Timeline for February 2019

Osaka prefectural workers prepare for the slaughter of pigs infected with swine fever at a farm in the city of Higashi Osaka on February 8, 2019. (Courtesy Osaka prefectural government; © Jiji)

A house damaged by a landslide caused by an earthquake in Atsuma, Hokkaidō. Photograph taken on February 22, 2019. (© Jiji)

Project manager Tsuda Yūichi talks at JAXA’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, about an image taken immediately after Hayabusa2 landed on the Ryūgū asteroid on February 22, 2019. (© Jiji)