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Mother's Day

HANDAN, CHINA - MAY 10, 2025 - A expectant fathers kisses a expectant mother's belly in Handan City, Hebei Province, China on May 10, 2025.

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Mother's Day

HANDAN, CHINA - MAY 10, 2025 - Expectant fathers kiss the expectant mother's belly in Handan City, Hebei Province, China on May 10, 2025.

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Japanese obstetrician leaves for Afghanistan

NARITA, Japan - Makiko Kikuchi, a 34-year-old obstetrician and gynecologist of the Japanese Red Cross Society, speaks to reporters at Narita International Airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 5 before leaving for Afghanistan to assist in childbirths and offer advice to expectant mothers in the war-torn country. Kikuchi will work for five months in a hospital in Kandahar.

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Expectant Princess Kiko in stable condition: agency

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Kiko and her husband Prince Akishino leave the Imperial Household Hospital in Tokyo on July 27 after the princess underwent a regular checkup there.

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American Zen priest promotes Jizo project for Hiroshima, Nagasaki

KYOTO, Japan - Jan Chozen Bays (R), an American Zen master, speaks with reporters at a Kyoto hotel on Aug. 4. She called for people to join a project to make some 270,000 statues and written images of Jizo Bodhisattva to represent the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and promote world peace. Bays said she came up with the idea when she visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki two years ago. Jizo Bodhisattva is the guardian of deceased children, expectant mothers, firemen, travelers, and pilgrims.

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Crown Princess Masako in fine shape

TOKYO, Japan - Expectant mother Crown Princess Masako waves at well-wishers as she is driven to a hospital for a prenatal checkup Nov. 16, 2001. The Imperial Household Agency said the princess is in good condition after the check, the seventh since the announcement of her pregnancy this spring. (Pool photo)

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Australian city of Brisbane named host of 2032 Olympics

Brisbane was confirmed as host of the 2032 Summer Olympics and Paralympics on Wednesday after International Olympic Committee members voted for the Australian city during its annual session. It will be the third Australian city to hold the games after Melbourne in 1956 and Sydney in 2000. With no competing bids, IOC chief Thomas Bach announced the outcome of the vote to only the expectant faces of Brisbane's representatives. The International Olympic Committee has the honor to announce that the games of the 35th Olympiad are awarded to Brisbane, Australia, Bach said. The city's bid was approved by a clear majority with 72 of the 80 voters supporting, with five voting against and three abstaining.

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American Zen priest promotes Jizo project for Hiroshima, Nagasak

KYOTO, Japan - Jan Chozen Bays (R), an American Zen master, speaks with reporters at a Kyoto hotel on Aug. 4. She called for people to join a project to make some 270,000 statues and written images of Jizo Bodhisattva to represent the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and promote world peace. Bays said she came up with the idea when she visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki two years ago. Jizo Bodhisattva is the guardian of deceased children, expectant mothers, firemen, travelers, and pilgrims. (Kyodo)

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Japan, China hold meeting on maternity health book

Japanese and Chinese health officials attend a meeting on handbooks on maternal and child health at the National Diet building in Tokyo on June 29, 2015. China has decided to distribute Japanese-style handbooks to expectant women to enable them to manage their own and their newborn babies' health records together. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan welcomes China's move to distribute maternity books

Kiyoko Fukuda (c), wife of former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and adviser to a domestic organization promoting handbooks on maternal and child health, shows a senior official from China her own handbook provided by a local government following her childbirth during their encounter at the National Diet building in Tokyo on June 29, 2015. China has decided to distribute Japanese-style handbooks to expectant women to enable them to manage their own and their newborn babies' health records together. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Expectant Princess Kiko in stable condition: agency

TOKYO, Japan - Princess Kiko and her husband Prince Akishino leave the Imperial Household Hospital in Tokyo on July 27 after the princess underwent a regular checkup there. (Kyodo)

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Japanese obstetrician leaves for Afghanistan

NARITA, Japan - Makiko Kikuchi, a 34-year-old obstetrician and gynecologist of the Japanese Red Cross Society, speaks to reporters at Narita International Airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 5 before leaving for Afghanistan to assist in childbirths and offer advice to expectant mothers in the war-torn country. Kikuchi will work for five months in a hospital in Kandahar. (Kyodo)

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