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Ex-singer Keiko Fuji plunges to death in alleged suicide

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in September 1981 shows Keiko Fuji. Fuji, former singer and the mother of singer Hikaru Utada, on Aug. 22, 2013, plunged from a condominium building to her death in an apparent suicide, Tokyo police said. She was 62.

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NASA engineer flies his Japanese rescuers to L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Leonard Efron (R), a senior NASA engineer, poses with Keiko Asano (C) and Kazuhito Hachiya (L) both from Chiba Prefecture, at a television station on a Los Angeles suburb July 6. He has paid the flight expenses to bring the two Japanese mountain climbers to Los Angeles. Efron fell about 100 meters while descending Mt. Fuji last year and sustained serious injuries before Asano and Hachiya came to his rescue.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan poses with her gold medal for the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan reacts after winning the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan reacts after winning the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan reacts after winning the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics en route to winning gold on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura (front, L) of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics en route to winning gold on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Japan's Keiko Sugiura (L) is pictured after competing in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Japan's Keiko Sugiura (L) and Sweden's Anna Beck congratulate each other after competing in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Sugiura and Beck finished first and second, respectively.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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NASA engineer flies his Japanese rescuers to L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Leonard Efron (R), a senior NASA engineer, poses with Keiko Asano (C) and Kazuhito Hachiya (L) both from Chiba Prefecture, at a television station on a Los Angeles suburb July 6. He has paid the flight expenses to bring the two Japanese mountain climbers to Los Angeles. Efron fell about 100 meters while descending Mt. Fuji last year and sustained serious injuries before Asano and Hachiya came to his rescue.

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(13)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, was chosen as one of three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 8. Koshiba's family members -- daughter Mari Fuji (L), Koshiba's wife Keiko (C), and granddaughter Ami Fuji (R), pose for photographers after Koshiba won the prize. (Kyodo)

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(13)Japan's Koshiba wins Nobel Prize in Physics

TOKYO, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, was chosen as one of three recipients of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics on Oct. 8. Koshiba's family members -- daughter Mari Fuji (L), Koshiba's wife Keiko (C), and granddaughter Ami Fuji (R), pose for photographers after Koshiba won the prize. (Kyodo)

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Pop sensation Utada performs in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Sixteen-year-old pop sensation Hikaru Utada performs at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan on Aug. 24. Utada, born and raised in New York and the daughter of Japanese singer Keiko Fuji, broke Japan's album sales record with her debut album ''First Love.'' The album, released March 10, sold 5.24 million copies.