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Ohtani mural in his hometown

Photo taken on Sept. 22, 2025, shows a mural of Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani, created by American artist Robert Vargas, on the wall of a community center in Ohtani's hometown of Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. The artist is known for painting a 45-meter-tall giant mural of Ohtani on the side of Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

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Ohtani mural in his hometown

Photo taken on Sept. 22, 2025, shows a mural of Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani, created by American artist Robert Vargas, on the wall of a community center in Ohtani's hometown of Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. The artist is known for painting a 45-meter-tall giant mural of Ohtani on the side of Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

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Ohtani mural in his hometown

Photo taken on Sept. 25, 2025, shows a mural of Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and his dog Decoy, known in Japanese as Dekopin, created by American artist Robert Vargas, on the outside wall of a hair salon in Ohtani's hometown of Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. The artist is known for painting a 45-meter-tall giant mural of Ohtani on the side of Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

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Ohtani mural in his hometown

Photo taken on Sept. 25, 2025, shows a mural of Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and his dog Decoy, known in Japanese as Dekopin, created by American artist Robert Vargas, on the outside wall of a hair salon in Ohtani's hometown of Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, in northeastern Japan. The artist is known for painting a 45-meter-tall giant mural of Ohtani on the side of Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Huge Ohtani mural in Los Angeles

A 45-meter-tall giant mural of two-way star Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers is unveiled on the side of Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, on March 27, 2024.

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Abe with young baseball players

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 11 Kyodo - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe takes a swing in a meeting with members of the Tokyo Kitasuna baseball team at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 11, 2017. The baseball team visited Abe after winning the Little League World Series title in August.

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"Mochi Ice Cream" maker Mikawaya store in L.A.'s Little Tokyo

LOS ANGELES, July 13 Kyodo - Photo taken on July 8, 2015, shows a store of Mochi (rice cake) Ice Cream maker Mikawaya in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The 105-year-old confectionary producer has been bought by U.S. investment company Century Park Capital Partners.

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Chinese version of Japanese children's tale published

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuyuki Shiraishi, head of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd.'s subsidiary in Beijing, speaks during an event in the Chinese capital on Jan. 10, 2015, to release the Chinese translation of "The Little Girl at the Window," a best-selling children's book written by Japanese TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.

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Japan teenage girls' soccer team celebrates championship

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Little Nadeshiko, champions of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup held in Costa Rica earlier this year, pose at a celebration party in Tokyo on July 28, 2014.

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Scale model of 'Totto-chan's Square' displayed

TOKYO, Japan - A scale model of "Totto-chan's Square" is displayed in Tokyo on May 22, 2014, ahead of its planned construction at the Chihiro Art Museum featuring illustrator Chihiro Iwasaki in Matsukawa, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. "Totto-chan" is a lead character in "The Little Girl at the Window" authored by actress and TV personality Tetsuko Kuroyanagai, who also is director of the museum.

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Knuckleball pitcher Baker

TOKYO, Japan - Chelsea Baker, a 14-year-old pitcher in the U.S. Little League known for her knuckleball, poses in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on March 7, 2012, during her first visit to Japan.

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Cherry blossom queens pay courtesy call on Fukuda

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. cherry blossom queen Emily Little (L) and Japanese cherry blossom queen Megumi Yoshida (R) pay a courtesy call on Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at his office in Tokyo on May 23.

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Saint-Exupery painting for 'The Little Prince' found in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo of a watercolor painting believed to be one of the pictures drawn by Antoine de Saint-Exupery for his famous novel ''The Little Prince.'' The painting has been found in Japan and will go on display from April 25 in Tokyo. Painted on letter paper, the work depicts an asteroid inhabited by a businessman that the little prince stops at before coming to Earth.

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'Little Hong Kong' created in Tokyo seaside shopping mall

TOKYO, Japan - A Tokyo shopping mall aimed to recreate the atmosphere of Hong Kong is opened to journalists Dec. 1, one day before it begins commercial operations. Dubbed ''Little Hong Kong,'' the mall occupies the sixth and seventh floors of the new seven-story Island Mall annex of the Decks Tokyo Beach seaside shopping center in Tokyo's Odaiba.

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Japanese electric car completes round-the-world trip

LOS ANGELES, United States - Masaharu Fujinaka (C), professor of Tokyo Denki University, and his students pose for pictures in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, on Oct. 10 after completing the final leg of their round-the-world journey in an electric car. Fujinaka's team left Japan on July 3 to begin the 18,000 kilometer journey through Russia, Europe and the United States. During the 100-day journey, Masahiro Furukawa, the 22-year-old driver, traveled about 70 kilometers per hour, averaging about 300 km per day.