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Horse racing: Mile Championship

Jockey Kota Fujioka celebrates after steering Namur to victory at the Mile Championship Grade 1 horse race at Kyoto Racecourse in the western Japan city of Kyoto on Nov. 19, 2023.

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Takayama-sha Sericulture School added to UNESCO list

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 31, 2014 shows the inside of the Takayama-sha Sericulture School in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. The specialized school for sericulture technique was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

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Takayama-sha Sericulture School added to UNESCO list

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 31, 2014 shows the inside of the Takayama-sha Sericulture School in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. The specialized school for sericulture technique was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

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Takayama-sha Sericulture School added to UNESCO list

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 31, 2014 shows the Takayama-sha Sericulture School in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. The specialized school for sericulture technique was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

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Takayama-sha Sericulture School added to UNESCO list

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 31, 2014 shows the inside of the Takayama-sha Sericulture School in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. The specialized school for sericulture technique was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

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Takayama-sha Sericulture School in Gunma Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Takayama-sha Sericultural School, which contributed to growth of the sericultural industry in the city of Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, is shown in a photograph taken on April 26, 2014. The Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites, which played a central role in technological innovation, were endorsed for the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site listing.

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Takayama-sha sericulture school in Gunma Pref.

MAEBASHI, Japan - Takayama-sha sericulture school, known for successfully spreading modern sericultural technology throughout Japan and overseas is photographed in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, on April 21, 2014. An advisory panel to UNESCO recently recommended adding Takayama-sha to the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Actor Fujioka named to head team for Gunma publicity blitz

MAEBASHI, Japan - Actor Hiroshi Fujioka (L), named as head of a "Gunma expedition team" to promote Gunma Prefecture, receives an appointment letter from Gunma Gov. Masaaki Osawa on March 4, 2014 in Tokyo, as Gunma-chan (R), the official mascot of the eastern Japan prefecture, looks on.

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

FUJIOKA, Japan - Photo taken at 11:30 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows a wrecked bus that crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said.

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

FUJIOKA, Japan - Photo taken at 11:26 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows a wrecked bus that crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said.

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:16 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows a wrecked bus that crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said.

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:18 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows a wrecked bus that crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said.

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

FUJIOKA, Japan - Photo taken at 9:04 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows seats that were removed to rescue people from a bus that crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said.

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

FUJIOKA, Japan - Photo taken at 9:47 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows a wrecked bus that crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said.

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:17 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows a wrecked bus off the road after it crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said.

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Japan wins bronze medal at World University C'ship

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's starting pitcher Takahiro Fujioka pitches against the South Korean team during the bronze medal match of the World University Baseball Championship at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2010. Fujioka struck out 10 batters in five innings in a 9-0 victory over South Korea.

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Winter cherry blossoming in Gunma Pref.

FUJIOKA, Japan - Visitors walk under winter cherry blossoms at Sakurayama Park in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, on Nov. 21, 2009.

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Body found in trunk of sunken car in Gunma Pref.

MAEBASHI, Japan - Police officers pull up a car from a pond in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, on July 5 in which a man's body wrapped in a blanket was found.

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'Pretty ambassadors' trot globe to promote Japanese pop culture

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Fujioka, in this photo taken April 23, has been named by the Foreign Ministry as one of three female ''pop culture addressers'' popularly called ''kawaii ambassadors.''

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Buddhism finding new outlets in bars and cafes

TOKYO, Japan - Buddhist priest Yoshinobu Fujioka (L) runs ''Bozu Bar'' in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

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Crown prince, princess attend tree-nourishing festival

FUJIOKA, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (L) and Princess Masako (2nd from L) give fertilizer to a tree during the 27th national tree-nourishing festival in Fujioka, Aichi Prefecture, on Oct. 26.

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Toyota's core union not to demand basic pay raise

NAGOYA, Japan - Masamoto Azuma, chairman of the Toyota Motor Wokers' Union, speaks at a press conference in the town of Fujioka, Aichi Prefecture, on Jan. 7 about the union's decision to abandon a plan seeking a basic monthly wage hike at this spring's labor-management wage talks.

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Fujioka settles for silver medal

PUSAN, South Korea - Defending champion Eri Fujioka (L) drops a 5-4 decision to Vu Kim Anh of Vietnam in the women's 53-kilogram kumite event of the Asian Games to settle for the silver medal at Yangsan College Gymnasium on Oct. 11. (Asian Games)

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(1)Ehime education board adopts controversial textbook

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Nobukatsu Fujioka (L), a professor at the University of Tokyo, holds up a copy of a controversial history textbook at a press conference at the Ehime prefectural government office in Matsuyama on Aug. 15. The refectural education board decided to adopt the textbook written by a group of nationalistic scholars, including Fujioka, for use at three junior high schools opening next month.

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Miyamoto takes gold at World Games karate

AKITA, Japan - Sachiko Miyamoto (R) grabs the gold in the women's 53-kilogram sparring competition at the World Games in Akita on Aug. 18. Miyamoto, a first-year student at a high school in Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, triumphed over teammate Eri Fujioka (L) 13-8.

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3,200 seek expulsion of AUM members from Gunma

MAEBASHI, Japan - About 3,200 local residents stage a rally in front of the city hall in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture on Oct. 24 to demand that AUM Shinrikyo cult members move out of the city. About 130 AUM members are believed to be living in two facilities in Fujioka.

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AUM facilities in Gunma raided over Nagano confinement

FUJIOKA, Japan - Police raid two facilities belonging to the AUM Shinrikyo cult in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 3 in connection with the alleged confinement of a 29-year-old female member at another AUM facility in neighboring Nagano Prefecture in 1998.

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Anti-AUM group forms in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture

FUJIOKA, Japan - An anti-AUM Shinrikyo citizens' group is formed Sept. 5 at this meeting at the office of an agricultural cooperative in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. The group is led by Fujioka Mayor Shoji Tsukamoto. After the meeting about 1,300 Fujioka residents demonstrated at a former factory site now home to AUM Shinrikyo followers, demanding they leave.

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500 people hold anti-AUM rally in Gunma Pref.

MAEBASHI, Japan - Some 500 local residents hold a protest rally in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 22 to demand that members of the AUM Shinrikyo cult occupying an old factory site in the city move out. The rally, which took place on a parking lot near the old factory site, was also attended by senior city officials.

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Free magazine publisher jazzes up Kansai area

OSAKA, Japan - Jazz magazine ''Way Out West'' is published by jazz-crazed graphic designer Takao Fujioka, who started to distribute it in April free of charge in the Osaka-centered Kansai area. (Kyodo)

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Fujioka settles for silver medal

PUSAN, South Korea - Defending champion Eri Fujioka (L) drops a 5-4 decision to Vu Kim Anh of Vietnam in the women's 53-kilogram kumite event of the Asian Games to settle for the silver medal at Yangsan College Gymnasium on Oct. 11. (Asian Games) (Kyodo)

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American Samurai (1992)

David Bradley & John Fujioka Characters: Andrew 'Drew' Collins & Tatsuya Film: American Samurai (1990) Director: Sam Firstenberg 14 August 1992 Date: 14 August 1992

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American Ninja (1985)

John Fujioka & Michael Dudikoff Characters: Shinyuki, Pvt. Joe T. Armstrong Film: American Ninja (1985) Director: Sam Firstenberg 30 August 1985 Date: 30 August 1985

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Macarthur, The Rebel General (1977)

John Fujioka & Gregory Peck Characters: Emperor Hirohito & Gen. Douglas MacArthur Film: Macarthur, The Rebel General (1977) Director: Joseph Sargent 30 June 1977 Date: 30 June 1977

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Boxing: Fujioka, Ikeyama defend their titles in doubleheader

Naoko Fujioka (R) of Japan punches countrywoman Shindo Go in the 10th round of a bantamweight title match in Tokyo on June 13, 2016. The 40-year-old Fujioka defended her WBO title in a unanimous decision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Boxing: Fujioka, Ikeyama defend their titles in doubleheader

Nao Ikeyama (R) of Japan hits fellow Japanese Saemi Hanagata in the second round of a minimumweight title match in Tokyo on June 13, 2016. The 46-year-old Ikeyama defended her WBO title with a draw. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Fujioka wins WBO women's bantamweight title match

Naoko Fujioka of Japan (R) delivers a punch to Yuh Hee Jung of South Korea during the fourth round of the vacant WBO women's bantamweight championship match in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2015. Fujioka won the title with a decision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Fujioka wins WBO women's bantamweight title match

Naoko Fujioka of Japan celebrates after beating Yuh Hee Jung of South Korea by a decision in a vacant WBO women's bantamweight championship match in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man watches kids write messages on his canes ahead of plane crash anniv.

Ichisuke Honda (L) speaks to students at an elementary school in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, on July 8, 2015, as they write messages for the safety of flights on canes for use by climbers attending the 30th anniversary of a Japan Airlines jetliner crash on Aug. 12, 1985, on a mountain ridge in the prefecture. Honda, 74, has been making canes since 1992 for people climbing a mountain trail to attend the annual memorial service at the crash site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aged woman plays violin to appeal for peace after WWII ordeal

Mine Fujioka, 98, plays the violin in Kunisaki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in this photo taken in April 2015. She says the violin has helped her get through the turbulent years of her life during World War II that included a stint in wartime China. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Tokyo's monk-run bar loosens inhibitions, teaches Buddhism

Buddhist monk Yoshinobu Fujioka (C), who runs VOWZ BAR, performs in a concert with other monks in Tokyo on April 8, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Tokyo's monk-run bar loosens inhibitions, teaches Buddhism

Buddhist monk Yoshinobu Fujioka talks to foreign customers at a monk-run bar, VOWZ BAR, in Tokyo on March 28, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Tokyo's monk-run bar loosens inhibitions, teaches Buddhism

Buddhist monk Yoshinobu Fujioka poses at a monk-run bar, VOWZ BAR, in Tokyo on March 28, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Fujioka wins WBO women's bantamweight title match

Naoko Fujioka of Japan (R) delivers a punch to Yuh Hee Jung of South Korea during the fourth round of the vacant WBO women's bantamweight championship match in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2015. Fujioka won the title with a decision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kids write message on canes for climbers attending plane crash ceremony

Students at an elementary school in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, write messages for the safety of flights on canes on July 8, 2015, for use by climbers attending the 30th anniversary of a Japan Airlines jetliner crash on Aug. 12, 1985, on a mountain ridge in the prefecture. The crash killed 520 passengers and crew members, leaving only four survivors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Body found in trunk of sunken car in Gunma Pref.

MAEBASHI, Japan - Police officers pull up a car from a pond in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, on July 5 in which a man's body wrapped in a blanket was found. (Kyodo)

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Japan wins bronze medal at World University C'ship

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's starting pitcher Takahiro Fujioka pitches against the South Korean team during the bronze medal match of the World University Baseball Championship at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2010. Fujioka struck out 10 batters in five innings in a 9-0 victory over South Korea. (Kyodo)

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:16 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows a wrecked bus that crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said. (Kyodo)

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

FUJIOKA, Japan - Photo taken at 9:04 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows seats that were removed to rescue people from a bus that crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said. (Kyodo)

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Highway accident involving bus bound for Tokyo Disneyland

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter at 8:17 a.m. on April 29, 2012, shows a wrecked bus off the road after it crashed into a roadside wall around 4:40 a.m. the same day on a highway in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo. The bus was carrying tourists bound for Tokyo Disneyland. The accident killed six women and a man, and injured 39 others including the driver, police said. (Kyodo)