Search｜Photos & Images & Videos｜KYODO NEWS IMAGES INC

Japan starts releasing Fukushima nuke wastewater into ocean amid protest, opposition

STORY: Japan starts releasing Fukushima nuke wastewater into ocean amid protest, opposition DATELINE: Aug. 24, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:56 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): ZHANG YIYI, Xinhua correspondent 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): TAEKO FUJIMURA, Official with Japan's National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Association 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): SACHIKO UNO, Protester STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHANG YIYI, Xinhua correspondent "I'm in front of the headquarters of Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The Japanese government has decided to authorize the release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the plant into the ocean on Thursday. Hundreds of protesters from all over the country are gathering here today, demanding the Japanese government and TEPCO to withdraw the irresponsible decision of ocean discharge." SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): TAEKO FUJIMURA, Official with Japan's National Federation

E

Consumer affairs minister Yamaoka

TOKYO, Japan - Consumer affairs minister Kenji Yamaoka enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 6, 2012. Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura gave Yamaoka a verbal warning the same day over remarks he made on the possible collapse of the euro and the bursting of the Chinese economic ''bubble.''

E

Yomiuri Giants put 'Tokyo' back on uniform

TOKYO, Japan - Yomiuri Giants manager Tatsunori Hara (2nd from L) joins players of his team in showing off the Japanese professional baseball club's new uniforms in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2014, with a version for away games sporting the word "TOKYO" across the chest for the first time in 13 seasons. The players posing with Hara are (from L) pitcher Yuki Koyama, catcher Seiji Kobayashi and infielder Daisuke Fujimura.

E

Quake-damaged sake brewer vows comeback

SENDAI, Japan - Takuya Fujimura, president of Kikuzakari Sake Brewery Co. in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan, shows a bottle of his product "Taxi Driver" in the city on Aug. 28, 2014. The 120-year-old brewery continues business despite having been severely damaged in the March 2011 earthquake.

E

Japan's Fujimura 10th in women's 5,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shoko Fujimura of Japan competes in the Winter Olympics women's 5,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 19, 2014. Fujimura came in 10th place with a time of 7 minutes, 9.65 seconds.

E

Japan's Fujimura 10th in women's 5,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shoko Fujimura of Japan finishes her run in the Winter Olympics women's 5,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 19, 2014. Fujimura came in 10th place with a time of 7 minutes, 9.65 seconds.

E

Japan's Fujimura 15th in women's 3,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shoko Fujimura of Japan finishes 15th in the Winter Olympics women's 3,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 9, 2014. Fujimura clocked 4 minutes, 12.71 seconds.

E

Japan's Fujimura 15th in women's 3,000m speed skating

SOCHI, Russia - Shoko Fujimura of Japan finishes 15th in the Winter Olympics women's 3,000-meter speed skating event at the Adler Arena Skating Center in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 9, 2014. Fujimura clocked 4 minutes, 12.71 seconds.

E

Japan skater Fujimura in women's 3,000m at Sochi

SOCHI, Russia - Japanese speed skater Shoko Fujimura competes in the women's 3,000-meter race at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games on Feb. 9, 2014.

E

Day after general election in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura of the Democratic Party of Japan answers a reporter's question at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2012, the day after the House of Representatives election which saw the DPJ's crushing defeat. Fujimura became the first serving chief Cabinet secretary to lose a parliamentary seat under the current Constitution, promulgated on Nov. 3, 1946.

E

N. Korea launches rocket

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura holds a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2012, after North Korea launched a rocket. The rocket apparently flew over the island prefecture in southwestern Japan. Japan, the United States and other countries suspect the launch is a covert test of long-range missile technology in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

E

Japan government chief spokesman

OSAKA, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura makes a stump speech in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 7, 2012, ahead of the Dec. 16 general election. The chief government spokesman said he hopes North Korea will quickly go through with its planned rocket launch, a remark that apparently goes against Japan's efforts in tandem with other nations to prevent Pyongyang from going ahead with it.

E

Japan to streamline Cabinet support agencies

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) National Policy Minister Seiji Maehara, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada attend a Cabinet meeting in the Diet building in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2012. The Japanese government decided to streamline two Cabinet support agencies and allow them to respond more flexibly and strategically to major issues, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said.

E

Female imperial branches

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura holds a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2012. The government made a proposal the same day on enabling female members of royalty to establish their own imperial family branches after marriage to commoners, amid concern about a decline in the number of royal household members and the heavy burden on the emperor.

E

Japan, N. Korea to resume governmental talks

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura speaks at a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2012. Fujimura said Japan will resume governmental talks with North Korea on Aug. 29 for the first time in four years.

E

Gov't proposes Tanaka as new nuclear regulatory body chief

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (2nd from R) attends a meeting at the Diet building in Tokyo on July 26, 2012. The government proposed to the Diet that Shunichi Tanaka, an expert in radiation physics, be appointed to head the new nuclear regulatory authority it is aiming to launch in early September.

E

Antinuclear civic group submits signatures to gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe (2nd from R) and other members of an antinuclear civic group submit some of the roughly 7.5 million signatures it has gathered calling for the abolition of nuclear power plants to Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (R) in Tokyo on June 15, 2012.

E

Kazaoka becomes new chief aid to emperor

TOKYO, Japan - Noriyuki Kazaoka (R) receives a certificate for his new post of Grand Steward of the Imperial Household Agency from Emperor Akihito (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on June 1, 2012. Standing between them is Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura. (Pool photo)

E

Gov't adopts power-saving plan for summer

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (3rd from R) and other Cabinet ministers attend a meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 18, 2012, to adopt a power-saving plan for this summer. The plan asks households and businesses served by seven utilities in wide areas of Japan to voluntarily cut consumption by 5 to 15 percent from July due to an expected power shortage in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

E

Business leaders support TPP talks

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuchika Hasegawa (L), chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, hands Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura a statement calling on the government to advance negotiations for high-level trade agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership regional trade pact, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 25, 2012.

E

Osaka Mayor conveys gov't opposition to early restart of reactors

TOKYO, Japan - Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto (R) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura shake hands before their meeting in Tokyo on April 24, 2012. Hashimoto conveyed his opposition to the early restart of idled nuclear reactors.

E

More Japanese eye S.E. Asia as place to live

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia - Masanori Fujimura (R), head of an investment consulting firm, looks at a model of an apartment building for Japanese customers in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on April 16, 2012. Plans are under way to develop a ''Little Tokyo'' in the center of Johor Bahru, which is adjacent to the region's major financial hub, Singapore.

E

More Japanese eye S.E. Asia as place to live

JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia - Masanori Fujimura, head of an investment consulting firm, points to the site on April 16, 2012, where plans are under way to develop a ''Little Tokyo'' in the center of Johor Bahru, which is adjacent to the region's major financial hub, Singapore.

E

Meeting on whether to reactivate Oi reactors

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) speaks at a meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 12, 2012. The meeting, attended by Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (R), industry minister Yukio Edano and nuclear disaster minister Goshi Hosono, was their fifth to consider whether two idled reactors at Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture should be the first since the Fukushima nuclear crisis to be restarted after periodic checks.

E

Task force for N. Korea rocket launch

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura tells a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 11, 2012, that the prime minister's office has set up a special task force to deal with North Korea's forthcoming rocket launch.

E

Chinese culture minister in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Chinese Culture Minister Cai Wu (L) and Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura shake hands at the Bunkamura theater complex in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on April 10, 2012. (Pool photo)

E

Japan decides to relax arms export ban

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura holds a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2011, after the government decided to ease restrictions on arms exports.

E

Japan to ask S. Korea to remove monument

TOKYO, Japan - Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura holds a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2011. Fujimura, the top government spokesman, said Japan is planning to call on South Korea to remove a monument that symbolizes Korean ''comfort women,'' which was set up the same day in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul by a civic group. ''Comfort women'' is a euphemism to describe women forced to provide sexual services for Japanese soldiers during World War II.

E

TPP supporters urge gov't to join negotiations

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Shiraishi (2nd from R), president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, hands a resolution urging the Japanese government to join the multilateral talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade framework to Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura (R) at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2011.

E

Japan thanks EXILE, other musicians for Vietnam event

TOKYO, Japan - HIRO (C, standing), leader of popular Japanese male vocal and dance act EXILE, speaks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2011, on behalf of artists who performed at the 2nd Japan-Vietnam friendship music festival earlier in the month in Vietnam. They received the certificates of appreciation from the Japanese government for their contributions to the bilateral friendship. The certificates with the name of Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba were presented by Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura.

E

Pele in Japan, promotes World Cup in Brazil

TOKYO, Japan - Brazilian football legend Pele (L) shakes hands with Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2011. Pele, who is visiting Japan to promote the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil, handed Fujimura an ''invitation'' from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to the people in Japan to come to the World Cup.

E

Japan eyes bureau to discuss U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura speaks during an interview with Kyodo News and other media outlets in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2011. Fujimura said the government is aiming to set up a new bureau to promote talks with Okinawa Prefecture on the problems associated with U.S. military bases.

E

Noda Cabinet launched

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, Japan's top government spokesman, announced the Cabinet lineup of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the premier's office in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2011.

E

New Chief Cabinet Secretary Fujimura

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Osamu Fujimura, who will become chief Cabinet secretary to serve as the top government spokesman in the new Cabinet under incoming Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Sept. 2, 2011.

E

Fujimura to be chief Cabinet secretary

TOKYO, Japan - Osamu Fujimura, deputy secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, heads to a room for DPJ executives in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2011. Incoming Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda selected Fujimura, one of the lawmakers closest to the premier-elect, as chief Cabinet secretary and top government spokesman.

E

Former Candies member Tanaka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows 1970s female pop trio the Candies talking about the breakup of the group during a press conference in Tokyo in July 1977. The trio comprised Ran Ito (C), called Ran, Miki Fujimura (L), called Miki, and Yoshiko Tanaka (R), called Sue. Tanaka died April 21, 2011, of breast cancer at the age of 55.

E

Former Candies member Tanaka dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows 1970s female pop trio the Candies performing during their ''Sayonara'' farewell concert in Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium on April 4, 1978. The trio comprised Ran Ito (C), called Ran, Miki Fujimura (L), called Miki, and Yoshiko Tanaka (R), called Sue. Tanaka died April 21, 2011, of breast cancer at the age of 55.

E

Analysis of space particles brought back by Hayabusa

TOKYO, Japan - Akio Fujimura (L), professor at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on March 10, 2011, on the analysis of particles brought back to Earth by Japan's Hayabusa unmanned space probe from the asteroid Itokawa in June 2010. The material constituting the asteroid may have been formed in high temperatures at the time the solar system was created 4.6 billion years ago, according to JAXA.

E

Cosplay participants visit Japanese Foreign Ministry

TOKYO, Japan - Costume role players from Spain, Mexico and the United States in their self-made costumes pose with State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Osamu Fujimura (3rd from L) during their visit to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 28, 2010, ahead of the World Cosplay Summit 2010, which will be held in the central Japan city of Nagoya from July 31 to Aug. 2.

E

Execs of Nagoya meat group arrested over beef buyback scam

NAGOYA, Japan - Law enforcement authorities arrested Yoshiharu Fujimura, chairman of the Fujichiku group, and six senior executives of the Nagoya-based Fujichiku meat wholesale group Nov. 8 on suspicion of fraudulently receiving state subsidies under the government's beef buyback program launched after the outbreak of mad cow disease in Japan in 2001.

E

Archeological site to be inspected for signs of forgery

SENDAI, Japan - A Japan Archaeology Association team starts investigating on Oct. 29 the Kamitakamori site in the town of Tsukidate in Miyagi Prefecture, where archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura has confessed to fabricating archaeological findings. Fujimura has admitted to faking discoveries at 42 sites including Kamitakamori.

E

6 publishers mull changes after archaeology fraud

TOKYO, Japan - The six publishers of these high school history textbooks said Nov. 7 they are considering whether to revise passages covering Japan's earliest stoneware, following a disclosure on Nov. 5 that a leading archaeologist had fabricated his discovery of artifacts at the Kamitakamori ruins in Miyagi Prefecture. Shinichi Fujimura, 50, who served as deputy director of the Tohoku Paleolithic Institute, admitted that in late October he fabricated the finds by burying stoneware.

E

Archaeologist admits burying 'oldest' stoneware pieces

SENDAI, Japan - Shinichi Fujimura (R), 50, a senior director at the Tohoku Paleolithic Institute, admits at a news conference held at the Miyagi prefetural government building in Sendai on Nov. 5 that he fabricated the discovery in the prefecture of stoneware at first believed to be more than 600,000 years old by burying the objects himself.

E

Execs of Nagoya meat group arrested over beef buyback scam

NAGOYA, Japan - Law enforcement authorities arrested Yoshiharu Fujimura, chairman of the Fujichiku group, and six senior executives of the Nagoya-based Fujichiku meat wholesale group Nov. 8 on suspicion of fraudulently receiving state subsidies under the government's beef buyback program launched after the outbreak of mad cow disease in Japan in 2001. (Kyodo)

E

Cosplay participants visit Japanese Foreign Ministry

TOKYO, Japan - Costume role players from Spain, Mexico and the United States in their self-made costumes pose with State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Osamu Fujimura (3rd from L) during their visit to the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on July 28, 2010, ahead of the World Cosplay Summit 2010, which will be held in the central Japan city of Nagoya from July 31 to Aug. 2. (Kyodo)

E

Pele in Japan, promotes World Cup in Brazil

TOKYO, Japan - Brazilian football legend Pele (L) shakes hands with Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2011. Pele, who is visiting Japan to promote the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil, handed Fujimura an ''invitation'' from Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to the people in Japan to come to the World Cup. (Kyodo)

E

The Kegon Falls

Kegon Falls is one of the three major waterfalls of Japan, along with Nachi Falls (Wakayama Prefecture) and Fukuroda Falls (Ibaragi Prefecture). It is roughly 97m high. Local resident Hoshino Gorobei built the road along the basin of the falls in 1900 and opened a teahouse. The elevator currently in service started operation in in 1930. Fujimura Misao committed suicide here in 1903.==Date:about 1877, Place:Nikko, Photo:F. Beato/R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐76‐0]

E

The city of Kofu

The city of Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, seen from Kofu Castle, facing south. The Western-style buildings in the foreground are part of a winery constructed in 1876 in the metal-casting foundry, part of an industrial complex established in Kofu Castle by then-governor Fujimura Shiro. Consequently, the date of the photograph is assumed to be the early Meiji Period. Visible in the background are Sone Hill and Mt. Misaka, located at the southern edge of the Kofu Basin. Mt. Fuji is also visible on the far left.==Date:unknown, Place:Kofu, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number82‐46‐0]

E

Japan eyes bureau to discuss U.S. bases in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura speaks during an interview with Kyodo News and other media outlets in Tokyo on Sept. 9, 2011. Fujimura said the government is aiming to set up a new bureau to promote talks with Okinawa Prefecture on the problems associated with U.S. military bases. (Kyodo)

E

Noda Cabinet launched

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's new Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura, Japan's top government spokesman, announced the Cabinet lineup of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the premier's office in Tokyo on Sept. 2, 2011. (Kyodo)