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Tokyo's Setagaya Ward honors 'local hero' Godzilla

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo's Setagaya Ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka (R) presents an actor in a "Godzilla" suit with a certificate at Toho Studios in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2014, the 60th anniversary of Godzilla's screen debut. Twenty eight of the 30 Godzilla movies including the first were made at the studios in the ward.

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Antinuke mayors

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Nobuto Hosaka (L), newly elected mayor of Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, and Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, shake hands in Minamisoma on April 29, 2011. Hosaka was elected pledging to campaign for an end to reliance on nuclear power. Sakurai was picked by TIME magazine in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world after criticizing the Japanese government's response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis via the video-sharing site YouTube.

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150 millionth visitor at Tokyo Tower

TOKYO, Japan - Junya Hosaka and his family (C) have become the 150 millionth visitor at the Tokyo Tower since the tourist spot in the Japanese capital opened to the public in December 1958.

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Nissan's Ghosn chosen as one of six 'most ideal fathers'

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn (2nd from R), a father of four, was one of six men chosen as ''most ideal fathers'' in a contest in Tokyo on June 5 ahead of Father's Day on June 17. Japan Men's Fashion Unity also gave the 20th Yellow Ribbon Award to (from L to R) Yasuhiko Okudera, a former pro soccer player and current Yokohama athletic club head, actor Naoki Hosaka, Yoshiharu Habu, a master of ''shogi'' Japanese chess, Heizo Takenaka, minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, and Mie Gov. Masayasu Kitagawa (R).

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Executions draw protest

TOKYO, Japan - Legislators Nobuto Hosaka (L) and Mizuho Fukushima (R) speak at a news conference Sept. 10 after visiting the Justice Ministry to protest against the executions earlier in the day of three death-row inmates.

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DKB, J.P. Morgan to set up trust venture

Taira Hosaka (3rd from L), senior managing director of Japan's Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), shakes hands with Keith M. Schappert, president of J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.of the United States, in Tokyo on Oct. 1. DKB and J.P. Morgan and Co. agreed to set up a joint investment trust venture early next year as part of a broad capital tie-up between the two banks. DKB will be the first of Japan's nine major commercial banks to form a capital tie-up with a foreign financial institution.

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Asahi beer to advertise G-7 Summit in label

Asahi Breweries Ltd. executive Minoru Hosaka (L) and Mie Gov. Eikei Suzuki hold a can of the brewer's megahit product Asahi Super Dry on Nov. 24, 2015, at the prefectural government offices in Tsu in western Japan, to unveil a new label on the product, featuring the word "Iseshima Summit," its scheduled dates and an illustration of Kashikojima Island, where the Group of Seven Summit will take place in May 2016. The products carrying the label will go on sale the following month. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's 2 wards to issue same-sex partnership papers

Mayor Nobuto Hosaka of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2015, announcing that the ward will start issuing certificates recognizing same-sex partnerships from Nov. 5, as will the Shibuya Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hosaka reelected as director of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward

Nobuto Hosaka expresses joy on April 26, 2015, after being reelected as director of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward in an election. Hosaka, who is known for his antinuclear stance, also emphasized his achievement in increasing education-related budgets during the campaign. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo's Setagaya Ward mayor gets same-sex couple's petition

Mayor Nobuto Hosaka (far L) of Tokyo's Setagaya Ward receives a petition from a same-sex couple for establishing a system that recognizes such couples as family members at his office in the Japanese capital on March 5, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese writer Hosaka gives interview

Nonfiction writer Masayasu Hosaka speaks in an interview on Jan. 28, 2015. Referring to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming statement for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Hosaka said it should be consistent with the statements issued by prime minister Tomiichi Murayama on the 50th and by Junichiro Koizumi on the 60th anniversaries of the war's end. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. team to be based in Tokyo's Setagaya for 2020 Olympics

(From L to R) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy; Alan Ashley, chief of sport performance for the U.S. Olympic Committee; Tsunekazu Takeda, president of the Japanese Olympic Committee; Setagaya Ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka; and Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe pose for photos at the Ajinomoto National Training Center in Tokyo's Kita Ward on Nov. 13, 2015, after signing a memorandum of understanding calling for the U.S. national team to use athletic facilities in Setagaya before and during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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150 millionth visitor at Tokyo Tower

TOKYO, Japan - Junya Hosaka and his family (C) have become the 150 millionth visitor at the Tokyo Tower since the tourist spot in the Japanese capital opened to the public in December 1958. (Kyodo)

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Executions draw protest

TOKYO, Japan - Legislators Nobuto Hosaka (L) and Mizuho Fukushima (R) speak at a news conference Sept. 10 after visiting the Justice Ministry to protest against the executions earlier in the day of three death-row inmates.

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Antinuke mayors

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Nobuto Hosaka (L), newly elected mayor of Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, and Katsunobu Sakurai, mayor of Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, shake hands in Minamisoma on April 29, 2011. Hosaka was elected pledging to campaign for an end to reliance on nuclear power. Sakurai was picked by TIME magazine in its list of this year's 100 most influential people in the world after criticizing the Japanese government's response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis via the video-sharing site YouTube. (Kyodo)

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Football: 2018 World Cup

Naoki Hosaka, a football fan operating a beauty salon in Yamanashi Prefecture, poses at an airport in Moscow on June 12, 2018 two days ahead of the start of the Russian World Cup. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gay couple in Japan

Gay couple Yukiya Terai (C) and Tsukasa Nakagawa, in this photo taken Nov. 5, 2015, receive a same-sex partnership certificate from Nobuto Hosaka, mayor of Setagaya Ward. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo ward to issue certificates recognizing same-sex partnerships

Nobuto Hosaka, director of Tokyo's Setagawa Ward, holds a certificate for the recognition of a same-sex partnership during a press conference on Aug. 4, 2015. Hosaka said he expects the certificates, to be issued from November, to contribute to social tolerance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nissan's Ghosn chosen as one of six 'most ideal fathers'

TOKYO, Japan - Nissan Motor Co. President Carlos Ghosn (2nd from R), a father of four, was one of six men chosen as ''most ideal fathers'' in a contest in Tokyo on June 5 ahead of Father's Day on June 17. Japan Men's Fashion Unity also gave the 20th Yellow Ribbon Award to (from L to R) Yasuhiko Okudera, a former pro soccer player and current Yokohama athletic club head, actor Naoki Hosaka, Yoshiharu Habu, a master of ''shogi'' Japanese chess, Heizo Takenaka, minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, and Mie Gov. Masayasu Kitagawa (R).

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DKB, J.P. Morgan to set up trust venture

Taira Hosaka (3rd from L), senior managing director of Japan's Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), shakes hands with Keith M. Schappert, president of J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. of the United States, in Tokyo on Oct. 1. DKB and J.P. Morgan and Co. agreed to set up a joint investment trust venture early next year as part of a broad capital tie-up between the two banks. DKB will be the first of Japan's nine major commercial banks to form a capital tie-up with a foreign financial institution.