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Canon Inc. Vice President Ogawa to become president

Canon Inc. Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2026, following an announcement that he will be promoted to president on March 27.

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Canon Inc. Vice President Ogawa to become president

Canon Inc. Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa (L) attends a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2026, alongside Fujio Mitarai, president and chairman, following an announcement that Ogawa will be promoted to president on March 27.

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Canon Inc. Vice President Ogawa to become president

Canon Inc. Executive Vice President Kazuto Ogawa (L) shakes hands with Fujio Mitarai, president and chairman, after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2026, following an announcement that Ogawa will be promoted to president on March 27.

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa holds a press conference at the city hall in the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 6, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site. (Kyodo)

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa is pictured at the city hall in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025, waiting for city assembly members, who are set to hand her a written request urging her to decide whether to continue serving in light of allegations of an affair with a senior city official reported by an online new site.(Kyodo)

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa meets the press after holding a meeting with all members of the city assembly of the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site.(Kyodo)

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa holds a meeting with all members of the city assembly of the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site.

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

Maebashi city assembly members hand Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa (far L) a written request urging her to decide whether to continue serving after an allegation of an affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site, at the city hall in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025.

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Football: Friendly between Japan and Paraguay

Japan's Koki Ogawa reacts after scoring in the first half of an international friendly against Paraguay at Panasonic Stadium Suita in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2025.

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Football: Friendly between Japan and Paraguay

Japan's Koki Ogawa (bottom) scores in the first half of an international friendly against Paraguay at Panasonic Stadium Suita in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2025.

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Football: Friendly between Japan and Paraguay

Japan's Koki Ogawa (19) scores in the first half of an international friendly against Paraguay at Panasonic Stadium Suita in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2025.

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Football: Friendly between Japan and Paraguay

Japan's Koki Ogawa (2nd from R) scores in the first half of an international friendly against Paraguay at Panasonic Stadium Suita in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Oct. 10, 2025.

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Japanese film gets standing ovation at Venice film festival

(From L) Japanese director Kyoshi Sugita (L) receives a standing ovation for his film "Following the Sound," starring actress An Ogawa (C), at the Venice International Film Festival after its screening for the Giornate degli Autori, an independent film festival section held in parallel with the festival.

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Japanese film gets standing ovation at Venice film festival

(From L) Japanese actress Yuko Nakamura, director Kyoshi Sugita, actress An Ogawa and actress Chika Araki pose for photo after a screening of a film directed by Sugita at the Venice International Film Festival. The film "Following the Sound" got a standing ovation after its screening for the Giornate degli Autori, an independent film festival section held in parallel with the festival.

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Tamada strike gives Nagoya draw with Newcastle in ACL

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Grampus forward Keiji Tamada (C) celebrates with teammate Rafael Magnum (L) and Yoshizumi Ogawa (R) after firing an equalizer and earning his team a share of the spoils in a 1-1 draw with Australia's Newcastle Jets in the Asian Champions League on April 7 at Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya.

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Emperor, empress visit Saitama Pref.

OGAWA, Japan - Japan's Emperor Akihito (L in back) and Empress Michiko talk to a farmer working in an organic soybean field in the town of Ogawa, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Nov. 20, 2014, as they visit areas hard hit by record heavy snow in February. (Pool photo by Tokyo Shimbun)

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Japanese killed in Kenya

MOMBASA, Kenya - A passer-by stands at the spot in Mombasa, Kenya, on July 16, 2013, where Japanese man Satoru Ogawa was fatally shot in an apparent robbery case the previous day.

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Ainu descendants sue university for ancestral remains

SAPPORO, Japan - Ryukichi Ogawa (R) holds a press conference in Sapporo on Sept. 14, 2012. Ogawa and two other descendants of the Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group in northern Japan, filed a lawsuit earlier the same day against Hokkaido University for damages and the return of the remains of their ancestors, saying the university removed the remains from a cemetery for research without permission and infringed on their freedom of faith to honor their forebears.

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Evidence in 1966 murder case

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Lawyer Hideyo Ogawa holds an item of evidence related to the 1966 murder of a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, at a press conference in Shizuoka city on Dec. 12, 2011, after prosecutors disclosed 176 items of evidence related to the case earlier in the day. Iwao Hakamada, 75, who has been convicted in the case and is on death row, is seeking a retrial.

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Gundam event in Shizuoka surpasses 1 million visitors

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Office worker Naoki Ogawa (R) and his family pose for photos after their arrival set the visitor tally over the one million mark to the Shizuoka Hobby Fair in Shizuoka City on Nov. 6, 2010. In the background is an 18-meter-tall ''life-size'' statue of the Gundam robot from the popular animation series.

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Japanese man helps Tuvalu in danger of submerging

FUNAFUTI, Tuvalu - Kazuyoshi Ogawa talks about his job as a specialist in charge of coordinating a variety of Japanese assistance programs and a development policy adviser to the Tuvalu government in Funafuti in an interview with Kyodo News on May 6.

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Nagoya Grampus, Beijing Guoan draw in AFC Champions League

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's Nagoya Grampus mifielder Yoshizumi Ogawa misses an overhead kick during the second half of an AFC Champions League first round game against China's Beijing Guoan at Nagoya Mizuho Athletics Stadium in Nagoya on March 17. The match ended 0-0.

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Lead ship of whaling fleet returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Tomoyuki Ogawa (R), captain of the Nisshin Maru, the lead ship of Japan's whaling fleet, and Hajime Ishikawa (C), leader of Japan's whaling expedition for so-called scientific research purposes, attend a news conference in Tokyo on April 15. The ship returned home earlier in the day after completing a five-month expedition in the Antarctic Ocean that was hampered by violent protests by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling group.

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Koizumi attends troop review ceremony at ASDF Hyakuri Base

OGAWA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gives an address at a troop review ceremony held at the Air Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri Air Base in the town of Ogawa, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 30.

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2 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

GENEVA, Switzerland - Ayaka Ogawa (L) and Mayuko Tsuda (R), two Japanese high school students from Nagasaki, observe a meeting of the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva on Aug. 19. They handed a petition containing more than 30,000 signatures calling for nuclear disarmament to an official of the Conference of Disarmament.

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(3)Iraqi boy released from hospital

NUMAZU, Japan - Yukiko Hasihida (R), wife of slain journalist Shinsuke Hashida, talks to Mohamad Haytham Saleh, 10, from Iraq, at a hotel in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 14 after his release from a hospital in the city. The boy received surgery on his injured left eye on a trip arranged by Shinsuke Hashida and his nephew Kotaro Ogawa, who were killed in an ambush in Iraq in May.

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(2)Iraqi boy released from hospital

NUMAZU, Japan - Yukiko Hasihida, wife of the late journalist Shinsuke Hashida, hugs Mohamad Haytham Saleh, a 10-year-old Iraqi boy, at a hotel in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 14 after Mohamad was released from a hospital in Nuzamu. The boy has been in Numazu for surgery on his injured left eye, on a trip arranged by Shinsuke Hashida and his nephew Kotaro Ogawa, who were killed in an ambush in Iraq in late May.

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Bodies of 2 slain Japanese journalists arrive in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yukiko Hashida (L) and her son Daisuke (R) arrive in Bangkok from Kuwait on June 6 with the bodies of her husband Shinsuke Hashida and his nephew Kotaro Ogawa who were slain in an attack near Baghdad in May. The bodies of the two journalists are scheduled to be cremated a temple in Bangkok, where they were based.

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Bodies of 2 slain Japanese journalists leave Kuwait

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Yukiko Hashida (R) and her son Daisuke prepare to leave Kuwait airport for Bangkok on June 6 aboard an airplane that will carry the bodies of her husband Shinsuke and his nephew Kotaro Ogawa, who were slain in an attack near Baghdad in late May. Yukiko and Daisuke will accompany the bodies and plan to cremate them at a temple in Bangkok.

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Kin of Japanese slain in Iraq identify body in Kuwait

KUWAIT, Kuwait - Relatives of freelance journalist Kotaro Ogawa -- his mother Yoko, father Hiroshi and brother Shuji -- return to a hotel in Kuwait May 30 after identifying his body at an Air Force base, to which the body was airlifted from Baghdad. Ogawa and his uncle Shinsuke Hashida were attacked in a Baghdad suburb on May 27 by gunmen.

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Kin of 2 Japanese feared killed in Iraq arrive in Kuwait

KUWAIT AIRPORT, Kuwait - The relatives of two Japanese journalists feared killed in an attack in Iraq, Shinsuke Hashida and his nephew Kotaro Ogawa, arrive at Kuwait International Airport on May 29 to identify the bodies. They are (from L to R) Hashida's wife Yukiko, their son Daisuke, Ogawa's brother Shuji, his parents Yoko and Hiroshi.

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JT appoints former MOF bureaucrat Wakui as chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) said April 28 it has unofficially appointed Yoji Wakui (in file photo), the disgraced former director general of the Finance Ministry's Budget Bureau, as its chairman to succeed Tadashi Ogawa in June. Wakui resigned from the ministry after it emerged that he received an expensive lithograph as a wedding gift from a businessman who was later indicted on charges of evading taxes.

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3 killed in farmhouse fire in Ibaraki

MITO, Japan - A house and a car stand gutted in the wake of an early morning fire in the town of Ogawa in Ibaraki Prefecture on July 7 in which three people died. Police suspect one of the three had been strangled.

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Baseball in Japan

Yasuhiro Ogawa of the Yakult Swallows throws a pitch during an interleague baseball game against the SoftBank Hawks at PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 10, 2022.

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Baseball in Japan

Yasuhiro Ogawa of the Yakult Swallows throws a pitch during an interleague baseball game against the SoftBank Hawks at PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on June 10, 2022.

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Japan opposition leadership race

Combined photo shows the four candidates for the leadership election of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, (from L) Chinami Nishimura, Kenta Izumi, Junya Ogawa and Seiji Osaka as they deliver speeches at an extraordinary party meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2021. The party elected its policy chief Izumi as its new leader the same day.

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2 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

GENEVA, Switzerland - Ayaka Ogawa (L) and Mayuko Tsuda (R), two Japanese high school students from Nagasaki, observe a meeting of the Conference of Disarmament in Geneva on Aug. 19. They handed a petition containing more than 30,000 signatures calling for nuclear disarmament to an official of the Conference of Disarmament. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi attends troop review ceremony at ASDF Hyakuri Base

OGAWA, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi gives an address at a troop review ceremony held at the Air Self-Defense Force's Hyakuri Air Base in the town of Ogawa, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 30. (Kyodo)

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Nagoya Grampus, Beijing Guoan draw in AFC Champions League

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's Nagoya Grampus mifielder Yoshizumi Ogawa misses an overhead kick during the second half of an AFC Champions League first round game against China's Beijing Guoan at Nagoya Mizuho Athletics Stadium in Nagoya on March 17. The match ended 0-0. (Kyodo)

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Tamada strike gives Nagoya draw with Newcastle in ACL

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Grampus forward Keiji Tamada (C) celebrates with teammate Rafael Magnum (L) and Yoshizumi Ogawa (R) after firing an equalizer and earning his team a share of the spoils in a 1-1 draw with Australia's Newcastle Jets in the Asian Champions League on April 7 at Mizuho Stadium in Nagoya. (Kyodo)

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3 killed in farmhouse fire in Ibaraki

MITO, Japan - A house and a car stand gutted in the wake of an early morning fire in the town of Ogawa in Ibaraki Prefecture on July 7 in which three people died. Police suspect one of the three had been strangled.

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(2)Iraqi boy released from hospital

NUMAZU, Japan - Yukiko Hasihida, wife of the late journalist Shinsuke Hashida, hugs Mohamad Haytham Saleh, a 10-year-old Iraqi boy, at a hotel in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 14 after Mohamad was released from a hospital in Nuzamu. The boy has been in Numazu for surgery on his injured left eye, on a trip arranged by Shinsuke Hashida and his nephew Kotaro Ogawa, who were killed in an ambush in Iraq in late May. (Kyodo)

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Nissan to boost domestic production amid weak yen

Hiroto Saikawa (R), chief competitive officer of Nissan Motor Co., and Fukuoka Gov. Hiroshi Ogawa (C) attend an event at Nissan Motor Kyushu Co.'s plant in Kanda Town, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, on July 9, 2015, to commemorate the factory's cumulative output topping 15 million vehicles. Nissan disclosed the same day that it will increase its domestic production to over 1.1 million units around fiscal 2018 from about 870,000 units in fiscal 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ogawa does it all as Swallows beat BayStars

Yasuhiro Ogawa pitches in the Yakult Swallows' 3-1 win over the DeNA BayStars at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on April 17, 2015. He allowed one unearned run in 8-1/3 innings and helped his own cause with an RBI single in a three-run sixth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: New foreign players introduced by Yakult

Yakult Swallows general manager Junji Ogawa (C) poses for a photo with (from L) new pitchers Cy Sneed and Rick Vandenhurk, outfielder Domingo Santana and infielder Jose Osuna after an introductory press conference in Tokyo on April 19, 2021.

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Same-sex couple

Chizuka Oe (R) and her partner Yoko Ogawa meet reporters in Tokyo on Jan. 17, 2019, after they submitted a marriage notification to the office of Tokyo's Nakano Ward, where they live -- an attempt that was rejected, as expected, on the grounds that they are both registered as a woman in their family registers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Portuguese director wins grand prize at Yamagata film festival

Portuguese film director Pedro Costa (2nd from R) holds the trophy after winning the grand prize in the International Competition at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Yamagata, Japan, on Oct. 14, 2015. His film "Horse Money" depicts the agonies of an aged Cabo Verde immigrant in a slum in the Lisbon suburbs. Lebanese-born director Maya Abdul-Malak (C) won the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize in the New Asian Currents Awards for her film "Standing Men" themed on migrant workers in Paris from the Middle East. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-soccer player shares tips on realizing life dreams as cafe owner

Waffles and a cup of latte decorated with the latte art of a bear are served at a cafe run by Haruyuki Ogawa, a former player with an Argentine professional soccer club, and his wife Namiko in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2015. Ogawa joined Argentine third-division soccer club Cambaceres at the age of 22 but retired in less than a year without getting to play for them in a competitive game. He uses his own experience to encourage customers to take a chance with their careers and life dreams. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-soccer player shares tips on realizing life dreams as cafe owner

Haruyuki Ogawa, a former player with an Argentine professional football club, demonstrates on Oct. 2, 2015, his latte art skills mastered as owner of a cafe that he runs with his wife Namiko in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan. Ogawa joined Argentine third-division soccer club Cambaceres at the age of 22 but retired in less than a year without getting to play for them in a competitive game. He uses his own experience to encourage customers to take a chance with their careers and life dreams. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-railman named new head of all-female Takarazuka Revue troupe

Tomotsugu Ogawa, new president of the Takarazuka Revue troupe, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on April 16, 2015, looking ahead to the next 100 years following the centenary last year of the all-female company's establishment. Ogawa, a former employee of Hankyu Corp., once underwent on-the-job training as a motorman for the private railway operator. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo