crested cranes gather for food on Oct. 28 at Tsurumidai in Tsurui village on the outskirts of Kushiro Wetland National Park in southeastern Hokkaido. The cranes, designated by the state as special national treasures, spend spring and summer breeding and raising chicks in Kushiro Wetland National Park and fly to Tsurui in late autumn to spend the winter.

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Crown Prince Naruhito watches miniature of Kasato Maru

BRASILIA, Brazil - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito watches a miniature of the ship Kasato Maru after attending a ceremony organized by the Brazilian parliament in Brasilia on June 18. June 18 marks the 100th anniversary of the arrival at Santos port, southeastern Brazil, of the ship carrying the first 781 Japanese immigrants to the South American country. The Kasato Maru left Kobe, Japan, in April 1908. (Pool photo)

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Japanese student freed in Pakistan to be moved to Tehran

OSAKA, Japan - Kiyotaka Nakamura speaks to reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on June 15 after his 23-year-old son Satoshi, who was kidnapped in southeastern Iran in October, was freed on June 14 in Pakistan.

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Minke whales captured to study fish hunting patterns

KUSHIRO, Japan - A Japanese team involved in whaling research off southeastern Hokkaido announced Nov. 8 that it captured 50 minke whales in September and October and that an analysis of their stomach contents showed 15 adolescent whales about 4 to 6 meters long had hunted Alaskan pollack. According to officials of the government-backed whaling team, anchovies were found in the stomachs of 19 of the captured minke whales, sauries in eight, and krill in six. Officials said the whales were captured to study the impact of minke whales on the local fishing industry. The photo shows members of the research team cutting up a captured whale. The carcasses are sold for food in Japan.

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Red-crested cranes move out of Kushiro wetlands as winter nears

KUSHIRO, Japan - Red-crested white cranes, the harbingers of winter, gather for food near the Tsurumidai crane observation post in Tsurui village on the outskirts of the Kushiro Wetland National Park in southeastern Hokkaido. The cranes, designated by the state as special national treasures, spend spring and summer breeding and raising chicks in the Kushiro Wetland National Park and fly to Tsurui, which literally means ''the habitat of cranes'' in late autumn and spend the winter there. According to officials at the Ito Red-Crested Cranes Sanctuary in Tsurui, more than 500 red-crested cranes are observed in Tsurui from December to January every year.

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Japan official visits Iran again to ask for student's release

TEHRAN, Iran - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera arrives at a Tehran hotel on Nov. 4. He made his second visit to Iran to seek the support of the Iranian government in obtaining the early release of Satoshi Nakamura, a 23-year-old Japanese college student kidnapped in southeastern Iran in October.

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Onodera returns home from Iran, student remains captive

NARITA, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters Oct. 19 at Narita International Airport after returning to Japan from Iran, where he received assurances of Tehran's cooperation to secure the release of a Japanese college student kidnapped Oct. 7 allegedly by a drug smuggling group in southeastern Iran.

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Top Japanese official leaves for Iran on kidnapped student case

NARITA, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters at Narita International Airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 16 before leaving for Iran to seek further cooperation from Tehran in information gathering and the early release of Japanese college student Satoshi Nakamura, who was kidnapped in southeastern Iran earlier this month.

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Japan envoy to seek release of kidnapped student in Iran

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 12 after Foreign Minister Masashiko Komura announced that Onodera will travel to Iran next week to seek the release of a male Japanese college student kidnapped in southeastern Iran on Oct. 7.

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Giant Japanese butterburs to the dining table

KUSHIRO, Japan - Giant Japanese butterburs known locally as Rawanbuki are ready to be harvested for food at a farm in Ashoro, southeastern Hokkaido. The stem of Japanese butterburs, which is rich in minerals and food fibers, is soft when cooked and is popular in Japanese cuisine. Rawanbuki grows mostly in the Rawan area of Ashoro and soars over 2 meters in height when fully grown.

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Taiwan's high speed railway begins test-run

TOKYO, Japan - Railway fans gather in the southeastern Taiwanese city of Tainan on Jan. 27 to see Taiwan's High Speed Rail 700T series passenger train, based on Japan's Shinkansen 700 Series, begin a test-run. The train will cover the 350 kilometers between Taipei and Kaohsiung in 90 minutes.

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Koizumi promises Muthana gov. to keep SDF in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) shakes hands with visiting Muthana Gov. Mohammad Ali-Hassan from southeastern Iraq at the prime minister's office on Oct. 5. In a meeting with Ali-Hassan, Koizumi promised that Japan will keep its Self-Defense Forces troops there for humanitarian and reconstruction aid.

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GSDF says Samawah relatively safe

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Fukushiro Nukaga, chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's policy affairs panel, LDP Secretary General Shinzo Abe, Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, head of the New Komeito party's secretary general, and Kazuo Kitagawa, head of Komeito's policy affairs committee, attend a briefing by Defense Agency officials on security in the southeastern Iraqi city of Samawah, where a core unit of Japan's noncombat ground troops is expected to be sent for reconstruction work in Iraq.

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2 Japan transport planes leave for Iran to help quake victims

NAGOYA, Japan - An Air Self-Defense Force's (ASDF) C-130 transport plane departs for Iran from the ASDF's Komaki base in Aichi Prefecture on Dec. 30 to transport relief goods to Iran's quake-hit southeastern region. Two C-130 planes carrying some 30 personnel left the airport.

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(2)Japan sends rescue teams to quake-hit Iran

NARITA, Japan - Japanese rescue team members and dogs to help earthquake victims in Iran prepare to leave Narita airport Dec. 27 in response to a request from Tehran. A powerful earthquake struck the southeastern city of Bam the previous day.

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(1)Japan sends rescue teams to quake-hit Iran

NARITA, Japan - Japanese rescue team members to help earthquake victims in Iran prepare to leave Narita airport Dec. 27 in response to a request from Tehran. A powerful earthquake struck the southeastern city of Bam the previous day.

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Kanzaki says Iraq's Samawah 'relatively' stable

TOKYO, Japan - New Komeito party leader speaks to reporters at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 22 after paying a call on Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to report on his weekend visit to the southeastern Iraqi city of Samawah. Japan is planning to send Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) personnel to Samawah to help in reconstruction work.

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(11)Japan decides to send troops to Iraq

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 9 shows the main gate to the headquarters of the Ground Self-Defense Force's Second Division in Asahikawa, central Hokkaido. Up to troops from the division are expected to be sent to Iraq to provide medical services and supply water in southeastern region of the country under the government decision to send nonbomat troops to the country.

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Japan sends medical survey mission to Pakistan for refugees

QUETTA, Pakistan - Afghan women and children, mostly from the southeastern province of Kandahar, wait for their medical checkup at a refugee camp near Quetta, Pakistan, on Dec. 4, 2001. The Japanese government dispatched a mission to Pakistan earlier in the day to survey medical needs of Afghan refugees in the country.

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Door-to-door live fish delivery business to begin soon

OITA, Japan - Osakana Kikaku Co., a fishery consultant company in Oita Prefecture, and Yamato Transport Co., Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service, will jointly start a service to deliver live fish to consumers this month, company officials say Oct. 2 in the southeastern Japan city of Oita. After a stainless steel needle is stuck in the fish's head to paralyze it, the fish will be packed in a specially designed container along with a coolant and a small amount of sea water, and delivered at room temperature, the officials explained, adding that the fish will stay calm and remain alive for about 12 hours.

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Salvaged Zero Fighter draws visitors to museum

CHIRAN, Japan - This is a photo of a Mitsubishi Zero Fighter on display at Tokko Heiwa Kaikan, or Peace Museum, in Chiran, Kagoshima Prefecture, southeastern Japan. During the summer holiday season, the museum draws visitors from across the country. The Zero was raised in 1980 from 45-meter-deep water in the Pacific Ocean off Kagoshima Prefecture. The town of Chiran used to have a base of special attack unit, or ''kamikaze'' suicide squad, during World War II.

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Kohyei Setsubi's Snake-Type Piping Exploration Robot

Kohyei Setsubi Kogyo (Yamagata City) is developing a business using a piping exploration robot. Within this year, the company will start a rental business of the robot in the three northern prefectures of Yamagata, Miyagi, and Fukushima. The target customers are facility construction companies, and the company aims to cultivate new projects for renovation and reconstruction of buildings by offering diagnosis services in the pipes. The rental business of the piping exploration robot is targeted at companies engaged in facility construction in the three southeastern prefectures. Each of them will recruit one or two distributors, including their group companies, by the end of this year. Each distributor will be assigned a cooperating agency to provide services such as pipe diagnosis using the robot. The company expects to expand its business to the eastern Japan area in the future. Photo taken on August 19, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Koizumi promises Muthana gov. to keep SDF in Iraq

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) shakes hands with visiting Muthana Gov. Mohammad Ali-Hassan from southeastern Iraq at the prime minister's office on Oct. 5. In a meeting with Ali-Hassan, Koizumi promised that Japan will keep its Self-Defense Forces troops there for humanitarian and reconstruction aid. (Kyodo)

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Onodera returns home from Iran, student remains captive

NARITA, Japan - Senior Vice Foreign Minister Itsunori Onodera speaks to reporters Oct. 19 at Narita International Airport after returning to Japan from Iran, where he received assurances of Tehran's cooperation to secure the release of a Japanese college student kidnapped Oct. 7 allegedly by a drug smuggling group in southeastern Iran. (Kyodo)

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Minke whales captured to study fish hunting patterns

KUSHIRO, Japan - A Japanese team involved in whaling research off southeastern Hokkaido announced Nov. 8 that it captured 50 minke whales in September and October and that an analysis of their stomach contents showed 15 adolescent whales about 4 to 6 meters long had hunted Alaskan pollack. According to officials of the government-backed whaling team, anchovies were found in the stomachs of 19 of the captured minke whales, sauries in eight, and krill in six. Officials said the whales were captured to study the impact of minke whales on the local fishing industry. The photo shows members of the research team cutting up a captured whale. The carcasses are sold for food in Japan. (Kyodo)