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SKF Matsumoto to be renamed Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa gives a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2014, regarding the renaming of the annual Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, a music festival in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, to "Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival" from next year.

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Conductor Ozawa, dancer Niyama paired for music festival

MATSUMOTO, Japan - World-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa (L) and Prix de Lausanne dance contest winner Haruo Niyama pose at a press conference in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 2, 2014. The pair is scheduled to appear jointly during an annual music festival in the eastern Japan city.

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Museum of scales in Mie Pref. closes

TSU, Japan - Kenzo Kobayashi, the 73-year-old owner and curator of Hakarinoyakata, one of only two museums on scales, weights and measures in Japan, speaks of his collection of over 10,000 items in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, in central Japan, on March 30, 2014. The museum closed the same day, with Kobayashi's collection to be donated to a scale maker in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, for exhibition in a new museum to open there in October.

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Kodaira attends send-off party for Sochi Olympics

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Japanese speed skater Nao Kodaira (3rd from R) pledges to do her best at the Sochi Olympic Games next month at a send-off party in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Jan. 21, 2014.

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Hokusai's set of 5 woodblock prints

TOKYO, Japan - A set of five woodblock prints by renowned ''ukiyoe'' artist Katsushika Hokusai is displayed at the Japan Ukiyoe Museum in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on May 6, 2012. Experts examined the set, which is based on ghost stories, in early May, confirming it as an authentic work by Hokusai.

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Ex-UNHCR Representative in Japan Takizawa

NAGANO, Japan - Saburo Takizawa, a former representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' office in Japan, speaks at a civic group's meeting on assisting refugees held Oct. 14, 2011, in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture.

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Maestro Ozawa back to podium

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Conductor Seiji Ozawa (2nd from R) joins the curtain call at a music festival in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 27, 2011, after conducting the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Bela Bartok's one-act opera ''Bluebeard's Castle.'' Ozawa had cancelled his appearances twice due to health problems.

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Maestro Ozawa back to podium

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Conductor Seiji Ozawa responds to the audience at a music festival in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 27, 2011, after conducting the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Bela Bartok's one-act opera ''Bluebeard's Castle.'' Ozawa had cancelled his appearances twice due to health problems.

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IAEA to take lead role in securing safer nuclear future

NAGANO, Japan - International Atomic Energy Agency chief Yukiya Amano (R) delivers a keynote address at the U.N. Conference on Disarmament Issues which opened July 27, 2011, in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. Amano said the atomic watchdog will play a ''lead role'' in creating a safer nuclear future, as global use of nuclear energy will likely continue for decades despite the accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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Mudslides in Nagano Pref.

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows a national road covered by mudslides in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 24, 2011. About 1,200 people have been stranded in the area since the previous day due to the mudslides.

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Maestro Ozawa in Matsumoto for music festival

NAGANO, Japan - Renowned Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa (2nd from R) poses for photos at a press conference in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 7, 2011, ahead of the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the central Japan city from Aug. 8 to 31. The music festival directed by Ozawa is also scheduled to be held in Beijing and Shanghai in September.

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Conductor Ozawa makes brief comeback at concert

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Seiji Ozawa conducts the Saito Kinen Orchestra in the opening movement of the ''Serenade for Strings'' by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 5, 2010. Ozawa, who made his first concert appearance since December while undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer, apologized for cutting back on concert appearances due to the intensification of his back pain.

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Conductor Ozawa makes brief comeback at concert

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Seiji Ozawa conducts the Saito Kinen Orchestra in the opening movement of the ''Serenade for Strings'' by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 5, 2010. Ozawa, who made his first concert appearance since December while undergoing treatment for esophageal cancer, apologized for cutting back on concert appearances due to the intensification of his back pain.

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Ailing Ozawa apologizes for cut in concert appearance

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Ailing Seiji Ozawa conducts during a rehearsal on Aug. 31, 2010, in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. Ozawa apologized the same day for a planned cut in the number of pieces he will conduct in September at the annual Saito Kinen Festival, citing a lingering health problem.

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Ailing Ozawa apologizes for cut in concert appearance

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Ailing conductor Seiji Ozawa (R) speaks during a news conference on Aug. 31, 2010, in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. Ozawa apologized for a planned cut in the number of pieces he will conduct in September at the annual Saito Kinen Festival, citing a lingering health problem, and announced that Tatsuya Shimono (L) will take over.

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Weston Festival heralds arrival of summer mountaineering season

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Primary school students sing against the backdrop of Japan's Northern Alps during the Weston Festival held in memory of Walter Weston, who introduced the Japan Alps to the world, in Kamikochi in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 7, before the start of the summer mountaineering season.

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Weston Festival heralds arrival of summer mountaineering season

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Primary school students sing against the backdrop of Japan's Northern Alps during the Weston Festival held in memory of Walter Weston, who introduced the Japan Alps to the world, in Kamikochi in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 7, before the start of the summer mountaineering season.

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Survivor of 1994 AUM gas attack in Nagano dies in coma

NAGANO, Japan - In this file photo taken on March 4, Yoshiyuki Kono takes care of his wife Sumiko, who survived an AUM Shinrikyo cult sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, in 1994 but was left bedridden and comatose. Sumiko Kono died on Aug. 5 of respiratory failure. She was 60.

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Crown prince, princess visit Nagano Prefecture

TOKYO, Japan - Crown Prince Naruhito (L) and Crown Princess Masako wave at well-wishers as they arrive at JR Matsumoto Station in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 1 to attend an event on protection of the country's greenery. It was the crown princess's first visit to a region outside Tokyo on public duties in about seven months.

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(2)Typhoon leaves 42 dead, 37 missing

MATSUMOTO, Japan - A two-car train lies derailed on the Japan Railways Iida Line in Tatsuno, Nagano Prefecture, on Oct. 21. The train was derailed Oct. 20 after part of the rail embankment was washed away by heavy rain from Typhoon Tokake.

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Lawyer announces candidacy in Nagano gubernatorial race

NAGANO, Japan - Keiko Hasegawa, a lawyer from Iida, Nagano Prefecture, tells her supporters in a meeting in Matsumoto, Nagano on Aug. 2 that she will run in the Sept. 1 Nagano gubernatorial race.

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Maestro Ozawa attends music events in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Maestro Seiji Ozawa (2nd from L, front), who is a general manager of the annual summertime Saito memorial music festival in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, attends promotional events for the festival at Tokyo's Shinjuku Station on June 20.

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Murdered lawyer's colleague speaks to media

TOKYO, Japan - Hisashi Okada, a former colleague of murdered lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto, speaks to reporters July 25 after the death sentence was given to a former AUM Shinrikyo follower found guilty of taking part in the 1989 murder of Sakamoto, his wife and small child. The former cult member, Satoru Hashimoto, was also convicted for his role in a 1994 nerve-gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, that left seven people dead.

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6,000 attend outdoor opera at Matsumoto Castle

MATSUMOTO, Japan - About 6,000 people attend a concert-style opera conducted by Seiji Ozawa in the gardens of Matsumoto Castle in Nagano Prefecture on Sept. 4. The opera performed was the ''Hell-like pains of Faust,'' based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's ''Faust.''