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Asian American heritage celebrated in New York

STORY: Asian American heritage celebrated in New York SHOOTING TIME: May 12, 2024 DATELINE: May 14, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:00 LOCATION: NEW YORK, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY/CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event at Flushing Town Hall in New York City 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): CHRISTOPHER MARTE, Member of the New York City Council 3. various of the event at Flushing Town Hall in New York City 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): MA YUNFEI, Director of China National Tourist Office in New York STORYLINE: Asian American heritage was celebrated at Flushing Town Hall in New York City in the form of photo and art exhibition, Asian cuisine tasting as well as cultural performance on Sunday evening. Present at the event were more than 100 guests from various ethnic groups. According to a release by the Sino-American Culture and Arts Foundation, which organized the event, scores of photos showcased cultural and natural heritage sites including China's Yellow Mountain and Dazu Rock Carvings, Japan's Nikko Toshogu Shrine, Malaysia'

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Emperor and empress at Japan's Cosmos Prize ceremony

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a ceremony in Tokyo for the 30th anniversary of the International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Expo '90 Foundation on Nov. 14, 2023.

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Emperor and empress at Japan's Cosmos Prize ceremony

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (L) and Empress Masako (R) attend a ceremony in Tokyo for the 30th anniversary of the International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Expo '90 Foundation on Nov. 14, 2023.

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Emperor at Japan's Cosmos Prize ceremony

Japan's Emperor Naruhito speaks at a ceremony in Tokyo for the 30th anniversary of the International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Expo '90 Foundation on Nov. 14, 2023.

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Emperor at Japan's Cosmos Prize ceremony

Japan's Emperor Naruhito speaks at a ceremony in Tokyo for the 30th anniversary of the International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Expo '90 Foundation on Nov. 14, 2023.

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Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks on Oct. 30, 2023 during a reception for the 3rd Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo, co-hosted by the Japan Coast Guard and the Nippon Foundation. This time, the summit gathered top officers from the coast guards of around 100 countries.

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Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo

Japan's land minister Tetsuo Saito speaks on Oct. 30, 2023 during a reception for the 3rd Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo, co-hosted by the Japan Coast Guard and the Nippon Foundation. This time, the summit gathered top officers from the coast guards of around 100 countries.

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Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front, C) poses for a photo session on Oct. 30, 2023 during a reception for the 3rd Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo, co-hosted by the Japan Coast Guard and the Nippon Foundation. This time, the summit gathered top officers from the coast guards of around 100 countries.

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U.S.-manipulated G7 rips world apart, creates tension

STORY: U.S.-manipulated G7 rips world apart, creates tension DATELINE: May 21, 2023 LENGTH: 0:02:19 LOCATION: HIROSHIMA, Japan CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the G7 Summit 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SAEB RAWASHDEH, Political analyst at Jordan Press Foundation 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): DIAA HELMY, Secretary-general, Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce 4. various of protesters in Hiroshima's Funairi Daiichi Park 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): CODY URBAN, Member of a U.S. anti-war civic group STORYLINE: At the Group of Seven (G7) Summit starting in Japan's western city of Hiroshima Friday, the U.S.-led clique is again hyping up their so-called "law and order," whereas some political observers consider it a scheme to play small-clique politics and dictate to the rest of the world. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SAEB RAWASHDEH, Political analyst at Jordan Press Foundation "This G7 summit in Hiroshima, the aim is not to solve the problems. On the contrary, they want to escalate current tensions. It will bring mor

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French anthropologist Descola wins Japan's Cosmos Prize

TOKYO, Japan - French anthropologist Philippe Descola speaks in an undated interview as a winner of the 2014 International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Foundation for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition for his ethnographic studies in the Amazon region in South America.

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S. Leeper speaks in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - American Steven Leeper, former chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation in Hiroshima, delivers a speech at a meeting against nuclear weapons in Osaka, Japan, on May 17, 2014, emphasizing Japan's role in resolving nuclear weapons issues.

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Japan foundation aid for Myanmar

MAWLAMYINE, Myanmar - Yohei Sasakawa (2nd from L), head of Japan's Nippon Foundation, and Aung Min (4th from L), Myanmar minister at the presidential office, hold aid supplies from the Japanese group in Mawlamyine in Myanmar's southeastern Mon State on Dec. 22, 2012. The Nippon Foundation donated $70,000 in assistance to internally displaced people living in an ethnic group-controlled cease-fire area in Mon State.

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Japan subculture event in India

NEW DELHI, India - Students visit a comic books corner of an event to introduce Japan's comics, animation and other types of subculture in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, near New Delhi, on Sept. 9, 2011. The event was organized by the Tokyo-based Japan Foundation.

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Gifu Symphony Orchestra plays at Viennese Music Association hall

VIENNA, Austria - Japan's Gifu Symphony Orchestra performs at the Viennese Music Association, home of the Vienna Philharmonic, on May 4 in its first overseas concert to mark the 55th anniversary of its foundation. The amateur orchestra from Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, played the ''Nagaragawa,'' a piece named after a river running in the prefecture written by the late Japanese composer Ikuma Dan, and two other European pieces with Japanese conductor Kazuhiko Komatsu.

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100th anniversary of Scouting Movement marked in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R) offers a toast to King Gustav of Sweden (3rd L), the honorary president of the World Scout Foundation, at a banquet held in Tokyo on Oct. 5 to mark the centenary of the Scouting Movement. Members of the Japanese imperial family have been active in Japan's scouting events ever since Emperor Akihito's father, the late Emperor Hirohito, met with Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting Movement, in England while he was crown prince. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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3 European scientists get awards from Japan's science foundation

TOKYO, Japan - (From left to right) Peter Grunberg from Germany, Albert Fert from France and Peter Ashton from Britain who were named by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan on Jan. 11 the winners of the government-backed Japan Prize for their scientific achievements. The ceremony to award them the prize will take place in Tokyo April 19.

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Replica of medieval Noh costume unveiled to media

KYOTO, Japan - Unveiled to the media at a news conference in Kyoto on July 23 is a replica of the gorgeous Noh costume worn by Japan's medieval warlord Maeda Toshiie (1538-99). It took eight months for a Kyoto-based nonprofit organization devoted to promotion of kimono to complete the precise copy of the original costume which is kept at a Tokyo foundation.

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Tokinoya named envoy to Thailand, Konishi to Malaysia

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Foreign Ministry named on Nov. 13 Atsushi Tokinoya (L), ambassador in charge of inspection, as ambassador to Thailand, Masaki Konishi (C), former Japan Foundation executive, as top envoy to Malaysia, and Yukio Takasu (R), former ambassador to the United Nations, as ambassador to Japan's permanent mission for international organizations in Vienna.

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Mayuzumi died

Toshiro MAYUZUMI (1929-1997), composer, is responsible for introducing electronic musin to Japan and his XYZ (1953) was the first Japanese work composed in the manner of musique concrete. Influenced by Buddhism and Asian cultures, in 1958 he composed the symphony ""Nehan "" (Nirvana) and in 1963 the cantata ""Keka"" (Repentance). In 1976 he composed an opera based on Mishima Yukio's novel ""Kinkakuji"" that was first performed by the Berlin Opera. Mayuzumi was also politically oriented, denying, like some right-wing Japanese politicians, Japan's wartime aggression. (Picture was taken in February 11, 1989 at ""Ceremony or Japanese National Foundation"".)

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Japan's special envoy for national reconciliation in Myanmar

Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the philanthropic Nippon Foundation and Japan's special envoy for national reconciliation in Myanmar, gives an interview in Yangon on Nov. 18, 2021.

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Tokinoya named envoy to Thailand, Konishi to Malaysia

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Foreign Ministry named on Nov. 13 Atsushi Tokinoya (L), ambassador in charge of inspection, as ambassador to Thailand, Masaki Konishi (C), former Japan Foundation executive, as top envoy to Malaysia, and Yukio Takasu (R), former ambassador to the United Nations, as ambassador to Japan's permanent mission for international organizations in Vienna.

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3 European scientists get awards from Japan's science foundation

TOKYO, Japan - (From left to right) Peter Grunberg from Germany, Albert Fert from France and Peter Ashton from Britain who were named by the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan on Jan. 11 the winners of the government-backed Japan Prize for their scientific achievements. The ceremony to award them the prize will take place in Tokyo April 19. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean activists formally launch rival "comfort women" foundation

Former "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels attend the first general meeting of The Foundation for Justice and Remembrance for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery, a foundation launched by a South Korean civic group supporting former comfort women, alongside members of the group in Seoul on June 9, 2016. The foundation emerged as a rival of one to be launched under the terms of a landmark deal reached between Japan and South Korea in 2015, as the group slammed the agreement, saying the deal does not reflect the victims' opinions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to return preserved cultural assets to Afghanistan

Ryohei Miyata (L), head of Japan's Foundation for Cultural Heritage and Art Research, and Ahmad Bashir Ghafoori, first secretary at the Afghan Embassy in Japan, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 5, 2015. Miyata said that the foundation will return 102 cultural properties it has preserved to Afghanistan in 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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IPC head talks up Japan's medal hopes, calm on Tokyo 2020 review

Philip Craven, president of the International Paralympic Committee, holds an interview with Kyodo News in Vatican City on Oct. 6, 2016. Craven spoke encouragingly of Japan's medal hopes in four years' time in Tokyo, saying the team's Rio effort was a good foundation to work on -- despite the lack of a single gold medal. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lost cranes find sanctuary in Taiwan, Japan

Tomihiro Kuroda (L) and his son, Shin, attend a meeting organized by Taiwan's Ecological Engineering Development Foundation to share information and coordinate conservation efforts in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Jan. 21, 2016. A lost Siberian crane flew to his farm in Japan's Shimane Prefecture in 2014 and left about a year later. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Gifu Symphony Orchestra plays at Viennese Music Association hall

VIENNA, Austria - Japan's Gifu Symphony Orchestra performs at the Viennese Music Association, home of the Vienna Philharmonic, on May 4 in its first overseas concert to mark the 55th anniversary of its foundation. The amateur orchestra from Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, played the ''Nagaragawa,'' a piece named after a river running in the prefecture written by the late Japanese composer Ikuma Dan, and two other European pieces with Japanese conductor Kazuhiko Komatsu. (Kyodo)

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100th anniversary of Scouting Movement marked in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (R) offers a toast to King Gustav of Sweden (3rd L), the honorary president of the World Scout Foundation, at a banquet held in Tokyo on Oct. 5 to mark the centenary of the Scouting Movement. Members of the Japanese imperial family have been active in Japan's scouting events ever since Emperor Akihito's father, the late Emperor Hirohito, met with Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting Movement, in England while he was crown prince. (Pool photo by Kyodo News) (Kyodo)

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Replica of medieval Noh costume unveiled to media

KYOTO, Japan - Unveiled to the media at a news conference in Kyoto on July 23 is a replica of the gorgeous Noh costume worn by Japan's medieval warlord Maeda Toshiie (1538-99). It took eight months for a Kyoto-based nonprofit organization devoted to promotion of kimono to complete the precise copy of the original costume which is kept at a Tokyo foundation.

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Japan subculture event in India

NEW DELHI, India - Students visit a comic books corner of an event to introduce Japan's comics, animation and other types of subculture in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, near New Delhi, on Sept. 9, 2011. The event was organized by the Tokyo-based Japan Foundation. (Kyodo)

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French anthropologist Descola wins Japan's Cosmos Prize

TOKYO, Japan - French anthropologist Philippe Descola speaks in an undated interview as a winner of the 2014 International Cosmos Prize sponsored by Japan's Foundation for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition for his ethnographic studies in the Amazon region in South America. (Kyodo)

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Civic group seeks apology, compensation for ex-comfort women

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Protestors demand outside Japan's de facto embassy in Taipei, Taiwan, on Aug. 14, 2014, that the Japanese government apologize and compensate former "comfort women" forced into wartime sexual servitude. Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation organized the protest to mark International Comfort Women Memorial Day. (Kyodo)

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Temporary housing for refugees in Myanmar's Kachin State

Photo taken July 15, 2019, shows temporary housing built by Japan's Nippon Foundation in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, Myanmar, for people who have been displaced following fighting between Myanmar government forces and the insurgent Kachin Independence Army over the control of resources. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Temporary housing for refugees in Myanmar's Kachin State

Photo taken July 15, 2019, shows temporary housing built by Japan's Nippon Foundation in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, Myanmar, for people who have been displaced following fighting between Myanmar government forces and the insurgent Kachin Independence Army over the control of resources. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Peace museum in India's Imphal

Imphal Peace Museum opens in the suburbs of Imphal, northeastern India, on June 22, 2019. The museum, built by Japan's Nippon Foundation, opened in the year marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Imphal, one of the fiercest World War II battles. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Peace museum in India's Imphal

Imphal Peace Museum opens in the suburbs of Imphal, northeastern India, on June 22, 2019. The museum, built by Japan's Nippon Foundation, opened in the year marking the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Imphal, one of the fiercest World War II battles. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Plastic waste in Japan

File photo taken April 10, 2017, shows plastic bottles piled up at a collection facility in Tokyo. Japan's exports of plastic waste in 2018 decreased by 30 percent from the previous year following China's crackdown on waste imports, according to analysis by the Japanese research foundation Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Maritime aid projects in Palau

Palau President Tommy Remengesau (C) and Mitsuyuki Unno (3rd from R), executive director of Nippon Foundation, attend a handover ceremony at Palau's Bureau of Maritime Security compound on Feb. 13, 2018. Japan's Nippon Foundation and Sasakawa Peace Foundation formally turned over a maritime administrative building, a 40-meter patrol vessel and three smaller patrol boats to Palau. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Maritime aid projects in Palau

Photo taken Feb. 13, 2018, in Koror, Palau, shows a 40-meter patrol vessel that Japan's Nippon Foundation and Sasakawa Peace Foundation formally turned over, along with a maritime administrative building and three smaller patrol boats, to Palau. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Kono plans to celebrate China's foundation day at embassy

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (L) and Chinese Ambassador to Japan Cheng Yonghua shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 25, 2017. Kono said he is planning to attend a ceremony to celebrate China's founding day to be held at the country's embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 28, expressing his eagerness to improve ties between the two nations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyoto committee submits proposal to restore Nijo Castle

Photo taken Sept. 14, 2016, in Japan's former capital Kyoto shows the foundation stones of the main keep of Nijo Castle, a UNESCO world heritage site. An expert panel submitted a proposal to Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa on Sept. 16 detailing plans to restore the castle's main keep, among other improvements. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's HAKUTO unveils new moon rover for Google Lunar XPrize

A new model of the lightweight moon rover developed by Japan's Team HAKUTO for the Google Lunar XPrize competition is unveiled to the media in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2016. The new model is 58 centimeters in depth, 54 centimeters in width and 36 centimeters in height and weighs four kilograms lighter than the former model. It is equipped with four cameras with a 360-degree view. The Google Lunar XPrize was created in 2007 by the U.S. nonprofit X Prize Foundation to spark the growth of the space industry. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's HAKUTO unveils new moon rover for Google Lunar XPrize

A new model of the lightweight moon rover developed by Japan's Team HAKUTO for the Google Lunar XPrize competition is unveiled to the media in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2016. The new model is 58 centimeters in depth, 54 centimeters in width and 36 centimeters in height and weighs four kilograms lighter than the former model. It is equipped with four cameras with a 360-degree view. The Google Lunar XPrize was created in 2007 by the U.S. nonprofit X Prize Foundation to spark the growth of the space industry. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest over planned establishment of "comfort women" foundation

A group of South Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels hold a press conference in Seoul on July 25, 2016, in response to the Japanese and South Korean governments' affirmation the same day that they will move towards implementing a landmark deal over the "comfort women." The group criticized the planned establishment of a foundation to help the aging women that is part of the bilateral deal, saying it goes against the victims' wishes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Protest over planned establishment of "comfort women" foundation

A group of South Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels hold a press conference in Seoul on July 25, 2016, in response to the Japanese and South Korean governments' affirmation the same day that they will move towards implementing a landmark deal over the "comfort women." The group criticized the planned establishment of a foundation to help the aging women that is part of the bilateral deal, saying it goes against the victims' wishes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo