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Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi Brings Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain to Central Region

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in central Vietnam, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to regions already hit by recent floods. At least one person has died, several are missing, and homes and power lines were damaged. Flooding occurred in Dak Lak and thousands were evacuated as authorities remain on high alert for further floods and landslides.

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Vietnam: Typhoon Kalmaegi Brings Damaging Winds and Heavy Rain to Central Region 2

Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall in central Vietnam, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to regions already hit by recent floods. At least one person has died, several are missing, and homes and power lines were damaged. Flooding occurred in Dak Lak and thousands were evacuated as authorities remain on high alert for further floods and landslides.

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura organized by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. The Crown Princess poses for a photograph together with Nobel laureates Simon Sakaguchi, Susumu Kitagawa and Ryoji Noyori. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura organized by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. The Crown Princess poses for a photograph together with Nobel laureates Simon Sakaguchi, Susumu Kitagawa and Ryoji Noyori. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Princess Takamado speaks at a reception hosted by the Swedish Embassy at Hotel Okura in Tokyo, Japan, on October 3, 2025, during the visit of Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria. The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Princess Takamado speaks at a reception hosted by the Swedish Embassy at Hotel Okura in Tokyo, Japan, on October 3, 2025, during the visit of Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria. The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow / TT / Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

TOKYO, JAPAN 20251013Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura in Tokyo hosted by the Swedish Embassy during their visit to Japan on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

TOKYO, JAPAN 20251013Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura in Tokyo hosted by the Swedish Embassy during their visit to Japan on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

TOKYO, JAPAN 20251013Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

Crown Princess Victoria, Prince Daniel and Princess Takamado at a reception at Hotel Okura in Tokyo hosted by the Swedish Embassy during their visit to Japan on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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CROWN PRINCESS IN TOKYO

TOKYO, JAPAN 20251013Crown Princess Victoria delivers a speech at a reception at Hotel Okura hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, on October 13, 2025. Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Prince are on an official visit to Japan and South Korea from October 9 to 15.Photo: Jessica Gow/TT/Code 10070

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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Hotel Okura to reconstruct main building

TOKYO, Japan - An illustration supplied by Hotel Okura Co. on May 23, 2014, shows an image of Hotel Okura Tokyo after its planned reconstruction. The hotel operator said it will rebuild the main building of its flagship hotel to upgrade its facilities and services, with an eye to attracting more foreign guests in preparation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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High-end and merry, takeout food replacing restaurant dinners

TOKYO, Japan - A chef smiles holding a roast beef Christmas dish priced at 24,150 yen, which can be ordered for takeout, at Chef's Garden Terrace restaurant at Hotel Okura in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2009. Food corners in department stores as well as restaurants are seeing solid sales of takeout food this holiday season as more people are deciding to celebrate Christmas at home to save money and avoid the new flu.

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Hirafuku folding screen returns to Japan after 70 years

TOKYO, Japan - A visitor watches a folding screen presented to Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini by the late Japanese industrialist Kishichiro Okura before World War II which was shown to the media Aug. 3 at a Tokyo hotel after almost 70 years abroad. The screen, called ''Araiso'' (Rocky Beach) and painted by Japanese artist Hyakusui Hirafuku (1877-1933), was presented to Mussolini after being displayed at an exhibition in Rome of Japanese art organized by Okura in 1930. It depicts a bird on a bare rock against a gold background.

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French chef Lecomte dies in Tokyo at 68

TOKYO, Japan - Andre Lecomte, a French chef in Tokyo who counted visiting world leaders among his customers, died of a heart attack in Tokyo on Aug. 6, his family says on Aug. 8. He was 68. A native of the Loire Department in central France, Lecomte comes to Japan in 1963 to work as a chef at the Hotel Okura in Tokyo. The Kyodo News file photo shows Lecomte (R) poses with French President Jacques Chirac (L) during his official visit at the French Embassy in Tokyo on April 28,1998.

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Main building of Hotel Okura closed

Staff at Tokyo's long-established Hotel Okura pose for commemorative photos on Sept. 1, 2015, as its main building, built in 1962, was closed the previous day for reconstruction. The new building will open in 2019, prior to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hotel Okura unveils plan to open outlet in Cappadocia, Turkey

Toshihiro Ogita, president of Hotel Okura Co., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on June 8, 2015, about the company's plan to open a hotel in 2017 in Cappadocia, a popular tourist spot and UNESCO World Heritage site in central Turkey. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Japanese women "being the change" they wish to see

Philanthropist Atsuko Toko Fish poses for a photo following an interview at the Hotel Okura Tokyo on Oct. 13, 2016. Fish is founder of the Japanese Women's Leadership Initiative program, a Boston-based four-week program for Japanese women that provides training on nonprofit leadership and management with successful U.S. organizations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Opening of Okura Tokyo

Officials cut the tape at the redeveloped luxury hotel Okura Tokyo on Sept. 12, 2019, to mark its opening, with its president Toshihiro Ogita and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike seen at 4th and 5th from right in the line. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Opening of Okura Tokyo

Photo taken on Sept. 12, 2019, shows the redeveloped luxury hotel Okura Tokyo, which will reopen later in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hotel Okura in Tokyo

File photo taken Feb. 19, 2015, shows the original main building of Hotel Okura in Tokyo before it was closed for reconstruction later in that year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hotel Okura in Tokyo

File photo taken Aug. 31, 2015, from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the original main building of Hotel Okura, which was closed for reconstruction on that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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High-end and merry, takeout food replacing restaurant dinners

TOKYO, Japan - A chef smiles holding a roast beef Christmas dish priced at 24,150 yen, which can be ordered for takeout, at Chef's Garden Terrace restaurant at Hotel Okura in Tokyo on Dec. 1, 2009. Food corners in department stores as well as restaurants are seeing solid sales of takeout food this holiday season as more people are deciding to celebrate Christmas at home to save money and avoid the new flu. (Kyodo)

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Hirafuku folding screen returns to Japan after 70 years

TOKYO, Japan - A visitor watches a folding screen presented to Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini by the late Japanese industrialist Kishichiro Okura before World War II which was shown to the media Aug. 3 at a Tokyo hotel after almost 70 years abroad. The screen, called ''Araiso'' (Rocky Beach) and painted by Japanese artist Hyakusui Hirafuku (1877-1933), was presented to Mussolini after being displayed at an exhibition in Rome of Japanese art organized by Okura in 1930. It depicts a bird on a bare rock against a gold background.

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Okinawa hotel staff train for G-8 summit

TOKYO, Japan - Hotel staff from Okinawa Prefecture begin six days of training at Tokyo's Hotel Okura on Jan. 24 to host world leaders and government officials during the Group of Eight (G-8) summit scheduled for July 21-23 in the prefecture's city of Nago. The Foreign Ministry asked the Okura to hold the training seminar because it has experience in hosting important guests, including delegates to previous summits in Tokyo.

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French chef Lecomte dies in Tokyo at 68

TOKYO, Japan - Andre Lecomte, a French chef in Tokyo who counted visiting world leaders among his customers, died of a heart attack in Tokyo on Aug. 6, his family says on Aug. 8. He was 68. A native of the Loire Department in central France, Lecomte comes to Japan in 1963 to work as a chef at the Hotel Okura in Tokyo. The Kyodo News file photo shows Lecomte (R) poses with French President Jacques Chirac (L) during his official visit at the French Embassy in Tokyo on April 28,1998.