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Japan auto show

A flying car produced by Japanese startup SkyDrive Inc. and a ticket gate are displayed at the Japan Mobility Show as it opens to the media at Tokyo Big Site in Tokyo on Oct. 29, 2025. Seen on the right is CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa.

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2025 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship

From left, Rino Tada, Nana Akimoto, Umeka Odaira and Momona Fukuzawa of Japan celebrating 0-1 goal by Odaira during 2025 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship ice hockey match between Finland and Japan in Vantaa, Finland, on January 5, 2025. LEHTIKUVA / ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Osaka Metro and SkyDrive tie up in flying vehicle business

SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (R) and Osaka Metro Co. President Hideaki Kawai shake hands in Osaka on Aug. 26, 2024, after the two companies signed a business partnership agreement aiming for commercializing a flying vehicle business in the future.

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Osaka Metro and SkyDrive tie up in flying taxi business

SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (R) and Osaka Metro Co. President Hideaki Kawai shake hands in Osaka on Aug. 26, 2024, after the two companies signed a business partnership agreement aiming for commercializing a flying vehicle business in the future.

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JR Kyushu and SkyDrive tie up in flying taxi business

SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (R) and Kyushu Railway Co. President Yoji Furumiya shake hands in Tokyo on July 4, 2024, after the two companies concluded a business partnership accord to study the feasibility of commercializing a flying taxi service at railway stations operated by the JR company on the southwestern Japan main island of Kyushu and commercial facilities in the Kyushu region in 2026 at the earliest.

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Japan takes bronze, Brazil wins World Grand Champions Cup

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's Tatsuya Fukuzawa spikes the ball against Brazil's Rodrigo Santana (14) and Bruno Mossa Rezende during the second set of their match in the World Grand Champions Cup at Nippongaishi Hall in Nagoya on Nov. 23, 2009. Japan had to settle for the bronze medal as Brazil crushed the hosts in straight sets to successfully defend its World Grand Champions Cup title.

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Japanese men tame Egypt in Grand Champions Cup

OSAKA, Japan - Tatsuya Fukuzawa spikes the ball during the second set of a match against Egypt in the men's volleyball World Grand Champions Cup at Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium in Osaka on Nov. 19, 2009. Japan won 25-15, 22-25, 25-21, 25-17.

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New notes to be issued in Nov.

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Finance Ministry plans to issue three kinds of new notes in November using forgery prevention technology. The 10,000 yen note (top) features Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), educator, writer and propagator of Western knowledge in the Meiji period (1868-1912), the 5,000 yen note (middle) Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896), female writer of the Meiji period, and the 1,000 yen note (below) Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), bacteriologist.

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Japan to issue 3 new bank notes in FY 2004

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government will introduce in fiscal 2004 new 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen bills with sophisticated anticounterfeit features, replacing the current notes which are almost 18 years old. The new 5,000 yen bill will carry the portrait of Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896), a Meiji-era novelist and poet, while the new 1,000 yen bill will feature Japanese microbiologist Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928). Yukichi Fukuzawa, a Meiji-era educator who founded Keio University, will remain on the new 10,000 yen bill.

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Fukuzawa rallies for win in Tamanoi Yomiuri Open golf

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa smiles with the championship cup in hands after winning his first JGTO tour title in a playoff with Toru Suzuki in the Tamanoi Yomiuri Open golf tournament at the Yomiuri Country Club in Hyogo Prefecture on June 17.

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Toyota to take 49% stake in Fuji Int'l Speedway circuit

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho (L) speaks at a news conference Nov. 1 as Mitsubishi Estate Co. President Takeshi Fukuzawa listens. Toyota has agreed to purchase a 49% stake in Fuji International Speedway Co. (FISCO) from Mitsubishi Estate, which currently owns 80% of the racing circuit operator.

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Women receive certificates to drive Shinkansen

OSAKA, Japan - Rumi Yamashita (L) and Miyuki Fukuzawa hold their certifications for driving Sanyo Shinkansen bullet trains, which they received Aug. 17 from West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) at the company's Osaka branch. Yamashita, 27, and Fukuzawa, 29, who are the country's first female Shinkansen drivers, will make their debut driving Kodama trains leaving Shin-Osaka on Aug. 18.

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"Flying car" developing firm in Japan

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura rides a full-scale "flying car" model of SkyDrive Inc. on Sept. 14, 2021, in Osaka. The western Japan prefecture and city governments formed a partnership agreement with the Tokyo-based developer the same day to support the project to put it into practical use. Seen second from left is Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui and second from right is SkyDrive CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa.

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"Flying car" developing firm in Japan

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (2nd from R) and Osaka Mayor Ichiro Matsui (2nd from L), SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (far R) are pictured in Osaka on Sept. 14, 2021, with a full-scale "flying car" model of SkyDrive. The western Japan prefecture and city governments formed a partnership agreement with the Tokyo-based developer the same day to support the project to put it into practical use.

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Fukuzawa rallies for win in Tamanoi Yomiuri Open golf

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Yoshimitsu Fukuzawa smiles with the championship cup in hands after winning his first JGTO tour title in a playoff with Toru Suzuki in the Tamanoi Yomiuri Open golf tournament at the Yomiuri Country Club in Hyogo Prefecture on June 17.

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Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), prominent educator and founder of Keio University.

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Miniature castle built with bill fragments worth 500 mil. yen

An employee at the Bank of Japan's Oita branch in the southwestern Japan city holds a cardboard bust of Fukuzawa Yukichi, whose portrait is used on the 10,000 yen note, beside a miniature of Funai Castle in the city that was lost to fire during the Edo period (1603-1867). The miniature castle, which was created by using fragments of old banknotes worth some 500 million yen ($4.46 million) will be exhibited to mark the resumption of public visits to the branch following a one-year hiatus due to disaster-preparation building works. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Portrait of YUKICHI FUKUZAWA

A portrait of Fukuzawa Yukichi who is featured on the 10,000-yen note.This is a portrait of Yukichi in kimono taken a year before his death.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐21‐0]

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Street of inns at yumoto hot spring

The bridge in the fore is Fukuzumi Bridge and the bridge in the rear is Asahi Bridge. Initially, Fukuzumi Bridge was Asahi Bridge which was crossed by Sanjo Saneyoshi for the first time, but was moved to the upper stream of Haya River and renamed. On the ofher side of Fukuzumi Bridge is the Western-style hotel Mansuirofukuju where Kido Takayoshi,Ito Hirobumi, Fukuzawa Yukichi and others were frequent guests.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐2‐0]

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Journalist recalls launch of job info journal for women

TOKYO, Japan - Journalist Keiko Fukuzawa speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2014, about her experience in launching a job information magazine for women in 1980 while she was a student at Waseda University. (Kyodo)

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Fukuzawa Yukichi

Fukuzawa Yukichi==Date:Early Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Volleyball: Japan-China Olympic test event

Tatsuya Fukuzawa (red) of Japan spikes during the third set of a men's volleyball match against China at Ariake Arena in Tokyo on May 2, 2021, a test event for the Tokyo Olympics.

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Japan takes bronze, Brazil wins World Grand Champions Cup

NAGOYA, Japan - Japan's Tatsuya Fukuzawa spikes the ball against Brazil's Rodrigo Santana (14) and Bruno Mossa Rezende during the second set of their match in the World Grand Champions Cup at Nippongaishi Hall in Nagoya on Nov. 23, 2009. Japan had to settle for the bronze medal as Brazil crushed the hosts in straight sets to successfully defend its World Grand Champions Cup title. (Kyodo)

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Japanese men tame Egypt in Grand Champions Cup

OSAKA, Japan - Tatsuya Fukuzawa spikes the ball during the second set of a match against Egypt in the men's volleyball World Grand Champions Cup at Osaka Municipal Central Gymnasium in Osaka on Nov. 19, 2009. Japan won 25-15, 22-25, 25-21, 25-17. (Kyodo)

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New notes to be issued in Nov.

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Finance Ministry plans to issue three kinds of new notes in November using forgery prevention technology. The 10,000 yen note (top) features Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), educator, writer and propagator of Western knowledge in the Meiji period (1868-1912), the 5,000 yen note (middle) Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896), female writer of the Meiji period, and the 1,000 yen note (below) Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), bacteriologist. (Kyodo)

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Toyota to take 49% stake in Fuji Int'l Speedway circuit

TOKYO, Japan - Toyota Motor Corp. President Fujio Cho (L) speaks at a news conference Nov. 1 as Mitsubishi Estate Co. President Takeshi Fukuzawa listens. Toyota has agreed to purchase a 49% stake in Fuji International Speedway Co. (FISCO) from Mitsubishi Estate, which currently owns 80% of the racing circuit operator.

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Women receive certificates to drive Shinkansen

OSAKA, Japan - Rumi Yamashita (L) and Miyuki Fukuzawa hold their certifications for driving Sanyo Shinkansen bullet trains, which they received Aug. 17 from West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) at the company's Osaka branch. Yamashita, 27, and Fukuzawa, 29, who are the country's first female Shinkansen drivers, will make their debut driving Kodama trains leaving Shin-Osaka on Aug. 18.