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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko (back) arrives at Lao Friends Hospital for Children in the ancient Lao capital of Luang Prabang during her official trip to Laos on Nov. 20, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko (C) arrives at Lao Friends Hospital for Children in the ancient Lao capital of Luang Prabang during her official trip to Laos on Nov. 20, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko (2nd from R) chats with a patient at Lao Friends Hospital for Children in the ancient Lao capital of Luang Prabang during her official trip to Laos on Nov. 20, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko (front, L) visits Lao Friends Hospital for Children in the ancient Lao capital of Luang Prabang during her official trip to Laos on Nov. 20, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan Princess Aiko in Laos

Japanese Princess Aiko (front, L) visits Lao Friends Hospital for Children in the ancient Lao capital of Luang Prabang during her official trip to Laos on Nov. 20, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Rice for undernourished children in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan, Nov. 14 Kyodo - Young monks at Tokyo's Zojoji temple prepare to send collected rice to undernourished children in the city on Aug. 11, 1930. (Photo by Japan Telegraphic Communication Co.)

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Toyota to sell racing karts to general consumers

Photo taken during a press event at Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Oct. 22, 2025, shows Toyota Motor Corp.'s GR Karts. The Japanese automaker will offer the racing kart model that can be driven by children from fall 2026 with an affordable price below 400,000 yen (about $2,600).

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Toyota to sell racing karts to general consumers

Toyota Motor Corp.'s GR Karts run during a press event at Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Oct. 22, 2025. The Japanese automaker will offer the racing kart model that can be driven by children from fall 2026 with an affordable price below 400,000 yen (about $2,600).

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (far R) and her daughter Princess Kako (2nd from R) visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (far R) and her daughter Princess Kako (2nd from R) visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (R) and her daughter Princess Kako visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (R) and her daughter Princess Kako visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C, R) and her daughter Princess Kako (C, L) visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Crown princess visits welfare facility in western Japan

Japanese Crown Princess Kiko (C, R) and her daughter Princess Kako (C, L) visit a welfare facility for mothers and children on a Seto Inland Sea island in the western Japan prefecture of Kagawa on Oct. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Welfare ministry official acquitted in postal abuse case

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Atsuko Muraki (L), former director general of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry's Equal Employment, Children and Families Bureau, holds a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 10, 2010, with her lawyer Junichiro Hironaka after the Osaka District Court acquitted her of instructing a subordinate to fabricate and issue an official document for an organization in an attempt to abuse a mail discount system for people with disabilities.(Kyodo)

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Stage play on 1944 sinking of Tsushima-maru ship

A stage play depicting the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II is performed at a theater in Naha in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Aug. 16, 2025. The ship, carrying a large number of civilians evacuating from an expected U.S. assault on Okinawa, was sunk on its way to Nagasaki Prefecture, leaving nearly 1,500 people, many of them children, dead.

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Yamagata Hanagasa Festival

YAMAGATA, Japan, Aug. 5 Kyodo - Children dance during the Yamagata Hanagasa Festival in the northeastern Japanese city of Yamagata on Aug. 5, 2015. (Kyodo)

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Court ruling on selective reduction

OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Yahiro Netsu, a medical doctor who runs a maternity clinic in Nagano Prefecture, attends a press conference in Osaka on Jan. 28, 2020, after the Osaka District Court dismissed earlier in the day a damages lawsuit filed by a husband and wife who claimed that errors in selective reduction procedure carried out at an Osaka clinic when the woman was pregnant with quintuplets had led to her miscarriage, leaving her without any children. Netsu, who sides with the couple, calls for the central government to establish legal rules on multiple pregnancy to ensure selective reduction, or the practice of reducing the number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy, is conducted safely.(Kyodo)

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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 5

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River. This video shows a flooded parking lot at Suizenji Ezuko park in Higashi Ward, Kumamoto City.

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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 3

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River.

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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 2

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River.

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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River.

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Japan: Heavy Rains Trigger Severe Flooding, Landslide in Kumamoto 4

Bands of heavy rain lashed Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan from Sunday night, August 10, into Monday, August 11, triggering flash flooding across the region. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the cities of Yatsushiro, Tamana, Kamiamakusa, Uki, and Amakusa, as well as the towns of Nagasu and Hikawa. In Kosa Town, a mother and her two children were rescued after a landslide struck their vehicle. A man who was outside the vehicle remains missing. In Tamana, a resident reported that one person had been swept away in the Sakaigawa River.

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Children attend shogi event in Beijing

Elementary school students from Japan and China take part in a shogi event at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 9, 2025.

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Children attend shogi event in Beijing

Elementary school students from Japan and China take part in a shogi event at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 9, 2025.

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Children attend shogi event in Beijing

Elementary school students from Japan and China take part in a shogi event at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on Aug. 9, 2025.

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[Breaking News]Tenjin festival in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, July 24 Kyodo - Children take part in the "hokonagashi" spear-floating ritual of the annual Tenjin festival in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2025. (Kyodo)

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Tenjin festival in Osaka

Children take part in the "hokonagashi" spear-floating ritual of the annual Tenjin festival in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2025.

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Tenjin festival in Osaka

Children take part in the "hokonagashi" spear-floating ritual of the annual Tenjin festival in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2025.

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Tenjin festival in Osaka

Children take part in the "hokonagashi" spear-floating ritual of the annual Tenjin festival in Osaka, western Japan, on July 24, 2025.

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State visit of Japan's emperor, empress to Mongolia

Children gather at Sukhbaatar Square in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar where a welcoming ceremony is held on July 8, 2025, for Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako on their state visit to the country.

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japanese Princess Kako (C) claps as children dance samba at her welcoming party in Rio de Janeiro on June 13, 2025, hosted by a local association for people of Japanese descent.

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japanese Princess Kako (C) claps as children dance samba at her welcoming party in Rio de Janeiro on June 13, 2025, hosted by a local association for people of Japanese descent.

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako (2nd from R) visits a private school that teaches Japanese culture to children of Japanese descent in Campo Grande during her official trip to Brazil on June 10, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako (2nd from R) visits a private school that teaches Japanese culture to children of Japanese descent in Campo Grande during her official trip to Brazil on June 10, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako visits a private school that teaches Japanese culture to children of Japanese descent in Campo Grande during her official trip to Brazil on June 10, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako visits a private school that teaches Japanese culture to children of Japanese descent in Campo Grande during her official trip to Brazil on June 10, 2025.

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako visits a private school that teaches Japanese culture to children of Japanese descent in Campo Grande during her official trip to Brazil on June 10, 2025.

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Japan's Princess Kako in Brazil

Japan's Princess Kako visits a private school that teaches Japanese culture to children of Japanese descent in Campo Grande during her official trip to Brazil on June 10, 2025.

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[Breaking News]World Exposition in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan, June 5 Kyodo - Video taken on June 5, 2025, shows a water-playing area for children in the Forest of Tranquility at the World Exposition in Osaka. Public access to a pond in the area is currently prohibited following the detection of legionella bacteria 20 times more than the standard. (Kyodo)

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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Okinawa museum for victims of Tsushima-Maru incident

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (C) and their daughter, Princess Aiko, visit the Tsushima-Maru Memorial Museum in Naha in the southern Japan prefecture of Okinawa on June 5, 2025. The museum opened in 2004 in memory of the victims of the August 1944 sinking of the Tsushima-maru civilian ship by a U.S. submarine during World War II, leaving around 1,500 people, many of them children, dead. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Saitama Prefecture

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) visits a special school for intellectually disabled children during a visit to Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 24, 2025, for a tree-planting ceremony the following day. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Saitama Prefecture

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (L) visits a special school for intellectually disabled children during a visit to Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 24, 2025, for a tree-planting ceremony the following day. (Pool photo)

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Emperor visits Saitama Prefecture

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (far L) visits a special school for intellectually disabled children during a visit to Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, eastern Japan, on May 24, 2025, for a tree-planting ceremony the following day. (Pool photo)