[Breaking News]Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

NAGOYA, Japan, Aug. 22 Kyodo - A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day. (Kyodo)

[Breaking News]Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

NAGOYA, Japan, Aug. 23 Kyodo - Visitors watch an endangered Komodo dragon named Taro at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2024, its first day of public display. (Kyodo)

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6875]

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Visitors watch an endangered Komodo dragon named Taro at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2024, its first day of public display.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Visitors watch an endangered Komodo dragon named Taro at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2024, its first day of public display.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Visitors take photos of an endangered Komodo dragon named Taro at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2024, its first day of public display.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Visitors watch an endangered Komodo dragon named Taro at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 23, 2024, its first day of public display.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

Komodo dragon at central Japan zoo

A Komodo dragon, named Taro, is shown to the press at Higashiyama Zoo & Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, on Aug. 22, 2024. Public display of the endangered species will begin the following day.

Johnny's talent agency admits sexual abuse by founder, head resigns

Julie Keiko Fujishima, former president of Johnny & Associates Inc., and its new president Noriyuki Higashiyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2023, amid allegations the major Japanese talent agency's late founder and her uncle Johnny Kitagawa had sexually abused teenagers aspiring to become pop singers for decades.

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 2 Kyodo - Noriyuki Higashiyama, president of talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2023. (Kyodo)

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Noriyuki Higashiyama (2nd from R), president of Johnny & Associates Inc., and Yoshihiko Inohara (2nd from L), president of the talent agency's subsidiary Johnnys' Island, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2023, over late namesake founder Johnny Kitagawa's sexual abuse.

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Noriyuki Higashiyama, president of talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2023.

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Noriyuki Higashiyama (R), president of Johnny & Associates Inc., and Yoshihiko Inohara, president of the talent agency's subsidiary Johnnys' Island, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2023.

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Noriyuki Higashiyama (R), president of Johnny & Associates Inc., and Yoshihiko Inohara, president of the talent agency's subsidiary Johnnys' Island, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2023.

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Johnny's talent agency's press conference

Noriyuki Higashiyama (R), president of Johnny & Associates Inc., bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2023, alongside Yoshihiko Inohara, president of the talent agency's subsidiary Johnnys' Island.

Johnny's talent agency sex abuse scandal

Johnny's talent agency sex abuse scandal

Julie Keiko Fujishima (R), former president of Johnny & Associates Inc., wipes away tears during a Tokyo press conference on Sept. 7, 2023, alongside new president Noriyuki Higashiyama, amid allegations of sexual abuse by the agency's late founder and her uncle, Johnny Kitagawa, against aspiring teenage pop singers over decades.

Johnny's talent agency sex abuse scandal

Johnny's talent agency sex abuse scandal

Noriyuki Higashiyama, new president of Johnny & Associates Inc., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2023, amid allegations the major Japanese talent agency's late founder Johnny Kitagawa had sexually abused teenagers aspiring to become pop singers for decades.

Johnny's talent agency sex abuse scandal

Johnny's talent agency sex abuse scandal

Julie Keiko Fujishima (R), former president of Johnny & Associates Inc., and its new president Noriyuki Higashiyama attend a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2023, amid allegations the major Japanese talent agency's late founder and her uncle Johnny Kitagawa had sexually abused teenagers aspiring to become pop singers for decades.

"Handsome gorilla" at Nagoya zoo

"Handsome gorilla" at Nagoya zoo

NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 6 Kyodo - Western lowland gorilla Shabani is pictured in a new facility for gorillas and chimpanzees at the Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya on Sept. 5, 2018. Shabani has been the zoo's celebrity, being dubbed "ikemen," meaning handsome guy in colloquial Japanese.

Kyoto's Kiyomizu temple lit up

Kyoto's Kiyomizu temple lit up

KYOTO, Japan - The wooden stage of Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward is lit up on a trial basis on Nov. 13, 2014. About 500 lights illuminated the temple, one of Japan's most celebrated temples, founded in 780 in the wooded hills east of Kyoto. The stage just out from the temple's main hall is 13 meters above the hillside below.

Kyoto's Kiyomizu temple lit up

Kyoto's Kiyomizu temple lit up

KYOTO, Japan - The wooden stage of Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward is lit up on a trial basis on Nov. 13, 2014. About 500 lights illuminated the temple, one of Japan's most celebrated temples, founded in 780 in the wooded hills east of Kyoto. The stage just out from the temple's main hall is 13 meters above the hillside below.

Kyoto's Kiyomizu temple lit up

Kyoto's Kiyomizu temple lit up

KYOTO, Japan - The wooden stage of Kiyomizu temple in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward is lit up on a trial basis on Nov. 13, 2014. About 500 lights illuminated the temple, one of Japan's most celebrated temples, founded in 780 in the wooded hills east of Kyoto. The stage just out from the temple's main hall is 13 meters above the hillside below.

Koala 'Tilly' shown to public at Nagoya zoo

Koala 'Tilly' shown to public at Nagoya zoo

NAGOYA, Japan - A female koala named Tilly is shown to the public at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Nagoya, central Japan, on Oct. 17, 2014. Tilly is a gift from Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first koala's arrival in the Japanese zoo.

New Buddhism hall Seiryuden in Kyoto

New Buddhism hall Seiryuden in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Shoren-in Temple's Seiryuden "Gomado" hall in Kyoto is lit up on Oct. 3, 2014. The newly completed facility featuring a large wooden platform stage in the western Japanese city's Yamashina Ward will open to the public on Oct. 8. The temple is in the city's Higashiyama Ward.

New Buddhism hall Seiryuden in Kyoto

New Buddhism hall Seiryuden in Kyoto

OSAKA, Japan - The Shoren-in Temple's Seiryuden "Gomado" hall in Kyoto is lit up on Oct. 3, 2014. The newly completed facility featuring a large wooden platform stage in the western Japanese city's Yamashina Ward will open to the public on Oct. 8. The temple is in the city's Higashiyama Ward.

No. of koalas kept at Japanese zoos dropping

No. of koalas kept at Japanese zoos dropping

NAGOYA, Japan - One of five koala bears kept at Nagoya's Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens eats eucalyptus on Aug. 5, 2014. The cost of cultivating the plant is rising while the number of koalas kept at Japanese zoos is declining as they age.

Aerial view of Higashiyama rectangular tomb mound

Aerial view of Higashiyama rectangular tomb mound

OSAKA, Japan - An aerial view of the Higashiyama rectangular-shaped tomb mound (foreground) adjacent to the Konda-gobyoyama tumulus attributed to Emperor Ojin in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, is shown in this file photo taken in May 2014 from a Kyodo News helicopter. The tomb mound measures 57 meters from east to west and 54 meters from north to south, having previously been estimated to be 50 meters each.

Clay figures found lined up at tomb mound in western Japan

Clay figures found lined up at tomb mound in western Japan

FUJIIDERA, Japan - Clay figures are lined up in circles on a terrace (foreground) at the Higashiyama rectangular-shaped tomb mound in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, on Aug. 7, 2014. The tomb, built in the early fifth century, is attached to the Konda-gobyoyama tumulus believed to belong to Emperor Ojin, described in ancient documents as Japan's 15th emperor.

Clay figures found arranged in circles at ancient tomb

Clay figures found arranged in circles at ancient tomb

FUJIIDERA, Japan - Clay figures arranged in 11 circles on a terrace at the Higashiyama rectangular-shaped tomb mound in Habikino, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan, are shown to the press on Aug. 7, 2014.

Evacuation signboard for tourists installed in Kyoto

Evacuation signboard for tourists installed in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A signboard showing an emergency evacuation site for tourists is installed on a power pole near the Yasaka Shrine in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto, western Japan, on March 10, 2014.

U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet commander

U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet commander

NAGASAKI, Japan - Adm. Harry Harris, the first Japanese-American commander of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, salutes after placing flowers at the Higashiyama Navy Cemetery for members of the former Imperial Japanese Navy in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on Nov. 20, 2013.

Kiyomizu temple

Kiyomizu temple

KYOTO, Japan - Kiyomizu temple is illuminated in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward on the night of Nov. 14, 2013.

Kiyomizu temple

Kiyomizu temple

KYOTO, Japan - Kiyomizu temple is illuminated in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward on the night of Nov. 14, 2013.

Kiyomizu temple

Kiyomizu temple

KYOTO, Japan - Kiyomizu temple is illuminated in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward on the night of Nov. 14, 2013.

Gorilla baby at Nagoya zoo

Gorilla baby at Nagoya zoo

NAGOYA, Japan - A male baby Western Lowland Gorilla is unveiled to the general public at Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Nov. 27, 2012. The baby, born Nov. 1, is held by his mother Nene, who is estimated to be 40 years old, equivalent to being in her 60s in human age. Nene is believed to be one of the oldest females in the endangered gorilla species to ever give birth.

Gorilla baby at Nagoya zoo

Gorilla baby at Nagoya zoo

NAGOYA, Japan - A male baby Western Lowland Gorilla is unveiled to the general public at Higashiyama Zoo in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, on Nov. 27, 2012. The baby, born Nov. 1, is held by his mother Nene, who is estimated to be 40 years old, equivalent to being in her 60s in human age. Nene is believed to be one of the oldest females in the endangered gorilla species to ever give birth.

Van hits pedestrians in Kyoto

Van hits pedestrians in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Photo shows a road in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward on April 12, 2012, about 30 minutes after a van rammed into pedestrians at the site, leaving more than a dozen people injured.

Actor Higashiyama, actress Kimura tie knot

Actor Higashiyama, actress Kimura tie knot

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Yoshino Kimura appears at the opening of the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival on Oct. 23, 2010. Kimura, 34, and actor Noriyuki Higashiyama, 44, said on Oct. 23, 2010, they had tied the knot the same day.

'Maiko' promote online tax filing

'Maiko' promote online tax filing

KYOTO, Japan - Young geisha, known as ''maiko,'' parade in rickshaws in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward to promote an online tax filing system on Oct. 14, 2010, ahead of tax awareness week starting Nov. 11.

'Maiko' in Kyoto prepare for dance performance

'Maiko' in Kyoto prepare for dance performance

KYOTO, Japan - Young geisha known as ''maiko'' rehearse for a public dance performance called ''Onshukai,'' to be held between Oct. 1 to 6, at a theater in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward on Sept. 28, 2010.

Archery event at Sanjusangen-do in Kyoto

Archery event at Sanjusangen-do in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Young female archers dressed in traditional kimono and ''hakama'' ceremonial skirts take aim in the ''Toshiya'' arrow-shooting event at Sanjusangen-do, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto's Higashiyama district, on Jan. 17, 2010. About 2,000 people, including young archers who celebrated their coming-of-age on Jan. 11, took part in the annual event. The archers aim at hitting targets placed 60 meters away.

Archery event at Sanjusangen-do in Kyoto

Archery event at Sanjusangen-do in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - Young female archers dressed in traditional kimono and ''hakama'' ceremonial skirts take aim in the ''Toshiya'' arrow-shooting event at Sanjusangen-do, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto's Higashiyama district, on Jan. 17, 2010. About 2,000 people, including young archers who celebrated their coming-of-age on Jan. 11, took part in the annual event. The archers aim at hitting targets placed 60 meters away.