Literary award winners in Japan

Literary award winners in Japan

(From L) Akane Chihaya and Satoshi Ogawa pose for photos at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 19, 2023, after winning the Naoki Prize, a Japanese literary award for popular fiction, together with Atsushi Sato (3rd from L) and Iko Idogawa (far R) who won the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors.

Ex-Futaba mayor to run in Fukushima gubernatorial race

Ex-Futaba mayor to run in Fukushima gubernatorial race

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba, home of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, announces on Sept. 16, 2014, in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima that he will run in the October Fukushima gubernatorial election. Idogawa served as Futaba mayor from December 2005 to February 2013.

Fukushima town mayor says nuclear crisis is not over

Fukushima town mayor says nuclear crisis is not over

GENEVA, Switzerland - Katsutaka Idogawa, mayor of the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, speaks in Geneva on Oct. 30, 2012, ahead of a U.N. panel meeting on Japan's human rights situation. The mayor of the town hosting the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station said that the disaster is not over, despite the troubled reactors having been declared stabilized.

Fukushima town mayor says nuclear crisis is not over

Fukushima town mayor says nuclear crisis is not over

GENEVA, Switzerland - Katsutaka Idogawa, mayor of the town of Futaba, Fukushima Prefecture, speaks in Geneva on Oct. 30, 2012, ahead of a U.N. panel meeting on Japan's human rights situation. The mayor of the town hosting the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station said that the disaster is not over, despite the troubled reactors having been declared stabilized.

Ex-Futaba mayor to run in Fukushima gubernatorial race

Ex-Futaba mayor to run in Fukushima gubernatorial race

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Katsutaka Idogawa, former mayor of Futaba, home of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, announces on Sept. 16, 2014, in the northeastern Japan city of Fukushima that he will run in the October Fukushima gubernatorial election. Idogawa served as Futaba mayor from November 2005 to February 2013. (Kyodo)