Handicapped teenager emerges as genius artist

Handicapped teenager emerges as genius artist

FUKUOKA, Japan - Tsuyoshi Kakeya uses his knuckles to play ''Kira Kira Boshi'' (Twinkle, twinkle, little star) at his home in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.

Handicapped teenager emerges as genius artist

Handicapped teenager emerges as genius artist

FUKUOKA, Japan - Tsuyoshi Kakeya, a 14-year-old genius artist despite visual and mental impairments, plays an electronic organ at his home in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture.

4,000 attend funeral for former Prime Minister Takeshita

4,000 attend funeral for former Prime Minister Takeshita

KAKEYA, Japan - About 4,000 people, including Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley and former South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, attend a funeral for former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a Kakeya municipal gymnasium in his hometown of Kakeya, Shimane Prefecture, on July 29. Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki, who chairs the funeral committee for Takeshita, said in a memorial address, weeping, ''He returned to dust in Shimane at last.''

Handicapped teenager emerges as genius artist

Handicapped teenager emerges as genius artist

FUKUOKA, Japan - Tsuyoshi Kakeya, a 14-year-old genius artist despite visual and mental impairments, plays an electronic organ at his home in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture. (Kyodo)

4,000 attend funeral for former Prime Minister Takeshita

4,000 attend funeral for former Prime Minister Takeshita

KAKEYA, Japan - About 4,000 people, including Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley and former South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, attend a funeral for former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a Kakeya municipal gymnasium in his hometown of Kakeya, Shimane Prefecture, on July 29. Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki, who chairs the funeral committee for Takeshita, said in a memorial address, weeping, ''He returned to dust in Shimane at last.''