Wakayama Prefecture

First death due to the coronavirus in Japan. According to Katsunobu Kato, the country's health, labor and social security minister, an 80-year-old woman in Kanagawa Prefecture has died from the virus, RIA Novosti reports.

The Istanbul Naval Museum is hosting a new exhibition, displaying more than 500 of 8,300 items that have been unearthed during excavation works on the Ertu?rul Frigate, an Ottoman military ship that sank off Japan in 1890.

The exhibition, which opened on April 2, displays pieces of the Ertu?rul frigate, ship components, pieces of dinner sets and belongings of officers.

Divers working to salvage artifacts from the wreck of the Ottoman frigate Ertu?rul in the Pacific Ocean have discovered coins from the boat's safe on the bottom of the ocean, but worries remain that more effects from the ship will be destroyed with the passage of time.

The Turkish Navy will launch an expedition to commemorate the sinking of an Ottoman frigate on a goodwill voyage to Japan in 1890.

The expedition will follow a route through the Indian Ocean to reach Japan, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Jan. 3.

Japanese Ambassador to Ankara Yutaka Yokoi, who visited the Black Sea province of Trabzon, has said well-known figures from Turkish and Japanese cinema will star in the Turkish-Japanese joint film on the Ertuğrul frigate disaster, which will be complete next fall. While visiting Trabzon Mayor Abdil Celil Öz, Yokoi said the city of Trabzon was better known than Ankara in Japan.