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Press Conference on Terumo's Acquisition of OrganOx

Press conference on Terumo's acquisition of OrganOx. Photo shows Hikaru Samejima, President and CEO of Terumo Corporation (right).=August 27,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference on Terumo's Acquisition of OrganOx

Press conference on Terumo's acquisition of OrganOx. Photo shows Hikaru Samejima, President and CEO of Terumo Corporation (right).=August 27,2025,Tokyo

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Press Conference on Terumo's Acquisition of OrganOx

Press conference on Terumo's acquisition of OrganOx. Photo shows Hikaru Samejima, President and CEO of Terumo Corporation (right).=August 27,2025,Tokyo

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Hikaru Ogawara crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2025, securing the university's eighth victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Hikaru Ogawara crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2025, securing the university's eighth victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Hikaru Ogawara crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2025, securing the university's eighth victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

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Paris Olympics: Trampoline Gymnastics

Japan's Hikaru Mori performs in the women's trampoline gymnastics final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024 at Bercy Arena in the French capital.

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Paris Olympics: Trampoline Gymnastics

Japan's Hikaru Mori performs in the women's trampoline gymnastics final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024 at Bercy Arena in the French capital.

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Paris Olympics: Trampoline Gymnastics

Japan's Hikaru Mori performs in the women's trampoline gymnastics final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024 at Bercy Arena in the French capital.

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Paris Olympics: Trampoline Gymnastics

Japan's Hikaru Mori performs in the women's trampoline gymnastics final at the Paris Olympics on Aug. 2, 2024 at Bercy Arena in the French capital.

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WRC Rally Finland 2024

Toyota WRC2 driver Hikaru Kogure (L) of Japan, Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT's Team Principal Jari-Matti Latvala and Toyota WRC2 driver Yuki Yamamoto during WRC Rally Finland in Jyväskylä, Finland on August 1, 2024. LEHTIKUVA / VALTTERI VAINIO - FINLAND OUT. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. (Credit:Valtteri Vainio/Lehtikuva/Kyodo News Images)

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Paris Olympics: Football

Japan's Hikaru Kitagawa (L) scores a goal on a free kick in the first half of a Paris Olympics women's football Group C match against Nigeria at La Beaujoire Stadium in Nantes, France, on July 31, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Football

Japan's Hikaru Kitagawa (front) is congratulated by teammate Yui Hasegawa after scoring a goal on a free kick in the first half of a Paris Olympics women's football Group C match against Nigeria at La Beaujoire Stadium in Nantes, France, on July 31, 2024.

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Trampoline: World championships

Japan's Hikaru Mori (L) and Megu Uyama compete in the women's synchronized final during the trampoline world championships in Birmingham, England, on Nov. 12, 2023.

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Football: Paris Olympics qualifier

Japan's Hikaru Naomoto (front) vies for the ball in the second half of a 2024 Paris Olympics women's football qualifier against India in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on Oct. 26, 2023.

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

(231005) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Japan's Matsumoto Hikaru (up) competes during the women's handball gold medal match between Japan and South Korea at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 5, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ATHLETICS(CN)

(230806) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kitagawa Hikaru of Japan celebrates after finishing the Athletics Women's Half Marathon Final at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Jing)

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(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ATHLETICS(CN)

(230806) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kitagawa Hikaru of Japan reacts after finishing the Athletics Women's Half Marathon Final at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Jing)

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(Chengdu Universiade)CHINA-CHENGDU-WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES-ATHLETICS(CN)

(230806) -- CHENGDU, Aug. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kitagawa Hikaru of Japan celebrates after finishing the Athletics Women's Half Marathon Final at the 31st FISU Summer World University Games in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Aug. 6, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Jing)

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(SP)NEW ZEALAND-WELLINGTON-2023 FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP-GROUP C-JPN VS ESP

(230731) -- WELLINGTON, July 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Irene Paredes (L) of Spain vies with Naomoto Hikaru of Japan during the Group C match between Japan and Spain at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 in Wellington, New Zealand, July 31, 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)

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(SP)NEW ZEALAND-WELLINGTON-2023 FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP-GROUP C-JPN VS ESP

(230731) -- WELLINGTON, July 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Jennifer Hermoso (L) of Spain vies with Naomoto Hikaru of Japan during the Group C match between Japan and Spain at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 in Wellington, New Zealand, July 31, 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)

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(SP)NEW ZEALAND-WELLINGTON-2023 FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP-GROUP C-JPN VS ESP

(230731) -- WELLINGTON, July 31, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Irene Paredes (L) of Spain vies with Naomoto Hikaru of Japan during the Group C match between Japan and Spain at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 in Wellington, New Zealand, July 31, 2023. (Xinhua/Guo Lei)

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(SP)NEW ZEALAND-DUNEDIN-2023 FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP-GROUP C-JAPAN VS COSTA RICA

(230726) -- DUNEDIN, July 26, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Naomoto Hikaru (L) of Japan celebrates a goal during the group C match between Japan and Costa Rica at the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 in Dunedin, New Zealand, July 26, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhu Wei)

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Football: Women's World Cup

Hikaru Naomoto (R) of Japan takes a shot on goal in the first half of a Women's World Cup Group C football match against Costa Rica at Dunedin Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, on July 26, 2023.

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Football: Women's World Cup

Hikaru Naomoto (R) of Japan celebrates with teammates after scoring the team's first goal in the first half of a Women's World Cup Group C football match against Costa Rica at Dunedin Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, on July 26, 2023.

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Football: Women's World Cup

Hikaru Naomoto (R) of Japan celebrates with teammates after scoring the team's first goal in the first half of a Women's World Cup Group C football match against Costa Rica at Dunedin Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, on July 26, 2023.

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Football: Women's World Cup

Hikaru Naomoto of Japan scores her team's first goal in the first half of a Women's World Cup Group C football match against Costa Rica at Dunedin Stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand, on July 26, 2023.

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Football: Japan's Women's World Cup squad

Urawa Reds football players (from L) Hana Takahashi, Hikaru Naomoto, Kiko Seike and Rion Ishikawa pose for a photo in Saitama, near Tokyo, on June 13, 2023, after they were named to Japan's FIFA Women's World Cup roster the same day.

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(SP)PHILIPPINES-MANILA-FOOTBALL-AFF CUP 2022-GROUP A-PHI VS INA

(230102) -- MANILA, Jan. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hikaru De Asis Minegishi of the Philippines competes during the group A match between the Philippines and Indonesia at the AFF Mistubishi Electric Cup 2022 in Manila, the Philippines on Jan. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)

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Record companies eye new businesses as CD sales dwindle

TOKYO, japan - Comedian Hikaru Tanaka (L) hands an autographed copy of his comic "Dr. Nakajima's World Conquest," published by Pony Canyon Inc., to a fan during a book-signing event outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2014. Amid shrinking sales of CDs, Pony Canyon and other Japanese record companies are diversifying into all sorts of other fields in search of new business opportunities.

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Record companies eye new businesses as CD sales dwindle

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of the comic "Dr. Nakajima's World Conquest," published by Pony Canyon Inc., are shown at a book-signing event by author and comedian Hikaru Tanaka outside a bookstore in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2014. Amid shrinking sales of CDs, Pony Canyon and other record companies in Japan are diversifying into all sorts of other fields in search of new business opportunities.

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Japan vs MLB All-Stars friendly game in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - The MLB All-Stars Justin Morneau hits a sacrifice fly off Japan's starter Shota Takeda (L) in the first inning of their friendly baseball game at Okinawa Cellular Stadium in Naha, Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture, on Nov. 20, 2014. At right is Japan's catcher Hikaru Ito.

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Ex-singer Keiko Fuji plunges to death in alleged suicide

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in September 1981 shows Keiko Fuji. Fuji, former singer and the mother of singer Hikaru Utada, on Aug. 22, 2013, plunged from a condominium building to her death in an apparent suicide, Tokyo police said. She was 62.

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Young Nadeshiko beat Switzerland

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Hikaru Naomoto (8) scores her team's fourth goal on penalty kick during the second half of their Under-20 Women's World Cup Group A final game against Switzerland at National Stadium in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2012. Japan won 4-0, setting up a quarterfinal match with South Korea.

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Japan defeat Mexico in Under-20 Women's World Cup

RIFU, Japan - Japan's Hikaru Naomoto (C back) celebrates with teammates after scoring the team's second goal against Mexico during the second half of the Under-20 Women's World Cup at Miyagi Stadium in the town of Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 19, 2012. Japan won 4-1.

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Actress Nishida promotes Hiroshima oysters

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Actress Hikaru Nishida and Hiroshima Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki try out an oyster stew during an event in Hiroshima City on Oct. 18, 2010, to promote oysters produced in Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Singer Utada to take break

TOKYO, Japan - This February 2002 file photo shows Japanese pop star Hikaru Utada who announced on her blog Aug. 9, 2010, that she will suspend musical activities for ''for a while.'' The 27-year-old singer said she will ''come back more matured.''

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Bodies of Japanese quake victims brought home from Pakistan

NARITA, Japan - Caskets of Satoru Narahara and his infant son Hikaru, who were killed when their Islamabad apartment building collapses in the Oct. 8 quake, are unloaded from a plane at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 17.

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Shiotani hangs on for Golf 5 Ladies victory

MIZUNAMI, Japan - Ikuyo Shiotani is moved to tears during an interview after winning the Golf 5 Ladies tournament at Mizunami Country Club in Gifu Prefecture on July 28. The two-time former money rankings champion finished with 10-under 206 -- one stroke ahead of second-placed Hikaru Kobayashi.

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(2)Photos from reception dinner for Bush

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. President George W. Bush (L) shakes hands with Japanese popular singer Hikaru Utada at a reception hosted by Prime minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 18. Koizumi looks on. The photo is a pool one.

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Conference looks at making Japanese lifestyle greener

TOKYO, Japan - Singer Hikaru Nishida (C) chats with Yoichi Morishita (R), chairman of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. at a meeting in Tokyo on Feb. 16, which the government launched to look at how Japanese can change their lifestyles so that the nation can achieve a cut in greenhouse gas emissions as mandated by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. At left is Akiko Nagashima, wife of former Yomiuri Giants baseball team manager Shigeo Nagashima.

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Guide dog for deaf takes 1st flight in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Kayo, a companion dog for deaf people, together with its owner, Hikaru Takuwa from Chiba Prefecture, steps down from a plane at Osaka airport, western Japan, on Aug. 28 after flying from Matsumoto airport in Nagano Prefecture. Kayo is the first such dog that has taken a flight in Japan.

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3 diplomats punished over false claims for allowances

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoji Komachi (R), director general of the Foreign Ministry's Secretariat, wipes his brow during a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Aug. 24 to announce another ministry scandal. The ministry disciplined Yoshihiko Arakawa, a former minister at the Japanese Embassy in Kenya, Masaru Dekiba, former secretary at the embassy, and Hikaru Maekawa, another secretary at the embassy, for obtaining up to 2.25 million yen through false claims for housing and other benefits between 1997 and last year.

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Singer-actress Hikaru Nishida gets engaged

TOKYO, Aug. 3 Kyodo - File photo shows Japanese pop singer and actress Hikaru Nishida, 28, who announced Aug. 3 her engagement to a trading company employee she met two years ago.

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Japanese cameras to capture children's E. Timor

DILI, East Timor - Japanese photographer Hikaru Nagatake (far R) explains to children in Dili, East Timor, how to use a disposable Japanese camera on Aug. 16. Nagatake told Kyodo News she plans to hand out 100 cameras to East Timorese kids in various villages as part of a personal project to foster creativity among the territory's young and capture their perspectives on life. She will then collect the cameras and have the film developed in Japan. Copies of the photos will be sent to the children and the best ones will be given awards.

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2 teens arrested over killing of 15-year-old boy in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Investigators search for evidence in the killing of a teenage boy at a cemetery in Naha in the afternoon of June 9. Police arrested two teenagers June 10 in connection with the beating death of the 15-year-old boy in the cemetery in the capital of Okinawa Prefecture. An unemployed 15-year-old boy and 17-year-old high school student, whose names are being withheld because they are minors, were arrested on suspicion of killing Hikaru Uechi after separately turning themselves in at the same police station.

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Matsunaga meets Greenspan

U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan (R) shakes hands with Japanese Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga prior to their talks at the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday July 14. Matsunaga told Greenspan Japan's financial reform will remain on track despite the upcoming change of the prime minister.

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Bridge bank plan unveiled

Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga (L) answers questions by reporters Thursday July 2 after announcing the Japanese government's bridge bank plan aimed to salvage the country's financial system that has been mired by massive bad loans. Masaharu Hino (R), chief of the newly created Financial Supervisory Agency, assists Matsunaga during the briefing session at the Prime Minister's official residence.

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Emergency deputies meeting held

Deputies of the finance ministers and central bankers fromthe Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized countries and 11 Asia-Pacific economies pose before photographers in Tokyo on June 20 before an emergency meeting to seek ways to stabilize foreign exchange markets. U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers is at right and Japanese Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga is fourth from right.

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Matsunaga, Summers meet in Tokyo

Japanese Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga (R) meets U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in Tokyo on June 19 to exchange views on the global economy, the yen-dollar exchange rate and Japan's prolonged economic slump.