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Asian Para Games in Hangzhou

Japanese sitting volleyball player Mika Hata carries the Japanese flag during the opening ceremony of the Asian Para Games at Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium in Hangzhou, China, on Oct. 22, 2023.

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-ATHLETICS(CN)

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hata Sumire of Japan competes during the Women's Long Jump Final of Athletics at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Song Yanhua)

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-ATHLETICS(CN)

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hata Sumire of Japan competes during the Women's Long Jump Final of Athletics at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Song Yanhua)

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Japanese author, animal researcher "Mutsugoro" dies at 87

Japanese author and animal researcher Masanori Hata plays with a dog in Nakashibetsu on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in June 2016. Hata, who frequently appeared on television shows about animals and was better known by his nickname "Mutsugoro," died of a heart attack on April 5, 2023, at 87.

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Japanese author, animal researcher "Mutsugoro" dies at 87

Japanese author and animal researcher Masanori Hata gives an interview in Nakashibetsu on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in June 2021. Hata, who frequently appeared on television shows about animals and was better known by his nickname "Mutsugoro," died of a heart attack on April 5, 2023, at 87.

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Japanese author, animal researcher "Mutsugoro" dies at 87

Japanese author and animal researcher Masanori Hata holds a dog in his arms in Akiruno, Tokyo, in July 2004. Hata, who frequently appeared on television shows about animals and was better known by his nickname "Mutsugoro," died of a heart attack on April 5, 2023, at 87.

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Japanese author, animal researcher "Mutsugoro" dies at 87

Japanese author and animal researcher Masanori Hata speaks during a talk show in Tokyo in March 2015. Hata, who frequently appeared on television shows about animals and was better known by his nickname "Mutsugoro," died of a heart attack on April 5, 2023, at 87.

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S LONG JUMP

(230213) -- ASTANA, Feb. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hata Sumire of Japan competes during the women's long jump final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 12, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S LONG JUMP

(230213) -- ASTANA, Feb. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hata Sumire of Japan reacts during the women's long jump final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 12, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S LONG JUMP

(230213) -- ASTANA, Feb. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hata Sumire of Japan competes during the women's long jump final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 12, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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(SP)KAZAKHSTAN-ASTANA-ATHLETICS-ASIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS-WOMEN'S LONG JUMP

(230213) -- ASTANA, Feb. 13, 2023 (Xinhua) -- (from L to R) Huang Yingying of China, Hata Sumire of Japan and Darya Reznichenko of Uzbekistan pose during the awarding ceremony after the women's long jump final at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, Feb. 12, 2023. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

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Flag festival in Fukushima

NIHONMATSU, Japan, Dec. 2 Kyodo - People climb steps with flags during the Kohata no hata festival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, on Dec. 2, 2018, wishing for good health and abundant crops.

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Flag festival in Fukushima

NIHONMATSU, Japan, Dec. 2 Kyodo - People walk with flags during the Kohata no hata festival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, on Dec. 2, 2018, wishing for good health and abundant crops.

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Flag festival in Fukushima

NIHONMATSU, Japan, Dec. 2 Kyodo - People run with flags during the Kohata no hata festival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, on Dec. 2, 2018, wishing for good health and abundant crops.

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Flag festival in Fukushima

NIHONMATSU, Japan, Dec. 2 Kyodo - People walk with flags during the Kohata no hata festival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, on Dec. 2, 2018, wishing for good health and abundant crops.

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Magsaysay award recipient watches over Thai slum children

BANGKOK, Thailand - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata (2nd from L), winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1978, poses with children she watches over in the slum of Khlong Toei in Bangkok in this file photo taken on Sept. 24, 2014.

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Magsaysay award recipient watches over Thai slum children

BANGKOK, Thailand - Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1978 for her contribution to helping raise Thai slum children, is photographed on Sept. 24, 2014, during an interview with Kyodo News in Bangkok.

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Workshop to restore damaged documents

TOTTORI, Japan - Hiroshi Hata (C), a paper work restorer, demonstrates at a workshop on restoration techniques for important documents at the Tottori Prefectural Library and Archives in Tottori City, western Japan, on July 9, 2014.

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Group of nonpartisan lawmakers visits Yasukuni Shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Yuichiro Hata (C) is pictured after paying homage at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 2012. To the left is former Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Makoto Koga. Lawmakers of a nonpartisan group, including Hata and another Cabinet minister, visited the Shinto shrine dedicated to the war-dead on the occasion of its fall festival.

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Construction of new shinkansen route

NAGASAKI, Japan - Japanese transport minister Yuichiro Hata (2nd from R) takes part in a rite to wish for safe construction during a groundbreaking ceremony in Nagasaki on Aug. 18, 2012, as construction of a new shinkansen bullet train route started in Nagasaki Prefecture.

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Japan ministers visit war-related shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Lawmakers from various parties, including transport minister Yuichiro Hata (far R), visit Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2012. Hata and Jin Matsubara, a state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, visited the World War II-related shrine on the anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war, the first by Cabinet members under a government led by the Democratic Party of Japan that came to power in 2009.

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Japan ministers visit war-related shrine

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows transport minister Yuichiro Hata (L) and Jin Matsubara, a state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals. Hata and Matsubara visited World War II-related Yasukuni Shrine on Aug. 15, 2012, the anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war, the first visit by Cabinet members under a government led by the Democratic Party of Japan that came to power in 2009.

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Japan ministers visit war-related shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Transport minister Yuichiro Hata (L) visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2012. Hata and Jin Matsubara, a state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, visited the World War II-related shrine on the anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war, the first by Cabinet members under a government led by the Democratic Party of Japan that came to power in 2009.

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Japan ministers visit war-related shrine

TOKYO, Japan - Jin Matsubara (C), a state minister in charge of the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals, arrives at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2012. Matsubara and transport minister Yuichiro Hata visited the World War II-related shrine on the anniversary of Japan's surrender in the war, the first by Cabinet members under a government led by the Democratic Party of Japan that came to power in 2009.

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Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Japan's reshuffled Cabinet pose in a group photo session at Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's office in Tokyo on June 4, 2012. Noda replaced five members of the 18-strong Cabinet, newly appointing (from top R to L) Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto, Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Yuichiro Hata, (from bottom R to L) Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Akira Gunji, Justice Minister Makoto Taki and Financial Services Minister Tadahiro Matsushita.

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Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - Yuichiro Hata, Japan's new minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism, enters the office of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in Tokyo on June 4, 2012, with Noda naming him to the post in a Cabinet reshuffle.

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Cabinet reshuffle

TOKYO, Japan - File photos show Yuichiro Hata (L) and Makoto Taki, both of Japan's ruling Democratic Party of Japan. Hata was tapped as land, infrastructure, transport and tourism minister, replacing Takeshi Maeda, while Taki was named justice minister, replacing Toshio Ogawa, as Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda reshuffled his Cabinet on June 4, 2012.

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Yuzen artist Hata dies at 97

KYOTO, Japan - Tokio Hata (in file photo taken 1988), a prominent exponent of yuzen, a technique for dyeing kimono, died of pneumonia at a Kyoto hospital on Feb. 10, his family said Feb. 18. He was 97.

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Louis Vuitton aims at expanding business in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Yves Carcelle (C), chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton Malletier, joins hands with Kyojiro Hata (L), outgoing president of Louis Vuitton Japan and Kiyotaka Fujii, next LVJ president, during a press conference in Tokyo on April 25.

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DPJ leadership meets to mull merger plan

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (L), leader of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), special representative Tsutomu Hata (C) and Secretary General Kansei Nakano (R) attend an emergency executive session Dec. 2 at the DPJ's head office in Tokyo to address Hatoyama's proposal to launch a new party through a merger with the Liberal Party. (Pool photo)

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(8)Nagasaki marks 57th atomic bombing anniversary

NAGASAKI, Japan - Reiko Hata (L), who was exposed to radiation in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, tells primary school students in Tarami, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Aug. 9 about her experiences.

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DPJ urges warm Japanese diplomacy toward Afghanistan

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (L), leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, along with the party's special representative Tsutomu Hata (R), meets with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Jan. 18 to discuss Japan's role in rehabilitating Afghanistan.

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DPJ leaders discuss Constitution

TOKYO, Japan - Top officers of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) meet in the Diet on Dec. 21 to discuss possible revision of the Constitution. Seated (from L to R) are Takahiro Yokomichi, Hajime Ishii, Yukio Hatoyama, Tsutomu Hata, Naoto Kan and Kansei Nakano. Last week, deputy party leader Yokomichi urged party leader Hatoyama to resign over his recent comment suggesting Japan revise its Constitution to stipulate it has the right to collective self-defense.

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Osaka infant leaves for U.S. to await new heart

NARITA, Japan - Toshiki Hata, a 21-month-old boy from Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, leaves Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 13 with his mother Kazuko and father Nobuyuki. Suffering from a serious heart disorder, he is headed for New York's Columbia University in hopes of undergoing a transplant.

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Tsutomu Hata

Born on Aug. 24, 1935 in Tokyo. Hata was elected to the House of Representatives from Nagano Prefecture in 1969 at the age of 34 after working as a ''salaryman'' for 10 years. Hata held key cabinet portfolios as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. He and his close ally Ichiro Ozawa formed Shinseito (Japan Renewal Party) with a group of LDP dissidents in 1993. Hata served as prime minister between April 28 and June 30, 1994. Photo was taken Jan. 18, 1999.

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DPJ's Hata meets the press after Yamamoto's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Hata, secretary general of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), meets the press at the DPJ's headquarters in Tokyo on Sept. 4 after DPJ lawmaker Joji Yamamoto was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud in connection with his alleged misuse of his former secretary's state-paid salary.

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DPJ's Hatoyama, Hata pleased

TOKYO, Japan - The secretary general of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, Tsutomu Hata (L), and DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama (R) celebrate June 25 upon learning that Hata was certain to be returned to the House of Representatives in Sunday's general election.

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Opposition demands Mori resign

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (2nd from R), leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), and DPJ Secretary General Tsutomu Hata (R) try to hand Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (2nd from L) on May 18 a paper urging his cabinet to resign en masse. Mori refused to receive the paper. Seated at left is Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Hiromu Nonaka. Both Hatoyama and Hata would not sit down during the five-minute meeting in the Diet building.

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Japanese opposition leaders meet Belo in E. Timor

DILI, East Timor - East Timor spiritual leader Bishop Carlos Belo (C) meets Japanese opposition politicians Tsutomu Hata (L) and Satsuki Eda at his home in Dili on Nov. 10. Hata, ex-premier and now secretary general of the major opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), and Eda, a DPJ upper house member, also met with resistance leader Xanana Gusmao in Laga, a village east of Dili, the same day.

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Hata in East Timor

DILI, East Timor - Tsutomu Hata (L), secretary general of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), and Satsuki Eda, a DPJ member of the House of Councillors, listen to East Timorese people during their visit to a refugee camp in Dili on Nov. 9.

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Hata meets with Megawati

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Tsutomu Hata, secretary general of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, is greeted by Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri at her office in Jakarta on Nov. 8. Hata, former prime minister, is on a week-long visit to Indonesia until Nov. 11.

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Hata, his father celebrate victory in Nagano by-election

NAGANO, Japan - Yuichiro Hata (R), 32, a candidate fielded by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, and his father Tsutomu Hata, the DPJ's secretary general, celebrate the victory of Yuichiro Hata in the Oct. 17 House of Councillors by-election.

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Obuchi enjoys a golf holiday in Karuizawa

KARUIZAWA, Japan - Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (R) enjoys playing golf on his summer holidays in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 16. Among political and business figures playing with Obuchi were Tsutomu Hata, secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, Goro Yoshimura, governor of Nagano Prefecture, and Yoshiaki Tsutsumi (L), chairman of Seibu Railway Co.

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Kan seeks reelection as DPJ leader

Naoto Kan (C), leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), announces his intention to run for the party chief post next month. Kan, addressing a standing committee meeting of his party on Dec. 25, is flanked by Acting Leader Kansei Nakano (R) and Secretary-General Tsutomu Hata (L).

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Japan's parliamentary session ends

Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto (L) and former Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, now secretary general of the Democratic Party, bow to each other, as regular Diet (parliament) session comes to a close Thursday June 18. Chief Cabinet Secretary Kanezo Muraoka (2nd from L) accompanies Hashimoto. A Japanese prime minister customarily pays a round of courtesy calls on opposition leaders at the end of each parliamentary sitting.

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Louis Vuitton aims at expanding business in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Yves Carcelle (C), chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton Malletier, joins hands with Kyojiro Hata (L), outgoing president of Louis Vuitton Japan and Kiyotaka Fujii, next LVJ president, during a press conference in Tokyo on April 25. (Kyodo)

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DPJ urges warm Japanese diplomacy toward Afghanistan

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (L), leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, along with the party's special representative Tsutomu Hata (R), meets with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Jan. 18 to discuss Japan's role in rehabilitating Afghanistan.

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Flag festival in Fukushima

People walk with flags during the Kohata no hata festival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, on Dec. 2, 2018, wishing for good health and abundant crops. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Flag festival in Fukushima

People run with flags during the Kohata no hata festival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, on Dec. 2, 2018, wishing for good health and abundant crops. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Flag festival in Fukushima

People climb steps with flags during the Kohata no hata festival in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, on Dec. 2, 2018, wishing for good health and abundant crops. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo