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Plant raided over explosions

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Police officers enter a glue factory of Mitsui Chemicals Inc. in Waki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on April 23, 2012, as part of a search operation after explosions the previous day killed one worker and injured 22 people.

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Chemical plant fire in Yamaguchi Pref.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 22, 2012, shows an operation to contain a fire at a glue plant operated by Mitsui Chemicals Inc. in Waki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. One worker was killed and 11 others were injured after fire and explosions ripped through the plant.

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Censure motions against 2 Cabinet members

TOKYO, Japan - Upper house Diet affairs chiefs Masashi Waki (R) of the Liberal Democratic Party and Yuichiro Uozumi (C) of the New Komeito party, submit censure motions against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, to Masafumi Hashimoto, secretary general of the upper house, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2011.

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(5)Shibata wins women's 800 free in Olympics

WAKI, Japan - High school classmates of Japan's Ai Shibata and swimming school trainees in the town of Waki, Tokushima Prefecture, rejoice Aug. 21 after Shibata won the women's 800-meter free in the Athens Olympics at the Olympic Aquatic Centre on Aug. 20.

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Children perform their first Noh play 'Tsuchigumo'

KAWASAKI, Japan - Kazuma Kobayashi (C), an 18-year-old high school student wearing a formal 'shozoku' (Noh costume), plays the lead role, or 'shite,' in a performance of 'Tsuchigumo' (Spider) on Dec. 24 at Kawasaki City Noh Theater, southwest of Tokyo. The Noh drama depicts the struggle between villagers and a spider monster who pretends to be human. Orio Okuma (R front), a 14-year-old junior high school student, performs the role of the warrior who fights the spider in the 'waki,' or supporting role.

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Waki appointed head of Chishima, Habomai residents' league

Kimio Waki, former mayor of Rausu town in Hokkaido, speaks at a meeting of the League of Residents of Chishima and Habomai Islands Inc. in Sapporo on May 25, 2015, after he succeeded Toshio Koizumi as its director. The 91-year-old Koizumi, who led the group of former inhabitants of the islands in the Northern Territories for about 23 years, left the post due to his age. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Waki, new head of Chishima, Habomai residents' league

Kimio Waki, former mayor of Rausu town in Hokkaido, speaks in Sapporo on May 25, 2015, after he succeeded Toshio Koizumi as new director of the League of Residents of Chishima and Habomai Islands Inc. The group consists of former inhabitants of the disputed islands in Japan's Northern Territories currently administered by Russia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(5)Shibata wins women's 800 free in Olympics

WAKI, Japan - High school classmates of Japan's Ai Shibata and swimming school trainees in the town of Waki, Tokushima Prefecture, rejoice Aug. 21 after Shibata won the women's 800-meter free in the Athens Olympics at the Olympic Aquatic Centre on Aug. 20. (Kyodo)

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Plant raided over explosions

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Police officers enter a glue factory of Mitsui Chemicals Inc. in Waki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on April 23, 2012, as part of a search operation after explosions the previous day killed one worker and injured 22 people. (Kyodo)

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Chemical plant fire in Yamaguchi Pref.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 22, 2012, shows an operation to contain a fire at a glue plant operated by Mitsui Chemicals Inc. in Waki, Yamaguchi Prefecture. One worker was killed and 11 others were injured after fire and explosions ripped through the plant. (Kyodo)

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Censure motions against 2 Cabinet members

TOKYO, Japan - Upper house Diet affairs chiefs Masashi Waki (R) of the Liberal Democratic Party and Yuichiro Uozumi (C) of the New Komeito party, submit censure motions against Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa and Kenji Yamaoka, who concurrently serves as minister of state for consumer affairs and food safety, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission and minister for the abduction issue, to Masafumi Hashimoto, secretary general of the upper house, at the Diet building in Tokyo on Dec. 9, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Former islanders call on Japan, Russia to resolve territorial dispute

Kimio Waki (L), a leader of a group of former Japanese residents of now Russian-held islands off Hokkaido, hands a letter addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2016, prior to the two leaders' summit in Japan on Dec. 15-16. Japan hopes to advance talks on the bilateral territorial dispute over the islands claimed by Japan. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children perform their first Noh play 'Tsuchigumo'

KAWASAKI, Japan - Kazuma Kobayashi (C), an 18-year-old high school student wearing a formal 'shozoku' (Noh costume), plays the lead role, or 'shite,' in a performance of 'Tsuchigumo' (Spider) on Dec. 24 at Kawasaki City Noh Theater, southwest of Tokyo. The Noh drama depicts the struggle between villagers and a spider monster who pretends to be human. Orio Okuma (R front), a 14-year-old junior high school student, performs the role of the warrior who fights the spider in the 'waki,' or supporting role.