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TOP 10 CHINESE SPORTS NEWS EVENTS IN 2022

(221227) -- BEIJING, Dec. 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on July 25, 2022 shows local residents exercise in a park in Otog Banner of Erdos, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A revision to China's sports law was passed on June 24 at the session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee and will take effect on January 1, 2023. This was the first comprehensive and systematic revision since the law's initial enforcement in 1995. The revised Law on Physical Culture and Sports added four new chapters, namely "Anti-Doping", "Sports Arbitration", "Sports Industry" and "Supervision and Management", further improving the basic legal framework of sports in China. (Photo by Wang Zheng/Xinhua)

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Kobe Luminarie illuminations tested

KOBE, Japan - People watch as the Luminarie illuminations in Kobe are tested on Nov. 27, 2009. The annual illuminations, commencing Dec. 3, commemorate the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Kobe Luminarie illuminations tested

KOBE, Japan - People watch as the Luminarie illuminations in Kobe are tested on Nov. 27, 2009. The annual illuminations, commencing Dec. 3, commemorate the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake.

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Joyu to become AUM leader in January

TOKYO, Japan - Fumihiro Joyu, a longtime spokesman for the AUM Shinrikyo cult and its de facto No. 2 man, announces at a news conference at an AUM facility in Tokyo on Dec. 27 he will take over the cult, responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes, at the end of January. Joyu, 39, said that current leader Tatsuko Muraoka, 51, will step down and become chairwoman.

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JR Tokai ordered to pay 49 mil. yen over teen's death

NUMAZU, Japan - Yasuo Kawasaki (L) and Nobue Kawasaki, parents of Yusuke Kawasaki, wipe away tears at a news conference in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 7 after the Shizuoka District Court ordered Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to pay them 49 million yen in compensation over a 1995 bullet train accident at Mishima Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. On Dec. 27, 1995, their son Yusuke, 17, died after getting his finger caught in a train door and being dragged for about 150 meters.

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Joyu to become AUM leader in January

TOKYO, Japan - Fumihiro Joyu, a longtime spokesman for the AUM Shinrikyo cult and its de facto No. 2 man, announces at a news conference at an AUM facility in Tokyo on Dec. 27 he will take over the cult, responsible for the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and other crimes, at the end of January. Joyu, 39, said that current leader Tatsuko Muraoka, 51, will step down and become chairwoman.

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Kobe Luminarie illuminations tested

KOBE, Japan - People watch as the Luminarie illuminations in Kobe are tested on Nov. 27, 2009. The annual illuminations, commencing Dec. 3, commemorate the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. (Kyodo)

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Kobe Luminarie illuminations tested

KOBE, Japan - People watch as the Luminarie illuminations in Kobe are tested on Nov. 27, 2009. The annual illuminations, commencing Dec. 3, commemorate the victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. (Kyodo)

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JR Tokai ordered to pay 49 mil. yen over teen's death

NUMAZU, Japan - Yasuo Kawasaki (L) and Nobue Kawasaki, parents of Yusuke Kawasaki, wipe away tears at a news conference in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 7 after the Shizuoka District Court ordered Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) to pay them 49 million yen in compensation over a 1995 bullet train accident at Mishima Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. On Dec. 27, 1995, their son Yusuke, 17, died after getting his finger caught in a train door and being dragged for about 150 meters.