Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK hold a press conference regarding their collaboration in the building materials and housing equipment business. photo shows, from left: Satoshi Honda, YKK Vice President and CFO; Hidemitsu Hori, YKK AP Chairman; Masashi Yamada, Panasonic Housing Solutions President and Executive Officer; Kazuyo Sumida, Panasonic Holdings Executive Officer and Group CSO.=November 17,2025,Tokyo

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK Joint Press Conference on Collaboration in Building Materials and Housing Equipment Business

Panasonic and YKK hold a press conference regarding their collaboration in the building materials and housing equipment business. photo shows, from left: Satoshi Honda, YKK Vice President and CFO; Hidemitsu Hori, YKK AP Chairman; Masashi Yamada, Panasonic Housing Solutions President and Executive Officer; Kazuyo Sumida, Panasonic Holdings Executive Officer and Group CSO.=November 17,2025,Tokyo

Magazine writer moonlights as Shinto priestess

Magazine writer moonlights as Shinto priestess

Tokyo, Japan - Photo taken April 16, 2013, shows the contents of a bag used by weekly magazine writer Kazuyo Kawamura. Kawamura occasionally gets away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo to perform duties as a Shinto priestess in her ancestral home in Kochi Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

New art museum in Kanazawa unveiled before public opening

New art museum in Kanazawa unveiled before public opening

KANAZAWA, Japan - Tourism officials have a sneak preview Sept. 2 of a new contemporary art museum in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, where artworks are integrated into the innovative circular building itself. The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, which was designed by internationally renowned Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, will open to the public on Oct. 9.

6 Japanese 'human shields' leave Iraq

6 Japanese 'human shields' leave Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six Japanese ''human shields'' stage what they call their last antiwar demonstration in Iraq in Baghdad on April 11. They left the country April 12y as they judged their task of trying to help protect life-supporting facilities for local people has been accomplished. The six people, including Kazuyo Yuasa (2nd from L), a citizen of Osaka, said they now want to tell the Japanese people about the reality of war.

Japanese boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

Japanese boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

NARITA, Japan - Takaya Yoshii (L), a 12-year-old boy suffering from heart disease, prepares to leave Narita airport June 20 for the United States for a heart transplant. Yoshii from Chiba, east of Tokyo, was headed for the University of California in Los Angeles, where he will wait for a donor. Takaya's mother, Kazuyo Mori, 33, accompanied the boy.

Young couple tie knot in boat in old-fashioned ceremony

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.

Young couple tie knot in boat in old-fashioned ceremony

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

6 Japanese 'human shields' leave Iraq

6 Japanese 'human shields' leave Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Six Japanese ''human shields'' stage what they call their last antiwar demonstration in Iraq in Baghdad on April 11. They left the country April 12y as they judged their task of trying to help protect life-supporting facilities for local people has been accomplished. The six people, including Kazuyo Yuasa (2nd from L), a citizen of Osaka, said they now want to tell the Japanese people about the reality of war. (Kyodo)

Japanese boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

Japanese boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

NARITA, Japan - Takaya Yoshii (L), a 12-year-old boy suffering from heart disease, prepares to leave Narita airport June 20 for the United States for a heart transplant. Yoshii from Chiba, east of Tokyo, was headed for the University of California in Los Angeles, where he will wait for a donor. Takaya's mother, Kazuyo Mori, 33, accompanied the boy.

Pro-LGBT politicians condemn discrimination

Pro-LGBT politicians condemn discrimination

Economic analyst Kazuyo Katsuma (L) speaks at a press conference, with her partner and LGBT activist Hiroko Masuhara, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Assailants need to feel guilty, mother of dead boy believes

Assailants need to feel guilty, mother of dead boy believes

OTSU, Japan - Kazuyo Aoki holds a picture of her son, Yu, who was beaten to death by two teenage boys in 2001, in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, on Oct. 27. (Kyodo)