Horse racing: T O Royal claims Spring Tenno-sho

Horse racing: T O Royal claims Spring Tenno-sho

Six-year-old favorite T O Royal (far L), ridden by Yuji Hishida, races en route to winning the spring Tenno-sho for his first Grade I victory at Kyoto Racecourse on April 28, 2024.

Horse racing: T O Royal claims Spring Tenno-sho

Horse racing: T O Royal claims Spring Tenno-sho

Six-year-old favorite T O Royal, ridden by Yuji Hishida, wins the spring Tenno-sho for his first Grade I victory at Kyoto Racecourse on April 28, 2024.

Imperial couple visit Japanese painter's exhibition

Imperial couple visit Japanese painter's exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend an exhibition of Japanese-style painter Shunso Hishida commemorating the 140th anniversary of his birth at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2014. (Pool photo)

Woman, girl found dead at home in Gifu

Woman, girl found dead at home in Gifu

GIFU, Japan - Police officers search the home of Kazuto Hishida, 43, in Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, where his 26-year-old wife Kaoru and their 2-year-old daughter Manami were found dead with neck wounds on June 21. Hishida was found dead earlier in the day after jumping from an apartment building in a neighboring city in Aichi Prefecture.

Student launches multilingual online petition against Japan's security bills

Student launches multilingual online petition against Japan's security bills

Nobuhiro Hishida, a second-year student at Keio University, shows during an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2015, a poster calling for support to his online petition opposing the Japanese government's national security bills aimed at expanding the Self-Defense Forces' overseas operations. With the campaign statement available in eight languages, Hishida plans to send signatures received from around the world to the prime minister's office and both houses of the Japanese parliament. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Woman, girl found dead at home in Gifu

Woman, girl found dead at home in Gifu

GIFU, Japan - Police officers search the home of Kazuto Hishida, 43, in Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, where his 26-year-old wife Kaoru and their 2-year-old daughter Manami were found dead with neck wounds on June 21. Hishida was found dead earlier in the day after jumping from an apartment building in a neighboring city in Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)

Imperial couple visit Japanese painter's exhibition

Imperial couple visit Japanese painter's exhibition

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend an exhibition of Japanese-style painter Shunso Hishida commemorating the 140th anniversary of his birth at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo on Oct. 8, 2014. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

Heavy rain in southwestern Japan

The Hishida River is swollen in Shibushi in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on July 3, 2019, after heavy rain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo