Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Former Yomiuri Giants player and manager Shigeo Nagashima (R) talks to Japan outfielder and Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki ahead of a training game between Japan's World Baseball Classic team and the Giants in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 21, 2009. Japanese baseball legend Nagashima died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

Mural, soccer stars' footprints unveiled at Joban Expressway rest area

Mural, soccer stars' footprints unveiled at Joban Expressway rest area

A female visitor places her foot over a footprint of a member of Japan's 2010 national soccer team displayed at the Naraha rest area along the Joban Expressway in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Feb. 21, 2015. The footprints and handprints, along with a mural drawn by local high school students in the summer of 2009 prior to the March 2011 earthquake and nuclear plant disaster, were unveiled ahead of the March 1 opening of remaining sections of the expressway that had been delayed by the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Kabuki actor Bando Mitsugoro dies at 59

Kabuki actor Bando Mitsugoro dies at 59

File photo taken in April 2009 shows Kabuki actor Bando Mitsugoro attending a press conference at the Kabuki Za theater following a decision to award him with the Medal with Purple Ribbon. He died on Feb. 21, 2015, of pancreatic cancer at a Tokyo hospital. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Wanted actress

Wanted actress

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in February 2009 shows Minako Komukai, a Japanese actress wanted for amphetamine possession in Japan. Komukai, who arrived in Manila on Jan. 21, 2011, from Tokyo, has extended her stay in the Philippines, officials at the Philippine immigration bureau said Feb. 11, 2011. (Kyodo)