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Fast Retailing CEO

Tadashi Yanai, chairman and CEO of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of casual wear chain Uniqlo, attends a news conference in Tokyo on April 11, 2024, after the company released its earnings for the September-February first half of the current year through August.

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Ex-pro baseball slugger Nakanishi dies

Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Futoshi Nakanishi, who led the Pacific League in home runs five times, batting average twice and RBIs three times during his 18-year career with the Nishitetsu Lions (now Seibu Lions), is pictured in February 1957. Nakanishi died at age 90 of heart failure at his Tokyo home on May 11, 2023.

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Japanese skaters Hanyu, Asada hold Guinness certificates

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese figure skaters Yuzuru Hanyu (L) and Mao Asada hold certificates from the Guinness World Records at Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo on April 11, 2014. Hanyu set the highest mark yet for the men's short program at the Sochi Olympics in Russia in February, and Asada did the same for the women's short program at the world championships in Japan in March.

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Disaster prevention center torn down in Kamaishi, Japan

KAMAISHI, Japan - A disaster prevention center in the Unosumai district of Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, where many local residents died in the March 2011 tsunami after taking refuge there, is being torn down on Jan. 11, 2014. Bereaved family members frequented the facility to offer prayers at an alter set up inside, but the building's demolition was completed in February. A facility commemorating the victims is scheduled to be built at the site.

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Panasonic's 4K tablet

OSAKA, Japan - File photo shows Panasonic Corp.'s "4K" tablet computer dubbed Toughpad 4K UT-MB5. The Japanese electronics maker said Dec. 11, 2013, it will postpone the launch of the product until mid-February due to glitches found to affect radio waves of other electric appliances.

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Destroyer-boat collision case

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the stern of the fishing boat Seitoku Maru (front), after a collision with the Aegis destroyer Atago (back) of the Maritime Self-Defense Force in the Pacific just outside Tokyo Bay in February 2008. Seen in the middle is a patrol boat of the Japan Coast Guard. The Tokyo High Court upheld on June 11, 2013, a lower court acquittal of two MSDF sailors over the collision that killed two fishermen.

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Italy's Grillo

ROME, Italy - File photo shows Beppe Grillo, whose Five Star Movement placed third in Italy's inconclusive elections in February 2013. Grillo, in a telephone interview with Kyodo News on March 11, 2013, ruled out joining any alliance to form a new government, dashing hopes of breaking the post-election stalemate.

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Iwakuni air station

OSAKA, Japan - File photo taken in February 2010 shows the U.S. Marine Corps' Iwakuni Air Station in the western Japan prefecture of Yamaguchi. A senior defense ministry official sought the cooperation of the municipal government of Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on June 11, 2012, for the planned temporary deployment of MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft at the Iwakuni base before eventually deploying them at another U.S. base in Okinawa Prefecture.

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S. Korean military's winter drill

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of the South Korean military's special warfare unit conduct a winter drill on Jan. 11, 2012, which was unveiled to the press, in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul. The exercise, which began in December, will be conducted until February.

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S. Korean military's winter drill

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of the South Korean military's special warfare unit conduct a winter drill on Jan. 11, 2012, which was unveiled to the press, in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul. The exercise, which began in December, will be conducted until February.

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S. Korean military's winter drill

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of the South Korean military's special warfare unit conduct a winter drill on Jan. 11, 2012, which was unveiled to the press, in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province, some 180 kilometers east of Seoul. The exercise, which began in December, will be conducted until February.

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SDF sailors acquitted over fatal destroyer collision

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2008 shows the fishing boat Seitoku Maru (front) after it collided with the Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago (back), with a Japan Coast Guard patrol boat in between the two vessels, in the Pacific Ocean off Chiba Prefecture. Two MSDF officers were acquitted by the Yokohama District Court on May 11, 2011, over the collision that killed two fishermen.

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Kenwood's high definition navigation system

TOKYO, Japan - Photo show Kenwood Corp.'s new car navigation system ''Avenue'', which can display high definition images and maps. The company said Jan. 11, 2011, it will release Avenue MDV-727DT and MDV-626DT in February at nominal prices of 15,000 yen and 13,000 yen, respectively.

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Zenko Suzuki

Zenko Suzuki Born on Jan. 11, 1911 in Iwate Prefecture. After graduating from the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry's Fisheries Institute (now Tokyo University of Fisheries) in 1935, Suzuki worked for various fisheries organizations. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1947. Suzuki became Japan's 70th prime minister on July 17, 1980 following the sudden death of then Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira. He served as premier until Nov. 27, 1982. Photo was taken in February, 1986.

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Tomiichi Murayama

Born March 3, 1924 in Oita Prefecture. Murayama was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1972. He served as prime minister Jan. 30, 1994 to Jan. 11, 1996, leading a coalition government of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Social Democratic Party and the defunct New Party Sakigake. He retired from politics in 2000. Photo was taken February 2000.

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Mayuzumi died

Toshiro MAYUZUMI (1929-1997), composer, is responsible for introducing electronic musin to Japan and his XYZ (1953) was the first Japanese work composed in the manner of musique concrete. Influenced by Buddhism and Asian cultures, in 1958 he composed the symphony ""Nehan "" (Nirvana) and in 1963 the cantata ""Keka"" (Repentance). In 1976 he composed an opera based on Mishima Yukio's novel ""Kinkakuji"" that was first performed by the Berlin Opera. Mayuzumi was also politically oriented, denying, like some right-wing Japanese politicians, Japan's wartime aggression. (Picture was taken in February 11, 1989 at ""Ceremony or Japanese National Foundation"".)