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5-time Paralympic gold medalist Kawai heads sports agency

Retired visually impaired swimmer Junichi Kawai takes a seat at his desk as he becomes the commissioner of the Japan Sports Agency in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2025. The five-time Paralympic gold medalist is the first Paralympian to assume the post.

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5-time Paralympic gold medalist Kawai heads sports agency

Retired visually impaired swimmer Junichi Kawai takes a seat at his desk as he becomes the commissioner of the Japan Sports Agency in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2025. The five-time Paralympic gold medalist is the first Paralympian to assume the post.

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5-time Paralympic gold medalist Kawai heads sports agency

Retired visually impaired swimmer Junichi Kawai takes a seat at his desk as he becomes the commissioner of the Japan Sports Agency in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2025. The five-time Paralympic gold medalist is the first Paralympian to assume the post.

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5-time Paralympic gold medalist Kawai to head sports agency

Retired visually impaired swimmer Junichi Kawai speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2025, after being named the next commissioner of the Japan Sports Agency. A five-time Paralympic gold medalist, the 50-year-old will become the first Paralympian to assume the post when his appointment takes effect Oct. 1.

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5-time Paralympic gold medalist Kawai to head sports agency

Retired visually impaired swimmer Junichi Kawai speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Sept. 19, 2025, after being named the next commissioner of the Japan Sports Agency. A five-time Paralympic gold medalist, the 50-year-old will become the first Paralympian to assume the post when his appointment takes effect Oct. 1.

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Osaka Metro and SkyDrive tie up in flying vehicle business

SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (R) and Osaka Metro Co. President Hideaki Kawai shake hands in Osaka on Aug. 26, 2024, after the two companies signed a business partnership agreement aiming for commercializing a flying vehicle business in the future.

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Osaka Metro and SkyDrive tie up in flying taxi business

SkyDrive Inc. CEO Tomohiro Fukuzawa (R) and Osaka Metro Co. President Hideaki Kawai shake hands in Osaka on Aug. 26, 2024, after the two companies signed a business partnership agreement aiming for commercializing a flying vehicle business in the future.

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Cannes film festival

Japanese film director Yoko Yamanaka (2nd from L) speaks after the screening of her film "Desert of Namibia" during Directors' Week at the Cannes International Film Festival on May 17, 2024, in Cannes, southern France. On the right is lead actress Yuumi Kawai.

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A Brighter Summer Day

Aiko posing in her bedroom with her favorite stuffed animal, a unicorn, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2019 « Being alive is a revenge in itself towards this hateful world. Be smarter, read more books so you can live a better life. Keep your romantic thoughts ; it will never be enough, especially when you’re getting older. You can think of killing yourself a hundred, even a thousand times, but if you are dead, you then lose the chance to love and to hate. So I would say cheers anyways. » Aiko Aiko is a 23 year old transgender woman from Nantou, a small town in the center of Taiwan. She now lives in Taipei where she just finished studying fashion design. She chose the name Aiko because she is greatly influenced by Japanese Kawai and Manga culture. Aiko's family is accepting of her trans identity, her mum even jokes around with the neighbors in her hometown saying that she had three boys but that now she has two sons and a daughter. Even though her family supports Aiko to be herself, it's still complicated for trans

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Asian Games: Basketball

Mai Kawai (2nd from R) of Japan dribbles the ball during the third quarter of the women's basketball final against China at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Oct. 5, 2023.

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-BASKETBALL (CN)

(231005) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 5, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kawai Mai (L) of Japan competes during the Basketball Women's Gold Medal Game between China and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 5, 2023. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-BASKETBALL(CN)

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kawai Mai (L) of Japan competes during the Women's Quarterfinal of Basketball between Japan and Indonesia at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-BASKETBALL(CN)

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kawai Mai (L) of Japan goes for a layup during the Women's Quarterfinal of Basketball between Japan and Indonesia at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-BASKETBALL(CN)

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kawai Mai (No.4) of Japan goes for a layup during the Women's Quarterfinal of Basketball between Japan and Indonesia at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-BASKETBALL(CN)

(230929) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Kawai Mai (C) of Japan competes during Women's Preliminary Round Group B match of Basketball between Japan and Kazakhstan at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 29, 2023. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

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Wrestling: Japanese Olympic champ Kinjo

Japan's Risako Kinjo, who won two Olympic wrestling gold medals under her maiden name Kawai, gives an interview in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, on May 22, 2023.

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Wrestling: Japanese Olympic champ Kinjo

Japan's Risako Kinjo, who won two Olympic wrestling gold medals under her maiden name Kawai, gives an interview in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, on May 22, 2023.

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Panasonic returns to profit

TOKYO, Japan - Hideaki Kawai (R), managing director of Panasonic Corp., answers a reporter's question after releasing the company's earnings results for the nine months through Dec. 31, 2013, at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2014. Panasonic said it posted a group net profit of 243.01 billion yen in the April-December period, a turnaround from a loss of 623.83 billion yen a year earlier.

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Panasonic returns to profit

TOKYO, Japan - Hideaki Kawai, managing director of Panasonic Corp., answers a reporter's question after releasing the company's earnings results for the nine months through Dec. 31, 2013, at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2014. Panasonic said it posted a group net profit of 243.01 billion yen in the April-December period, a turnaround from a loss of 623.83 billion yen a year earlier.

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Panasonic returns to profit

TOKYO, Japan - Hideaki Kawai, managing director of Panasonic Corp., releases the company's earnings results for the nine months through Dec. 31, 2013, at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2014. Panasonic said it posted a group net profit of 243.01 billion yen in the April-December period, a turnaround from a loss of 623.83 billion yen a year earlier.

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Panasonic returns to profit

TOKYO, Japan - Hideaki Kawai, managing director of Panasonic Corp., answers a reporter's question after releasing the company's earnings results for the nine months through Dec. 31, 2013, at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 4, 2014. Panasonic said it posted a group net profit of 243.01 billion yen in the April-December period, a turnaround from a loss of 623.83 billion yen a year earlier.

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Heat wave continues in Japan, mercury hits 37.5 C in Iwate

TOKYO, Japan - Children play with water at a park in Osaka on Aug. 13 as heat waves continue to bake Japan, with the mercury rising to 37.5 C in the village of Kawai, Iwate Prefecture and 37.3 C in Uonuma, Niigata Prefecture.

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Barcelona edge Yokohama in preseason friendly

YOKOHAMA, Japan - FC Barcelona striker Thierry Henry (C) dribbles past Yokohama F. Marinos defender Ryuji Kawai during the first half of their friendly match at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on Aug. 7. Barcelona won 1-0 on Giovani Dos Santos' 75th-minute goal.

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Mitsubishi Aircraft president Kawai

NAGOYA, Japan - Teruaki Kawai, president of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. which is developing the first made in Japan compact passenger jet, is seen in this undated photo.

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M'bishi Aircraft to add 100-seat MRJ

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. President Teruaki Kawai speaks about the MRJ passenger aircraft in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2014. The Nagoya-based company is hoping to add the 100-seat model to its Japanese-built passenger jet series. The first delivery of the MRJ is planned for 2017.

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Event marking 50th anniv. of 1964 Tokyo Olympics starts

TOKYO, Japan - Current and retired athletes pose on the opening day of a weeklong event in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Japanese capital. From L: 2010 London Olympics middleweight boxing gold medalist Ryota Murata, Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, artistic gymnastics legend Takashi Ono and 1992 Barcelona Paralympics swimming silver medalist Junichi Kawai.

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'Matsutake' mushrooms auctioned off for high price

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Hidenori Kawai, a food shop owner in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, shows "matsutake" mushrooms from Koya in the western Japan prefecture bought in his successful bid at a local market on Sept. 16, 2014. The highest winning bid was 60,000 yen per kilogram, which would fetch a retail price of around 10,000 apiece.

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Panasonic's net profit plunges 65% in April-June

OSAKA, Japan - Panasonic Co. Senior Managing Director Hideaki Kawai announces a 65% net profit fall for the April-June second quarter of fiscal 2014 from a year before at a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2014.

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3 ex-TEPCO execs judged to merit indictment on nuke disaster

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kawai (C), an attorney representing people who sought a review of the prosecution's judgment on six former Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives, and others meet the press in Tokyo on July 31, 2014, about a decision by a committee for the inquest of prosecution that three of them deserve indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the utility's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Hokkaido Electric seeks to raise electricity bills

TOKYO, Japan - Katsuhiko Kawai, president of Hokkaido Electric Power Co., speaks with reporters after submitting an application to raise electricity bills for households by around 17 percent at the industry ministry in Tokyo on July 31, 2014.

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Ex-TEPCO execs merit indictment over nuclear crisis

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Kawai, an attorney representing those who sought criminal responsibility of Tokyo Electric Power Co. officials, attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2014, after an independent judicial panel of citizens decided that the three former TEPCO executives merit indictment over the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Vladivostok, Tottori univs. agree on student exchanges

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Valentin Shumatov (L), president of Pacific State Medical University in Vladivostok, the Russian Far East, and Yasuaki Kawai, vice dean of Tottori University's Faculty of Medicine in Tottori Prefecture, pose for photos after signing a memorandum of understanding on June 3, 2014, as they reached a basic accord on the start of student exchanges starting in April 2015.

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Delivery of M'bishi passenger jet to be delayed

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. President Teruaki Kawai speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2013. The company said the same day that delivery of Japan's first small passenger jet will be delayed for over a year to around the April-June quarter in 2017.

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Panasonic incurs huge net loss in FY 2012

TOKYO, Japan - Panasonic Corp. Managing Director Hideaki Kawai answers a reporter's question at a news conference in Tokyo on May 10, 2013. The electronics maker said the same day it incurred a group net loss of 754.25 billion yen in the business year ended March 2013, suffering a massive loss for the second straight year.

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Tokyo 2020 celebrates 200 days until IOC vote

TOKYO, Japan - (from L) Sydney Olympics 100-meter backstroke silver medalist Mai Nakamura, Beijing Olympics individual foil silver medalist Yuki Ota, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ebizo and Paralympics swimming gold medalist Junichi Kawai attend an event at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Feb. 19, 2013. The Tokyo Olympic bid committee held the commemorative event to mark 200 days before the vote to decide the host city for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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Japanese, Russian vice foreign ministers

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai (L) and his Russian counterpart Andrey Denisov are pictured ahead of their talks in Moscow on Feb. 4, 2013.

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Japan, China senior diplomats secretly meet in Shanghai

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai (L) and his Chinese counterpart, Zhang Zhijun. Kawai and his Chinese counterpart, who is believed to have been Zhang, have secretly met in Shanghai to seek ways to improve bilateral relations that have soured over competing claims to the sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands, Japanese government officials said Oct. 24, 2012.

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Japan, China at odds over Senkakus

BEIJING, China - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai leaves after talks with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun in Beijing on Sept. 25, 2012. Japan and China remained at odds in a dispute over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.

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Japan, China officials meet over Senkakus

BEIJING, China - Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai (2nd from R) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun (far L) hold talks in Beijing on Sept. 25, 2012. They met in a bid to ease heightened tensions between the two countries over Tokyo's nationalization of the Senkaku Islands, which are claimed by Beijing. (Pool photo)

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Japan, China officials meet over Senkakus

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photos show Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai (L) and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun. They met on Sept. 25, 2012, in Beijing in a bid to ease heightened tensions between the two countries over Tokyo's nationalization of the Senkaku Islands, which are claimed by Beijing.

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Japan, China to hold talks

BEIJING, China - Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai arrives at Beijing airport on Sept. 24, 2012, for vice ministerial talks between Japan and China in the Chinese capital, in a bid to mend bilateral ties following Japan's nationalization of the Senkaku Islands claimed by China.

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Tokyo NPOs provide tutors for kids in quake-hit town

OTSUCHI, Japan - Aya Kawai deals with questions from a junior high school student at a tutorial class in the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on July 2, 2012. She is a staff member of a free after-school program launched by Tokyo-based nonprofit organizations.

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TEPCO shareholders ask firm auditors to sue 61 directors

TOKYO, Japan - Shareholders of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (back) and their lawyer, Hiroyuki Kawai (front), hold a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2011. The shareholders said they asked auditors of the utility to file a lawsuit against 61 current and former board members to have them pay a total of 5.5 trillion yen to the company, claiming their negligence in safety caused huge losses resulting from the nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Kawai tied for 3rd-round lead at Japan PGA C'ship

ONO, Japan - Hiroo Kawai of Japan launches a shot during the Japan PGA Championship at Onotoyo Golf Club in Hyogo Prefecture on May 14, 2011. Kawai is tied for the third round lead at 6-under 207 with South Korea's Bae Sang Moon.

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'World's smallest' melon cultivated in Japan's Inland Sea

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Yoshikiyo Kawai, chairman of the tourism association of Megi Island in Kagawa Prefecture, shows off what are said to be the world's smallest melons, cultivated by the inhabitants of the Seto Inland Sea island, in Takamatsu on Sept. 4, 2009.

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Jungian psychoanalyst Kawai dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - Noted Jungian psychoanalyst and former Agency for Cultural Affairs chief Hayao Kawai (file photo taken in March, 2005) died of a brain infarction at a hospital in Tenri, Nara Prefecture, on July 19. He was 79. Kawai, who was also a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, had remained unconscious since last August when he suffered a stroke and was taken to hospital.

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Culture agency chief Kawai in serious condition after stroke

TOKYO, Japan - Agency for Cultural Affairs chief Hayao Kawai (file photo) was taken to a hospital in serious condition on Aug. 17 after suffering a stroke and remains unconscious, the agency said.

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(2)Juventus vs. Yokohama Marinos friendly

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Yokohama Marinos defender Ryuji Kawai (L) and Juventus striker Alessandro Del Piero jump for control of the ball in the first half of their friendly match at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on June 1.

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Nippon Express to appoint Kawai as next president

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Express Co. Vice President Masanori Kawai (R) speaks at a press conference on April 15 after being named to succeed President Masahiko Okabe (L). Okabe will become chairman with the right to represent the company.

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(2)World's first glass-made violin unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - Violinist Ikuko Kawai plays what is claimed to be the world's first glass-made violin at a press conference held in Tokyo by its manufacturer, HARIMA Co.