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Baseball: Ichiro Suzuki at Japan high school tourney

Ichiro Suzuki takes the mound as a pitcher for Aikodai Meiden High School in the 63rd spring invitational high school tournament on March 29, 1991, losing 3-2 to Matsusho Gakuen High School in the first round at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan.

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[Breaking News]Huge artwork of judoka Hifumi Abe in Kobe

KOBE, Japan, July 26 Kyodo - A giant artwork of Tokyo Olympic men's 66-kilogram judo champion Hifumi Abe of Japan is unveiled, painted on the facade and windows of a building at his alma mater, Shinko Gakuen High School, in the western Japan city of Kobe on July 26, 2024. (Kyodo)

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Huge artwork of judoka Hifumi Abe in Kobe

A giant artwork of Tokyo Olympic men's 66-kilogram judo champion Hifumi Abe of Japan is unveiled, painted on the facade and windows of a building at his alma mater, Shinko Gakuen High School, in the western Japan city of Kobe on July 26, 2024.

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Baseball: High school championship

Takasaki University of Health and Welfare High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hotoku Gakuen in the final of the 96th spring invitational high school championship on March 31, 2024, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya in the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo.

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Baseball: High school championship

Takasaki University of Health and Welfare High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hotoku Gakuen in the final of the 96th spring invitational high school championship on March 31, 2024, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya in the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo.

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Baseball: High school championship

Takasaki University of Health and Welfare High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hotoku Gakuen in the final of the 96th spring invitational high school championship on March 31, 2024, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya in the western Japan prefecture of Hyogo.

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Exterior view of Osaka Jikei Gakuen

Exterior view of Osaka Jikei Gakuen=Date:June 4, 2023,Place:Osaka

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Baseball: High school championship

Yamanashi Prefecture's Yamanashi Gakuin Senior High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hyogo Prefecture's Hotoku Gakuen 7-3 in the final of the 95th spring invitational high school championship on April 1, 2023, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan.

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Baseball: High school championship

Yamanashi Prefecture's Yamanashi Gakuin Senior High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hyogo Prefecture's Hotoku Gakuen 7-3 in the final of the 95th spring invitational high school championship on April 1, 2023, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan.

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Baseball: High school championship

Yamanashi Prefecture's Yamanashi Gakuin Senior High School baseball club players celebrate after beating Hyogo Prefecture's Hotoku Gakuen 7-3 in the final of the 95th spring invitational high school championship on April 1, 2023, at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, western Japan.

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Univ. to retain ex-reporter despite threat over "comfort women" issue

SAPPORO, Japan - Shinichi Tamura, president of Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in northern Japan, holds a press conference in Sapporo on Dec. 17, 2014. Tamura said the university will renew the contract of a part-time lecturer, a former reporter for The Asahi Shimbun newspaper, for the school year starting in April despite threats to the school over the lecturer's involvement in controversial reporting on the issue of "comfort women."

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Univ. mulls not rehiring ex-reporter amid threats over sex slave issue

SAPPORO, Japan - Shinichi Tamura, president of Hokusei Gakuen University in Sapporo, Hokkaido, northern Japan, tells a press conference in Sapporo on Oct. 31, 2014, he is considering not renewing the contract of a part-time lecturer for the school year starting April, following threats to the university due to the lecturer's involvement in controversial reporting on the issue of wartime sex slavery. The school said in a statement it has "not made a final decision" but stressed that it regards "protecting the safety of the students as a top priority."

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National high school hula competition held in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Students from Tokiwagi Gakuen High School in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, perform during a national high school hula dance competition in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 24, 2014, en route to winning an excellent performance prize. The event was held to encourage people still trying to recover from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters.

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High court upholds ruling against hate speech

OSAKA, Japan - Son Chi Jong (L), head of Kyoto Chosen Gakuen, the operator of a pro-Pyongyang Korean school, holds a press conference in Osaka on July 8, 2014, after the Osaka High Court upheld a lower court ruling that had branded as "discriminatory" demonstrations staged near the school by anti-Korean activists who used hate-speech slogans.

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Japan HS awarded at Model U.N. conference in NY

NEW YORK, United States - Ayana Takasa (L) and Nae Itagaki, students at Shibuya Kyouiku Gakuen Makuhari Senior High School in Chiba, pose for photos at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on May 17, 2014, after the school received the highest award in the U.N. Human Rights Council category of the Global Classrooms Model U.N. conference, modeled after the U.N. conference.

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S. Korea commemorates 40th visit by Japanese high school

SEOUL, South Korea - Kiyoshi Fujita (R), head of Japanese private school Chiben Gakuen, receives a gift from South Korean Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Yoo Jin Ryong at a ceremony in Seoul on April 25, 2014, commemorating Chiben's 40th school trip to the country.

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Empress visits exhibition of craftwork of mentally disabled

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Empress Michiko looks at craftwork made by mentally disabled students of Tokyo's Asahide Gakuen school in an exhibition at the Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi department store in Tokyo on March 3, 2014.

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Chinese scholar returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Zhu Jianrong, a professor of Chinese politics and diplomacy at Toyo Gakuen University, at Tokyo's Haneda airport following his return from China on Feb. 28, 2014, after about seven months. The Japan-based Chinese scholar was detained by Chinese authorities in July 2013 on suspicion of illegal intelligence-gathering activities.

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Chinese scholar returns to Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Zhu Jianrong, a professor of Chinese politics and diplomacy at Toyo Gakuen University's Nagareyama Campus in Chiba Prefecture. Zhu, a Japan-based Chinese scholar and well-known commentator on Sino-Japanese relations, was detained by Chinese authorities in July 2013, suspected of illegal intelligence-gathering activities. He returned to Japan on Feb. 28, 2014.

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Japan-based Chinese scholar

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Zhu Jianrong, a Chinese professor at Toyo Gakuen University in Tokyo. Zhu was released after reportedly being detained by security authorities in China for roughly half a year, the university said on Jan. 24, 2014.

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Eagles win rights to lefty Matsui

KAWASAKI, Japan - Schoolmates toss Yuki Matsui of Toko Gakuen High School into the air at the school in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo on Oct. 24, 2013, after the Pacific League champion Rakuten Eagles won the negotiating rights to the highly rated lefty in the Nippon Professional Baseball's annual amateur draft.

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Handicapped people's art, music

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo shows members of the "otto&orabu" percussion group at the Shobu Gakuen rehabilitation facility for the mentally disabled during practice on June 3, 2013, in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Handicapped people's art, music

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Shin Fukumori (far R), head of the Shobu Gakuen rehabilitation facility for the mentally disabled, leads a practice of the "otto&orabu" percussion group on June 3, 2013, in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, sing in New York on July 24, 2012. The high school students from the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Gosei Arima, a student from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks on his disaster experience in New York on July 24, 2012. Twenty-six students from the school in the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Sahoko Baba, a student from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, speaks on her disaster experience in New York on July 24, 2012. Twenty-six students from the school in the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japan disaster-hit students visit New York

NEW YORK, United States - Students from Sendai Ikuei Gakuen's Shukoh Middle School in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, sing in New York on July 24, 2012. The high school students from the disaster-hit prefecture shared their stories of surviving the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami at an event there, expressing their gratitude for support they received from around the world.

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Japanese students in U.N. session simulation contest

NEW YORK, United States - Yuki Hayashi (C) and Yukina Sekine (to the left of Hayashi), students of Shibuya Kyouiku Gakuen Makuhari Senior High School in Chiba Prefecture, participate in the Global Classrooms International Model U.N. Conference for 2012 in New York on May 18, 2012. Teams from four Japanese high schools won prizes for their performances at the event.

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Kyokawa, a new Nadeshiko

SENDAI, Japan - Mai Kyokawa, an 18-year-old striker at Tokiwagi Gakuen High School in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, shows her soccer ball control skills before reporters in Sendai on Feb. 20, 2012, after she was selected as a member of the Japan national women's soccer team, nicknamed Nadeshiko, for the first time. The Japan Football Association announced the same day that injured FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa and Kyokawa were among a 21-member squad for the upcoming Algarve Cup in Portugal.

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Kyokawa, a new Nadeshiko

SENDAI, Japan - Mai Kyokawa, an 18-year-old striker at Tokiwagi Gakuen High School in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, holds a press conference in Sendai on Feb. 20, 2012, after she was selected as a member of the Japan national women's soccer team, nicknamed Nadeshiko, for the first time. The Japan Football Association announced the same day that injured FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Homare Sawa and Kyokawa were among a 21-member squad for the upcoming Algarve Cup in Portugal.

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Building housing Akiba culture shops

TOKYO, Japan - Shop attendants pose before manikins at casual wear shop ''Akiba Asobi Kan: Jam Gakuen'' in ''Akiba Cultures Zone,'' a building with shops selling goods and services related to the Akihabara (Akiba) subculture in Tokyo's Akihabara district on Dec. 22, 2011.

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Ex-truants help Lao kids

TOKYO, Japan - Tensei Karasuyama (R) and other students at a high school in Tokyo for former truants or stay-at-home youths make donation boxes on May 14, 2010, in preparation for the Laos Festival in Yoyogi Park to be held May 22 and 23, 2010, to help build schools in Laos. Students of Tokyo Kokusai Gakuen High School hope to raise 3.5 million yen to build one school in Laos, in addition to the previous six built from the students' support since 1996, through donations and flea market sales.

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Student camps prove lucrative for cheap inns run by local gov'ts

FUKUI, Japan - Members of Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University's tennis club hold a club camp in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, on Aug. 7.

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New flu hits Tokyo, infections total 281 in Japan

KAWASAKI, Japan - A notice announcing a weeklong school closure is posted at Senzoku Gakuen in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, on May 21, a day after two girls at Senzoku Kaguen High School were confirmed to be infected with the new strain of influenza.

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Legendary 'anime' Galaxy Express 999 mural put up at station

TOKYO, Japan - A 12.7-meter-wide, 2.8-meter-high mural of the legendary ''anime'' film ''Galaxy Express 999'' is put up at Oizumi Gakuen Station of Seibu Railway Co. in Tokyo's Nerima Ward, dubbed the birthplace of Japanese animated films.

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Osaka Toin trounces Tokoha to win high school baseball c'ship

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Members of Osaka Prefecture's Osaka Toin baseball team rejoice after battering Tokoha Gakuen Kikugawa of Shizuoka Prefecture in a 17-0 victory to claim Japan's national high school baseball championship on Aug. 18.

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Okinawa Shogaku wins high school baseball invitational

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Shingo Nishime, captain of the Okinawa Shogaku baseball team, receives the winner's pennant after the Okinawa team defeated Saitama's Seibo Gakuen in a 9-0 rout on April 4 to win its second overall title at the national high school invitational tournament. (Pool photo)

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Okinawa Shogaku wins high school baseball invitational

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Okinawa Shogaku team members thank their schoolmates and supporters after winning the spring national high school invitational tournament with a 9-0 rout of Saitama's Seibo Gakuen in the final at Koshien Stadium on April 4.

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Violinist Eto dies at 80

TOKYO, Japan - Famed violinist Toshiya Eto (file photo taken in March, 1979) died at the age of 80, his family said on Jan. 22. The date and cause of his death have not been made available as of yet. Eto, a member of the Japan Art Academy, served as chief of Toho Gakuen School of Music.

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Tokoha Kikugawa parades after 1st high school baseball title

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Members of the Tokoha Gakuen Kikugawa high school baseball team parade outside their school in Kikugawa, Shizuoka Prefecture on April 4, a day after they rallied to prevail over Ogaki Nichidai 6-5 in the final and won their first title in the national high school invitational tournament.

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Tokoha Kikugawa wins 1st high school invitational title

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Members of Tokoha Gakuen Kikugawa baseball team celebrate their victory over Ogaki Nichidai 6-5 in the final of the national high school invitational tournament at Koshien Stadium on April 3.

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Ogaki Nichidai reaches Koshien final

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Members of tournament debutant Ogaki Nichidai from Gifu Prefecture run to celebrate after their team held off a late rally by Tokyo's Teikyo to claim a 5-4 victory in the semifinals of the national high school invitational tournament at Koshien Stadium on April 2. Ogaki Nichidai advanced to the final to face Tokoha Gakuen Kikugawa of Shizuoka Prefecture which beat Kumamoto Kogyo 6-4.

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Tokoha Kikugawa upsets Osaka Toin to reach Koshien semis

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Players of Tokoha Gakuen Kikugawa of Shizuoka jubilant after downing tournament favorite Osaka Toin 2-1 in the quarterfinals of the national high school invitational tournament on March 31.

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First listed firm-run senior high school opened

TOBA, Japan - Students of Wits Aoyama Gakuen Senior High School in Iga, Mie Prefecture, get on-the-spot experience of how manatees are kept at the Toba Aquarium in the city of Toba, Mie Prefecture on Feb. 25.

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Daiei founder Nakauchi fell in Aug. due to stroke

OSAKA, Japan - Daiei Inc. founder Isao Nakauchi (file photo) has been under medical treatment since he fell in late August due to a stroke, the University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences said on Sept. 14. Nakauchi, 83, former chairman of the retail giant, is the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Nakauchi Gakuen Education Foundation that created the university.

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Japan's Seijo Gakuen closes Alsace campus after 19 years

COLMAR, France - A ceremony takes place at Lycee Seijo d'Alsace, the French campus of Japan's Seijo Gakuen, near the eastern French city of Colmar on Feb. 11 to end its 19-year history.

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2 Japanese university professors monitor Venezuelan referendum

CARACAS, Venezuela - Takashi Tanaka (C, back), a professor at Chubu University in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, monitors a Venezuelan national referendum in Caracas on Aug. 15 on whether to recall President Hugo Chavez. Tanaka and Hiroyuki Urabe, an assistant professor at Aikoku Gakuen University in Yotsukaido, Chiba Prefecture, were members of the monitoring team formed by the Organization of American States.

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(2)Keiko Gakuen wins pennant for 3rd straight year

OSAKA, Japan - Keiko Gakuen players start dashing toward their supporters after defeating Oita Maizuru 15-0 to win the annual Inter-High School Rugby tournament at Hanazono Rugby Stadium in Osaka on Jan. 7.

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(1)Keiko Gakuen wins pennant for 3rd straight year

OSAKA, Japan - Keiko Gakuen players burst out in joy after beating Oita Maizuru 15-0 to clinch the annual Inter-High School Rugby tournament for the third consecutive year at Hanazono Rugby Stadium in Osaka on Jan. 7.

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Tohoku High School's Darvish pitching hard

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Tohoku High School starter Yu Darvish pitches hard against Chikuyo Gakuen at the national high school baseball invitational tournament at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Aug. 11, 2003. Darvish's Miyagi Prefecture school beat the Fukuoka Prefecture-based school 11-6 in the first round of the tournament.