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Japan's medical team arrives in quake-hit Myanmar

Hideyuki Yazama, head of a 32-member team of medical workers from Japan, meets the press after his delegation arrived in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 2, 2025, to provide emergency support to the Southeast Asian country devastated by a powerful earthquake on March 28.

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Japan to send medical team to quake-hit Myanmar

Hideyuki Yazama, head of a 32-member team of medical workers, speaks at an inauguration ceremony at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2025, before flying to Myanmar as part of Japan's emergency support following a powerful earthquake in the Southeast Asian country on March 28.

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Japan to send medical team to quake-hit Myanmar

Hideyuki Yazama (standing), head of a 32-member team of medical workers, speaks at an inauguration ceremony at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 1, 2025, before flying to Myanmar as part of Japan's emergency support following a powerful earthquake in the Southeast Asian country on March 28.

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World Exposition in Osaka

Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama (far R) waves from inside a self-driving bus during a test ride in Osaka on March 25, 2025, ahead of the 2025 World Exposition starting in the western Japan city in April. The bus, adorned with the expo's official mascot Myaku-Myaku, will transport people to the expo venue on the artificial island of Yumeshima from local railway stations.

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Sterantis Japan Announces New EV “600e”

Sterantis Japan unveiled the new Fiat-branded 600e EV.=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Sterantis Japan Announces New EV “600e”

Sterantis Japan unveiled the new Fiat-branded 600e EV.=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

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Rice price futures index's listing

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 20 Kyodo - SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga pose for a photo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange. (Kyodo)

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Rice price futures index's listing

(from L) SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga pose for a photo in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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Rice price futures index's listing

(from L) SBI Holdings Inc. CEO Yoshitaka Kitao, Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura, Kansai Economic Federation Chairman Masayoshi Matsumoto, Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama and Osaka Dojima Exchange Inc. President Wataru Ariga break a sake cask in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 20, 2024, in a ceremony marking the listing a week before of a Japanese rice price futures index on the Osaka Dojima Exchange.

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Osaka expo construction site

Osaka Mayor Hideyuki Yokoyama (2nd from L) visits the construction site for the 2025 World Exposition's Osaka Pavilion during a tour for the pavilion's sponsors on Nov. 13, 2023, on Yumeshima, an artificial island in Osaka Bay that will be the venue of the Osaka expo.

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Concerns rage as Japan moves closer to discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater

STORY: Concerns rage as Japan moves closer to discharging nuclear-contaminated wastewater DATELINE: Aug. 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:41 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): TOSHIMITSU KONNO, Head of Fukushima prefecture's Soma Futaba Fisheries Cooperative Association 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Korean): JU CHEOL-HYEON, South Korea's National Assembly 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): HIDEYUKI BAN, Co-director of Citizens' Nuclear Information Center STORYLINE: The Japanese government has been intensifying efforts to make final preparations to commence the discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the ocean, increasing the world's concern over its controversial plan. Local media reported on Monday that Japan is mulling the discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea beginning in between late August and early September. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): TOSHIMITSU KONNO, Head

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Fresh vegetables keep Mos Burger a popular chain

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 6, 2013, shows Hideyuki Sato, chief leader of the agribusiness group at Tokyo-based Mos Food Services Inc., the operator of Mos Burger hamburger restaurants. Sato procures vegetables to be used for hamburgers directly from farmers across Japan.

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Fukui gov. visits Oi plant before decision on reactors' restart

OI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa (L) listens to a person from Kansai Electric Power Co. at the utility's nuclear power complex in the town of Oi, Fukui Prefecture, on June 12 2012. Nishikawa visited the complex to check on safety measures taken in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis as he is expected to endorse the restart of two idled reactors at the plant. To the right is Hideyuki Nakagawa, head of the nuclear safety commission set up by the prefectural government.

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Fukui governor likely to OK restart of reactors

FUKUI, Japan - Fukui Gov. Issei Nishikawa (L) receives a report from Hideyuki Nakagawa, head of a local nuclear safety commission, at the prefectural government hall in Fukui on June 11, 2012. The governor is expected to endorse the restart of two idled reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in the prefecture as he was officially informed of the commission's conclusion that necessary safety measures have been taken.

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Inmate escapes from Hiroshima Prison

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hideyuki Yamasaki (C), head of the general affairs division at Hiroshima Prison, and other prison officials bow in a gesture of apology at a press conference in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on Jan. 11, 2012, after Li Guolin, a 40-year-old Chinese man, escaped from the prison earlier that day.

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Ice church in Hokkaido draws winter lovebirds

SAPPORO, Japan - Salaried worker Hideyuki Osanai (L) and nurse Momoko Tsuta walk arm in arm down the aisle during their wedding ceremony Feb. 11 in a church made of ice including its dome and pillars at the resort facilities complex Alpha Resort Tomamu in the village of Shimukappu on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido. As the mercury went down to 9C below zero in the ice church, Osanai who came from Nagoya, 1,000 kilometers southwest of Hokkaido, said, ''Although it was cold, this ceremony will be a timeless memory.'' The resort complex operator said some 40 couples held wedding ceremonies this year.

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Duskin, Mos Food announce capital, business alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Ito (L), president of Duskin Co., a provider of cleaning services and operator of the Mister Donut chain, and Atsushi Sakurada, president of hamburger restaurant chain operator Mos Food Services Inc., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 20 at which they announced a capital and business alliance between the two companies.

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Kawashima to meet Munoz for WBA title

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Former WBC superflyweight champion Katsushige Kawashima (R) and Hideyuki Ohashi, owner of Ohashi Gym where Kawashima trains, pose for photographers at Ohashi Gym in Yokohama on Nov. 13. Kawashima said he will challenge WBA superflyweight champion Alexander Munoz of Venezuela at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium on Jan. 14, 2008.

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Mitsubishi Fuso files recall for 168,002 trucks

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Shibusawa, executive officer in charge of quality technology at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp., speaks at a press conference on May 26 after telling the transport ministry the company will recall 168,002 large vehicles due to clutch-housing defects.

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Veteran LDP politician Aizawa loses lower house seat

YONAGO, Japan - Hideyuki Aizawa (L), former minister in charge of financial affairs, speaks to his supporters at his election office in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Nov. 9 after losing in the general election for the House of Representatives. His wife, actress Yoko Tsukasa, stands beside him.

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Duskin ex-chairman held over misuse of 180 mil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Hideyuki Ito, president of Duskin Co., bows at a press conference at the company's head office in Fuita, Osaka Prefecture, on June 4 to apologize for the arrest of former chairman Koji Chiba, suspected of misusing 180 million yen of the company's money.

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Japan's 2nd police box-couple's home opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's second police box to serve as both home and workplace for a police couple opens Jan. 24 in Tokyo's Tsukuda riverside district in Chuo Ward. Assistant Police Inspector Hideyuki Hane (L) and his wife Miyuki, a senior policewoman, attend the opening ceremony at their live-in police box in the district known as ''River City 21.''

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Chiyoda to make new start under AIG

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Sakai (L), trustee of failed Japanese insurer Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23. Sakai said American International Group Inc. (AIG) has been named as the exclusive sponsor for the rehabilitation of Chiyoda, which will be converted into a publicly traded company in April and make a fresh start as AIG Star Life Insurance Co.

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LDP panel agrees to consider scrapping treasury stock curb

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Aizawa (C), chief of a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) panel tasked to craft measures aimed at preventing a further plunge in share prices, speaks at the first session of the panel at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 18. The panel agreed to contemplate removal of a legal curb on the use of treasury stock. Treasury stock refers to issued shares that have been reacquired by the issuer.

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FRC head Aizawa speaks on Chiyoda Mutual Life's collapse

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Aizawa, chairman of the government's Financial Reconstruction Commission, meets the press in Tokyo on Oct. 9 and said it is ''extremely regrettable'' that Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co. has failed to rehabilitate with the financial support of its close business partner Tokai Bank. Chiyoda earlier in the day filed for court protection from creditors, making it the biggest Japanese life insurer to go under.

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Aizawa questioned at Budget Committee session

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Aizawa, who took over Kimitaka Kuze as head of the Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC), speaks in reply to an opposition question at a House of Representatives Budget Committee session Aug. 2. Kuze resigned after coming under fire for receiving benefits and fees from Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp. and condominium developer Daikyo Inc.

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New FRC Chairman Aizawa meets reporters

TOKYO, Japan - New Financial Reconstruction Commission Chairman Hideyuki Aizawa speaks to reporters at the commission office in Tokyo on July 30 after attending his attestation ceremony at the Imperial Palace. Aizawa replaced Kimitaka Kuze, who resigned after coming under heavy fire for receiving benefits from Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp. and condominium developer Daikyo Inc.

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FRC Chairman Kuze bows after resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Reconstruction Commission (FRC) Chairman Kimitaka Kuze bows at a press conference in Tokyo on July 30 after resigning in connection with the receipt of benefits and payments from Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp. and condominium developer Daikyo Inc. Kuze served as FRC chairman and a state minister since July 4, when Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori launched his new cabinet. Mori immediately appointed former Economic Planning Agency chief Hideyuki Aizawa as Kuze's successor.

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Ex-EPA chief Aizawa likely to succeed FRC head Kuze

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo of former Economic Planning Agency chief Hideyuki Aizawa, 81, who will likely succeed top financial regulator Kimitaka Kuze. Kuze, chairman of the Financial Reconstruction Commission and a state minister, is likely to be sacked July 30 in connection with the receipt of benefits and payments from Mitsubishi Trust & Banking Corp. and condominium builder Daikyo.

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Copper fiber sheet commercialized by Good Eye

Good Eye (Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture) will release GUD Sheet, a copper fiber sheet with antibacterial and antiviral effects, in June. The company commercialized four types of masks, including one priced at 4,980 yen (excluding consumption tax). The GUD sheet is a polymer fiber covered with copper foil and coated with a visible light responsive photocatalyst. In an experiment on bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria, it was confirmed that rubbing a finger covered with the virus on the sheet for 30 seconds reduced the number of the virus to less than 1/1000.Professor Hideyuki Itabashi of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Gunma University, who also serves as the company's chairman, said, "We hope to start experiments in July. The photo shows copper fiber sheets commercialized as masks and chiefs. (Photo taken on May 19, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Duskin, Mos Food announce capital, business alliance

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Ito (L), president of Duskin Co., a provider of cleaning services and operator of the Mister Donut chain, and Atsushi Sakurada, president of hamburger restaurant chain operator Mos Food Services Inc., shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 20 at which they announced a capital and business alliance between the two companies. (Kyodo)

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Japan's 2nd police box-couple's home opens in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's second police box to serve as both home and workplace for a police couple opens Jan. 24 in Tokyo's Tsukuda riverside district in Chuo Ward. Assistant Police Inspector Hideyuki Hane (L) and his wife Miyuki, a senior policewoman, attend the opening ceremony at their live-in police box in the district known as ''River City 21.''

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Nissan develops bioethanol-powered electric vehicles

Hideyuki Sakamoto, executive vice president of Nissan Motor Co., holds a press conference in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on June 14, 2016. Sakamoto said the automaker is developing a fuel cell system to enable cars to run on electricity generated by bioethanol, and that it will be the first time the fuel has been used in automobiles. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MRJ may begin flight testing in U.S. in summer

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. America Inc. Chairman Masao Yamagami (R) and Hideyuki Kamiya, head of strategic marketing at Mitsubishi Aircraft, announce at a press conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 10, 2016, that the company is eager to start flight-testing of its Mitsubishi Regional Jet, Japan's first domestically produced jet, in the United States in the summer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shinsei Bank appoints new president

Hideyuki Kudo (R), managing executive officer of Shinsei Bank, attends a press conference with President Shigeki Toma, in Tokyo on March 25, 2015. The bank announced the same day that it had appointed the 51-year-old Kudo as its new president, replacing Toma, 66, who will become a special advisor after his resignation. Kudo will assume the new position in June. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese city promotes melon in H.K. via bakery chain

Hideyuki Harada (R), mayor of the central Japanese city of Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Patrick So, general manager of Arome Bakery (HK) Co., hold cakes topped with sliced melons at a promotional event for the Japanese prime fruit in Hong Kong on July 26, 2017. The cake has been developed jointly by the city, known for its "Crown Melon," and the Hong Kong bakery and confectionary chain. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan names new envoys to Tunisia, Djibouti, Namibia

Mitsuhiko Okada (L), president of the Overseas Coastal Area Development Institute of Japan, is named ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, while Hideyuki Sakamoto, consul general in Frankfurt, Germany, is appointed as new envoy to Namibia on June 26, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Veteran LDP politician Aizawa loses lower house seat

YONAGO, Japan - Hideyuki Aizawa (L), former minister in charge of financial affairs, speaks to his supporters at his election office in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, on Nov. 9 after losing in the general election for the House of Representatives. His wife, actress Yoko Tsukasa, stands beside him. (Kyodo)

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Inmate escapes from Hiroshima Prison

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hideyuki Yamasaki (C), head of the general affairs division at Hiroshima Prison, and other prison officials bow in a gesture of apology at a press conference in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on Jan. 11, 2012, after Li Guolin, a 40-year-old Chinese man, escaped from the prison earlier that day. (Kyodo)

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Use of iPS cells to treat spinal cord injuries

Keio University professors Hideyuki Okano (L) and Masaya Nakamura, who together lead a project to use iPS cells to treat patients with spinal cord injuries, speak to reporters in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2019, following the Japanese health ministry's approval of a clinical study of the project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Use of iPS cells to treat spinal cord injuries

Keio University professors Hideyuki Okano (L) and Masaya Nakamura, who together lead a project to use iPS cells to treat patients with spinal cord injuries, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2019, following the Japanese health ministry's approval of a clinical study of the project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Use of iPS cells to treat spinal cord injuries

Keio University professor Hideyuki Okano, who leads a project to use iPS cells to treat patients with spinal cord injuries, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2019, following the Japanese health ministry's approval of a clinical study of the project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Use of iPS cells to treat spinal cord injuries

Keio University professors Hideyuki Okano (L) and Masaya Nakamura speak in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2019, about the use of induced pluripotent stem cells to treat patients suffering from the loss of motor function due to spinal cord injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Use of iPS cells to treat spinal cord injuries

Keio University professor Hideyuki Okano speaks in Tokyo on Feb. 18, 2019, about the use of induced pluripotent stem cells to treat patients suffering from the loss of motor function due to spinal cord injuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tsukiji market scenes ahead of relocation

Hideyuki Minagawa, an intermediate wholesaler and tour guide at Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, poses with tourists at the market on Oct. 1, 2018, ahead of the relocation of the market to the nearby Toyosu waterfront district, drawing the curtain on 83 years of history. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kawashima to meet Munoz for WBA title

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Former WBC superflyweight champion Katsushige Kawashima (R) and Hideyuki Ohashi, owner of Ohashi Gym where Kawashima trains, pose for photographers at Ohashi Gym in Yokohama on Nov. 13. Kawashima said he will challenge WBA superflyweight champion Alexander Munoz of Venezuela at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium on Jan. 14, 2008. (Kyodo)

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Mitsubishi Fuso files recall for 168,002 trucks

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Shibusawa, executive officer in charge of quality technology at Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus Corp., speaks at a press conference on May 26 after telling the transport ministry the company will recall 168,002 large vehicles due to clutch-housing defects. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Kokumin Bank chief gets 30-month prison term

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Okonogi (L), former president of the now-defunct Kokumin Bank, and Hideyuki Suzuki (R), former vice president of the bank, enters the Tokyo District Court building on Aug. 30 to hear a ruling on them over the bank's illegal loans. Okonogi was sentenced to two and a half years in prison while Suzuki was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for four years. (Kyodo)

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Chiyoda to make new start under AIG

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Sakai (L), trustee of failed Japanese insurer Chiyoda Mutual Life Insurance Co., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 23. Sakai said American International Group Inc. (AIG) has been named as the exclusive sponsor for the rehabilitation of Chiyoda, which will be converted into a publicly traded company in April and make a fresh start as AIG Star Life Insurance Co.

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LDP panel agrees to consider scrapping treasury stock curb

TOKYO, Japan - Hideyuki Aizawa (C), chief of a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) panel tasked to craft measures aimed at preventing a further plunge in share prices, speaks at the first session of the panel at the LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 18. The panel agreed to contemplate removal of a legal curb on the use of treasury stock. Treasury stock refers to issued shares that have been reacquired by the issuer.