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Japanese expert advises Palau on recycling program

Katsuo Fuji (L), a Japanese environmental recycling expert, poses at a recycling plant in Koror, Palau, as seen in this file photo taken on Aug. 2, 2014. Under Japan's public-private support program, Fuji gives advice to the management of the plant, which recycles more than 95 percent of all plastic bottles and other packages sold in the South Pacific island republic's largest city.

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Pet pig walking

KOCHI, Japan - Pet pig Katsuo walks along the Kagami River in the city of Kochi, western Japan, on Oct. 25, 2012. The male pig that was bought from a breeder about two years ago and has grown to around 100 kilograms is taken to walk several times a day.

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Champion boxers, supporters file pleas for death-row convict

TOKYO, Japan - Former world junior middleweight champion Koichi Wajima (L) and former world junior flyweight champion Katsuo Tokashiki (2nd from L), campaign with other supporters for a retrial at the Supreme Court of Iwao Hakamada, a former pro boxer on death row, arguing he was wrongly convicted of killing a family of four in 1966.

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JAL Int'l chief demoted over operational blunders

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines International Co. President Katsuo Haneda (L) will be demoted to vice president to take the blame for a recent series of irregularities involving its airplanes, its holding company said March 17. At right is Japan Airlines Chairman Isao Kaneko, who will hand over the post of chief executive officer to Japan Airlines President Toshiyuki Shinmachi in April, instead of June as earlier announced.

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JAL Vice President Haneda promoted to president

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines System Corp. on March 11 announced the promotion of Japan Airlines (JAL) Vice President Katsuo Haneda (file photo) to JAL president to replace Isao Kaneko. Haneda, 60, has been vice president since June 2002.

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Agriculture co-op affiliate mislabeled chicken

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuo Endo (C), president of Zen-Noh Chicken Foods Corp. and two other company officials bow at a news conference at the company's head office March 4 in Toda, Saitama Prefecture. They apologized for selling seven tons of foreign chicken deliberately labeled as domestic from the latter half of November until mid-December.

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Police carry fallen comrade's coffin

MUTSU, Japan - Police officers carry the coffin of a fellow officer from Mutsu police station, Aomori Prefecture, on June 29. Police Sgt. Katsuo Sato, 52, was stabbed to death June 28 by a motorist whom he had stopped in connection with a larceny report. Police arrested the suspect later the same day.

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JAL Int'l chief demoted over operational blunders

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines International Co. President Katsuo Haneda (L) will be demoted to vice president to take the blame for a recent series of irregularities involving its airplanes, its holding company said March 17. At right is Japan Airlines Chairman Isao Kaneko, who will hand over the post of chief executive officer to Japan Airlines President Toshiyuki Shinmachi in April, instead of June as earlier announced. (Kyodo)

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Police carry fallen comrade's coffin

MUTSU, Japan - Police officers carry the coffin of a fellow officer from Mutsu police station, Aomori Prefecture, on June 29. Police Sgt. Katsuo Sato, 52, was stabbed to death June 28 by a motorist whom he had stopped in connection with a larceny report. Police arrested the suspect later the same day.

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Japanese surrender delegation aboard the USS Missouri

The Japanese surrender delegation aboard the USS Missouri, 31st August 1945. All the US naval personnel are wearing 'Class B' uniforms on purpose. The surrender officially ended World War Two. Standing in front are: Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu (wearing top hat) and General Yoshijiro Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff. Behind them are three representatives each of the Foreign Ministry, the Army and the Navy. They include, in middle row, left to right: Major General Yatsuji Nagai - Army, Katsuo Okazaki - Foreign Ministry, Rear Admiral Tadatoshi Tomioka - Navy, Toshikazu Kase, Foreign Ministry and Lieutenant General Suichi Miyakazi - Army. Date: 1945

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Unique shop in Kanazawa fuses bookstore, art gallery

Owner Katsuo Mizuguchi explains on June 14, 2015, about his new shop "Books under Hotchkiss," which opened in May in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan. The two-story store near the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art is a unique combination of a bookstore and an art gallery. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-medic writes essays on WWII experiences

Katsuo Hongo, 91, recounts his World War II days as a medic in an interview at a nursery home in the northeastern Japanese city of Sendai on July 20, 2015. He has been writing essays on his WWII experiences for nearly 40 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Interrogator of POWs in war against China shows documents

Tetsuji Katsuo shows military documents in Tokyo on June 13, 2015, related to Japanese soldiers caught by China during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War and his interrogation of them after they returned home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tourist experiences bonito cooking in Kagoshima Pref.

A tourist (L) experiences searing bonito in a cooking method known as "katsuo no tataki" (seared bonito), at a fish market in Makurazaki, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, in April 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Champion boxers, supporters file pleas for death-row convict

TOKYO, Japan - Former world junior middleweight champion Koichi Wajima (L) and former world junior flyweight champion Katsuo Tokashiki (2nd from L), campaign with other supporters for a retrial at the Supreme Court of Iwao Hakamada, a former pro boxer on death row, arguing he was wrongly convicted of killing a family of four in 1966. (Kyodo)

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Agriculture co-op affiliate mislabeled chicken

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuo Endo (C), president of Zen-Noh Chicken Foods Corp. and two other company officials bow at a news conference at the company's head office March 4 in Toda, Saitama Prefecture. They apologized for selling seven tons of foreign chicken deliberately labeled as domestic from the latter half of November until mid-December.

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Mother, children reunited with lifesaver

SENDAI, Japan - Teiko Kajiwara (L) is reunited with Akane Takahashi (R back) and her two children -- Ren (R front) and Mei (2nd from L) -- on April 10, 2011, around the same spot in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where Kajiwara and her husband saved them from the March 11 tsunami. Katsuo Kajiwara, Teiko's husband, died after helping them to reach a safe area. (Kyodo)

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Statue of "Sazae-san"

A statue of "Sazae-san" (C), the main character of the Japanese comic strip "Sazae-san," is unveiled to the public on April 24, 2021, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka where its author Machiko Hasegawa (1920-1992) spent her childhood days. The 1.5-meter-high statue was built along with statues of other characters -- "Katsuo" (L) and "Wakame" -- to mark the 100th anniversary last year of the birth of the author, who depicted in the comic series an ordinary Japanese family led by a good-natured mother and wife called Sazae.

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Statue of "Sazae-san"

A statue of "Sazae-san" (C), the main character of the Japanese comic strip "Sazae-san," is unveiled to the public on April 24, 2021, in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka where its author Machiko Hasegawa (1920-1992) spent her childhood days. The 1.5-meter-high statue was built along with statues of other characters -- "Katsuo" (L) and "Wakame" -- to mark the 100th anniversary last year of the birth of the author, who depicted in the comic series an ordinary Japanese family led by a good-natured mother and wife called Sazae.

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JAL Vice President Haneda promoted to president

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Airlines System Corp. on March 11 announced the promotion of Japan Airlines (JAL) Vice President Katsuo Haneda (file photo) to JAL president to replace Isao Kaneko. Haneda, 60, has been vice president since June 2002. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japan approves UNESCO, other envoys

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese government approved Jan. 17 the appointment of Teiichi Sato (L, top) Japan's first ambassador to UNESCO. Toshio Mochizuki (C, top) was appointed ambassador to Greece and Hiroshi Hashimoto (R, top) ambassador to Austria. Other new ambassadors are (from L to R, below) are Kanji Tsushima (Mozambique), Masayuki Makiya (Sudan), and Katsuo Yamashita (Papua New Guinea). (Kyodo)