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Proton therapy clinical trial for breast cancer to begin

FUKUI, Japan - Kazutaka Yamamoto, head of the Proton Therapy Center at the Fukui Prefectural Hospital, displays a brassiere designed for treatment of women with breast cancer and other equipment in Fukui city, Japan, on Oct. 24, 2014. The center will begin the first clinical trial on the use of protons for treatment of breast cancer in Japan.

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Suit over death of elementary school kids in tsunami

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Kazutaka Sato prays in front of a cenotaph at Okawa elementary school in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 2014. Bereaved family members, including Sato, of 23 students at the school who were killed in the March 11, 2011 tsunami filed a damages suit the same day, arguing the children died because the school failed to evacuate them to higher ground. At the school, 74 of the 108 students died or remain unaccounted for, and 10 of the 13 teachers and school officials died in the wake of the tsunami triggered by a massive earthquake.

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Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Japanese researchers Kazutaka Kurihara (C) and Koji Tsukada (R) speak during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 2012. They won the spoof Ig Nobel acoustic prize for developing the SpeechJammer, a device that confuses and stifles a person speaking by sending the speaker a delayed recording of their own voice.

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Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Japanese researchers Koji Tsukada (L) and Kazutaka Kurihara (C) receive the spoof Ig Nobel acoustic prize for developing the SpeechJammer, a device that confuses and stifles a person speaking by sending the speaker a delayed recording of their own voice, during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 2012.

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Death of Japanese journalist in Syria

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese journalist Kazutaka Sato answers reporters' questions after visiting the Syrian Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2012, to request that Damascus determine why his partner and colleague Mika Yamamoto was shot dead in Syria in August. Sato was with Yamamoto when she was shot in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo while covering the country's civil war.

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Death of Japanese journalist in Syria

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese journalist Kazutaka Sato (front L) enters the Syrian Embassy in Tokyo on Sept. 4, 2012, to request that Damascus determine why his partner and colleague Mika Yamamoto was shot dead in Syria in August. Sato was with Yamamoto when she was shot in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo while covering the country's civil war.

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Body of Japanese journalist killed in Syria returns home

NARITA, Japan - Japanese journalist Kazutaka Sato gives a news conference at Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 25, 2012, after the body of his wife and colleague Mika Yamamoto arrived that day at the airport from Istanbul, accompanied by Sato and her relatives. Yamamoto was shot dead on Aug. 20 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo while covering the civil war.

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Body of Japanese journalist killed in Syria returns home

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Rumi Shinagawa (L), elder sister of slain Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto, and Yamamoto's husband and colleague Kazutaka Sato (R) speak to reporters at an airport in Istanbul on Aug. 24, 2012. They accompanied the body of Mika Yamamoto, who was killed in Aleppo, northern Syria, on Aug. 20 while covering the civil war, back to Narita airport near Tokyo where they arrived on Aug. 25.

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Body of Japanese journalist killed in Syria returns home

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Rumi Shinagawa (L front), elder sister of slain Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto, Yamamoto's husband and colleague Kazutaka Sato (2nd from L front) and Yamamoto's younger sister Kae Yamamoto (far R), head to an airport in Istanbul on Aug. 24, 2012. They accompanied the body of Mika Yamamoto, who was killed in Aleppo, northern Syria, on Aug. 20 while covering the civil war, back to Narita airport near Tokyo where they arrived on Aug. 25.

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Relatives see body of Japanese journalist slain in Syria

ISTANBUL, Turkey - Kazutaka Sato, the common-law husband of Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto, who was slain on Aug. 20, 2012, in Aleppo, northern Syria, while covering the civil war in the country, speaks at a hotel in Istanbul on Aug. 23, 2012. Relatives of Yamamoto saw her body earlier on Aug. 23 in Istanbul, after it was airlifted from Kilis in southern Turkey near the border with Syria.

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Slain Japanese reporter's body transferred to Istanbul

KILIS, Turkey - Kazutaka Sato talks to his dead partner Mika Yamamoto after a casket containing her body arrives at an airport in southern Turkey, on Aug. 23, 2012, prior to its transfer by plane to Istanbul. Yamamoto, 45, was killed in Aleppo, northern Syria, on Aug. 20 during a clash between rebels and forces loyal to the Syrian government.

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Slain Japanese reporter's body transferred to Istanbul

KILIS, Turkey - Kazutaka Sato (front R) carries a casket containing the body of his partner Mika Yamamoto from a hospital in Kilis, southern Turkey, on Aug. 23, 2012, prior to its transfer by plane to Istanbul. Yamamoto, 45, was killed in Aleppo, northern Syria, on Aug. 20 during a clash between rebels and forces loyal to the Syrian government.

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Journalist Yamamoto dead in Syrian clash

KILIS, Turkey - Freelance Japanese journalist Kazutaka Sato is interviewed by Kyodo News at a hotel in Kilis, southern Turkey, on Aug. 21, 2012. Sato, 56, who worked with another freelance Japanese journalist, Mika Yamamoto, reported her death in Syria the previous day to Japan's Foreign Ministry. At front is Yamamoto's bulletproof vest.

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Taiji, environmentalists meet over dolphin hunt

TAIJI, Japan - Taiji Mayor Kazutaka Sangen (R), discusses dolphin hunting by local fishermen during a meeting with foreign activists campaigning against the practice on Nov. 2, 2010, in the town in Wakayama Prefecture. The first meeting between the two sides ended with no accord.

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Proton therapy clinical trial for breast cancer to begin

FUKUI, Japan - Kazutaka Yamamoto, head of the Proton Therapy Center at the Fukui Prefectural Hospital, displays a brassiere designed for treatment of women with breast cancer and other equipment in Fukui city, Japan, on Oct. 24, 2014. The center will begin the first clinical trial on the use of protons for treatment of breast cancer in Japan. (Kyodo)

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Vegetable plant built on quake-hit site

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Toyokazu Kudo, president of Tobu Kankyo Inc., a recycling firm in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture, and plant manager Kazutaka Sato hold a panel of vegetables cultivated at a hydroponics plant built on the site of the now-defunct Okawa Junior High School in the northeastern prefecture's Ishinomaki, flooded by the 2011 tsunami, on July 22, 2014. (Kyodo)

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8 held for allegedly lying in multilevel marketing scheme

OSAKA, Japan - Kazutaka Ishikawa, a 52-year-old former president of the coin-operated mobile phone charger sales company MMS, currently Media Cross Ltd., accompanied by police officers, leaves his home in the city of Konan, Shiga Prefecture, on Jan. 27, 2010. Ishikawa and seven others were arrested on suspicion of giving false information about refunds in a multilevel marketing scheme. (Kyodo)

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Taiji, environmentalists meet over dolphin hunt

TAIJI, Japan - Taiji Mayor Kazutaka Sangen (R), discusses dolphin hunting by local fishermen during a meeting with foreign activists campaigning against the practice on Nov. 2, 2010, in the town in Wakayama Prefecture. The first meeting between the two sides ended with no accord. (Kyodo)

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First year-end at Toyosu fish market

Kazutaka Sugimoto, who deals with fruit and vegetables, is pictured on Dec. 19, 2018, at the new Toyosu fish market in Tokyo, which is having its first "busy year-end" season since replacing the famous Tsukiji market. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Whaling towns of Japan, Faroe Islands become sister cities

Taiji Mayor Kazutaka Sangen speaks to the press in the western Japan town on Jan. 24, 2018. Taiji and Klaksvic in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, both known for their whale and dolphin hunts, have established a sister-city relationship. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Enoki wins Beppu-Oita marathon

OITA, Japan - Kazutaka Enoki overtakes Kenya's Samson Kandie with 4 kilometers left in the Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon on Feb. 6 and holds on to win the rain-soaked race. Enoki dropped out of the lead pack near the 23-kilometer mark of the fast-paced race but rallied to overcome the deficit and cross the line at Oita municipal stadium in 2 hours, 10 minutes, 51 seconds.