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Retired shogi player Hifumi Kato dies at 86

Retired pro shogi player Hifumi Kato (R) chats with young player Sota Fujii in Tokyo in November 2018. The former holder of the most prestigious Meijin title, Kato died of pneumonia on Jan. 22, 2026, aged 86. He had held the record for becoming the youngest pro shogi player at 14 years and seven months in 1954 until Fujii broke it at 14 years and two months in 2016, while he played to the age of 77 years and five months, the oldest on record.

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Retired shogi player Hifumi Kato dies at 86

Retiring pro shogi player Hifumi Kato waves after his retirement press conference in Tokyo in June 2017. The former holder of the most prestigious Meijin title, Kato died of pneumonia on Jan. 22, 2026, aged 86. He had held the record for becoming the youngest pro shogi player at 14 years and seven months in 1954 until Sota Fujii broke it at 14 years and two months in 2016, while he played to the age of 77 years and five months, the oldest on record.

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Retired shogi player Hifumi Kato dies at 86

Retired pro shogi player Hifumi Kato gives an interview in Tokyo in November 2018. The former holder of the most prestigious Meijin title, Kato died of pneumonia on Jan. 22, 2026, aged 86. He had held the record for becoming the youngest pro shogi player at 14 years and seven months in 1954 until Sota Fujii broke it at 14 years and two months in 2016, while he played to the age of 77 years and five months, the oldest on record.

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Retired shogi player Hifumi Kato dies at 86

Pro shogi player Hifumi Kato (R) reviews his match against debutant Sota Fujii after being beaten by him in Tokyo in December 2016. The former holder of the most prestigious Meijin title, Kato died of pneumonia on Jan. 22, 2026, aged 86. He had held the record for becoming the youngest pro shogi player at 14 years and seven months in 1954 until Fujii broke it at 14 years and two months in 2016, while he played to the age of 77 years and five months, the oldest on record.

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US: Brush Fire Erupts In Del Mar Heights, San Diego 3

A brush fire erupted in the Del Mar Heights neighborhood in San Diego on Tuesday morning, June 25. The fire near Mira Montana Drive off Del Mar Heights Road prompted the mandatory evacuation of 2,500 residents from the area. The fire's forward progress was stopped by about 5:30 p.m. and all evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted by 7:20 p.m.

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Horses run on snow-covered field for winter exercise

SAPPORO, Jan. 14 Kyodo - A herd of horses, including pregnant mares, runs on a snow-covered field at Tokachi station of the National Livestock Breeding Center in the town of Otofuke, Hokkaido, on Jan. 14, 2016, to maintain health and ease giving birth. A total of 120 horses, including 60 pregnant mares, ran around the 800-meter oval field in four groups for winter exercise.

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Japan prime minister in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Jan. 14, 2014. He announced fresh support for Africa, including the doubling of Japan's low-interest loans for development over a five-year period through 2016.

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Japan prime minister in Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Jan. 14, 2014. He announced fresh support for Africa, including the doubling of Japan's low-interest loans for development over a five-year period through 2016. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Suit filed to seek suspension of old reactors

File photo taken Jan. 12, 2016, shows Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Takahama nuclear power plant on the Sea of Japan coast. A lawsuit was filed on April 14, 2016, demanding the plant's Nos. 1 and 2 reactors (rear) not be operated as more than 40 years have passed since the start of their operations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Zhang keeps surprise Aussie Open run going

China's Zhang Shuai pumps her fist after winning a point on her way to a come-from-behind victory over Madison Keys of the United States in the fourth round of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2016. Zhang had a 0-14 record at Grand Slam tournaments until 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Zhang keeps surprise Aussie Open run going

China's Zhang Shuai hits a backhand in her fourth-round match against Madison Keys of the United States at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Jan. 25, 2016. Zhang, who had a 0-14 record at Gland Slam tournaments until 2015, won 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kotoshogiku becomes Japan's 1st champion in decade at New Year sumo

Ozeki Kotoshogiku (L) receives the Emperor's Cup from Hakkaku, chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, after winning the 15-day New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Jan. 24, 2016, with a 14-1 record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kotoshogiku becomes Japan's 1st champion in decade at New Year sumo

Ozeki Kotoshogiku (R) waves in front of Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Jan. 24, 2016, as he leaves for a car parade to mark his victory in the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament. Kotoshogiku became the first homegrown wrestler to claim an Emperor's Cup since 2006 after ending the 15-day tournament with a 14-1 record. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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17 states seek to prevent nuke proliferation after N. Korea test

Kazutoshi Aikawa (C in front row), director general of the Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department at the Japanese Foreign Ministry, speaks at the outset of a meeting in Tokyo between senior officials from Japan, the United States, Canada and 14 other Asia-Pacific nations on Jan. 20, 2016. They discussed export controls and other measures to effectively prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons in the wake of North Korea's recent nuclear test. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Valentine's Day campaign under way in Japan

Shoppers crowd the Valentine's Day chocolate section of the JR Nagoya Takashimaya department store in central Japan on Jan. 20, 2016. Valentine's Day is celebrated in a unique way in Japan, with women giving chocolates to men on Feb. 14. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima youth drum group to give performance in U.S.

Members of the Yamakiya Drum group practice in the northeastern Japan town of Kawamata on Jan. 14, 2016, ahead of a planned performance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on March 22. Comprised of youth from the town's Yamakiya district, an evacuation zone from the 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant, the group sees the upcoming performance as an opportunity to promote the art of Japanese drums while reporting the current situation in Fukushima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima youth drum group to give performance in U.S.

Members of the Yamakiya Drum group practice in the northeastern Japan town of Kawamata on Jan. 14, 2016, ahead of a planned performance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on March 22. Comprised of youth from the town's Yamakiya district, an evacuation zone from the 2011 nuclear accident at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi plant, the group sees the upcoming performance as an opportunity to promote the art of Japanese drums while reporting the current situation in Fukushima. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indonesians share message of "We are not afraid"

Pedestrians and motorcycles crowd a street near the scene of the Jan. 14 terrorist attacks in central Jakarta on Jan. 17, 2016. Indonesians have taken to social media sharing a defiant message: "We are not afraid." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Operator of crashed bus provided service at price below legal limit

Misaku Takahashi, president of ESP, speaks to reporters in the city of Hamura, Tokyo, on Jan. 17, 2016, after a chartered ski bus operated by the company crashed in the town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, on Jan. 15, killing 14 people. Takahashi said the company will stop operating large buses. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan face off against Thailand

Yuta Toyokawa (14) of Japan's Under-23 team rushes forward with the ball during the first half of a U-23 Asian Championship match against Thailand in Doha on Jan. 16, 2016. The championship doubles as the Rio 2016 Olympic qualifying tournament for Asia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bus operator chief apologizes for fatal accident

Misaku Takahashi (C), president of bus operator ESP, bows in apology during a press conference in Hamura in suburban Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2016, as one of his tour buses crashed the previous day, killing 14 people. "We apologize for having caused a serious accident," Takahashi said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transport minister inspects tour bus involved in deadly accident

Transport minister Keiichi Ishii (L on front) inspects on Jan. 16, 2016, at Karuizawa Police Station in the central Japan town of Karuizawa the mangled bus, which crashed the previous day, killing 14 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Bus operator chief apologizes for fatal accident

Misaku Takahashi (C), president of bus operator ESP, kneels down on the ground in apology during a press conference in Hamura in suburban Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2016, as one of his tour buses crashed the previous day, killing 14 people. "We apologize for having caused a serious accident," Takahashi said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police confiscate documents from bus operator

Investigators confiscate documents on Jan. 16, 2016, at the Tokyo office of ESP, the operator of a ski tour bus which crashed, killing 14 people the previous day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead, 27 injured in ski tour bus accident

Japanese transport ministry officials put their hands together for the victims of a tour bus accident at the scene in Karuizawa, central Japan, on Jan. 15, 2016. The bus bound for a ski resort veered off a road and rolled over in the early hours of that day, leaving 14 people dead and 27 injured. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead, 27 injured in ski tour bus accident

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 15, 2016, in Karuizawa, central Japan, shows a ski tour bus that veered off a road being towed from the scene of the accident. The accident involving the bus carrying 41 people bound for a ski resort left 14 people dead and 27 injured. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead, 27 injured in ski tour bus accident

Transport ministry officials enter a building in Tokyo, which houses the office of ESP, the operator of a ski tour bus that veered off a road in Karuizawa, central Japan, on Jan. 15, 2016. The accident left 14 people dead and 27 injured. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead, 27 injured in ski tour bus accident

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 15, 2016, shows an overturned tour bus after being lifted onto a road in Karuizawa, central Japan. The bus carrying 41 people bound for a ski resort veered off the road earlier that day, killing 14 people and injuring 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead, 27 injured in ski tour bus accident

Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Jan. 15, 2016, shows an overturned tour bus after being lifted onto a road in Karuizawa, central Japan. The bus carrying 41 people bound for a ski resort veered off the road earlier that day, killing 14 people and injuring 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead, 27 injured in ski tour bus accident

A passenger (front R) who was rescued from a ski tour bus that veered off a road in Karuizawa, central Japan, on Jan. 15, 2016, talks about the accident at a hospital in Nagano Prefecture the same day. The accident involving the bus carrying 41 people bound for a ski resort left 14 people dead and 27 injured. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ishikawa ties for 32nd after Sony Open 1st round

Ryo Ishikawa of Japan tees off on the opening hole of the first round of the Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club in Honolulu on Jan. 14, 2016. Ishikawa tied for 32nd place after the first round with a 3-under-par 67. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead, 27 injured in ski tour bus accident

Japanese transport minister Keiichi Ishii stands to speak in a meeting in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2016, after 14 people died and 27 were injured in a tour bus crash in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture earlier in the day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Toy poodle becomes police dog in Japan's Ibaraki Pref.

Photo taken in Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture on Jan. 14, 2016, shows "Anzu", a 3-year-old new police dog, and trainer Hirofusa Suzuki. The toy poodle, who escaped culling after she was abandoned by her owner when she was still a newborn, passed the exams in 2015 to become a police dog for Ibaraki prefectural police. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese organizing icon hits No. 1 on USA Today's books list

Undated photo shows Japanese author Marie Kondo, known for her widely popular de-cluttering book. "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing" has reached the top of USA Today's best-selling books list for the first time ever, the newspaper said on Jan. 14, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead in ski tour bus accident

Mankichi Fukuda (L), president of Keyth Tour, meets with reporters at his company office in Tokyo on Jan 15, 2016, after a bus from a ski tour organized by the travel agency was in an accident earlier that day in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. The bus carrying 41 people veered off a road in the central Japan city, leaving 14 people dead and 27 injured. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead in ski tour bus accident

Photo taken Jan. 15, 2016, shows a tour bus with 41 people bound for a ski resort that veered off a road in Karuizawa town in the central Japan prefecture of Nagano earlier that day. The accident left 14 people dead and 27 injured. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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14 people dead in ski tour bus accident

Police officers investigate the spot where a tour bus with 41 people bound for a ski resort veered off a road in Karuizawa town in the central Japan prefecture of Nagano on Jan. 15, 2016. The accident left 14 people dead and 27 injured. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hank Aaron receives Japanese decoration

Japanese Consul General Takashi Shinozuka (L) and retired American baseball player Hank Aaron are pictured after a ceremony to confer the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette on Aaron at Shinozuka's official residence in Atlanta on Jan. 14, 2016. Aaron, 81, still in second place for most MLB career home runs with 755, was awarded for his contributions to exchanges between Japanese and American youth through baseball. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hank Aaron receives Japanese decoration

Retired American baseball player Hank Aaron speaks after receiving the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, at the official residence of the Japanese consul general in Atlanta on Jan. 14, 2016. Aaron, 81, still in second place for most MLB career home runs with 755, was awarded for his contributions to exchanges between Japanese and American youth through baseball. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Life-size dinosaur model lifted by crane

A life-size model of a dinosaur is lifted by a crane in front of JR Fukui Station in central Japan on the night of Jan. 14, 2016 as the station began renovating its west-exit plaza where three dinosaur models were located. Dinosaur fossils have been unearthed in the prefecture of Fukui, also home to a major dinosaur museum. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel urges lower house seat cut, method to limit vote weight disparity

House of Representatives Speaker Tadamori Oshima (R) receives a proposal on electoral reform from Takeshi Sasaki, head of a panel concerning the issue, at the parliament building in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2016. The panel proposed cutting 10 seats in the chamber and adopting a new method for the allocation of seats to each prefecture in order to address vote weight disparities among single-seat electoral districts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kakuryu suffers 2nd loss at New Year sumo tournament

Yokozuna (grand champion) Kakuryu of Mongolia is pulled down by komusubi Ikioi at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Rogoku Kokugikan on Jan. 14, 2016, day five of the 15-day event, suffering his second loss. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyary Pamyu Pamyu helps launch USJ limited-period event

Singer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (C), the special ambassador for Universal Studio Japan's limited-period event "Universal Cool Japan 2016," attends its opening ceremony in Osaka, western Japan, on Jan. 14, 2016. With attractions featuring popular Japanese animation series and games, the event in its second year will also launch a new Kyary Pamyu Pamyu-themed attraction that heavily utilizes visual effects and highlights the "cuteness" prevalent in the singer's work. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hakuho marches on at New Year sumo tournament

Yokozuna (grand champion) Hakuho of Mongolia throws down No. 2 maegashira Aoiyama of Bulgaria on the fifth day of the 15-day New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Jan. 14, 2016, remaining unbeaten. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nishikori seeded 7th for Australian Open

Kei Nishikori of Japan practices in Melbourne on Jan. 14, 2016, for the Australian Open tennis tournament scheduled to start on Jan. 18 as his coach Michael Chang looks on. Nishikori is seeded seventh at the tournament. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea, China officials meet to discuss N. Korea's nuke test

Hwang Joon Kook, South Korea's special envoy for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing on Jan. 14, 2016, for talks with Wu Dawei, China's special representative for Korean Peninsula affairs, about North Korea's nuclear test on Jan. 6. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Returning Kakitani looking ahead to new season with Cerezo

Japanese forward Yoichiro Kakitani kicks off his preseason training in Osaka on Jan. 14, 2016. He has rejoined J-League second-division side Cerezo Osaka from Basel on a full transfer. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan average gasoline price falls to multiyear low

A display at a gas station in Osaka shows regular gasoline being priced at 104 yen per liter on Jan. 14, 2016. The retail price of regular gasoline in Japan has dropped below 119 yen for the first time since May 2009 amid falling global crude oil prices, the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo stocks tumble on global economic concerns, overseas equities

An electronic board at a securities company in central Tokyo shows the key Nikkei Stock Average at the Tokyo Stock Exchange plunging 474.68 points to close at 17,240.95 on Jan. 14, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP lawmaker says comfort women were "prostitutes"

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Yoshitaka Sakurada leaves without a word after a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2016. Sakurada called women forced into wartime Japanese military brothels "prostitutes," but retracted his remarks after they drew a swift rebuke from South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo