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Eagles' Kitani takes 1st win as pro

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles pitcher Hisashi Kitani throws against the Chiba Lotte Marines as a starter at Kleenex Stadium in Sendai on Aug. 15. Kitani earned his first win in his professional career, only giving up one run in the six innings and steering his team to a 5-1 victory.

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Eagles' Kitani takes 1st win as pro

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles pitcher Hisashi Kitani throws against the Chiba Lotte Marines as a starter at Kleenex Stadium in Sendai on Aug. 15. Kitani earned his first win in his professional career, only giving up one run in the six innings and steering his team to a 5-1 victory.

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JCO's president Kitani answers reporters

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani, president of JCO Co., answers reporters' questions at the University of Tokyo Hospital on Dec. 22 after JCO worker Hisashi Ouchi died the previous day after suffering massive radiation exposure in Japan's worst nuclear accident in late September. Ouchi's death came 83 days after the accident at the JCO uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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JCO's president attends lower house meeting

TOKYO, Japan - JCO Co. President Hiroharu Kitani (L) and Kenzo Koshijima (R), head of the company's uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 19 attend as witnesses a science and technology committee meeting in the House of Representatives on Japan's worst nuclear accident at the plant on Sept. 30.

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JCO president apologizes Tokaimura residents

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani, president of JOC Co., operators of the uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, scene of a major radiation leakage on Sept. 30, kneels in apology Oct. 2 morning at a community evacuation center in the village before Tokaimura residents who were forced to flee their homes after the contamination.

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Japan wins silver in boccia at Rio Paralympics

Members of the Japanese boccia team -- (from L on front row) Yuriko Fujii, Takayuki Hirose, Takayuki Kitani and Hidetaka Sugimura -- celebrate with silver medals they won in the classification for players with brain palsy at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics on Sept. 12, 2016. Thailand won gold, defeating Japan 9-4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan wins silver in boccia at Rio Paralympics

Members of the Japanese boccia team -- (from L on front row) Takayuki Kitani, Takayuki Hirose, Hidetaka Sugimura, and Yuriko Fujii -- celebrate after winning silver in the classification for players with brain palsy at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics on Sept. 12, 2016. Thailand won gold, defeating Japan 9-4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan wins silver in boccia at Rio Paralympics

Members of the Japanese boccia team -- (from L on front row) Takayuki Hirose, Hidetaka Sugimura, Takayuki Kitani and Yuriko Fujii -- hold silver medals they won in the classification for players with brain palsy at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics on Sept. 12, 2016. Thailand won gold, defeating Japan 9-4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan wins silver in boccia at Rio Paralympics

Members of the Japanese boccia team -- (from L on front row) Takayuki Hirose, Hidetaka Sugimura, Yuriko Fujii and Takayuki Kitani -- hold silver medals they won in the classification for players with brain palsy at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympics on Sept. 12, 2016. Thailand won gold, defeating Japan 9-4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eagles' Kitani takes 1st win as pro

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles pitcher Hisashi Kitani throws against the Chiba Lotte Marines as a starter at Kleenex Stadium in Sendai on Aug. 15. Kitani earned his first win in his professional career, only giving up one run in the six innings and steering his team to a 5-1 victory. (Kyodo)

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Eagles' Kitani takes 1st win as pro

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Eagles pitcher Hisashi Kitani throws against the Chiba Lotte Marines as a starter at Kleenex Stadium in Sendai on Aug. 15. Kitani earned his first win in his professional career, only giving up one run in the six innings and steering his team to a 5-1 victory. (Kyodo)

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Science agency revokes JCO's business license

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani (L), president of JCO Co., the operator of the closed Tokaimura uranium processing plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, receives official notification on March 28 that the Science and Technology Agency is canceling the firm's business license. The notice, presented by Kaoru Mamiya, director general of the agency's Nuclear Safety Bureau, said JCO was responsible for Japan's worst nuclear accident at its uranium-processing plant in Tokaimura last September.

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JCO head to resign to take responsibility for accident

MITO, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani, president of JCO Co., the operator of the closed Tokaimura uranium processing plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, tells a press conference on Feb. 25 in Mito, the prefecture capital, that he is planning to resign to take responsibility for Japan's worst nuclear accident in September. The accident killed a JCO worker and exposed several dozen others to radiation.

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JCO's president Kitani answers reporters

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani, president of JCO Co., answers reporters' questions at the University of Tokyo Hospital on Dec. 22 after JCO worker Hisashi Ouchi died the previous day after suffering massive radiation exposure in Japan's worst nuclear accident in late September. Ouchi's death came 83 days after the accident at the JCO uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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JCO's president attends lower house meeting

TOKYO, Japan - JCO Co. President Hiroharu Kitani (L) and Kenzo Koshijima (R), head of the company's uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 19 attend as witnesses a science and technology committee meeting in the House of Representatives on Japan's worst nuclear accident at the plant on Sept. 30.

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JCO president apologizes Tokaimura residents (CORRECTING CAPTION

TOKAIMURA, Japan - Hiroharu Kitani, president of JOC Co., operators of the uranium processing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, scene of a major radiation leakage on Sept. 30, kneels in apology Oct. 2 morning at a community evacuation center in the village before Tokaimura residents who were forced to flee their homes after the contamination.