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Logistics Consortium Baton Joint Press Conference

Logistics Consortium Baton Joint Press Conference. photo shows from left: Hiroaki Shirota, President and CEO of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance; Takuo Yoshikawa, President and CEO of Meitetsu NX Transport; Kazuo Takada, President and CEO of Tonami Transport; Satoshi Takahashi, President and CEO of Seino Transportation; Hiroyuki Kumano, President and CEO of Fukuyama Transport; Masahiro Koike, President and CEO of Tokio Marine Holdings.=November 20,2025,Japan

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Fukuyama Paper exterior, logo and signage

Fukuyama Paper exterior, logo and signage=January 29,2025,Osaka

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Fukuyama Paper exterior, logo and signage

Fukuyama Paper exterior, logo and signage=January 29,2025,Osaka

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Fukuyama Paper logo and signboard

Fukuyama Paper logo and signboard=January 29,2025,Osaka

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Parade during Nagasaki lantern festival

Police officers manage traffic during a Nagasaki lantern festival parade in the southwestern Japan city on Feb. 17, 2024, as singer Masaharu Fukuyama, a native of Nagasaki Prefecture, takes part in the parade posing as a Qing dynasty Chinese emperor

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Parade during Nagasaki lantern festival

Police officers manage traffic during a Nagasaki lantern festival parade in the southwestern Japan city on Feb. 17, 2024, as singer Masaharu Fukuyama, a native of Nagasaki Prefecture, takes part in the parade posing as a Qing dynasty Chinese emperor.

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Exterior, logo and signage of Fukuyama Transporting Tokyo Branch

Exterior, logo and signage of Fukuyama Transporting Tokyo Branch.=Date:November 30, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Exterior, logo and signage of Fukuyama Transporting Tokyo Branch

Exterior, logo and signage of Fukuyama Transporting Tokyo Branch.=Date:November 30, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Kyoto gubernatorial election

KYOTO, Japan, April 9 Kyodo - Kazuhito Fukuyama, a 57-year-old lawyer, speaks in front of his supporters in Kyoto city after losing the gubernatorial election in Kyoto Prefecture on April 8, 2018. Former bureaucrat Takatoshi Nishiwaki won the election, fought between newcomers.

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LDP to win lower house majority

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Fukuyama, the policy chief of the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan, is interviewed for TV broadcasts at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on the night of Dec. 14, 2014, on the results of the day's lower house election. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will likely secure a majority in the election, according to Kyodo News exit polls and projections.

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LDP to win lower house majority

TOKYO, Japan - Tetsuro Fukuyama, the policy chief of the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan, is interviewed for TV broadcasts at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo's Nagatacho district on the night of Dec. 14, 2014, on the results of the day's lower house election. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will likely secure a majority in the election, according to Kyodo News exit polls and projections.

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Newly found letter by artist Yumeji Takehisa displayed

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A letter written by poet and painter Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) to Shigeru Kuzuhara, an editor, is displayed at a museum in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 6, 2014. The letter is one of Takehisa's 20 writings newly discovered by Kuzuhara's grandson Makoto at his family home in Tokyo in June.

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Artist Yumeji Takehisa's writings newly found

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A museum in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, displays 20 newly discovered writings, including letters and postcards, by poet and painter Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) on Dec. 6, 2014.

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Artist Yumeji Takehisa's writings newly found

HIROSHIM, Japan - Makoto Kuzuhara (R) sets out 20 newly found writings by poet and painter Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934), including letters and postcards, at a museum in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 6, 2014. Kuzuhara, whose grandfather Shigeru was close to Takehisa as an editor, discovered the writings at his family home in Tokyo in June.

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Anne Frank exhibit

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Makoto Otsuka (C), director of the Holocaust Education Center, holds a press conference at the Hiroshima prefectural government hall in the city of Hiroshima, western Japan, on March 10, 2014. The museum in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, will host an exhibit to mark the 85th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth.

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Japan's Holocaust museum to honor Anne Frank's memory

HIROSHIMA, Japan - File photo taken in 2005 at the Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, shows the typewriter used by Otto Frank (R), father of Anne Frank (L), to transcribe her diary after the end of World War II. The memorial museum will host an exhibition from March 15 to May 3, 2014, memorializing the 85th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth.

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AKB48 pop group member sings 'enka' song in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Misaki Iwasa, a member of the popular pop group AKB48, performs a Japanese "enka" ballad, "Tomonoura Elegy," outside the city hall of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Feb. 18, 2014. Tomonoura, a scenic spot in the Seto Insland Sea of Japan, is famous for being the setting for Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Ponyo."

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6 dead, 4 injured in Hiroshima hotel fire

FUKUYAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the fire-gutted remains of the Hotel Prince in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 13, 2012. Six people were killed and four others were injured in the fire that occurred in the morning.

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6 dead, 4 injured in Hiroshima hotel fire

FUKUYAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the fire-gutted remains of the Hotel Prince in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 13, 2012. Six people were killed and four others were injured in the fire that occurred in the morning.

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6 dead, 4 injured in Hiroshima hotel fire

FUKUYAMA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the fire-gutted remains of the Hotel Prince in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 13, 2012. Six people were killed and four others were injured in the fire that occurred in the morning.

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Governors urge gov't to halt yen's rise, deflation

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese governors including Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura (C), head of a National Governors' Association project team, submit a written request for halting the yen's steep rise and pulling Japan out of deflation to Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tetsuro Fukuyama (R) at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 17, 2011.

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Fukuyama, Ueno discuss NHK dramas

TOKYO, Japan - Actor and musician Masaharu Fukuyama (L) and actress Juri Ueno pose during a promotional event for the dramas in which they star respectively at the headquarters of Japan Broadcasting Corp., NHK, in Tokyo on Nov. 23, 2010.

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'Ryoma-den' to be aired in Taiwan, S. Korea, Thailand

TOKYO, Japan - Actor and musician Masaharu Fukuyama speaks in a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 14, 2010 , as NHK's serial television drama ''Ryoma-den'' (Ryoma Story), featuring 19th century revolutionary Ryoma Sakamoto played by Fukuyama, will be aired in Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand.

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'Ryoma-den' drama cast finishes shooting

TOKYO, Japan - Masaharu Fukuyama, who played legendary revolutionary Ryoma Sakamoto in the drama ''Ryoma-den,'' receives flowers after the final shoot at the headquarters of Japan Broadcasting Corp., or NHK, in Tokyo on Oct. 11, 2010.

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'Ryoma-den' drama cast finishes shooting

TOKYO, Japan - Masaharu Fukuyama (C), Teruyuki Kagawa (C,L) and other members of the cast of the drama ''Ryoma-den'' pose at the headquarters of Japan Broadcasting Corp., or NHK, in Tokyo on Oct. 11, 2010.

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting Korean delegation members interacting with their Japanese hosts is unveiled to the media at the former Taichoro reception hall, which used to accommodate senior members of Korean delegations, in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen is believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818).

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A pair of screens depicting the scenic Tomonoura area of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, and a visiting Korean delegation in the early 19th century is unveiled to the media at the former Taichoro reception hall, which used to accommodate senior members of Korean delegations, in Fukuyama, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen is believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818).

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting Korean delegation members interacting with their Japanese hosts is unveiled to the media at the former Taichoro reception hall, which used to accommodate senior members of Korean delegations, in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen is believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818).

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Screens depicting 19th century Korean delegation unveiled

FUKUYAMA, Japan - A screen depicting the scenic Tomonoura area of Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, near the Seto Inland Sea, believed to have been made during the Bunka period (1804-1818), is unveiled to the media in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sept. 15, 2010. The screen, discovered in a private home, is paired with one depicting a visiting Korean delegation.

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Gaps remain between gov't and Okinawa over Futenma relocation

NAHA, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima (L) and Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Tetsuro Fukuyama (R front) discuss the planned relocation of a key U.S. military base within Okinawa Prefecture in Naha on Aug. 11, 2010. Differences of opinion remain between the two sides as the prefecture opposes the government's plan and wants the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station moved outside Okinawa.

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Expert raps bridge plan that threatens landmark scenery in Inland Sea

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Gustavo Araoz, president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, speaks to reporters during his visit to Tomonoura in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture on Nov. 4, 2009.

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Post-Cold War global order sees U.S. failure of leadership

WASHINGTON, United States - Political scholar Francis Fukuyama talks about the post-Cold War global order in an interview with Kyodo News in Washington on Oct. 21.

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U.N. to seek dialogue with N. Korea over abduction: Ban

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Tetsuro Fukuyama (L) shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Oct. 22, 2009, before their talks.

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Court ruling favors preservation of landmark scenery

TOKYO, Japan - Academy Award-winning animation movie director Hayao Miyazaki speaks to reporters on Oct. 1, 2009 after a Hiroshima District Court ruling in favor of residents in western Japan seeking to block a public works project they fear will spoil the scenery in a fishing district with old historical buildings and facilities. At a press conference at his studio in Tokyo, Miyazaki, whose latest animated film ''Gake no Ue no Ponyo'' (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) was inspired by the area in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, welcomed the ruling, saying he admires the ''courage'' the judges have shown.

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Court ruling favors preservation of landmark scenery

TOKYO, Japan - Academy Award-winning animation movie director Hayao Miyazaki welcomes a Hiroshima District Court ruling on Oct. 1, 2009 in favor of residents in western Japan seeking to block a public works project they fear will spoil the scenery in a fishing district with old historical buildings and facilities. At a press conference at his studio in Tokyo, Miyazaki, whose latest animated film ''Gake no Ue no Ponyo'' (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) was inspired by the area in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, said he admires the ''courage'' the judges have shown.

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Singer Fukuyama to invite 50,000 to 'free hometown concert'

NAGASAKI, Japan - Singer Masaharu Fukuyama speaks at a press conference at the Nagasaki city assembly hall on June 29.

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Firm allegedly exports machinery for use in making nuke weapons

FUKUYAMA, Japan - Japanese police raid Horkos Corp., a machine tool manufacturing company in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 31 on suspicion that the company exported machine tools convertible for use in the development of nuclear weapons without authorization of the trade ministry.

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Anne Frank's secret annex recreated at holocaust museum in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, unveils to the press on Sept. 29 a recreated room of the Amsterdam house where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis and wrote her famous diary. The center, established in 1995 by pastor Makoto Otsuka (2nd from right), who was inspired by his meeting with Anne's father Otto, will open the room to the public beginning on Oct. 2.

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Livedoor's Horie arrives in Hiroshima

FUKUYAMA, Japan - Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie (C) arrives at JR Fukuyama Station on Aug. 19 on his way to the Hiroshima No. 6 constituency, where he will run as an independent in the Sept. 11 general election to challenge Shizuka Kamei, one of the leading Liberal Democratic Party rebels against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization legislation.

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Fire rages in JFE Steel plant in Hiroshima for 4 hours, no injuries

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A fire engine tries to put out a fire at a steel plant of JFE Steel Corp. in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Aug. 20. The fire was apparently triggered by the leakage of coke gas in a 1-meter-diameter pipe while workers were reinforcing parts to support another gas pipe, firefighters said. No casualties were reported.

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9th cow in Japan with BSE heads for incinerator

TOKYO, Japan - Parts of a slaughtered 21-month-old bullock in Hiroshima Prefecture, which was confirmed as having bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) on Nov. 4, are carried away for incineration at a slaughterhouse in Fukuyama in the prefecture on Nov. 5. It was Japan's ninth case of mad cow disease.

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Cracks found in window of Shinkansen bullet train

TOKYO, Japan - Photo, taken at JR Tokyo Station, shows cracks found Nov. 8 on the glass window of a Shinkansen bullet-train car. The cracks were found on a Tokyo-bound train from Hakata, Kyushu, while it was passing between Fukuyama and Shin-Kurashiki stations on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line. It was the 2nd such incident in as many days and the 5th since Oct. 21 on the same line.

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Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Pref.

Fukuyama Castle in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama, western Japan, reopens to the public on Aug. 28, 2022, the 400th anniversary of its completion in 1622, after large-scale repair work was finished.

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Fukuyama Castle in Hiroshima Pref.

Fukuyama Castle in the Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama, western Japan, reopens to the public on Aug. 28, 2022, the 400th anniversary of its completion in 1622, after large-scale repair work was finished.

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Gymnasium in Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama

Photo taken May 18, 2021, shows Fukuyama City Gymnasium in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan. The Tokyo Olympic torch relay was carried out on the premises of the gymnasium the same day without spectators amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Scenic area in Hiroshima Prefecture city of Fukuyama

Photo taken in June 2012 shows Tomonoura, a coastal scenic area in Fukuyama in Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan.

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Japan opposition leader Edano to resign after poor election results

Yukio Edano (L), head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a meeting of party executives in Tokyo on Nov. 2, 2021. Edano said he will resign from the post following the party's poor showing in the Oct. 31 general election. CDPJ Secretary General Tetsuro Fukuyama is seen on the right.

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Demonstration room for Omiya Kogyo's semiconductor and electronic component manufacturing equipment

Omiya Industries (Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture) has remodeled its demonstration room for semiconductor and electronic parts manufacturing equipment in its Okayama Plant (Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture). The area of the room has been increased by 4.8 times compared to the previous one. This will allow customers to check and evaluate the operability, productivity, and maintainability of the actual equipment, which will lead to the introduction of the equipment. In order to maintain confidentiality, customers are increasingly bringing in their own samples for testing, and we have established a system that allows us to concentrate on testing. Omiya Kogyo develops and manufactures equipment for attaching and peeling off protective tapes for silicon wafers, ultraviolet (UV) irradiation equipment for curing films, wafer expanders, and dryers for cleaned wafers. Omiya Industries Okayama Plant, Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture, July 11, 2019. Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Tokyo Branch of Fukuyama Express

Fukuyama Express is the first transport operator to be selected as a certified management control operator ("Certified Management Control Operator") under the Energy Conservation Law. The photo shows the exterior of the Tokyo Branch (July 19, 2019, Koto-ku, Tokyo; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Images).

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Tokyo Branch of Fukuyama Express

Fukuyama Expressis the first transport operator to be selected as a certified management control operator ("Certified Management Control Operator") under the Energy Conservation Law. The photo shows the exterior of the Tokyo Branch (July 19, 2019, Koto-ku, Tokyo; credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun/Communications Images).