FAO reports outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in N. Korea

FAO reports outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in N. Korea

BANGKOK, Thailand - Hiroyuki Konuma (L), a regional representative for Asia and the Pacific of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, speaks about an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in North Korea at a press conference in Bangkok on March 26, 2014.

Event to mark Russell-Einstein Manifesto's 60th anniversary

Event to mark Russell-Einstein Manifesto's 60th anniversary

Michiji Konuma, a professor emeritus at Keio University, speaks during a ceremony at the exhibition hall of Fukuryu Mmaru No.5, a trawler exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, in Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo on July 5, 2015, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto issued against weapons of mass destruction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Diplomat urges continued Japanese aid for Africa beyond Ebola crisis

Diplomat urges continued Japanese aid for Africa beyond Ebola crisis

Japanese Foreign Ministry official Shiro Konuma speaks about his three-month stint at the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response in Ghana during an interview at the ministry in Tokyo on April 1, 2015. Konuma stressed the need for Japan to continue its support for Africa's medical infrastructure by contributing its expertise and know-how. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese physicist Konuma long involved in Pugwash confab

Japanese physicist Konuma long involved in Pugwash confab

Physicist Michiji Konuma, an 84-year-old former Pugwash Council member, speaks in an interview on Sept. 11, 2015. The 61st Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs was held in Nagasaki in November 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Keio University Professor Emeritus Michiji Konuma holds a diary written by Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, around the end of World War II in Kyoto on Dec. 21, 2017. The diary, Kyoto University disclosed to the public the same day, contains an entry confirming Yukawa's attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo