Akashi castle

Akashi castle

Akashi Castle was built by Ogasawara Tadamasa in 1619, and the Matsudaira family became lords of the castle afterwards. The existing Hitsuji Saru Yagura and Tatsumiyagura show what it was like then.==Date:unknown, Place:Akashi, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number24‐7‐0]

Japan's imperial couple attend movie watching event

Japan's imperial couple attend movie watching event

Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from L in front row) talks with film director Kojiro Hashimoto while Empress Michiko (2nd from R in front row) speaks to actor Kento Yamazaki during a preview screening of "Hitsuji to Hagane no Mori" (A Forest of Wool and Steel) at a movie theater in Tokyo on May 24, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan's imperial couple attend a movie

Japan's imperial couple attend a movie

Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko attend a premiere of the movie "Hitsuji to Hagane no Mori" (A forest of sheep and steel) in Tokyo on May 24, 2018. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan's imperial couple attend a movie

Japan's imperial couple attend a movie

Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd from L) and Empress Michiko (L) greet pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii (R) before a premiere of the movie "Hitsuji to Hagane no Mori" (A forest of sheep and steel) in Tokyo on May 24, 2018. Tsujii played the ending theme in the movie. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Murakami fans disappointed as author misses out on Nobel Prize

Murakami fans disappointed as author misses out on Nobel Prize

Fans of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, alongside a man in a sheep suit (L), react in the northern Japan town of Bifuka on Oct. 13, 2016, as the 67-year-old author missed out on winning the Nobel Prize in literature. The town on Japan's northernmost main island Hokkaido is believed to provide the setting for one of Murakami's novels titled "A Wild Sheep Chase" (Hitsuji wo meguru boken). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo