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(1)Legacy of slain peacekeeper Akino continues 5 years after death

TOKYO, Japan - The legacy of U.N. peacekeeper Yutaka Akino (in file photo) continues five years after he was shot dead in Tajikistan through a fund that has helped Japanese youth research and conduct activities to promote peace. ''Akino was a rare expert in Japan on the settlement of (international) disputes. We want to help more people become like Akino,'' Takayuki Ito, an executive of the Akino Yutaka Eurasia Fund, says.

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Akino, Japanese painter of Indian themes, dies at 93

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese painter Fuku Akino (file photo), who specialized in Indian themes, dies on Oct. 11 of heart failure at her home in Kyoto. She was 93. Akino was named a person of cultural merit in 1991 and received the Order of Culture in 1999.

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Umehara, 4 others receive cultural award

TOKYO, Japan - Anthropologist Takeshi Umehara and four others receive this year's Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Culture Day on Nov. 3. The photo shows the five recipients and their wives. From L to R, novelist Hiroyuki Agawa, 78, organic chemist Saburo Tamura, 82, painter Fuku Akino, 91, law expert Masami Ito, 80, and Takeshi Umehara, 74.

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Slain member of UN mission remembered in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Some 100 people gather on July 20 at a restaurant in Sapporo to remember Yutaka Akino, one of four members of the U.N. observers shot and killed a year ago in a mountainous area of the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Akino, an associate professor at Tsukuba University, was remembered by his students, researchers, Foreign Ministry staff, and family and friends in same restaurant garden where he married his wife Yoko 25 years ago.

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Akino, Japanese painter of Indian themes, dies at 93

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese painter Fuku Akino (file photo), who specialized in Indian themes, dies on Oct. 11 of heart failure at her home in Kyoto. She was 93. Akino was named a person of cultural merit in 1991 and received the Order of Culture in 1999.

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Abe pays respect to Japanese killed in Tajikistan on U.N. mission

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) and his wife Akie lay flowers at a monument in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Oct. 24, 2015, in memory of compatriot Yutaka Akino, who was killed by anti-government forces there in 1998 when deployed as a parliamentary secretary to the U.N. Mission of Observers in Tajikistan. Abe is on a weeklong tour of Mongolia and five Central Asian countries to strengthen ties with the resource-rich region. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Legacy of slain peacekeeper Akino continues 5 years after dea

TOKYO, Japan - Soccer fan Taro Morita (R) gives soccer instructions to boys in Sarajevo in an undated photo provided by the Akino Yutaka Eurasia Fund. Morita has set up a nongovernmental organization in Bosnia with the backing of the fund that has helped Japanese youth research and conduct activities to promote peace. (Kyodo)

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(1)Legacy of slain peacekeeper Akino continues 5 years after dea

TOKYO, Japan - The legacy of U.N. peacekeeper Yutaka Akino (in file photo) continues five years after he was shot dead in Tajikistan through a fund that has helped Japanese youth research and conduct activities to promote peace. ''Akino was a rare expert in Japan on the settlement of (international) disputes. We want to help more people become like Akino,'' Takayuki Ito, an executive of the Akino Yutaka Eurasia Fund, says. (Kyodo)

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Umehara, 4 others receive cultural award

TOKYO, Japan - Anthropologist Takeshi Umehara and four others receive this year's Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Culture Day on Nov. 3. The photo shows the five recipients and their wives. From L to R, novelist Hiroyuki Agawa, 78, organic chemist Saburo Tamura, 82, painter Fuku Akino, 91, law expert Masami Ito, 80, and Takeshi Umehara, 74.

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Slain member of UN mission remembered in Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Some 100 people gather on July 20 at a restaurant in Sapporo to remember Yutaka Akino, one of four members of the U.N. observers shot and killed a year ago in a mountainous area of the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Akino, an associate professor at Tsukuba University, was remembered by his students, researchers, Foreign Ministry staff, and family and friends in same restaurant garden where he married his wife Yoko 25 years ago.

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Obuchi offers sympathy for fami

Japanese Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi expresses sympathy July 27 to the family of Japanese U.N. peacekeeper Yutaka Akino, who was shot dead July 20 in Tajikistan with three other peacekeepers. Obuchi, who visited Akino's home in Sapporo, northern Japan, spoke to reporters and called his death ''a big loss for Japan.''