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Japan: Wild Bear Spotted on Roadside in Southern Hokkaido

A wild bear was seen eating grass by the roadside in Kaminokuni, in southern Hokkaido, on Monday, September 15.

Kanji museum opens in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan, June 29 Kyodo - Photo taken in the western Japan city of Kyoto shows tourists making the kanji character "fuku," meaning "to hide" in Japanese, at the Japan Kanji Museum & Library on June 29, 2016, the day of its opening. The museum, launched by the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, allows visitors to deepen their knowledge about the shape, sound and meaning of each Chinese character through interactive exhibitions.

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'Lucky man race' held at Nishonomiya Shrine in western Japan

NISHINOMIYA, Japan, Jan. 10 Kyodo - The top three finishers of a New Year race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man) hold up framed Chinese characters and paintings, all suggesting luck, at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2016. The 16-year-old Michinari Mizuta (C) became the year's "luckiest man" among about 6,000 participants, winning the 230-meter race from the shrine's gate to the main hall.

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Top 3 'lucky man' race finishers hold up character, pictures

OSAKA, Japan - The top three finishers of an annual race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man) raise a framed Chinese kanji character and paintings, all suggesting luck, at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. From R: runner-up Yuya Koike, winner Tomonori Shiwa and third-place Koki Ishida.

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Winner of 'lucky man race' at Shinto shrine in west Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Tomonori Shiwa raises the Chinese kanji character "fuku" or luck in a frame as the winner of an annual race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man) at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. He reached the main hall of the Shinto shrine ahead of other participants to be crowned the year's lucky man.

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'Lucky man race' held at Shinto shrine in west Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Participants dash as the gate opens for an annual race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man) at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. The first man to reach the main hall of the Shinto shrine is crowned the year's lucky man.

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Annual 'Ebisu' festival for business success begins

OSAKA, Japan - "Fuku musume," or good luck girls, clad in kimono and donning golden headwear resembling those of ancient Japanese court nobles hand out lucky charms of bamboo branches to visitors at Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2015. The "Yoi Ebisu" (Eve of Ebisu) event preludes the main "Toka Ebisu" festival held annually through Jan. 11 during which people pray to Ebisu, the patron deity of commerce, for business success.

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Fukui promotes 'don' rice bowl dishes to attract tourists

FUKUI, Japan - Masayuki Nosaka, a restaurant owner and chairman of the "Fuku don project" committee, poses with rice bowl dishes in Fukui, western Japan, on Sept. 29, 2014. The project aims to promote the prefecture's rice bowl dishes and attract tourists.

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Fukui promotes 'don' rice bowl dishes to attract tourists

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Governor Issei Nishikawa (front R) holds a "don" bowl to promote the prefecture's rice bowl dishes and attract tourists at an inauguration ceremony of a "Fuku don project" in front of the Fukui municipal government building in Fukui, western Japan, on Sept. 29, 2014.

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Actor named 'lucky' as special vice governor of Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Yo Oizumi (R), an actor from Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, receives a letter of appointment as a special "fuku" (meaning both lucky and deputy in Japanese) governor from Hokkaido Governor Harumi Takahashi in Sapporo on Aug. 28, 2014.

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Post-quake temporary home residents make owl charms

MORIOKA, Japan - Sadako Yoshida, a resident of temporary housing in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, built after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, holds a bunch of owl-shaped good luck charms called "Fuku-chan," in the northeastern Japan city in March 2014.

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Monkey lures drinkers to pub in Utsunomiya

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Japanese monkey Fuku-chan takes out a hand towel from a cooler box for a customer at a pub in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on Jan. 15, 2014.

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Monkey lures drinkers to pub in Utsunomiya

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Masked Japanese monkey Fuku-chan sits on the shoulder of a customer at a pub in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on Jan. 15, 2014.

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Buddhist treasure repaired

NARA, Japan - The crown for a statue of Fuku Kenjaku Kannon, a form of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, is shown to reporters after repairs in Nara, western Japan, on April 2, 2012. The eighth-century crown with a statue of Buddha attached to it will be exhibited from April 3, 2012, at Todai temple museum in Nara.

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Steller sea lion back to Fukushima aquarium

CHIBA, Japan - A Steller sea lion called Fuku is hoisted in a cage by crane at Kamogawa Seaworld in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, on March 21, 2012, to be transported to Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Fuku was evacuated to the Chiba aquarium after the March 2011 quake and tsunami, and is the last evacuee of the Fukushima aquarium to be sent home.

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7-year-old duo to perform in Japan's year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Mana Ashida (R) and Fuku Suzuki attend a press conference at head office of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., in Tokyo, on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen,'' year-end song festival, including the duo of Ashida and Suzuki. They are both 7 years old, making them the program's youngest ever performers, according to NHK.

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New faces in Japan's 2011 year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Singers selected for the first time to perform at the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen'' year-end song festival of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., pose for photos at the head office of NHK in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the program. They are (from L front) Fuku Suzuki and Mana Ashida and (from L back) Girls' Generation's SeoHyun, Jessica, YuRi, Tiffany, TaeYeon and SooYoung, Sayaka Kanda, KARA's GYU RI, HARA and NICOLE, and Inawashirokos' Michihiko Yanai, Toshimi Watanabe, who is holding a fan with member Takashi Yamaguchi's picture on it, and Shinji Matsuda. Solo singer Ringo Sheena, who will also appear for the first time on the show, was not present for the photo.

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7-year-old duo to perform in Japan's year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Mana Ashida (R) and Fuku Suzuki attend a press conference at head office of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., in Tokyo, on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen,'' year-end song festival, including the duo of Ashida and Suzuki. They are both 7 years old, making them the program's youngest ever performers, according to NHK.

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Akino, Japanese painter of Indian themes, dies at 93

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese painter Fuku Akino (file photo), who specialized in Indian themes, dies on Oct. 11 of heart failure at her home in Kyoto. She was 93. Akino was named a person of cultural merit in 1991 and received the Order of Culture in 1999.

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Umehara, 4 others receive cultural award

TOKYO, Japan - Anthropologist Takeshi Umehara and four others receive this year's Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Culture Day on Nov. 3. The photo shows the five recipients and their wives. From L to R, novelist Hiroyuki Agawa, 78, organic chemist Saburo Tamura, 82, painter Fuku Akino, 91, law expert Masami Ito, 80, and Takeshi Umehara, 74.

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Festival to wish for business success in Osaka

"Fuku musume" (lucky girls) put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2022, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival at which people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for success in business.

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Ruling camp to craft bill to aid all hepatitis C sufferers: Fuku

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda speaks to journalists at his office on Dec. 23. He said that the ruling coalition parties will craft legislation to aid all hepatitis C sufferers who contracted the disease through tainted blood products. ''As a result of consultations with the Liberal Democratic Party, we have decided to devise a lawmaker-initiated bill to aid all the sufferers uniformly,'' Fukuda said. (Kyodo)

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Akino, Japanese painter of Indian themes, dies at 93

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese painter Fuku Akino (file photo), who specialized in Indian themes, dies on Oct. 11 of heart failure at her home in Kyoto. She was 93. Akino was named a person of cultural merit in 1991 and received the Order of Culture in 1999.

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'Lucky man race' held at Nishonomiya Shrine in western Japan

Runners dash to the main hall of Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishionomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan on Jan. 10, 2016, as the gate opened for an annual race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man). The first man to reach the main hall, roughly 230 meters away, is crowned the year's luckiest man. About 6,000 people took part in the annual event to pray for good business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Delivery of soba,buckwheat noodle

A man with a top-knot holds a tray with steaming baskets over each other in his left hand, and holds a lantern in his right hand. The basckets were piled up in 9 or 6-layer trays. This 9-layer tray has the character fuku lucky on it.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐23‐0]

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Buddhist treasure repaired

NARA, Japan - The crown for a statue of Fuku Kenjaku Kannon, a form of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, is shown to reporters after repairs in Nara, western Japan, on April 2, 2012. The eighth-century crown with a statue of Buddha attached to it will be exhibited from April 3, 2012, at Todai temple museum in Nara. (Kyodo)

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Steller sea lion back to Fukushima aquarium

CHIBA, Japan - A Steller sea lion called Fuku is hoisted in a cage by crane at Kamogawa Seaworld in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, on March 21, 2012, to be transported to Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Fuku was evacuated to the Chiba aquarium after the March 2011 quake and tsunami, and is the last evacuee of the Fukushima aquarium to be sent home. (Kyodo)

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'Lucky man race' held at Shinto shrine in west Japan

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Participants dash as the gate opens for an annual race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man) at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 10, 2015. The first man to reach the main hall of the Shinto shrine is crowned the year's lucky man. (Kyodo)

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Fukui promotes 'don' rice bowl dishes to attract tourists

FUKUI, Japan - Masayuki Nosaka, a restaurant owner and chairman of the "Fuku don project" committee, poses with rice bowl dishes in Fukui, western Japan, on Sept. 29, 2014. The project aims to promote the prefecture's rice bowl dishes and attract tourists. (Kyodo)

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Fukui promotes 'don' rice bowl dishes to attract tourists

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Governor Issei Nishikawa (front R) holds a "don" bowl to promote the prefecture's rice bowl dishes and attract tourists at an inauguration ceremony of a "Fuku don project" in front of the Fukui municipal government building in Fukui, western Japan, on Sept. 29, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Actor named 'lucky' as special vice governor of Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Yo Oizumi (R), an actor from Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost prefecture, receives a letter of appointment as a special "fuku" (meaning both lucky and deputy in Japanese) governor from Hokkaido Governor Harumi Takahashi in Sapporo on Aug. 28, 2014. (Kyodo)

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New faces in Japan's 2011 year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Singers selected for the first time to perform at the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen'' year-end song festival of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., pose for photos at the head office of NHK in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the program. They are (from L front) Fuku Suzuki and Mana Ashida and (from L back) Girls' Generation's SeoHyun, Jessica, YuRi, Tiffany, TaeYeon and SooYoung, Sayaka Kanda, KARA's GYU RI, HARA and NICOLE, and Inawashirokos' Michihiko Yanai, Toshimi Watanabe, who is holding a fan with member Takashi Yamaguchi's picture on it, and Shinji Matsuda. Solo singer Ringo Sheena, who will also appear for the first time on the show, was not present for the photo. (Kyodo)

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7-year-old duo to perform in Japan's year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Mana Ashida (R) and Fuku Suzuki attend a press conference at head office of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., in Tokyo, on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen,'' year-end song festival, including the duo of Ashida and Suzuki. They are both 7 years old, making them the program's youngest ever performers, according to NHK. (Kyodo)

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7-year-old duo to perform in Japan's year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Mana Ashida (R) and Fuku Suzuki attend a press conference at head office of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., in Tokyo, on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen,'' year-end song festival, including the duo of Ashida and Suzuki. They are both 7 years old, making them the program's youngest ever performers, according to NHK. (Kyodo)

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Business prosperity festival at Japanese shrine

"Fuku musume" or lucky girls put lucky charms on visitor's bamboo branches at Imamiya Ebisu shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2020, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu festival where people pray for business prosperity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Business prosperity festival at Japanese shrine

"Fuku musume" or lucky girls put lucky charms on visitor's bamboo branches at Imamiya Ebisu shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2020, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu festival where people pray for business prosperity. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Festival to wish for business success in Osaka

"Fuku musume" (lucky girls) put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival at which people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Festival to wish for business success in Osaka

"Fuku musume" (lucky girls) put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival at which people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commerce god festival in Osaka

"Fuku musume," or lucky girls, put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival where people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for their success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commerce god festival in Osaka

"Fuku musume," or lucky girls, put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival where people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for their success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commerce god festival in Osaka

"Fuku musume," or lucky girls, put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival where people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for their success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commerce god festival in Osaka

"Fuku musume," or lucky girls, put lucky charms on visitors' bamboo branches at the Imamiya Ebisu Shrine in Osaka on Jan. 9, 2018, the first day of the annual three-day Toka Ebisu Festival where people pray to Ebisu, the deity of commerce, for their success in business. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Annual 'lucky man race' at Japanese shrine

Runners sprint toward the main hall of Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan on Jan. 10, 2017, in an annual race to pick a "Fuku-otoko" (lucky man). Takashi Suzuki, a 21-year-old university student, was the first man to reach the main hall, roughly 230 meters away, and was crowned the year's luckiest man in the race run by about 5,000 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Umehara, 4 others receive cultural award

TOKYO, Japan - Anthropologist Takeshi Umehara and four others receive this year's Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Culture Day on Nov. 3. The photo shows the five recipients and their wives. From L to R, novelist Hiroyuki Agawa, 78, organic chemist Saburo Tamura, 82, painter Fuku Akino, 91, law expert Masami Ito, 80, and Takeshi Umehara, 74.