Timeline for April 2016

A drone taking part in a delivery service trial flies through a residential area in Makuhari in the city of Chiba on April 11, 2016. (© Jiji)

The collapsed gate at Aso Shrine in Aso, Kumamoto Prefecture, on April 17, 2016. (© Jiji)

The winning logos and their designer Tokolo Asao (center) at a ceremony held in Tokyo on April 25, 2015. (Photograph by Nishizawa Kazuhiko)

President Aikawa Tetsurō of Mitsubishi Motors bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on April 26, 2016. (© Jiji)

Exhibits at the Kyoto Railway Museum. Top: a Class 230 locomotive, the first steam locomotive mass-produced in Japan. (Photographs by Kodera Kei)