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World Exposition in Osaka

Osaka Gov. Hirofumi Yoshimura (2nd from L), Wakayama Deputy Gov. Izumi Miyazaki (3rd from L) and Shiga Gov. Taizo Mikazuki (4th from L) carry a portable mikoshi shrine in front of the Kansai Pavilion at the World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, on May 6, 2025, in honor of the late Wakayama Gov. Shuhei Kishimoto who died in April. The Kansai Pavilion showcases exhibitions from nine prefectures in the Kansai region.

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Japan startup Space One postpones rocket launch

KUSHIMOTO, Japan, Dec. 14 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 14, 2024, shows the 18-meter-long solid-fuel Kairos No. 2 rocket at the commercial spaceport in Kushimoto in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. Space One Co., which aims to become the first Japanese firm to put a satellite into orbit, said the same day it had postponed the launch of the rocket due to strong winds.

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Major Japanese underground syndicate

CHITOSE, Japan, April 25 Kyodo - Kazuo Nakanishi (front) and Saizo Kishimoto (back), both senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi underground gangster syndicate, have their bodies checked by riot police officers upon their arrival at Chitose airport in Chitose on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido on April 18, 1985.

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Basketball: B-League

Ryuichi Kishimoto (L) of the Ryukyu Golden Kings dribbles the ball during the first quarter of Game 1 of the B-League basketball finals against the Chiba Jets on May 27, 2023, at Yokohama Arena near Tokyo.

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Basketball: B-League

Ryuichi Kishimoto (R) of the Ryukyu Golden Kings takes a shot during the first quarter of Game 2 of the B-League basketball finals against the Chiba Jets on May 28, 2023, at Yokohama Arena near Tokyo.

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Fertile eggs produced through egg donation from anonymous women

TOKYO, June 27 Kyodo - Sachiko Kishimoto, the head of OD-Net, a nonprofit organization supporting fertility treatment, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 27, 2015. Two women with ovarian function problems have produced fertile eggs through in-vitro fertilization using sperm from their husbands and eggs donated from anonymous females, OD-Net said.

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Kishimoto wins silver in men's 400 meters hurdles

INCHEON, South Korea - Photo shows Japan's Takayuki Kishimoto, who won silver in the men's 400 meters hurdles at the Asian Game in Incheon, South Korea, on Oct. 1, 2014.

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Male beauty therapists, nail artists on increase

TOKYO, Japan - Kei Kishimoto applies makeup to a customer at a drug store in Osaka City on Dec. 13, 2012. Kishimoto has been working as a beauty consultant for Shiseido Co. at the store for over a year.

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Ovum bank plan

TOKYO, Japan - Sachiko Kishimoto, representative of Oocyte Donation Network, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2013. The private entity promoting egg donation for fertility treatment will start recruiting women willing to donate eggs for free to launch an "ovum bank," in the first such endeavor by a private-sector group in Japan.

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Ovum bank plan

TOKYO, Japan - Sachiko Kishimoto, representative of Oocyte Donation Network, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 14, 2013. The private entity promoting egg donation for fertility treatment will start recruiting women willing to donate eggs for free to launch an "ovum bank," in the first such endeavor by a private-sector group in Japan.

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Japanese bass awarded by Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) awards the Pushkin Medal to Japanese operatic bass Chikara Kishimoto at the presidential official residence in the suburbs of Moscow on Feb. 17, 2012.

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Japanese bass awarded by Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Japanese operatic bass Chikara Kishimoto shake hands as the former awards the Pushkin Medal to the latter at the presidential official residence in the suburbs of Moscow on Feb. 17, 2012.

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Restart of Genkai reactors put on hold

GENKAI, Japan - Hideo Kishimoto, mayor of the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, speaks at a press conference in the town on July 7, 2011. He retracted earlier approval for the restart of two reactors at the Genkai nuclear power plant, which were shut down for regular checkups.

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Mayor approves restart of Genkai nuclear reactors

GENKAI, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Toshio Manabe (L) speaks at a press conference in the town of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, on July 4, 2011, after meeting Genkai Mayor Hideo Kishimoto (R). The mayor approved the resumption of two suspended reactors at the Genkai nuclear power plant.

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Saga town hosting nuclear plant OKs reactors' restart

SAGA, Japan - Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda (L) and Mayor Hideo Kishimoto of Genkai, Saga Prefecture, emerge from a meeting in Genkai on June 29, 2011. Kishimoto told Kaieda that he approves of the resumption of two nuclear reactors at the Genkai nuclear power plant which are currently suspended for regular checkups.

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2011 Japan Prize winners

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Prize laureates (from L) Toshio Hirano, dean of the Graduate School of Medicine at Osaka University, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, professor emeritus at Osaka University, and Kenneth Thompson, an engineer at Google Inc., pose for a photo in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2011, as the year's winner of the Japan Prize Foundation award. Kishimoto and Hirano discovered interleukin 6, leading to the development of treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, while Thompson, together with fellow award recipient Dennis Ritchie, developed the UNIX operating system.

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3 men to run for Nago mayor

NAGO, Japan - Three men filed their candidacies Jan. 15 for the upcoming mayoral election in Nago, where the major issue for the Okinawa Prefecture city is whether it should host the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station. The three vying to succeed retiring Mayor Tateo Kishimoto are (file photos from L to R) Yoshikazu Shimabukuro, 59, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito party, Munehiro Gakiya, 59, an independent, and Yoshitami Oshiro, 65, supported by the Democratic Party of Japan, Japanese Communist Party and Social Democratic Party.

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Aso fails to win nod from Okinawa officials over base plan

NAHA, Japan - Tateo Kishimoto, mayor of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, responds to reporters' questions at a Naha hotel on Nov. 25 after talks with Foreign Minister Taro Aso over a Japan-U.S. agreement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station within Okinawa. Aso was unable to win the mayor's support.

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Anti-death penalty campaigners criticize executions in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osamu Kishimoto, coordinator of Amnesty International Japan, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 14 in protest of the executions earlier in the day of two death-row inmates, including Mamoru Takuma, 40, who murdered eight schoolchildren in Osaka Prefecture in 2001 in a school attack. ''The whole picture of the mass murder has not been fully clarified yet. The execution passed over the murder case in silence,'' the international human rights watchdog said.

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(1)Typhoon rakes Japan, 3 dead, 3 missing in wake

YONAGO, Japan - Firefighters try to rescue an injured driver from a pickup truck that fell into a river in the town of Kishimoto, Tottori Prefecture on Aug. 9. Powerful Typhoon Etau pounded the wide western Japan areas, leaving at least three people dead, three missing and 52 injured.

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Koizumi arrives in Nago to attend Pacific island summit

NAGO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) is welcomed May 16 by Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto (2nd from L) as he arrives in Nago, Okinawa, to attend a meeting of the leaders of the 16-member Pacific Islands Forum. (Pool photo)

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Qarase arrives in Nago to attend Pacific island summit

NAGO, Japan - Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase (C) shakes hands May 16 with Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto as he arrives in Nago, Okinawa, for a meeting of the leaders of the 16-member Pacific Islands Forum.

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(1)Reclamation slated for Nago airport site

TOKYO, Japan - Tateo Kishimoto (L), mayor of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, and Okinawa Governor Keiichi Inamine speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office July 29 in Tokyo after agreeing with cabinet ministers on a plan to reclaim land from the sea off Nago as the site for an airport to replace U.S. Marine Corps' heliport functions in central Okinawa.

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Koizumi panel to draft gov't biotech strategy by year-end

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi addresses the inaugural meeting of his panel on biotechnology held his office on July 18. Panel chief Tadamitsu Kishimoto (L), president of the state-run Osaka University, told the meeting it plans to compile by the year-end a strategy to make the sector more competitive in the global market.

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Incumbent wins in Nago mayoral election in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan - Tateo Kishimoto (C front), the incumbent mayor of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, and his supporters celebrate his win in the mayoral election Feb. 3 in Nago. Kishimoto repeated his pledge to continue supporting the central government's plan to relocate U.S. military heliport functions to Nago.

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(2)Gov't opts for plan to build airport on Okinawa reef

TOKYO, Japan - Yasukatsu Urasaki (R), mayor of the village of Ginoza, Tateo Kishimoto (2nd from R), mayor of Nago, and Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (3 from R) attend a meeting at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on Dec. 27 to decide a location for an airport to be built to take over the heliport functions the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Okinawa. The participants decided to build the airport, which will also be used for civilian flights, on a reef off Hekono in Nago.

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French navy returns to Okinawa to commemorate 2 sailors

NAHA, Japan - A member of the French navy on Dec. 4 pays respects to the tombs of two French sailors who died of illness in 1846 while their ship made a port call in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, then part of the Ryukyu Kingdom. A ceremony was held the same day to honor symbolically a promise the navy made at the time to return to the kingdom to collect the sailors' remains. The event took place at the ''Oranda tombs,'' in Nago's Untembaru area, and was attended by the captain and crew of the French destroyer Vendemiaire and French Ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, as well as Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto and other local representatives.

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Mori performs traditional Okinawan dance in Nago

NAGO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C) performs Okinawa's traditional ''Kachaashii'' dance July 23 with Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto (far L) and school pupils at a welcoming event hosted by the city of Nago in a park just after the Group of Eight summit ended around noon the same day.

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Nago mayor explains airport plan for Henoko

NAGO, Japan - Nago mayor Tateo Kishimoto (left, seated) briefs citizens and journalists Dec. 17 on a plan to build an airport for use by both commercial airlines and the U.S. military in the city's Henoko district. The site, adjacent to U.S. Marine Camp Schwab, was selected for relocation of a U.S. military heliport in central Okinawa.

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Nago assembly meets amid base relocation debate

NAGO, Japan - Tateo Kishimoto, mayor of the city of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, speaks at the beginning of a city assembly meeting that opened Dec. 7. Earlier in the day, Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine said he hopes Nago's municipal assembly will approve a bill to allow a relocation of the heliport functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station to Nago's Heneko district. Kishimoto has said he will authorize the relocation if the asssembly passes the bill.

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Inamine asks Nago mayor to accept base relocation

NAGO, Japan - Surrounded by press corps, Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (second from front in right row at center table) meets with Mayor of Nago Tateo Kishimoto (right in left row) at a Nago public hall on Dec. 3. In the meeting, Inamine asked Kishimoto to accept a plan for the city in the northern part of the main Okinawa island to host a U.S. Marine Corps heliport. The meeting lasted only 10 minutes.

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NAGO, Japan - Citizens of Nago, northern Okinawa, stage a protest during a meeting between Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine and Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto at a Nago public hall Dec. 3. In the meeting, Inamine asked Kishimoto to accept a plan for the city to host a U.S. Marine Corps heliport. Some 100 citizens staged a sit-in at the main entrance, forcing the governor to be escorted through a side door by supporters of the relocation plan.

NAGO, Japan - Citizens of Nago, northern Okinawa, stage a protest during a meeting between Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine and Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto at a Nago public hall Dec. 3. In the meeting, Inamine asked Kishimoto to accept a plan for the city to host a U.S. Marine Corps heliport. Some 100 citizens staged a sit-in at the main entrance, forcing the governor to be escorted through a side door by supporters of the relocation plan.

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Citizens protest plan to move U.S. military heliport to Nago

NAGO, Japan - A group of citizens of Nago, northern Okinawa, stages a sit-in inside the Nago municipal office to try to stop a news conference by Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto on Nov. 22, in protest against a proposal to relocate the heliport functions of the U.S. Marine Corps' Futemma Air Station in Ginowan, central Okinawa, to the Henoko district in Nago. Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine announced the same day that the prefectural government has named the Henoko district as the candidate site.

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Okinawa decides to name Nago as site to relocate Futemma base

NAGO, Japan - Deputy Gov. Hideo Ishikawa (R) bows to Nago Mayor Tateo Kishimoto (L) on Nov. 22 at Nago's city office after requesting Kishimoto to accept the Okinawa prefectural government's decision to name Henoko district in Nago as the candidate site for the relocation of the heliport functions of the U.S. military base in Futemma, central Okinawa.

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Nago mayor welcomes Okinawa's selection as G-8 summit venue

Tateo Kishimoto (C), mayor of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, and others perform Okinawa's traditional dance at a ceremony to celebrate being picked as the venue for the 2000 summit of Group of Eight nations on April 29.

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Hirayama receives Order of Culture award

Emperor Akihito (left) hands the Order of Culture medal to artist Ikuo Hirayama in a ceremony held Nov. 3 at the Imperial Palace. Other recipients of this year's awards are: calligrapher Santo Murakami, historian Tatsuro Yamamoto, architect Yoshinobu Ashihara and immunologist Tadamitsu Kishimoto. (Pool photo)

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Recipients of Order of Culture awards

Five recipients of this year's Order of Culture awards and their spouses pose for camera Nov. 3 after receiving the medals from Emperor Akihito. Front row, from left to right: artist Ikuo Hirayama, calligrapher Santo Murakami, historian Tatsuro Yamamoto, architect Yoshinobu Ashihara and immunologist Tadamitsu Kishimoto. Back row, from left to right: Mrs. Michiko Hirayama, Mrs. Hatsuko Ashihara and Mrs. Chizuko Kishimoto. The five received the awards in a ceremony held at the Imperial Palace.

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Nago mayor re-elected in Okinawa

Taketoyo Toguchi speaks to reporters in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Jan. 24, 2022, a day after he won a second term as Nago mayor. Toguchi, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, defeated Yohei Kishimoto, a candidate who ran against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the city's coastal area in Okinawa.

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Nago mayor re-elected in Okinawa

Nago mayor Taketoyo Toguchi in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Jan. 24, 2022, reads a newspaper which reported his victory in the city's mayoral election on its front page. Toguchi, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, defeated Yohei Kishimoto, a candidate who ran against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the city's coastal area.

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Nago mayor re-elected in Okinawa

Yohei Kishimoto speaks to reporters after losing to incumbent Taketoyo Toguchi in the Nago mayoral election in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Jan. 23, 2022. Toguchi, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, defeated Kishimoto, a candidate who ran against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the city's coastal area.

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Nago mayor re-elected in Okinawa

Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki speaks to reporters in the southern Japan island prefecture on Jan. 23, 2022, after Yohei Kishimoto lost in the Nago mayoral election in Okinawa. Kishimoto, who was supported by the governor, ran against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the city's coastal area.

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Nago mayor re-elected in Okinawa

Nago mayor Taketoyo Toguchi (R) receives a flower bouquet in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Jan. 23, 2022, after he won a second term as the city's mayor. Toguchi, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, defeated Yohei Kishimoto, a candidate who ran against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the city's coastal area.

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Nago mayor re-elected in Okinawa

Nago mayor Taketoyo Toguchi speaks to reporters in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Jan. 23, 2022, after he won a second term as the city's mayor. Toguchi, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, defeated Yohei Kishimoto, a candidate who ran against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the city's coastal area.

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Nago mayor re-elected in Okinawa

Nago mayor Taketoyo Toguchi celebrates by throwing his arms in the air in the southern Japan island prefecture of Okinawa on Jan. 23, 2022, after he won a second term as the city's mayor. Toguchi, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner Komeito, defeated Yohei Kishimoto, a candidate who ran against the controversial relocation of a U.S. military base to the city's coastal area.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo Olympics: Triathlon

Japan's Niina Kishimoto dives during official practice for Tokyo Olympics triathlon on July 23, 2021.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo Olympics: Triathlon

Japan's Niina Kishimoto dives during official practice for Tokyo Olympics triathlon on July 23, 2021.

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CORRECTED: Tokyo Olympics: Triathlon

Japan's Niina Kishimoto dives during official practice for Tokyo Olympics triathlon on July 23, 2021.

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Anti-death penalty campaigners criticize executions in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osamu Kishimoto, coordinator of Amnesty International Japan, speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Sept. 14 in protest of the executions earlier in the day of two death-row inmates, including Mamoru Takuma, 40, who murdered eight schoolchildren in Osaka Prefecture in 2001 in a school attack. ''The whole picture of the mass murder has not been fully clarified yet. The execution passed over the murder case in silence,'' the international human rights watchdog said. (Kyodo)

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Aso fails to win nod from Okinawa officials over base plan

NAHA, Japan - Tateo Kishimoto, mayor of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, responds to reporters' questions at a Naha hotel on Nov. 25 after talks with Foreign Minister Taro Aso over a Japan-U.S. agreement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station within Okinawa. Aso was unable to win the mayor's support. (Kyodo)

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3 men to run for Nago mayor

NAGO, Japan - Three men filed their candidacies Jan. 15 for the upcoming mayoral election in Nago, where the major issue for the Okinawa Prefecture city is whether it should host the relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Futemma Air Station. The three vying to succeed retiring Mayor Tateo Kishimoto are (file photos from L to R) Yoshikazu Shimabukuro, 59, backed by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito party, Munehiro Gakiya, 59, an independent, and Yoshitami Oshiro, 65, supported by the Democratic Party of Japan, Japanese Communist Party and Social Democratic Party. (Kyodo)