Fukuma loses by default in shogi title series

Fukuma loses by default in shogi title series

Combined photo taken on Sept. 8, 2024, and in July 2022, respectively, shows professional shogi players in the women's category Tomoka Nishiyama (L) and Kana Fukuma. Nishiyama defended her Osho women's title as her competitor Fukuma withdrew from the third match of a best-of-three series due to ill health on Oct. 29, 2024. Fukuma earlier said she would be sidelined from competition between Nov. 17, 2024, and Feb. 12, 2025, due to pregnancy.

Japan PM Kishida on Abe's state funeral

Japan PM Kishida on Abe's state funeral

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C, facing camera) speaks in a parliamentary session in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2022, held to debate the Sept. 27 state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot while making an election campaign speech in early July.

Japan PM Kishida on Abe's state funeral

Japan PM Kishida on Abe's state funeral

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks in a parliamentary session in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2022, held to debate the Sept. 27 state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot while making an election campaign speech in early July.

Japan PM Kishida on Abe's state funeral

Japan PM Kishida on Abe's state funeral

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (forefront, facing camera) speaks in a parliamentary session in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2022, held to debate the Sept. 27 state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot while making an election campaign speech in early July.

Japan PM Kishida on Abe's state funeral

Japan PM Kishida on Abe's state funeral

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks in a parliamentary session in Tokyo on Sept. 8, 2022, held to debate the Sept. 27 state funeral for former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot while making an election campaign speech in early July.

1 month after ex-Japan PM Abe's assassination

1 month after ex-Japan PM Abe's assassination

People walk on Aug. 8, 2022, near the location of the July 8 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Nara, western Japan. Abe was killed while campaigning for an upper house election.

1 month after ex-Japan PM Abe's assassination

1 month after ex-Japan PM Abe's assassination

A woman prays on Aug. 8, 2022, near the location of the July 8 assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Nara, western Japan. Abe was killed while campaigning for an upper house election.

Assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara executed

Assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara executed

Japanese Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 26, 2022, after a man was executed earlier in the day over a 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district. On June 8, 2008, the man ran down pedestrians with a truck, killing three people, before fatally stabbing four others with a dagger after exiting the vehicle.

Ex-Japan PM Abe shot by person with shotgun

Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter in Nara, western Japan, on July 8, 2022, shows an area near the location where former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot from behind earlier in the day by a man wielding a shotgun. Video taken July 8, 2022, shows Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, western Japan, where former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was taken after being shot in Nara while delivering a stump speech for the July 10 House of Councillors election.