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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Premiere - NYC

Atarashii Gakko! attend the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' Premiere in New York City, NY, USA on March 14, 2024. Photo by Charles Guerin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Premiere - NYC

Atarashii Gakko! attend the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' Premiere in New York City, NY, USA on March 14, 2024. Photo by Charles Guerin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Buddhist statues at Nara temple get New Year's dust-off

NARA, Japan - - The three Buddhist statues at the Golden Pavilion of the Yakushiji temple in Nara get a New Year's dust-off in a cleaning ceremony attended by 500 visitors on Dec. 29. The photo shows the two bodhisattva statues, Nikko on the left and Gakko on the right, being carefully cleansed by Buddhist priests. The sitting Tathagata statue in the center shines after cleansing. Nikko and Gakko will be exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in March next year for a four-month period. The three Buddhist statues are designated national treasures.

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Memorial held to remember Meiji gov't-backed Ainu assimilation

TOKYO, Japan - Three Ainu people offer their prayers at a vacant lot in Tokyo on Aug. 10 in the first memorial for indigenous Ainu people who were forced to leave their homes in Hokkaido and study in the capital during the early Meiji Period (1868-1912). The memorial was held at the former site of a school, Kaitakushi Kari Gakko, and styled after a traditional Ainu ceremony dedicated to their ancestors.

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Daigoji temple national treasures to be made open to public

KYOTO, Japan - The image of the Buddha Yakushi (Healing), flanked by those of two attendants, Nikko and Gakko, are shown to the press in the Yakushido Hall of the Daigoji temple in Kyoto on Aug. 9, one day before they are opened to the general public. All the images, designated as national treasures, are known to have been executed by the priest Eri (852-935) in 907. Their exhibition, only for an hour daily, is to last till Sept. 17.

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Buddhist statues at Nara temple get New Year's dust-off

NARA, Japan - - The three Buddhist statues at the Golden Pavilion of the Yakushiji temple in Nara get a New Year's dust-off in a cleaning ceremony attended by 500 visitors on Dec. 29. The photo shows the two bodhisattva statues, Nikko on the left and Gakko on the right, being carefully cleansed by Buddhist priests. The sitting Tathagata statue in the center shines after cleansing. Nikko and Gakko will be exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum in March next year for a four-month period. The three Buddhist statues are designated national treasures. (Kyodo)

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Yushima shoheiko

The Seido was moved from Shinobuoka to Yushima (Shoheizaka) in 1692 by the will of the 5th Shogun Ietsuna. The Shoheiko was also opened and was made the ultimate school for Confucian studies. It was taken over by the new government in 1868, and was called Shohei Gakko and Daigakko. It was closed in 1872. The Kanda River runs to the fore.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number22‐16‐0]

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Streets of tokyo from the imperial palace

What can be seen is Kanda Surugadai. The round roof of the Nikolai Do (completed in 1891) can be seen clearly in the centre of the background. The area is an educational district of the Meiji era with the Ministry of Education, Koto Shogyo Gakko (Higher Commercial School), Tokyo University, Tokyo Shihan Gakko (Tokyo Teachers' School) and Tokyo Joshi Shihan Gakko (Tokyo Womens Teachers' School).==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number22‐17‐0]

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New coronavirus

Photo taken May 18, 2020, shows a gate at Ashikaga Gakko in Ashikaga in the eastern Japan prefecture of Tochigi, known as the country's oldest school, lit up in blue to express the public's appreciation to medical workers battling the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Korean school in Osaka

A cyclist passes a gate at Higashiosaka Chosen Chukyu Gakko, a major Korean junior high school in Osaka's Ikuno Ward, on Dec. 28, 2017. The school will close in March 2018 following a cutoff of funding by Japan's central and local governments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Korean school in Osaka

A cyclist passes a gate at Higashiosaka Chosen Chukyu Gakko, a major Korean junior high school in Osaka's Ikuno Ward, on Dec. 28, 2017. The school will close in March 2018 following a cutoff of funding by Japan's central and local governments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Korean school in Osaka

Photo taken Dec. 28, 2017, shows a gate of Higashiosaka Chosen Chukyu Gakko, a major pro-Pyongyang junior high school in Osaka's Ikuno Ward. The school will close in March following a cutoff of funding by Japan's central and local governments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial held to remember Meiji gov't-backed Ainu assimilation

TOKYO, Japan - Three Ainu people offer their prayers at a vacant lot in Tokyo on Aug. 10 in the first memorial for indigenous Ainu people who were forced to leave their homes in Hokkaido and study in the capital during the early Meiji Period (1868-1912). The memorial was held at the former site of a school, Kaitakushi Kari Gakko, and styled after a traditional Ainu ceremony dedicated to their ancestors. (Kyodo)

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Daigoji temple national treasures to be made open to public

KYOTO, Japan - The image of the Buddha Yakushi (Healing), flanked by those of two attendants, Nikko and Gakko, are shown to the press in the Yakushido Hall of the Daigoji temple in Kyoto on Aug. 9, one day before they are opened to the general public. All the images, designated as national treasures, are known to have been executed by the priest Eri (852-935) in 907. Their exhibition, only for an hour daily, is to last till Sept. 17.

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World War II evacuation

TOKYO, Japan - Schoolchildren at the Ryuko Kokumin Gakko (school) in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward where the first group of children is being evacuated for safety during World War II. The photo was taken on Aug. 4, 1944. (Kyodo)