Baseball: SoftBank Hawks rookies

Baseball: SoftBank Hawks rookies

SoftBank Hawks players (from L) Kazuo Ohno (pitcher), Ryosuke Ohtsu (pitcher), Ikhine Itua (infielder), Kengo Yoshida (catcher), Ikumi Kai (outfielder) and Haru Matsumoto (pitcher) pose for a photo during a rookie introductory event at PayPay Dome in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on Dec. 5, 2022.

2012 Miss International

2012 Miss International

TOKYO, Japan - Ikumi Yoshimatsu, the 2012 Miss International winner, holds a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Dec. 16, 2013. Yoshimatsu said she was asked by the Miss International organizer to refrain from attending the 2013 pageant after she had received threats. She was absent from the event the following day despite tradition that the previous year's winner crowns the new title holder.

Miss International, Peter, Paul & Mary member

Miss International, Peter, Paul & Mary member

SAGA, Japan - Ikumi Yoshimatsu (R), the 2012 Miss International winner, and Peter Yarrow of musical trio Peter, Paul & Mary, sing with children at Tosu-Kita Elementary School in Tosu, Saga Prefecture, on Feb. 28, 2013. Yoshimatsu, who used to go to the school, visited there with Yarrow as part of a goodwill mission she has been undertaking to foster friendship among children around the world.

Survivors of Kobe, Niigata disasters help Tohoku quake victims

Survivors of Kobe, Niigata disasters help Tohoku quake victims

SENDAI, Japan - Ikumi Kitamura looks at hand-dyed products on Feb. 1, 2013 at a craft center set up in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, to create jobs for residents who evacuated the prefectural town of Tomioka due to radiation fears in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

Miss International at U.S. school

Miss International at U.S. school

NEW YORK, United States - Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Miss International 2012, (2nd from left) is pictured showing third graders at public school Brooklyn P.S. 307 how to fold a paper frog as part of a surprise visit. She hopes to link the New York students with third graders at an elementary school in her hometown of Tosu, in Saga Prefecture. Picture taken at the school on Jan. 24, 2013.

Parade for Miss International winner

Parade for Miss International winner

TOSU, Japan - Ikumi Yoshimatsu waves during a parade in her hometown of Tosu, Saga Prefecture, on Dec. 1, 2012, to celebrate her winning the Miss International contest in October. She is the first Japanese woman to win the title.

Parade for Miss International winner

Parade for Miss International winner

TOSU, Japan - Ikumi Yoshimatsu is seen during a parade in her hometown of Tosu, Saga Prefecture, on Dec. 1, 2012, to celebrate her winning the Miss International contest in October. She is the first Japanese woman to win the title.

Parade for Miss International winner

Parade for Miss International winner

TOSU, Japan - Ikumi Yoshimatsu waves during a parade in her hometown of Tosu, Saga Prefecture, on Dec. 1, 2012, to celebrate her winning the Miss International contest in October. She is the first Japanese woman to win the title.

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

NAHA, Japan - Japan's Ikumi Yoshimatsu (R front) poses at the Miss International contest in Naha, capital of the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Oct. 21, 2012, after winning the Miss Photogenic award. Yoshimatsu was also the first Japanese woman to win the title of Miss International.

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

NAHA, Japan - Japan's Ikumi Yoshimatsu (C) holds the trophy at the Miss International contest in Naha, capital of the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Oct. 21, 2012, after becoming the first Japanese woman to win the title. Yoshimatsu also won the Miss Photogenic award.

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

NAHA, Japan - Japan's Ikumi Yoshimatsu (L) gives a speech at the Miss International contest in Naha, capital of the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Oct. 21, 2012. Yoshimatsu was the first Japanese woman to win the title and also won the Miss Photogenic award.

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

NAHA, Japan - Japan's Ikumi Yoshimatsu smiles at the Miss International contest in Naha, capital of the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Oct. 21, 2012, after becoming the first Japanese woman to win the title. Yoshimatsu also won the Miss Photogenic award.

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

NAHA, Japan - Japan's Ikumi Yoshimatsu (L) is helped to wear the crown at the Miss International contest in Naha, capital of the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Oct. 21, 2012, after becoming the first Japanese woman to win the title. Yoshimatsu also won the Miss Photogenic award.

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

NAHA, Japan - Japan's Ikumi Yoshimatsu (L) smiles at the Miss International contest in Naha, capital of the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Oct. 21, 2012, after becoming the first Japanese woman to win the title. Yoshimatsu also won the Miss Photogenic award.

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

NAHA, Japan - Japan's Ikumi Yoshimatsu (C) holds the trophy at the Miss International contest in Naha, capital of the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Oct. 21, 2012, after becoming the first Japanese woman to win the title. Yoshimatsu also won the Miss Photogenic award.

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

Japanese woman wins Miss International title

NAHA, Japan - Japan's Ikumi Yoshimatsu holds the trophy at the Miss International contest in Naha, capital of the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa, on Oct. 21, 2012, after becoming the first Japanese woman to win the title. Yoshimatsu also won the Miss Photogenic award.

Prosecutors lose appeal in fatal drunken driving case

Prosecutors lose appeal in fatal drunken driving case

TOKYO, Japan - Yasutaka Inoue (R) and his wife Ikumi head for the Tokyo High Court in Tokyo on Jan. 12 to hear the court's ruling on the traffic accident on the Tomei Expressway, which caused the death of their daughters, 3-year-old Kanako and 1-year-old Chikako. The court dismissed the prosecutors' appeal against the leniency of the four-year jail sentence imposed on the drunken driver who caused the accident.

Hokkaido high school team wins national cake contest

Hokkaido high school team wins national cake contest

Members of a Hokkaido Mikasa High School team -- (from L) Misaki Taguchi, Takayo Hamada and Ikumi Kaneko -- strike a pose in Mikasa, Hokkaido Prefecture, northern Japan, on Nov. 5, 2015, after winning a national contest for high school students aspiring to become patissiers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Oita ex-principal gets suspended prison term

Oita ex-principal gets suspended prison term

OITA, Japan - Ikumi Asari, a former primary school principal, enters the Oita District Court on Oct. 30. The court found Asari, 53, guilty of bribery and sentenced her to 14 months in prison, suspended for three years. (Kyodo)

Farmer strives to preserve indigenous Japanese horses

Farmer strives to preserve indigenous Japanese horses

Photo taken on May 11, 2018, shows Ikumi Isobe, the owner of the Mikarinonomori farm, riding an indigenous Japanese horse in Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Prosecutors lose appeal in fatal drunken driving case

Prosecutors lose appeal in fatal drunken driving case

TOKYO, Japan - Yasutaka Inoue (R) and his wife Ikumi head for the Tokyo High Court in Tokyo on Jan. 12 to hear the court's ruling on the traffic accident on the Tomei Expressway, which caused the death of their daughters, 3-year-old Kanako and 1-year-old Chikako. The court dismissed the prosecutors' appeal against the leniency of the four-year jail sentence imposed on the drunken driver who caused the accident.