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Japanese officials wives at nihongo center

OVERCOMING LANGUAGE BARRIER. Yuko Kishida (left) and Yuko Koshikawa, wives of visiting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Japanese Ambassador the Philippines Kazuhiko Koshikawa, respectively, visit the Nihongo Center Foundation, Inc. in Legaspi Village, Makati City on Saturday (Nov. 4, 2023). Mrs. Kishida witnessed Nihongo language classes and interacted with the learners, underscoring the significance of language education in promoting cultural understanding and people-to-people exchanges between the two nations. (PNA photo by Robert Oswald P. Alfiler)

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Japan's spring wage talks start amid weak stocks, yen rise

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Miyazaki (L), head of the Nippon Steel Corp. union, presents wage requests to the company's Managing Director Kizoh Hirayama (R) at its headquarters in Tokyo on Feb. 8 as Japan's ''shunto'' spring wage talks between corporate management and labor unions started the same day.

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Tourist floats lantern to make wish in Taiwan

TOKYO, Japan - A man flies a lantern made of bamboo and grease paper in a mountainous area near Taipei, Taiwan, on Dec. 9, 2014, to make a wish in the traditional way. A different color on each side of the lantern is dedicated to a different wish. (Photo by Kazuhiko Yamashita)

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Personal plane modeled after device in 'Nausicaa'

SAPPORO, Japan - Designer Kazuhiko Hachiya on July 26, 2014, stands in front of a compact airplane which he developed based on a flying device that appeared in Hayao Miyazaki's animated movie "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind," at Takikawa Sky Park in Takikawa, Hokkaido Prefecture.

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Yokohama vs Hiroshima in Fuji Xerox Super Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Manabu Saito (C) of Yokohama F. Marinos is challenged by defenders Kazuhiko Chiba (L) and Tsukasa Shiotani (R) of J-league division 1 rivals Sanfrecce Hiroshima during the first half of the Fuji Xerox Super Cup at National Stadium in Tokyo on Feb. 22, 2014.

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Ex-JFE Holdings chief Sudo to become TEPCO chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Fumio Sudo, former president of steelmaker JFE Holdings Inc., answers reporters' questions after meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2014. Sudo will become chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. on April 1, replacing Kazuhiko Shimokobe.

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State-backed fund agrees on new business rehabilitation plan for TEPCO

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (2nd from L), chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. speaks at a meeting of the top decision-making committee of the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund, in Tokyo on Dec. 25, 2013, with TEPCO President Naomi Hirose seated next to him. The panel agreed in principle on a new business turnaround plan for TEPCO.

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Japanese woman killed, another injured in Turkey

NIIGATA, Japan - Kazuhiko Aiba (R), professor at Niigata University, sheds tears during a press conference, also attended by Takashi Ikuta (L), vice president of the university, in Niigata City on Sept. 10, 2013, after two seniors of the university were attacked in Cappadocia in central Turkey the previous day. Mai Kurihara, 22, was killed and another 22-year-old Japanese woman was in critical condition after they were stabbed in a knife attack.

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TEPCO restructuring plan

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Kazuhiko Shimokobe (L) and President Naomi Hirose attend a meeting of the decision-making board of the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund in Tokyo on Aug. 1, 2013, where they reported on the state of the company's 10-year restructuring plan.

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Japan, Taiwan local railways tie up

KUROBE, Japan - Chang Bin (L), general secretary of Taiwan's Forestry Bureau, and Kazuhiko Kato, president of Japan's Kurobe Gorge Railway Co., hold a commemorative steam locomotive model in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture, on April 20, 2013. Kurobe Gorge Railway and Taiwan's Alishan Forest Railway have established sister-railway relations, aimed at promoting tourism and cooperation in maintaining their railroads, which are both located in mountainous areas.

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2 more resign from scandal-hit judo body

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Yoshimura, the All Japan Judo Federation's head of development, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2013. Yoshimura and assistant coach Kazuhiko Tokuno resigned the same day, just days after the women's head coach admitted to physically abusing 15 top judoka under his care.

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2 more resign from scandal-hit judo body

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Tokuno, an assistant coach of the All Japan Judo Federation, holds a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2013. Tokuno and Kazuo Yoshimura, the federation's head of development, resigned the same day, just days after the women's head coach admitted to physically abusing 15 top judoka under his care.

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Former senior diplomat Togo gives interview

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, former chief of the Foreign Ministry's European and Oceanic Affairs Bureau, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2013.

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TEPCO in Fukushima

NARAHA, Japan - (From R) Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose, Vice President Yoshiyuki Ishizaki and Chairman Kazuhiko Shimokobe attend a press conference after their meeting at the utility's new office in Naraha, Fukushima Prefecture, on Jan. 11, 2013. Ishizaki, head of the new Fukushima office of TEPCO, pledged to work fast on implementing measures aimed at helping residents affected by the 2011 nuclear disaster, such as compensation and cleaning up radioactive contamination.

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TEPCO's Fukushima headquarters starts operations

NARAHA, Japan - (From L to R) Tokyo Electric Power Co. Vice President Yoshiyuki Ishizaki, President Naomi Hirose and Chairman Kazuhiko Shimokobe attend a ceremony to launch TEPCO's Fukushima headquarters in Naraha, some 20 kilometers south of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, on Jan. 4, 2013. The utility set up the headquarters to better deal with issues stemming from the nation's worst-ever nuclear accident at the plant.

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TEPCO chairman, president survey Fukushima plant

TOMIOKA, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (R), chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and TEPCO President Naomi Hirose (C) visit the utility's Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant in the town of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 4, 2012. They visited the plant as well as the utility's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex for the first time since assuming their posts in late June. (Pool photo)

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TEPCO apologizes to Fukushima evacuees

KAZO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (2nd from L in back row), new chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and new President Naomi Hirose (3rd from L in back row) apologizes to Fukushima nuclear crisis evacuees in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, on June 29, 2012. Many residents of the town of Futaba hosting TEPCO's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station have evacuated to Kazo.

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New TEPCO chairman says restarting reactors essential for turnaround

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (L), new chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co., and new President Naomi Hirose (R) hold a press conference in Tokyo on June 28, 2012. Shimokobe called for reactivation of the utility's idled nuclear reactors in Niigata Prefecture from April 2013 as a "building block" in the company's turnaround plan compiled following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster.

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AIJ, ITM chiefs arrested over pension fund fraud

TOKYO, Japan - A police investigator brings in cardboard boxes for a search operation at the building housing the head offices of AIJ Investment Advisors Co. and ITM Securities Co., which is effectively under AIJ's control, in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on June 19, 2012. AIJ President Kazuhiko Asakawa and others, including ITM president, were arrested the same day in connection with a high-profile fraud allegation over losses of more than 100 billion yen in pension assets entrusted to AIJ, police said.

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New TEPCO Chairman Shimokobe

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Kazuhiko Shimokobe, a lawyer and head of a state-backed entity providing financial assistance to Tokyo Electric Power Co. The government said on April 19, 2012, that TEPCO's next chairman will be Shimokobe.

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Shimokobe to become next TEPCO chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe, a 64-year-old lawyer, is surrounded by reporters as he enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 19, 2012. Shimokobe, a key member of the state-backed entity providing financial aid to Tokyo Electric Power Co., will be the utility's next chairman, the government said the same day.

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Shimokobe to become next TEPCO chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe, a 64-year-old lawyer, answers a reporter's question at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 19, 2012, after accepting Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's request that he become the next chairman of Tokyo Electric Power Co. Shimokobe is currently a key member of the state-backed entity providing financial aid to the utility.

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Shimokobe comments on TEPCO post

ATAMI, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe, head of the decision-making board of the Japanese state-backed entity providing financial aid to Tokyo Electric Power Co., answers reporters' questions in front of his home in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, on April 19, 2012. Shimokobe said he will consider whether to serve as the next chairman of the struggling utility if and when he is asked by the government.

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Bailout fund official Shimokobe

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Kazuhiko Shimokobe, head of the decision-making board of the Japanese state-backed entity providing financial aid to Tokyo Electric Power Co. Sources said on April 18, 2012, that the government plans to tap Shimokobe as next chairman of the utility.

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AIJ chief testifies

TOKYO, Japan - AIJ Investment Advisors Co. President Kazuhiko Asakawa testifies as a sworn witness over the asset management firm's pension asset loss scandal at the House of Representatives financial affairs committee on April 13, 2012.

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AIJ head at lower house committee

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Asakawa, president of AIJ Investment Advisors Co., speaks in Tokyo on March 27, 2012, at a session of the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Affairs. The session addressed the asset management firm's loss of pension funds it was entrusted to manage. Only 8.1 bil. yen remains of the 145.8 bil. yen entrusted to AIJ.

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Parties involved in AIJ scandal

TOKYO, Japan - In Tokyo on March 27, 2012, (from L to R) Kazuhiko Asakawa, president of AIJ Investment Advisors Co., Hideaki Nishimura, president of ITM Securities Co. which is effectively under AIJ's control, and Isao Ishiyama, a retiree of the now-defunct Social Insurance Agency who currently operates a pension fund consultancy, sit at a session of the House of Representatives' Committee on Financial Affairs which addressed AIJ's loss of assets it had been managing on behalf of pension funds. They were three of the five witnesses to testify at the lower house's committee.

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Hawaiian-style spa park in Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - Joban Kosan Co. President Kazuhiko Saito (C) and hula dancers attend a press conference in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2011. Saito said Spa Resort Hawaiians, a Hawaiian-style spa leisure complex in Iwaki, will partly reopen in October after suspending business following the massive earthquake in March and another quake in April.

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1st meeting of panel to check TEPCO's assets

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Shimokobe (L), a lawyer heading a panel of experts to check the financial status of Tokyo Electric Power Co., speaks at the first meeting of the panel at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 16, 2011. Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) told the panel to compile a report by September. The panel was launched to streamline TEPCO's operations to lessen the burden on taxpayers from the utility's enormous compensation payments over the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

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Hula dancers in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Saito (C), president of Joban Kosan Co., operator of Spa Resort Hawaiians in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, answers reporters' questions at the tourism ministry in Tokyo on May 12, 2011. Saito and five hula dancers from the spa resort asked tourism minister Akihiro Ohata to help restore tourism in the city of Iwaki following the March 11 quake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear crisis. The spa facility has remained closed since the disaster.

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Japan's Takahashi wins men's open category gold

GUANGZHOU, China - Japanese heavyweight Kazuhiko Takahashi (L) defeats Mohammad Reza Rodaki of Iran to win the men's judo open category gold medal at the Asian Games in Guangzhou on Nov. 16, 2010.

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Japan's Takahashi wins men's over 100kg-class at Grand Slam judo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Kazuhiko Takahashi (R) and Germany's Andreas Toelzer fight in the men's over 100kg-class final at the Grand Slam judo event in Rio de Janeiro on May 23, 2010. Takahashi won the event.

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LDP bigwig Aoki won't run in upper house election, may retire

MATSUE, Japan - Kazuhiko Aoki, the eldest son and secretary of veteran Liberal Democratic Party upper house member Mikio Aoki, speaks about his father's intention not to run in the House of Councillors election this summer due to poor health in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, on May 15, 2010. Regarded as an influential member of the upper house during the LDP's long rule, Mikio Aoki served as chief Cabinet secretary from 1999 to 2000 in the governments of prime ministers Keizo Obuchi and Yoshiro Mori.

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Ex-envoy says papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts possibly dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the Foreign Ministry's treaties bureau, talks to reporters in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after speaking about so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. Togo told the panel that key documents related to the secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001.

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Papers on Japan-U.S. secret pacts may have been dumped

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada speaks at a news conference at the ministry in Tokyo on March 19, 2010, after Kazuhiko Togo, the former chief of the ministry's treaties bureau, told the Diet that key documents related to so-called Japan-U.S. secret pacts may have been discarded before an administrative information disclosure law took effect in 2001.

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Japanese parliament probes secret pacts

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, a former chief of the old Treaties Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, speaks about secret pacts reached by Japan and the United States as an unsworn witness during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on March 19, 2010. Togo said some documents on the accords may have been discarded.

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Japanese parliament probes secret pacts

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Togo, a former chief of the old Treaties Bureau of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, speaks about secret pacts reached by Japan and the United States during a session of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on March 19, 2010. Sitting behind Togo are (from L) former lower house member Hajime Morita, former Mainichi Shimbun reporter Takichi Nishiyama and former vice foreign minister Kunihiko Saito.

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Musician Kazuhiko Kato found hanged at Karuizawa hotel

TOKYO, Japan - Musician Kazuhiko Kato (file photo taken in October, 2006), founder of the Sadistic Mika Band which was internationally successful in the 1970s, was found hanged at a hotel in the resort town of Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture on Oct. 17. The local police believe Kato, 62, who had stayed at the hotel, committed suicide.

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Gifu Symphony Orchestra plays at Viennese Music Association hall

VIENNA, Austria - Japan's Gifu Symphony Orchestra performs at the Viennese Music Association, home of the Vienna Philharmonic, on May 4 in its first overseas concert to mark the 55th anniversary of its foundation. The amateur orchestra from Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, played the ''Nagaragawa,'' a piece named after a river running in the prefecture written by the late Japanese composer Ikuma Dan, and two other European pieces with Japanese conductor Kazuhiko Komatsu.

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Incumbent Gov. Furuta reelected in Gifu Prefecture

GIFU, Japan - Incumbent Gov. Hajime Furuta (C) celebrates winning the Gifu gubernatorial election in Gifu Jan. 25 after defeating newcomer Kazuhiko Kinoshita.

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Late human rights lawyer Fuse draws renewed interest

TOKYO, Japan - Teacher Kazuhiko Abe (L in back) teaches third-year students at Onagawa No. 4 Junior High School in Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, a Korean man who kept mentioning human rights lawyer Tatsuji Fuse's achievements in the protection of human rights.

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Nissan Motor customers' personal info might have been leaked

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiko Toida (C), senior vice president of Nissan Motor Co., and other executives bow in apology during a press conference at the company's head office in Tokyo on Dec. 21. The company announced that customers' personal information, including names and the vehicles they own, might have been leaked from its database.

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All 4 defendants acquitted over girl's death from beach cave-in

KOBE, Japan - Kazuhiko Kingetsu, the father of Miho Kingetsu who died after she was buried alive at a man-made beach, speaks during a news conference in Kobe on July 7 after the Kobe District Court cleared all four central and local government officials charged with negligence in the death of the 5-year-old. The girl died when the beach caved in and trapped her under the sand on Dec. 30, 2001.

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Hosokawa sets early pace at Under Armour KBC Augusta

SHIMA, Japan - Kazuhiko Hosokawa shot a 7-under-par 64 to take a one-stroke lead over Tadahiro Takayama and Thammanoon Srirot of Thailand after the first round of the Under Armour KBC Augusta at the par-71 Keya Golf Club in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 25.

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Imai wins Coca-Cola Tokai Classic in playoff

MIYOSHI, Japan - Katsumune Imai is all smiles with his cup in hands after beating Kazuhiko Hosokawa in a playoff to win the Coca-Cola Tokai Classic at Miyoshi Country Club in Aichi Prefecture on Oct. 10.

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Ushijima to manage Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Former Chunichi Dragons and Lotte Marines pitcher Kazuhiko Ushijima (in file photo) will replace Daisuke Yamashita as manager of the Yokohama BayStars for next season, baseball sources said on Oct. 6. Ushijima, who worked as a baseball pundit for Yokohama's parent company Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. after ending his playing career, has no managerial experience but has an established reputation for his deep knowledge of baseball.

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(1)Emperor decorates four with Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Four recipients of this year's Order of Culture pose (front, seated) with their spouses Nov. 3 at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. From L to R, they are poet Makoto Ooka, physicist Kazuhiko Nishijima, pathologist Wataru Mori, and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata.

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IRC execs nominees say pain will accompany revitalization

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Saito (C), president-designate of the planned Industrial Revitalization Corp., speaks at a news conference April 4, flanked by Chairman-designate Shinjiro Takagi (R) and Chief Operating Officer-designate Kazuhiko Toyama (L). The trio stressed that industrial revival will be accompanied by a bigger burden on the taxpayer and more unemployment.

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Fired diplomat Togo grilled over scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors have questioned former diplomat Kazuhiko Togo (in file photo) in connection with a breach of trust scandal involving a government-funded international committee on Russia, investigative sources said June 11.

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Takeshima to become FTC chief in July

TOKYO, Japan - The government plans to appoint Kazuhiko Takeshima (file photo), a senior official in the Cabinet Secretariat, as chairman of the Fair Trade Commission (FTC). Takeshima, a former director general of the National Tax Agency, is expected to assume the post in July following Diet approval, succeeding incumbent Yasuchika Negoro.