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Baseball: Japan teenager Morii signs with A's

Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old baseball player from Japan's Toho Senior High School, speaks at a press conference in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, on Feb. 11, 2025, after signing a minor league contract with U.S. Major League Baseball's Athletics in January.

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Auto dealers opening kids' classes in showrooms

TOKYO, Japan - A girl is welcomed by an instructor in an English conversation class operated by Benesse Corp. in a Toyota dealership showroom in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, as seen in this file photo taken on Nov. 13, 2014. Classes for children opened by educational firms in auto showrooms are increasing.

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Kuroda speech

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda delivers a speech in Tokyo's Kunitachi City on May 26, 2013.

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Noda in stump speech

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda makes a stump speech in Kunitachi, Tokyo, on Nov. 24, 2012, ahead of the Dec. 16 general election.

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Musicians to teach jazz in college

TOKYO, Japan - Jazz musicians Yosuke Yamashita (L), Sadao Watanabe (C) and Makoto Ozone smile after a press conference in Tokyo on May 10, 2010. They will teach a new course on jazz at Kunitachi College of Music in western Tokyo from the academic year beginning in April 2011.

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Experiments done for advanced medical technology for pets

TOKYO, Japan - A right eye of a beagle dog suffering from corneal haze caused by a tumor is cured through transplanting treatment by veterinarian Masanori Endo at Kunitachi Animal Hospital in the western Tokyo city of Kunitachi.

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(3)Missing Bach original piece found after 80 years

TACHIKAWA, Japan - Japanese pianist Chieko Hara plays the piano in this undated photo. Tadashi Isoyama, a professor of Kunitachi College of Music, found part of a musical score composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), which had been missing for about 80 years, among the late pianist's possessions.

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Top floors of condo in suburban Tokyo ordered to be removed

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court ordered condominium developer Meiwa Estate Co. on Dec. 18 to remove the 23-meter-high part of the 43-meter condominium building (photo), more than 20 meters above ground level, in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, and to pay compensation to local residents for destroying the area's scenery. The court said the condominium violates the local residents' rights to the scenery.

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Tanaka stumps for Tokyo assembly election

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka makes a campaign pitch on June 23 during the final day of campaigning for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election on June 24. Some 4,000 people gathered in front of JR Kunitachi station in western Tokyo to hear her speak.

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3 businessmen suicide

Three Japanese business partners hanged themselves at a hotel in the city of Kunitachi, western Tokyo, on February 25, 1998, apparently because of business difficulties. Three men are identified as Mr. Masaaki Kobayashi, 51, president of an auto parts sales company, Mr. Masaru Sudo, 49, self-employed, and Mr. Yoshimi Shoji, 49, president of an auto parts sales comapny. (Photo: ""Le Piano"" where they died.)

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Non-Freedom of Expression Exhibition

A statue symbolizing "comfort women" who worked in Japan's wartime military brothels is shown to the media at the venue of the Non-Freedom of Expression Exhibition in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, on April 2, 2022.

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Ukrainian opera singer Oksana Stepanyuk

Ukrainian opera singer Oksana Stepanyuk poses for a photo in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, on Feb. 26, 2022.

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Cameroon-born manga artist deftly captures life growing up in Japan

Cameroon-born manga artist Rene Hoshino draws on his tablet at home in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, on Oct. 12, 2018. Hoshino, who was raised in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, since he was around 3, saw the release of his manga book, "Afurika Shonen ga Nihon de Sodatta Kekka" ("The Results of an African Boy Growing up in Japan") published on Aug. 20, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New generation of A-bomb storytellers emerging in unlikely place

Shigeyuki Katsura (2nd from L), 84, recounts his experiences as an atomic bomb survivor to people in Kunitachi, Tokyo, where he lives, on June 27, 2015, hoping to pass on his memories of the attack. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Experiments done for advanced medical technology for pets

TOKYO, Japan - A right eye of a beagle dog suffering from corneal haze caused by a tumor is cured through transplanting treatment by veterinarian Masanori Endo at Kunitachi Animal Hospital in the western Tokyo city of Kunitachi. (Kyodo)

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Musicians to teach jazz in college

TOKYO, Japan - Jazz musicians Yosuke Yamashita (L), Sadao Watanabe (C) and Makoto Ozone smile after a press conference in Tokyo on May 10, 2010. They will teach a new course on jazz at Kunitachi College of Music in western Tokyo from the academic year beginning in April 2011. (Kyodo)

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Auto dealers opening kids' classes in showrooms

TOKYO, Japan - A girl is welcomed by an instructor in an English conversation class operated by Benesse Corp. in a Toyota dealership showroom in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, as seen in this file photo taken on Nov. 13, 2014. Classes for children opened by educational firms in auto showrooms are increasing. (Kyodo)

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(2)Missing Bach original piece found after 80 years

TACHIKAWA, Japan - Tadashi Isoyama, a professor of Kunitachi College of Music, points to part of a musical score composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), which had been missing for about 80 years but has been found among the possessions of the late Japanese pianist Chieko Hara, at his school in Tachikawa, western Tokyo, on April 3. (Kyodo)

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(1)Missing Bach original piece found after 80 years

TACHIKAWA, Japan - Tadashi Isoyama, a professor of Kunitachi College of Music, looks at a musical score composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), which had been missing for about 80 years and has been found among the possessions of the late Japanese pianist Chieko Hara, at his school in Tachikawa on April 3. Researchers describe the 1728 composition ''Wedding Cantata BWV 216'' as an invaluable discovery that will lead to a greater understanding of the German composer during his prime. (Kyodo)

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Emperor and empress visit care facility

Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit a welfare facility set up for people with learning disabilities in Tokyo's Kunitachi city on Dec. 6, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor and empress visit care facility

Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit a welfare facility set up for people with learning disabilities in Tokyo's Kunitachi city on Dec. 6, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor and empress visit care facility

Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko talk with a resident of a welfare facility set up for people with learning disabilities in Tokyo's Kunitachi city on Dec. 6, 2018. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(3)Missing Bach original piece found after 80 years

TACHIKAWA, Japan - Japanese pianist Chieko Hara plays the piano in this undated photo. Tadashi Isoyama, a professor of Kunitachi College of Music, found part of a musical score composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), which had been missing for about 80 years, among the late pianist's possessions. (Kyodo)

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Top floors of condo in suburban Tokyo ordered to be removed

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo District Court ordered condominium developer Meiwa Estate Co. on Dec. 18 to remove the 23-meter-high part of the 43-meter condominium building (photo), more than 20 meters above ground level, in Kunitachi, western Tokyo, and to pay compensation to local residents for destroying the area's scenery. The court said the condominium violates the local residents' rights to the scenery. (Kyodo)

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Tanaka stumps for Tokyo assembly election

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka makes a campaign pitch on June 23 during the final day of campaigning for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election on June 24. Some 4,000 people gathered in front of JR Kunitachi station in western Tokyo to hear her speak.