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Mt. Fuji opens Shizuoka route

Climbers head to the top of Mt. Fuji along the Fujinomiya route on July 10, 2025, as the route in Shizuoka Prefecture on Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, opened the same day along with two other routes, following the July 1 opening of the Yamanashi Prefecture-side route. All routes are open through Sept. 10. (Kyodo), ==Kyodo

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Mt. Fuji opens Shizuoka route

Climbers head to the top of Mt. Fuji along the Fujinomiya route on July 10, 2025, as the route in Shizuoka Prefecture on Japan's highest mountain, straddling Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, opened the same day along with two other routes, following the July 1 opening of the Yamanashi Prefecture-side route. All routes are open through Sept. 10. (Kyodo), ==Kyodo

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Mt. Fuji eruption may force 470,000 people to evacuate

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in April 2013 shows Mt. Fuji as seen from around the border of the cities of Fuji and Fujinomiya in Shizuoka Prefecture. A panel set up by Shizuoka and two other prefectures around the 3,776-meter volcano worked out a regional evacuation plan on Feb. 6, 2014, projecting that a violent eruption could force around 470,000 people in the prefectures to evacuate if more than 30 centimeters of ash accumulates on the ground.

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Converted EV embarks on demonstration tour

TOKYO, Japan - Isshu Sugawara (L), senior vice minister of economy, trade and industry, takes a test ride in an electric vehicle converted from the two-seat Caterham Super Seven, a British sports car, at the ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 24, 2013, at a ceremony to mark the start of the EV's demonstration run around Japan. To his right is Tadashi Tateuchi, leader of the Japan Electric Vehicle Club. The EV, made by replacing a gasoline engine with motor, battery and other parts, will return to Tokyo on Nov. 17 after visiting 46 of Japan's 47 prefectures.

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Converted EV embarks on demonstration tour

TOKYO, Japan - An electric vehicle (front) converted from the two-seat Caterham Super Seven, a British sports car, leaves the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 24, 2013, for a demonstration run around Japan. The converted EV, made by replacing a gasoline engine with motor, battery and other parts, will return to Tokyo on Nov. 17 after visiting 46 of Japan's 47 prefectures. The two EVs in the background will accompany it on the journey.

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Over 450 feel ill, gov't to do its utmost over food poisoning

SAITAMA, Japan - Two men at a cooperative association in Saitama, north of Tokyo, talk with member consumers over the phone on Jan. 31 about food poisoning involving gyoza deumplings imported from China. The number of people who have complained of illness after eating dumplings or other products made by a Chinese producer has reached 457 in 35 prefectures in Japan, while the government vowed utmost efforts to deal with the food poisoning.

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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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Disaster-hit prefectures see 23% fall in fishing industry workers

Oyster farmers work on Feb. 9, 2016, off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Miyagi and two other prefectures in Japan's northeast hard-hit by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disasters have seen a 23 percent fall in the membership of fishery cooperatives since the catastrophe, a Kyodo News survey showed March 2, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Quasi-emergency COVID-19 steps for Tokyo, 2 other areas

Yasutoshi Nishimura (R), Japanese minister in charge of the COVID-19 response, speaks to reporters after attending a panel meeting of experts on the issue in Tokyo on April 9, 2021. The Japanese government is expected later in the day to designate Tokyo and two other prefectures as requiring stronger measures under a quasi-state of emergency to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

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Quasi-emergency COVID-19 steps for Tokyo, 2 other areas

Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japanese minister in charge of the COVID-19 response, speaks to reporters after attending a panel meeting of experts on the issue in Tokyo on April 9, 2021. The Japanese government is expected later in the day to designate Tokyo and two other prefectures as requiring stronger measures under a quasi-state of emergency to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

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Over 450 feel ill, gov't to do its utmost over food poisoning

SAITAMA, Japan - Two men at a cooperative association in Saitama, north of Tokyo, talk with member consumers over the phone on Jan. 31 about food poisoning involving gyoza deumplings imported from China. The number of people who have complained of illness after eating dumplings or other products made by a Chinese producer has reached 457 in 35 prefectures in Japan, while the government vowed utmost efforts to deal with the food poisoning. (Kyodo)

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Giant puppet appears at Olympics cultural event in tsunami-hit city

A giant puppet nicknamed MOCCO appears during a Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics cultural event in Rikuzentakata, an Iwate Prefecture city severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on May 15, 2021. The 10-meter puppet will tour the two other disaster-affected northeastern Japan prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima later in the month to attend a similar cultural event, themed on the region's recovery from the disaster.

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Giant puppet appears at Olympics cultural event in tsunami-hit city

A giant puppet nicknamed MOCCO appears during a Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics cultural event in Rikuzentakata, an Iwate Prefecture city severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on May 15, 2021. The 10-meter puppet will tour the two other disaster-affected northeastern Japan prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima later in the month to attend a similar cultural event, themed on the region's recovery from the disaster.

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Giant puppet appears at Olympics cultural event in tsunami-hit city

A giant puppet nicknamed MOCCO appears during a Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics cultural event in Rikuzentakata, an Iwate Prefecture city severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on May 15, 2021. The 10-meter puppet will tour the two other disaster-affected northeastern Japan prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima later in the month to attend a similar cultural event, themed on the region's recovery from the disaster.

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Giant puppet appears at Olympics cultural event in tsunami-hit city

A giant puppet nicknamed MOCCO appears during a Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics cultural event in Rikuzentakata, an Iwate Prefecture city severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, on May 15, 2021. The 10-meter puppet will tour the two other disaster-affected northeastern Japan prefectures of Miyagi and Fukushima later in the month to attend a similar cultural event, themed on the region's recovery from the disaster.

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PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enters his office in Tokyo on April 21, 2020, two weeks after a state of emergency was declared in Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures over the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media at his office in Tokyo on April 21, 2020, two weeks after a state of emergency was declared in Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures over the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media at his office in Tokyo on April 21, 2020, two weeks after a state of emergency was declared in Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures over the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Closure at USJ extended over coronavirus

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 5, 2020, shows Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, which has been closed since Feb. 29 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The theme park said April 9 it will extend its closure until mid-May or later in response to a state of emergency declared two days earlier for Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures to curb the spread of the virus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Closure at USJ extended over coronavirus

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 5, 2020, shows Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, which has been closed since Feb. 29 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The theme park said April 9 it will extend its closure until mid-May or later in response to a state of emergency declared two days earlier for Tokyo, Osaka and five other prefectures to curb the spread of the virus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Female ama divers gather in Toba

Female ama divers and other participants in a meeting of the divers pose for a photo in Toba, Mie Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2017. About 120 female ama divers from 10 prefectures across Japan and South Korea's Busan took part in the two-day event in the city located on the northeast coast of the Shima Peninsula, central Japan, known for the fishing carried out by its female divers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo