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(PARIS2024) FRANCE-SAINT-DENIS-OLY-WATER POLO

(240805) -- SAINT-DENIS, Aug. 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Goalkeeper Tanamura Katsuyuki (L) of Japan celebrates with teammate during the men's water polo preliminary round group B match between Australia and Japan at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis, France, Aug. 5, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Yuguo)

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(PARIS2024) FRANCE-SAINT-DENIS-OLY-WATER POLO

(240805) -- SAINT-DENIS, Aug. 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Goalkeeper Tanamura Katsuyuki of Japan competes during the men's water polo preliminary round group B match between Australia and Japan at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis, France, Aug. 5, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Yuguo)

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(PARIS2024) FRANCE-SAINT-DENIS-OLY-WATER POLO

(240805) -- SAINT-DENIS, Aug. 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Goalkeeper Tanamura Katsuyuki of Japan competes during the men's water polo preliminary round group B match between Australia and Japan at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis, France, Aug. 5, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Yuguo)

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(PARIS2024) FRANCE-SAINT-DENIS-OLY-WATER POLO

(240805) -- SAINT-DENIS, Aug. 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Goalkeeper Tanamura Katsuyuki of Japan competes during the men's water polo preliminary round group B match between Australia and Japan at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Saint-Denis, France, Aug. 5, 2024. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Yuguo)

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Japanese Princess Aiko's trip to visit Ise Jingu shrine

Japanese Princess Aiko is greeted by Mie Gov. Katsuyuki Ichimi upon her arrival at Toba Station in the central Japan prefecture of Mie on March 26, 2024, during her trip to visit Ise Jingu shrine.

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Chinese economy sees hard-won recovery in H1 amid global downturn

STORY: Chinese economy sees hard-won recovery in H1 amid global downturn DATELINE: July 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:11 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the views in China 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): FOO SUAN YONG, Senior economist of ASEAN +3 Macroeconomic Research Office 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ESWAR PRASAD, Professor of trade policy at Cornell University 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): KATSUYUKI HASEGAWA, Professor of international economics and finance at Tokyo Woman's Christian University 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): AMER ZAFAR DURRANI, President of Reenergia, Social impact advisory group in Pakistan 6. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): THANAWAT TIENSIN, Director of Animal Production and Health Division, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 7. SOUNDBITE 6 (English): MICHEL TAUBE, Founder of Opinion-Internationale and its column Les routes de la Chine STORYLINE: International experts have spoken highly of China's economic performance in the first half (H1) of this year. Despite var

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POETTERY THAT CAN’T BE THROWN

POETTERY THAT CAN’T BE THROWN, Giant Vase (Kasama Pottery), Kasama Kikki, Minoru Fukuda, Seito Fukuda, Rokuro, Ceramic Art, Ceramic Art School, Education, Traditional Crafts, Japanese Culture, Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, Katsuyuki Fukuda=Date:1994, Place:Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture,JAPAN

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Judo: World championships

Katsuyuki Masuchi, head coach of Japan women's national judo team, is given a victory toss after Japan became world mixed team champions in Doha, Qatar, on May 14, 2023.

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GSDF members to be dispatched to South Sudan

TOKYO, Japan - Ground Self-Defense Force Capt. Shinji Nakamura (C front) and Takuhiko Hosokawa (R front) take part in a ceremony at the Cabinet Office in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2011, before their dispatch to South Sudan to join a U.N. peacekeeping operation. On the left is Cabinet Office Senior Vice Minister Katsuyuki Ishida.

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Japan doctors ass'n picks pro-DPJ head

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuyuki Haranaka, new chief of the Japan Medical Association, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2010. The head of the Ibaraki Medical Association, a supporter of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, was elected to the post the same day beating the predecessor who backed the opposition Liberal Democratic Party.

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Pro-DPJ candidate beats pro-LDP in doctors group head election

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuyuki Haranaka, head of the Ibaraki Medical Association who supports the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 1, 2010, after being elected as president of the Japan Medical Association. Haranaka beat incumbent president Yoshihito Karasawa supporting the opposition Liberal Democratic Party and Yoichi Mori advocating a politically neutral stance, in the three-man election.

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Mizuho Holdings to reshuffle top management

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiro Yamamoto (2nd from L), chairman of the holding company of the Mizuho Financial Group, the world's largest banking group, attends a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26. He said Mizuho Holdings Inc. will reshuffle its top management next April, and named as its new president Terunobu Maeda, currently vice president of Fuji Bank, to succeed Katsuyuki Sugita.

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Bronze replica of Roman statue unveiled in western Tokyo

TACHIKAWA, Japan - A bronze replica of a statue depicting the legendary twin founders of Rome being nursed by a female wolf is unveiled to the public in a ceremony in Chofu, western Tokyo, on Nov. 13, 2001. The ceremony at Tokyo Stadium was held to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the signing of a friendship agreement between Rome and Tokyo. Italian Ambassador to Japan Gabriele Menegatti and Chofu Mayor Katsuyuki Yoshio attended the ceremony.

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Swallows Dobashi hits RBI infield single against Buffaloes

OSAKA, Japan - Yakult Swallows infielder Katsuyuki Dobashi hits an RBI infield single off Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes starter Hisashi Iwakuma in the second inning of Game Two of the best-of-seven Japan Series at Osaka Dome on Oct. 21.

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Dobashi hits game-tying single

TOKYO, Japan - Yakult Swallows infielder Katsuyuki Dobashi hits a game-tying single to right field with two bases loaded with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning against the Hanshin Tigers at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo on Aug. 23.

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Mega banking group Mizuho inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - A tape is cut Sept. 29 to inaugurate a joint holding company, Mizuho Holdings Inc., the product of the integration of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. The union creates the world's biggest banking group in terms of assets. (From L to R) Yoshiro Yamamoto, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Katsuyuki Sugita, president and co-CEO, and Masao Nishimura, chairman and CEO. The operations of the three banks will be fully integrated in April 2002.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ name joint holding firm Mizuho Holdings

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiro Yamamoto (L), president of Fuji Bank, Katsuyuki Sugita (C), president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), and Masao Nishimura (R), president of the Industrial Bank of Japan, shake hands at the DKB headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 22 after announcing their decision to name the joint holding company they plan to create next year Mizuho Holdings Inc. The name ''Mizuho,'' which means ''fresh ears of rice'' in Japanese, was chosen in consultation with an advertising agency because it is used in a special appellation for Japan, ''Mizuho no Kuni'' (Land of Golden Ears of Rice), according to bank officials.

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DKB, Fuji, IBJ announce joint holding company

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Katsuyuki Sugita, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Masao Nishimura, president of the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ), and Yoshiro Yamamoto, president of Fuji Bank, speak at a news conference in a Tokyo hotel Aug. 20 on their agreement on a wide-ranging business alliance that would create the world's biggest banking group with some 141 trillion yen (about 1.27 trillion dollars) in combined assets.

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Young couple tie knot in boat in old-fashioned ceremony

Katsuyuki Ikeda, 26, (L) and Kazuyo Kuboki, 28, (R) tie the knot aboard a boat surrounded by irises in a revival of a local wedding tradition June 5 at the botanical gardens in Sawara, Chiba Prefecture. The bride and groom's first names are written on lanterns in the background.

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Sugita named chairman of bankers' group

Katsuyuki Sugita, president of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, meets the press in Tokyo on April 20 after being named chairman of the newly organized Japanese Bankers Association. The group, previously the Federation of Bankers Associations of Japan, was renamed as a result of organizational changes, including acceptance of foreign members for the first time.

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Judo: World championships

Katsuyuki Masuchi (L), head coach of the women's national team, and Keiji Suzuki, head coach of the men's team, shake hands after Japan won their fifth straight mixed team gold medal at the judo world championships on Oct. 13, 2022, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Katsuyuki Nakasuga (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) poses after winning Race 1 of the JSB1000 class Superbike Race in Motegi, Round 1 of the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

From left, #15 Kazuki Watanabe (YOSHIMURA SUZUKI RIDEWIN), #1 Katsuyuki Nakasuga (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM), #2 Sodo Hamahara (Honda Dream RT SAKURAI HONDA), and #15 Kazuki Watanabe (YOSHIMURA SUZUKI RIDEWIN) finished on the podium in Race 1 in the JSB1000 class at the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series Round 1 Superbike Race in Motegi.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Katsuyuki Nakasuga (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) wins Race 1 in the JSB1000 class at the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series Round 1 Superbike Race in Motegi,Tochigi prefecture,Japan.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Katsuyuki Nakasuga (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) wins Race 1 in the JSB1000 class at the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series Round 1 Superbike Race in Motegi.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Katsuyuki Nakasuga#1 (left) (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) and team manager Wataru Yoshikawa (center), and Yuki Okamoto (right) (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM 2)#29, who finished 2nd, won Race 2 in the JSB1000 class at Superbike Race in Motegi,Tochigi prefecture,Japan, Round 1 of the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Katsuyuki Nakasuga (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) wins Race 1 in the JSB1000 class at the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series Round 1 Superbike Race in Motegi.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Katsuyuki Nakasuga (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) wins Race 2 in the JSB1000 class of the Superbike Race in Motegi,Tochigi prefecture,Japan, the first round of the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Katsuyuki Nakasuga (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) won the JSB1000 class, Race 2 of the Superbike Race in Motegi,Tochigi prefecture,Japan, the first round of the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series.

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ALL JAPAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIP

Katsuyuki Nakasuga (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM) #1 and Yuki Okamoto (YAMAHA FACTORY RACING TEAM2) #29 win Race 2 in the JSB1000 class of the Superbike Race in Motegi,Tochigi prefecture,Japan, the first round of the MFJ All Japan Road Race Championship Series, and finish in 2nd place.

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Japan PM Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds talks with Mie Gov. Katsuyuki Ichimi and Nara Gov. Shogo Arai in the Mie Prefecture capital Tsu on June 17, 2022, about the Linear Chuo Shinkansen, a planned maglev bullet train line that will link Tokyo and Osaka.

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Bronze replica of Roman statue unveiled in western Tokyo

TACHIKAWA, Japan - A bronze replica of a statue depicting the legendary twin founders of Rome being nursed by a female wolf is unveiled to the public in a ceremony in Chofu, western Tokyo, on Nov. 13, 2001. The ceremony at Tokyo Stadium was held to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the signing of a friendship agreement between Rome and Tokyo. Italian Ambassador to Japan Gabriele Menegatti and Chofu Mayor Katsuyuki Yoshio attended the ceremony.

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Young couple tie knot in boat in old-fashioned ceremony

Katsuyuki Ikeda, 26, (L) and Kazuyo Kuboki, 28, (R) tie the knot aboard a boat surrounded by irises in a revival of a local wedding tradition June 5 at the botanical gardens in Sawara, Chiba Prefecture. The bride and groom's first names are written on lanterns in the background. ==Kyodo

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Mega banking group Mizuho inaugurated

TOKYO, Japan - A tape is cut Sept. 29 to inaugurate a joint holding company, Mizuho Holdings Inc., the product of the integration of Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), Fuji Bank and the Industrial Bank of Japan. The union creates the world's biggest banking group in terms of assets. (From L to R) Yoshiro Yamamoto, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Katsuyuki Sugita, president and co-CEO, and Masao Nishimura, chairman and CEO. The operations of the three banks will be fully integrated in April 2002.

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Civil group collecting remains of Japanese WWII dead in Myanmar

Katsuyuki Imoto (R) listens to an elderly ethnic-minority man near Tedium in western Myanmar in this photo taken on Dec. 3, 2014. Imoto, who has engaged in the transfer of farming skills to minority people in Myanmar, leads activities by a Japanese civilian group to collect and bring back to Japan the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in the Southeast Asian nation during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ethnic people in Myanmar help Japan group recover remains of WWII dead

Katsuyuki Imoto (R) listens on Dec. 2, 2014, to a man of the Zomi ethnic minority in Myanmar talk about the discovery of the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in Tedium in the western part of the Southeast Asian nation during World War II. Imoto leads a Japanese civilian group recovering such remains in Myanmar in cooperation with local people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Civil group collecting remains of Japanese WWII dead in Myanmar

Katsuyuki Imoto (R) listens to an elderly ethnic-minority man near Tedium in western Myanmar in this photo taken on Dec. 3, 2015. Imoto, who has engaged in the transfer of farming skills to minority people in Myanmar, leads activities by a Japanese civilian group to collect and bring back to Japan the remains of Japanese soldiers who died in the Southeast Asian nation during World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Goromaru's old side Yamaha to play Toulon in July

Yamaha Jublio manager Katsuyuki Kiyomiya attends a press conference in the central Japan city of Shizuoka on June 15, 2016. Yamaha, Japan fullback Ayumu Goromaru's old side, will play his new team Toulon in a friendly on July 30 at Shizuoka Stadium, the Top League club manager said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Goromaru's old side Yamaha to play Toulon in July

Yamaha Jublio manager Katsuyuki Kiyomiya (L) and Shizuoka Gov. Heita Kawakatsu pose for a photo at a press conference in the Shizuoka prefectural government office in central Japan on June 15, 2016, with the governor imitating Japan fullback Ayumu Goromaru's signature pose before kicking the ball. Yamaha, Goromaru's old side, will play his new team Toulon in a friendly on July 30 at Shizuoka Stadium, the Top League club said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese inn owner in southern China collecting trash for decades

Katsuyuki Hayashi, Japanese owner of a small inn in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China bordering Vietnam, takes a breather while collecting trash, as seen in this photo taken on Jan. 30, 2015. He has been doing the voluntary work for decades. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Britain's Prince William meets Japanese rugby representatives

Britain's Prince William (2nd from L) shares a laugh with former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (3rd from L) and representatives from Japan's Rugby Top League -- (from R) Suntory Sungoliath's captain Shinya Makabe and head coach Naoya Okubo, and Yamaha Jubilo's head coach Katsuyuki Kiyomiya -- during a reception at the British ambassador's official residence in Tokyo on Feb. 27, 2015. The Duke of Cambridge was in Japan for a four-day visit through March 1. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Trial of ex-Japan justice minister

Former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai heads to the Tokyo District Court on March 23, 2021, to appear on the witness stand in his trial over alleged vote buying during his wife's 2019 upper house election campaign.

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Trial of ex-Japan justice minister

Former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai heads to the Tokyo District Court on March 23, 2021, to appear on the witness stand in his trial over alleged vote buying during his wife's 2019 upper house election campaign.

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Trial of ex-Japan justice minister

Former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai (C) heads to the Tokyo District Court on March 23, 2021, to appear on the witness stand in his trial over alleged vote buying during his wife's 2019 upper house election campaign.

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Ex-Japan justice minister, wife arrested over alleged vote buying

Journalists gather in front of the Justice Ministry head office in Tokyo on June 18, 2020, after former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai and his lawmaker wife Anri were arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of giving out cash to local politicians and supporters during the wife's 2019 upper house election campaign. ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: "Farm Domes" pave way for veggie production on new level

Photo taken Jan. 21, 2017, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, shows Katsuyuki Kitagawa, president of Japan Dome House Co., inside a dome house developed by his company. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese pop group SMAP on verge of breaking up: sources

Auto racer Katsuyuki Mori, one of the original six members of Japanese pop group SMAP who left the group in 1996, celebrates after winning a race in Kawaguchi, north of Tokyo, on Jan. 28, 2009. SMAP is on the verge of breaking up after more than 20 years, sources at the band's agency said Jan. 13, 2016, in a move that would send shockwaves through the Japanese entertainment industry given the band's popularity at home and elsewhere in Asia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st trial hearing of ex-Japan justice minister, wife

People form a line outside the Tokyo District Court on Aug. 25, 2020, for a ticket draw for the first hearing of the trial of former Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai and his lawmaker wife Anri on charges of vote buying during her 2019 upper house election campaign.

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Japan doctors ass'n picks pro-DPJ head

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuyuki Haranaka, new chief of the Japan Medical Association, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on April 1, 2010. The head of the Ibaraki Medical Association, a supporter of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, was elected to the post the same day beating the predecessor who backed the opposition Liberal Democratic Party. (Kyodo)

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Pro-DPJ candidate beats pro-LDP in doctors group head election

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuyuki Haranaka, head of the Ibaraki Medical Association who supports the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 1, 2010, after being elected as president of the Japan Medical Association. Haranaka beat incumbent president Yoshihito Karasawa supporting the opposition Liberal Democratic Party and Yoichi Mori advocating a politically neutral stance, in the three-man election. (Kyodo)