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GMO Internet Group wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

GMO Internet Group ekiden road relay team anchor Masaya Tsurukawa crosses the finish line of the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2026, for the team's first victory.

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GMO Internet Group wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

GMO Internet Group ekiden road relay team anchor Masaya Tsurukawa is tossed in the air by teammates after the team won the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2026, for the team's first victory.

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GMO Internet Group wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

GMO Internet Group ekiden road relay team members pose for a photo after winning the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2026, for the team's first victory.

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa holds a press conference at the city hall in the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 6, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site. (Kyodo)

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa is pictured at the city hall in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025, waiting for city assembly members, who are set to hand her a written request urging her to decide whether to continue serving in light of allegations of an affair with a senior city official reported by an online new site.(Kyodo)

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

MAEBASHI, Japan, Oct. 23 Kyodo - Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa meets the press after holding a meeting with all members of the city assembly of the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site.(Kyodo)

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Maebashi mayoral candidate Ogawa

Maebashi mayoral candidate Akira Ogawa gives her first stump speech on Jan. 28, 2024, in the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan.

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa holds a meeting with all members of the city assembly of the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2025, over an alleged affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site.

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Maebashi Mayor Ogawa

Maebashi city assembly members hand Maebashi Mayor Akira Ogawa (far L) a written request urging her to decide whether to continue serving after an allegation of an affair with a senior city official reported by an online news site, at the city hall in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2025.

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Summer heat in Japan

People walk with parasols in front of JR Maebashi Station in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 5, 2025, as the temperature exceeds 40 C in the eastern Japan city.

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Japan PM inspects regional reinvigoration efforts

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba eats bread at a community center set up at a local optician's shop in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, on June 7, 2025. Ishiba is visiting the eastern Japan city to inspect regional efforts to reinvigorate the economy. (Pool photo)

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Japan PM inspects regional reinvigoration efforts

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba eats bread at a community center set up at a local optician's shop in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, on June 7, 2025. Ishiba is visiting the eastern Japan city to inspect regional efforts to reinvigorate the economy. (Pool photo)

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Asahi Kasei wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Asahi Kasei ekiden road relay team anchor Ryuto Igawa crosses the finish line of the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2025 for the team's first victory in five years.

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Asahi Kasei wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Asahi Kasei ekiden road relay team anchor Ryuto Igawa crosses the finish line of the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2025 for the team's first victory in five years.

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Asahi Kasei wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Asahi Kasei ekiden road relay team anchor Ryuto Igawa is tossed in the air by teammates after the team won the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2025 for the first time in five years.

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Toyota wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Toyota Motor runners pose for a photo after winning the national corporate ekiden road relay in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2024 for the first time in eight years.

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Toyota wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Toyota Motor ekiden road relay team anchor Yuma Hattori crosses the finish line of the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2024 for the first time in eight years.

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Toyota wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Toyota Motor ekiden road relay team anchor Yuma Hattori crosses the finish line of the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2024 for the first time in eight years.

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Toyota wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Toyota Motor ekiden road relay team anchor Yuma Hattori is tossed up by teammates after their team won the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2024 for the first time in eight years.

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Toyota wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Toyota Motor ekiden road relay team anchor Yuma Hattori is tossed up by teammates after their team won the national corporate championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2024 for the first time in eight years.

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Honda wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Honda Motor runners celebrate after winning the national corporate ekiden road relay in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2023.

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Honda wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Honda Motor anchor Shin Kimura crosses the finish line of the national corporate ekiden road relay in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2023. Honda won the New Year Day event for the second consecutive year.

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Honda wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Honda Motor anchor Shin Kimura crosses the finish line of the national corporate ekiden road relay in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2023. Honda won the New Year Day event for the second consecutive year.

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Honda wins national corporate ekiden in Japan

Honda Motor ekiden road relay team anchor Shin Kimura is tossed up by teammates after their team won the national championship race in Maebashi, eastern Japan, on Jan. 1, 2023 for the second consecutive year.

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Banner to inform UNESCO's decision on Tomioka mill

MAEBASHI, Japan - A banner hangs on the Gunma prefectural government office building in Maebashi on June 21, 2014, informing the UNESCO World Heritage Committee's decision to add the Tomioka Silk Mill and related sites to the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Japan to export beef to Canada for first time

MAEBASHI, Japan - Japan will begin exporting beef to Canada next week for the first time, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare officials said Aug. 8. Photo shows a ceremony held at a meat processing center in the town of Tamamura, Gunma Prefecture, to mark the first shipment of Japanese beef to Canada. The beef will be shipped by air from Narita airport Aug. 13.

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Toyota wins 2nd corporate ekiden title

MAEBASHI, Japan - Tsubasa Hayakawa of Toyota Motor Corp. crosses the finish line of the annual corporate ekiden race in Gunma Prefecture on Jan. 1, 2015. Toyota completed the seven-leg, 100-kilometer road relay in 4 hours, 51 minutes, 41 seconds for its second crown in the competition.

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8 dead after surgical team used laparoscopes in liver operations

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 14, 2014, shows Gunma University Hospital in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture. The state-run institution confirmed the same day that eight patients died in less than four months in liver operations conducted by the same doctor using laparoscopes, a type of endoscope, at the hospital.

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Winning mascot character makes triumphant return

MAEBASHI, Japan - "Gunma-chan," a mascot character representing Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo, poses at the prefectural government building in Maebashi on Nov. 5, 2014, after winning a national mascot character contest two days earlier.

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Ex-Obuchi aide says funds discrepancies "clerical errors"

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 31, 2014 shows the Nakanojo municipal government offices in Gunma Prefecture, which was raided by prosecutors the same day in connection with discrepancies in political funds reports linked to former industry minister Yuko Obuchi. Kenichiro Orita, a former aide to Obuchi and a former mayor of Nakanojo, told prosecutors the discrepancies were caused by "clerical errors," sources with knowledge of the matter said.

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Prosecutors launch probe into ex-minister's funds irregularities

MAEBASHI, Japan - Special investigators from the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office enter the home of Kenichiro Orita, a former secretary to former trade and industry minister Yuko Obuchi, in the town of Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2014, as they launched a formal investigation into irregularities in the political funds reports of groups related to Obuchi.

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Ceremony held to mark start of train from relocated station

MAEBASHI, Japan - A ceremony is held on Oct. 1, 2014, to mark the start of a train run from the relocated Kawarayu Onsen Station on East Japan Railway Co.'s Agatsuma Line in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan. The original station will be submerged due to the controversial Yamba Dam construction project.

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Ceremony held to open bridge over Yamba Dam in eastern Japan

MAEBASHI, Japan - A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held on Oct. 1, 2014, to open a bridge built over Yamba Dam in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, after decades of controversy over the advisability of dam construction.

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People wait to buy admission tickets for relocated station

MAEBASHI, Japan - People wait in line to buy commemorative admission tickets for the relocated Kawarayu Onsen Station on East Japan Railway Co.'s Agatsuma Line in Naganohara, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on Oct. 1, 2014. The original station will be submerged due to the controversial Yamba Dam construction project.

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French man offers studio, room to foreign artists

MAEBASHI, Japan - Frederic Weigel (L), a French art curator residing in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, poses for a photo with his wife Yoshiko Suto in July 2014 in the city. He offers foreign artists a studio and accommodation room for free in a three-story building near JR Kitatakasaki Station.

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French curator runs atelier in Japan

MAEBASHI, Japan - Atelier "Palais Des Paris," pictured in July 2014, is run by French art curator Frederic Weigel (L) in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. He offers foreign artists a studio and accommodation for free in the three-story building near JR Kitatakasaki Station.

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Passengers toast with sake on train in Japan

MAEBASHI, Japan - Thirty-one passengers make a toast with sake in small wooden boxes on a specially arranged train operated by Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2014.

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French researcher finds historical papers for Tomioka Silk Mill

MAEBASHI, Japan - Christian Polak, a French researcher of Franco-Japanese relations, points to trademarks of silk products from the Tomioka Silk Mill, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, at a museum in Yokohama south of Tokyo in June 2014. He discovered in southeastern France historical papers containing the design of silk-reeling machines used at the early stage of the mill.

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4 Kanto cities to support each other in disasters

MITO, Japan - Utsunomiya Mayor Eiichi Sato, Mito Mayor Yasushi Takahashi, Maebashi Mayor Ryu Yamamoto and Takasaki Mayor Kenji Tomioka (from L) pose for photos at the city hall in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Aug. 21, 2014, after signing an agreement on mutual support in times of disaster.

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'Tonkatsu Street' staging campaign to promote pork cutlets

MAEBASHI, Japan - Yasushi Kaneko promotes 'tonkatsu' or pork cutlets in Numata, Gunma Prefecture, on Aug. 6, 2014, as he leads a campaign involving tonkatsu restaurants along National Road 120 near the Numata Interchange on the Kanetsu Expressway in Numata, Gunma Prefecture. Having some 20 tonkatsu restaurants, the section of the road in the landlocked prefecture in the Kanto region has earned the nickname "Tonkatsu Street."

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Heads of 5 prefectures mull ways of beating harmful rumors

MAEBASHI, Japan - Fukushima Governor Yuhei Sato (standing) speaks at a meeting with his counterparts from four other prefectures in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on July 30, 2014, concerning the negative reputation caused by the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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Marshland damaged by deer in Oze National Park

MAEBASHI, Japan - Part of a marshland near the Ryugyu Crossroad section of a boardwalk in Oze National Park, eastern Japan, is damaged by deer as seen in this file photo taken on June 11, 2014.

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White arum damaged by deer in Oze National Park

MAEBASHI, Japan - A white arum (Asian skunk cabbage) colony along the Shimono-ohori River in Oze National Park, eastern Japan, shows traces of damage from deer as seen in this file photo taken on June 11, 2014.

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Congratulatory message from Uzbekistan on UNESCO decision

MAEBASHI, Japan -A congratulatory message sent from Uzbekistan to the Gunma prefectural government for UNESCO's decision to include the Tomioka Silk Mill and related sites in the World Cultural Heritage list is seen in this photo taken in June 2014.

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People check cocoons at Tomioka Silk Mill

MAEBASHI, Japan - People examine cocoons brought to the Tomioka Silk Mill, expected to be designated as a World Heritage site by UNESCO, in Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, on June 14, 2014. The cocoons formed in May and June are known for their quality.

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Ceremony held for 1st export to EU of 'Joshu wagyu' beef

MAEBASHI, Japan - A ceremony is held at the Gunma Meat Wholesale Market in Tamamura, Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, on June 9, 2014, to commemorate the first shipment of "Joshu wagyu" beef for export to the European Union.

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Tajima Yahei Kyutaku added to UNESCO list

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014 shows the inside of the Tajima Yahei Kyutaku -- the old residence and farmhouse of Yahei Tajima -- in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, which is said to be the original modern sericulture farm. It was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

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Arafune Cold Storage added to UNESCO list

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken April 18, 2014 shows the Arafune Cold Storage for silkworm eggs in Shimonita, Gunma Prefecture, which used cold air blowing from underground through gaps between rocks. The facility, called Fuketsu, was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

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Tomioka Silk Mill celebrates 2 millionth visitor

MAEBASHI, Japan - Tomioka Silk Mill in Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, welcomes 2 millionth visitor Makoto Saito (3rd from R) on May 12, 2014. The historic factory building is expected to be listed as a World Heritage site.

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Takayama-sha sericulture school in Gunma Pref.

MAEBASHI, Japan - Takayama-sha sericulture school, known for successfully spreading modern sericultural technology throughout Japan and overseas is photographed in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, on April 21, 2014. An advisory panel to UNESCO recently recommended adding Takayama-sha to the World Cultural Heritage list.