Porvoo Borgå Jukola 2023 - women's Venla relay

Porvoo Borgå Jukola 2023 - women's Venla relay

Elza Kuze of IGTISA of Latvia during the women's Venla relay of the orienteering Jukola 2023 event in Porvoo, Finland, on June 17, 2023. LEHTIKUVA / HEIKKI SAUKKOMAA - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

Japan's Sasaki misses beauty prize

Japan's Sasaki misses beauty prize

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Elza Sasaki from Japan shows off a picture drawn by one of her fans after this year's Miss World contest in Johannesburg on Dec. 12, 2009. Sasaki was among the 16 finalists but missed out on the crown.

Japan beauty hoping U.S. grandfather tunes in to Miss World

Japan beauty hoping U.S. grandfather tunes in to Miss World

URUMA, Japan - Photo taken around 1950 shows a portrait of U.S. Air Force technical sergeant Tom Snell, father of Tammy Sasaki and grandfather of Elza Sasaki, Miss World Japan 2009. (Photo courtesy of Chiyoko Inafuku) (Kyodo)

Japan beauty hoping U.S. grandfather tunes in to Miss World

Japan beauty hoping U.S. grandfather tunes in to Miss World

CHATAN, Japan - From left to right, Elza Sasaki, Miss World Japan 2009, her grandmother Chiyoko Inafuku, and her mother Tammy Sasaki pose for a Kyodo photographer at the beach in the town of Chatan near Inafuku's home in Uruma in Okinawa Prefecture on Aug. 12. (Kyodo)

Japan's Sasaki misses beauty prize

Japan's Sasaki misses beauty prize

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Elza Sasaki from Japan shows off a picture drawn by one of her fans after this year's Miss World contest in Johannesburg on Dec. 12, 2009. Sasaki was among the 16 finalists but missed out on the crown. (Kyodo)

Orix to build Japan's highest condo building in Osaka

Orix to build Japan's highest condo building in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - The Orix Corp. group said March 11 it will join forces with two real estate developers to build Japan's highest condominium building (shown in a designer's image) in Osaka. The 54-story skyscraper, to be completed in August 2006, will be 200 meters high, surpassing the 186-meter-high Elza Tower in Kawaguchi, north of Tokyo. (Kyodo)