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WFP ambassador

TOKYO, Japan - Kurara Chibana, a model who was runner-up in the Miss Universe 2006 beauty pageant, is pictured in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2013, after she was named as the first Japanese ambassador for the World Food Program.

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WFP ambassador

TOKYO, Japan - Kurara Chibana (L), a model who was runner-up in the Miss Universe 2006 beauty pageant, is pictured in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2013, after she was named as the first Japanese ambassador for the World Food Program. At right is Elisabeth Rasmusson, assistant executive director of the Rome-based U.N. body.

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WFP's Rasmusson, Chibana seek aid for Syrian refugees

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese model Kurara Chibana (L), the National Ambassador against Hunger for Japan for the U.N. World Food Program, and the WFP's Assistant Executive Director Elisabeth Rasmusson call for more aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan at an event in Tokyo, on Nov. 17, 2014.

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Model Chibana calls for support for Syrian refugees

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese model Kurara Chibana, the National Ambassador against Hunger for Japan for the U.N. World Food Program, reports on the situation of Syrian refugees in Jordan at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2014. She called for support for Syrian refugees, particularly children.

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Model Chibana becomes WFP ambassador against hunger

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 13, 2013, shows Japanese model Kurara Chibana, who became the U.N. World Food Program's ambassador against hunger for Japan that month after having served as the organization's celebrity partner since 2007.

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World judo championships

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Japan's Masaaki Fukuoka (R) competes with Charles Chibana of Brazil for third place in the men's 66-kilogram class at the world judo championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Aug. 27, 2013. Fukuoka defeated Chibana to win bronze.

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Uniqlo plans global sales of Heat Tech innerwear

TOKYO, Japan - Kurara Chibana (C), who placed 2nd in the 2006 Miss Universe world competition, in Tokyo on Nov. 7 wears a dress over Heat Tech innerwear developed by Fast Retailing Co. The company said the Heat Tech innerwear can absorb body moisture and convert it into heat.

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Antiwar activist who torched Hinomaru flag

NAHA, Japan - File photo shows Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, taking part in a mass protest rally over history textbooks at a Ginowan park in the prefecture on Sept. 29, 2007. The 64-year-old former village assemblyman, who was convicted of torching the Hinomaru flag at a national athletic meet in 1987, has vowed in an interview with Kyodo News to keep fighting to achieve peace in Okinawa ahead of the 40th anniversary on May 15, 2012, of the island's reversion to Japanese sovereignty from U.S. control.

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People moving to Okinawa from elsewhere in Japan seen critically

YOMITAN, Japan - Antiwar landowner Shoichi Chibana (C) shows tourists around his 236 square meter land in the Sobe Communication Site in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. His land, part of the U.S. military facility, was returned to him in June 2006.

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Okinawa landowner to win back plot inside 'Elephant Cage' on Mon.

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist who owns a plot of land in the U.S. Navy's communication facility in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, poses on a road leading to the facility commonly known as the ''Elephant Cage'' on July 24. Cbana will win back his land on July 31 when the Japanese government's expropriation expires.

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(2) High court rejects ruling on damages to Okinawa landowner

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana, owner of a lot used by the U.S. Navy in Okinawa, comments on the ruling by the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court on Oct. 31 that overturned an earlier court decision that ordered the Japanese government to pay him damages for forcing him to lease land to the U.S. military even after land-use contracts expired in 1996.

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High court rejects ruling on damages to Okinawa landowner

NAHA, Japan - The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court on Oct. 31 overturned an earlier ruling that ordered the Japanese government to pay damages to Shoichi Chibana, an Okinawa landowner, for forcing him to lease land (in file photo) to the U.S. military even after land-use contracts expired in 1996.

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Gov't ordered to compensate Okinawa landowner over base

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana is seen Nov. 21 in front of the U.S. Navy's Sobe Communications Site in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. The Naha District Court ordered the state Nov. 30 to pay 470,000 yen in damages to Chibana for forcing him to lease the land to the U.S. military even after land-use contracts between him and the state expired in 1996.

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Tokyo Olympics: Judo

Brazil's Gabriela Chibana (top) loses to Kosovo's Distria Krasniqi in the women's judo 48-kilogram elimination round of 16 on July 24, 2021, at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.

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Gov't ordered to compensate Okinawa landowner over base

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana is seen Nov. 21 in front of the U.S. Navy's Sobe Communications Site in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture. The Naha District Court ordered the state Nov. 30 to pay 470,000 yen in damages to Chibana for forcing him to lease the land to the U.S. military even after land-use contracts between him and the state expired in 1996.

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(2) High court rejects ruling on damages to Okinawa landowner

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana, owner of a lot used by the U.S. Navy in Okinawa, comments on the ruling by the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court on Oct. 31 that overturned an earlier court decision that ordered the Japanese government to pay him damages for forcing him to lease land to the U.S. military even after land-use contracts expired in 1996. (Kyodo)

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Ban meets with Japanese goodwill ambassadors of U.N. bodies

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (2nd from L) meets with Japanese goodwill ambassadors of U.N. bodies at United Nations University in Tokyo on March 17, 2015. They are Japanese grand tea master Genshitu Sen of UNESCO (far L), actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi of UNICEF (2nd from R) and model Kurara Chibana of WFP. Ban solicited their further support for the U.N. activities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ban meets with Japanese goodwill ambassadors of U.N. bodies

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L) shakes hands with model Kurara Chibana (R), Japan's goodwill ambassador of the World Food Programme at United Nations University in Tokyo on March 17, 2015. Actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, who serves as Japan's goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, is seen between them. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okinawa landowner to win back plot inside 'Elephant Cage' on Mon

NAHA, Japan - Shoichi Chibana, an antiwar activist who owns a plot of land in the U.S. Navy's communication facility in the village of Yomitan, Okinawa Prefecture, poses on a road leading to the facility commonly known as the ''Elephant Cage'' on July 24. Cbana will win back his land on July 31 when the Japanese government's expropriation expires. (Kyodo)

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Uniqlo plans global sales of Heat Tech innerwear

TOKYO, Japan - Kurara Chibana (C), who placed 2nd in the 2006 Miss Universe world competition, in Tokyo on Nov. 7 wears a dress over Heat Tech innerwear developed by Fast Retailing Co. The company said the Heat Tech innerwear can absorb body moisture and convert it into heat. (Kyodo)

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WFP's Rasmusson, Chibana seek aid for Syrian refugees

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese model Kurara Chibana (L), the National Ambassador against Hunger for Japan for the U.N. World Food Program, and the WFP's Assistant Executive Director Elisabeth Rasmusson call for more aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan at an event in Tokyo, on Nov. 17, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Southwest Japan islands set to become World Heritage site

Yasushi Chibana, head of the Okinawa Prefecture village of Kunigami, reacts at the village office on May 10, 2021, after a UNESCO advisory panel recommended that a chain of islands in southwestern Japan with dense subtropical forests be added to the list of natural World Heritage sites.

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Olympics: Brazilian judoka Chibana loses in 2nd round

Brazil's Charles Chibana (blue) loses to Masashi Ebinuma of Japan in the second round of the men's 66-kilogram class at the Rio Olympics on Aug. 7, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High court rejects ruling on damages to Okinawa landowner

NAHA, Japan - The Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court on Oct. 31 overturned an earlier ruling that ordered the Japanese government to pay damages to Shoichi Chibana, an Okinawa landowner, for forcing him to lease land (in file photo) to the U.S. military even after land-use contracts expired in 1996. (Kyodo)