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Bridgestone Cycle signage and logo

Bridgestone Cycle signage and logo=February 21,2025, Ageo, Saitama

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Bridgestone Cycle signage and logo

Bridgestone Cycle signage and logo=February 21,2025, Ageo, Saitama

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Nurse says healing of mind is must for hospice patients

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran hospice nurse Hideko Oshima looks at one of the healing art pictures hung on the hallway wall of a newly opened palliative care ward of Ageo Central General Hospital in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, in this file photo taken on July 8, 2014.

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Head of group representing kin of N. Korea abductees speaks

SAITAM, Japan - Shigeo Iizuka, head of a group representing family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s, answers questions from reporters in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on July 3, 2014.

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Kaieda in Saitama

SAITAMA, Japan - Banri Kaieda, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, waves to voters in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, on July 17, 2013, ahead of the upper house election four days later.

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NPO donates money to UNICEF by collecting metal from dentures

SAITAMA, Japan - A denture collection box set up by the Saitama-based Japan Denture Recycling Association in the city of Ageo, Saitama Prefecture. The association recycles precious metals collected from unneeded dentures and donates the profits to the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) and municipal governments.

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Widow of Kyodo reporter donates 3 mil. yen for Chinese school

AGEO, Japan - Matsue Ito, the widow of Shinichi Ito, a former chief of Kyodo News' Beijing bureau, holds the photo of her husband at her home in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, on April 15. She has donated 3 million yen through a Chinese group for youth development to rebuild a school in Hebei Province in northeast China. Ito worked as a correspondent in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong for a total of 11 years.

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Collaborative robots in the process of assembling flywheels for Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation's small engines.

UD Trucks and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation have introduced collaborative robots to their engine assembly lines on a trial basis, and Hino Motors will expand the use of robots to the production of heavy-duty truck parts by fiscal 2025. UD Trucks has introduced collaborative robots on a trial basis in the large engine assembly line at its Ageo Plant (Ageo City, Saitama Prefecture). In the future, the company plans to introduce collaborative robots by FY 2013 in the assembly of axles for heavy-duty truck parts at its Koga Plant (Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture), after ensuring safety through the use of communication and cameras. Isuzu Motors also has no concrete plans at this time, but will consider introducing collaborative robots in the future.Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation's Kawasaki plant on May 22, 2019. Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Abductee's kin urges Abe's leadership to rescue missing from N. Korea

Shigeo Iizuka, leader of a group of families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, speaks to reporters in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on Oct. 7, 2015, in response to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet reshuffle earlier in the day. Iizuka expressed dismay that appointees to the post of minister in charge of the abduction issue keep changing and that previous ministers have failed to take decisive action during their short stints. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police catch four-meter-long python on Saitama river bank

AGEO, Japan - A policeman gets hold of a four-meter-long Indian python on a river bank in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, on Sept. 9. The police station that released the photo said it suspects someone might have given up keeping it as a pet. (Kyodo)

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Nurse says healing of mind is must for hospice patients

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran hospice nurse Hideko Oshima looks at one of the healing art pictures hung on the hallway wall of a newly opened palliative care ward of Ageo Central General Hospital in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, in this file photo taken on July 8, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Head of group representing kin of N. Korea abductees speaks

SAITAM, Japan - Shigeo Iizuka, head of a group representing family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s, answers questions from reporters in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on July 3, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Rice harvesting in Japan

A farmer harvests rice in Ageo in Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Sept. 22, 2020.

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Death of N. Korean abduction victim's father

Shigeo Iizuka, who heads a group representing families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, speaks in Ageo in Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, on June 5, 2020, following the death of Shigeru Yokota, the father of Megumi Yokota, a symbolic figure in the abduction issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kin of Japanese abducted by N. Korea

Shigeo Iizuka, who heads a group representing families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea, meets the press in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 2019, following the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Widow of Kyodo reporter donates 3 mil. yen for Chinese school

AGEO, Japan - Matsue Ito, the widow of Shinichi Ito, a former chief of Kyodo News' Beijing bureau, holds the photo of her husband at her home in Ageo, Saitama Prefecture, on April 15. She has donated 3 million yen through a Chinese group for youth development to rebuild a school in Hebei Province in northeast China. Ito worked as a correspondent in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong for a total of 11 years.