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STAP cell paper

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Kagaya, spokesman for the state-affiliated Riken institute, holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 11, 2014. The Japanese government said the same day it has urged Riken to thoroughly investigate a research paper on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP.

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STAP cell paper

TOKYO, Japan - Satoru Kagaya, spokesman for the state-affiliated Riken institute, apologizes during a press conference in Tokyo on March 11, 2014. The Japanese government said the same day it has urged Riken to thoroughly investigate a research paper on "stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency," or STAP.

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Student from quake-hit region

GENEVA, Switzerland - Kosuke Kagaya (R), a student at the Miyagi prefectural Sendai Daisan senior high school, is pictured on a snowboarding outing in the Swiss mountain resort village of Verbier on Dec. 24, 2013. Kagaya is spending time in Switzerland until the end of the year on a project started by a Japanese woman living in the country to invite children and students from Japan's Tohoku region hit by the March 2011 disaster to a school in Switzerland.

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Japan inn brings legendary service to Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - This photo taken Dec. 14, 2010, shows the Radium-Kagaya International Hotel in the Beitou hot spa resort in Taipei. The inn, operated by a joint venture of the Kagaya Group of Japan and the Radium Group of Taiwan, has brought Japanese-style hospitality to Taiwan.

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Japan inn brings legendary service to Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The staff of the Radium-Kagaya International Hotel take part in its opening ceremony in the Beitou hot spa resort in Taipei on Dec. 18, 2010. The inn, operated by a joint venture of the Kagaya Group of Japan and the Radium Group of Taiwan, has brought Japanese-style hospitality to Taiwan.

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Man arrested for alleged murder of acting troupe member

Takahiro Tokura (2nd from L) is taken to the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo on March 12, 2016, after being arrested on suspicion of killing Risa Kagaya, a female member of an acting troupe, in August 2015. The 37-year-old has denied the allegation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Riken seeks dismissal of Obokata over STAP cell issue

Satoru Kagaya (front), public relations officer for the Riken research institute, announces punishments for embattled scientist Haruko Obokata and others over their claim to have created "STAP cells" in a press conference at the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2015. Kagaya said Obokata deserves to be sacked for falsifying papers in which she made the claim. Obokata, 31, has already quit the institute, however, so she cannot actually receive any punishment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Riken seeks dismissal of Obokata over STAP cell issue

Satoru Kagaya, public relations officer for the Riken research institute, announces punishments for embattled scientist Haruko Obokata and others over their claim to have created "STAP cells" in a press conference at the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2015. Kagaya said Obokata deserves to be sacked for falsifying papers in which she made the claim. Obokata, 31, has already quit the institute, however, so she cannot actually receive any punishment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan inn brings legendary service to Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - This photo taken Dec. 14, 2010, shows the Radium-Kagaya International Hotel in the Beitou hot spa resort in Taipei. The inn, operated by a joint venture of the Kagaya Group of Japan and the Radium Group of Taiwan, has brought Japanese-style hospitality to Taiwan. (Kyodo)

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Japan inn brings legendary service to Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The staff of the Radium-Kagaya International Hotel take part in its opening ceremony in the Beitou hot spa resort in Taipei on Dec. 18, 2010. The inn, operated by a joint venture of the Kagaya Group of Japan and the Radium Group of Taiwan, has brought Japanese-style hospitality to Taiwan. (Kyodo)