1st Ainu lawmaker Kayano dies at 79

1st Ainu lawmaker Kayano dies at 79

SAPPORO, Japan - Shigeru Kayano (in file photo), Japan's first lawmaker from the indigenous Ainu people, died on May 6 at a Sapporo hospital at the age of 79, sources close to him said. Kayano won a House of Councillors seat in 1994. (Kyodo)

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000032457
  • Registered date
  • 2006/5/06 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Kyodo / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • Media size
  • 561 × 723 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 72 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 100.80(KB)*
  • Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

    CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election candidates

    (From L) Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker and Toshio Tamogami, a former Air Self-Defense Force chief, pose for photos before a joint press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 19, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.(Kyodo)
      CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election

      CORRECTED: Tokyo gubernatorial election

      Combined photo shows Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike (L) and Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan. They released their respective pledges in Tokyo on June 18, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.

        [Breaking News]Renho releases pledges ahead of Tokyo gubernatorial election

        Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, releases her pledges at a press conference in Tokyo on June 18, 2024, ahead of the capital's gubernatorial election on July 7.(Kyodo)
          Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

          Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

          Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 27, 2024, announcing her intention to run in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election in July.
            Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

            Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

            Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 27, 2024, announcing her intention to run in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election in July.

              Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

              Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 27, 2024, announcing her intention to run in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election in July.(Kyodo)
                Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

                Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

                Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 27, 2024, announcing her intention to run in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election in July.
                  Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

                  Opposition lawmaker Renho to run for Tokyo governor

                  Renho, a House of Councillors lawmaker from the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, holds a press conference in Tokyo on May 27, 2024, announcing her intention to run in the Japanese capital's gubernatorial election in July.
                    Hiroshima ahead of G-7 summit

                    Hiroshima ahead of G-7 summit

                    File photo taken on Oct. 23, 2022, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima (center, front), the venue of the May 19-21, 2023, Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city.
                      MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-PALESTINIANS

                      MIDEAST-GAZA-RAFAH-PALESTINIANS

                      (230509) -- GAZA, May 9, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Palestinians mourn at a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, May 9, 2023. Israeli drones bombed two targets early Tuesday in Gaza city and the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, killing at least three Islamic Jihad militants, Palestinian sources and eyewitnesses said. Primary medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported that at least three people were killed in the airstrikes on the two buildings. (Photo by Khaled Omar/Xinhua)