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10-yr-old succeeds spinning top performing arts

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 29, 2013, shows Kazuma Yoshitomi, a successor of the traditional performing arts of spinning tops called Chikuzen Hakata Koma. Only a fourth grader, he assumed the name of Chikushi Juraku as the successor to a line of artists.

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'News 23' anchorman Chikushi dies of cancer at 73

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in August 2006 shows Japanese journalist Tetsuya Chikushi, former anchorman of the TBS news program ''News 23.'' Chikushi died Nov. 7 of lung cancer at a Tokyo hospital, Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. said. He was 73.

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2 Japanese 'human shields' leave Iraq

DAMASCUS, Syria - Two Japanese -- Mitsuo Chikushi (L) and Michizo Matsuzaki (R) -- who had been acting as ''human shields'' in Baghdad to protest the U.S.-led war on Iraq, speak at a Damascus hotel in Syria on March 28. Chikushi, a company president from Hino, western Tokyo, and Matsuzaki, a former newspaper reporter from Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, had been placed at a water-purification plant in a Baghdad suburb.

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'News 23' anchorman Chikushi dies of cancer at 73

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in August 2006 shows Japanese journalist Tetsuya Chikushi, former anchorman of the TBS news program ''News 23.'' Chikushi died Nov. 7 of lung cancer at a Tokyo hospital, Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. said. He was 73. (Kyodo)

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2 Japanese 'human shields' leave Iraq

DAMASCUS, Syria - Two Japanese -- Mitsuo Chikushi (L) and Michizo Matsuzaki (R) -- who had been acting as ''human shields'' in Baghdad to protest the U.S.-led war on Iraq, speak at a Damascus hotel in Syria on March 28. Chikushi, a company president from Hino, western Tokyo, and Matsuzaki, a former newspaper reporter from Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, had been placed at a water-purification plant in a Baghdad suburb. (Kyodo)