Yokozuna Asashoryu gets peace award in Nagasaki

Yokozuna Asashoryu gets peace award in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Asashoryu (R), the first Mongolian to attain sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, receives a peace award from Katsuichi Fukahori, head of an atomic bombing victims' group, in Nagasaki on Feb. 17 in recognition of his contributions to promoting peace exchanges between Japan and Mongolia through sumo.

Protracted displacement taking toll on Fukushima evacuees

Protracted displacement taking toll on Fukushima evacuees

Katsuichi Inoue (L), an evacuee from the Fukushima nuclear disaster, talks about his life with reconstruction support workers Shuei Ishizawa (C) and Shuichi Sato at his home in Kawaguchi, near Tokyo, on Feb. 16, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court dismisses libel suit over wartime killings of Chinese

Court dismisses libel suit over wartime killings of Chinese

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuichi Honda (L), a journalist who formerly worked for the Asahi Shimbun, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 23 after the Tokyo District Court dismissed a damages suit filed by relatives of two executed Japanese soldiers against him, the Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun over publications that said the two competed against each other to be first to behead 100 Chinese soldiers during wartime in 1937. (Kyodo)

Yokozuna Asashoryu gets peace award in Nagasaki

Yokozuna Asashoryu gets peace award in Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - Asashoryu (R), the first Mongolian to attain sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, receives a peace award from Katsuichi Fukahori, head of an atomic bombing victims' group, in Nagasaki on Feb. 17 in recognition of his contributions to promoting peace exchanges between Japan and Mongolia through sumo. (Kyodo)