Venice - Red carpet film ?Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)? MP

Venice - Red carpet film ?Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)? MP

Mamoru Hosoda, Mana Ashida, Masaki Okada attend the "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" red carpet during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on September 04, 2025 in Venice, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/Abacapress.com

Venice - Red carpet film "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" MP

Venice - Red carpet film "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" MP

Mamoru Hosoda attends the "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" red carpet during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on September 04, 2025 in Venice, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/Abacapress.com

Venice - Red carpet film "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" MP

Venice - Red carpet film "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" MP

Mamoru Hosoda attends the "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" red carpet during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on September 04, 2025 in Venice, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/Abacapress.com

Venice - Red carpet film "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" MP

Venice - Red carpet film "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" MP

Mamoru Hosoda attends the "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" red carpet during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on September 04, 2025 in Venice, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/Abacapress.com

Venice - Red carpet film "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" MP

Venice - Red carpet film "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" MP

Mamoru Hosoda attends the "Hateshinaki Scarlet (Scarlet)" red carpet during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on September 04, 2025 in Venice, Italy. Photo by Marco Piovanotto/Abacapress.com

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

Japanese Actor Akaso Mamoru

TAIPEI, CHINA - APRIL 1, 2025 - Japanese actor Akaso Mamoru attends a film launch event in Taipei, China on April 1, 2025.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - Fans Cosplay for characters in The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" directed by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda attend a pre-screening event at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, January 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - A preview of The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda is held at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, Jan 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - A preview of The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda is held at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, Jan 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - Fans Cosplay for characters in The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" directed by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda attend a pre-screening event at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, January 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - Fans Cosplay for characters in The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" directed by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda attend a pre-screening event at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, January 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - A preview of The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda is held at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, Jan 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - A preview of The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda is held at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, Jan 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - Fans Cosplay for characters in The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" directed by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda attend a pre-screening event at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, January 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Japanese Animated Film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 4, 2025 - A preview of The animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" by Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda is held at The Grand Theatre in Shanghai, China, Jan 4, 2025. Japanese director Mamoru Hosoda's animated film "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" is scheduled to be released in China during the Spring Festival holiday.

CHIAKI MUKAI A FIRST IN SPACE

CHIAKI MUKAI A FIRST IN SPACE,Interview with Chiaki Mukai, Japan's first female astronaut, Mamoru Mohri, Columbia launch, live video from the Space Shuttle, Columbia Captain Robert Cabana, Space Shuttle=Date:1994, Place:unknown

Composer Samuragochi

Composer Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2008 shows Mamoru Samuragochi, a deaf composer of classical music works as well as scores for videogames, at his office in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Samuragochi had someone else write his pieces for over 10 years, including his best-known Hiroshima Symphony, a lawyer representing him said Feb. 5, 2014.

Relatives remember Japanese submariners in Australian ceremony

Relatives remember Japanese submariners in Australian ceremony

SYDNEY, Australia - Kazutomo Ban, 74, (3rd L) and other relatives of two Japanese sailors who died in a midget submarine during an attack on Sydney Harbour during World War II, pose with Neil Roberts (2nd L), the only Australian survivor in the Australian naval vessel Kuttabul which was torpedoed during the attack, during a memorial service in Sydney on Aug. 6. After remaining lost for almost 65 years, the M24 midget submarine of Sub-Lt. Katsuhisa Ban and Petty Officer Mamoru Ashibe was discovered late last year by a group of amateur divers about 5 kilometers off Sydney's coast.

Copyright watchdog annuls contract with disgraced composer

Copyright watchdog annuls contract with disgraced composer

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows composer Mamoru Samuragochi, whose works were penned by a ghostwriter. The Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers said on Jan. 6, 2015, that it has annulled a contract to manage Samuragochi's rights.

Farmers harvest pumpkins grown from seeds back from space

Farmers harvest pumpkins grown from seeds back from space

CHIBA, Japan - Mamoru Hayashi, leader of a citizens' group in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, poses on Oct. 17, 2014, with pumpkins grown from seeds brought to and back from space by Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, a native of the Tokyo suburb. The group hopes to market them under the "space pumpkin" brand and make them a local specialty.

Farmers' group promotes pumpkins grown from space seeds

Farmers' group promotes pumpkins grown from space seeds

CHIBA, Japan - Mamoru Hayashi (L), leader of a citizens' group in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, promoting pumpkins grown from seeds brought to and back from space, poses with the owner of a local Japanese confectionary shop in the Tokyo suburb on Oct. 17, 2014. The shop sells "dorayaki" that uses the "space pumpkins" as the filling sandwiched between sweet Japanese pancakes.

JR Tokai seeks go-ahead for maglev train line project

JR Tokai seeks go-ahead for maglev train line project

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Uno (L), an executive officer at Central Japan Railway Co. known as JR Tokai, presents an application to an official in charge at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2014, for approval of a plan to launch work on a 290-km magnetically levitated train line between the Japanese capital and Nagoya for completion in 2027.

Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

Ex-envoy's kin unveils hidden WWII classified telegrams

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuko Ichihara (L), a niece of the wife of a late Japanese diplomat, shows the bounded volume of classified diplomatic telegrams from World War II that she found while sorting out belongings of a deceased relative in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents secretly kept by Ryuji Takeuchi, Japan's ambassador to the United States after the war, shows that Japan's wartime foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

Japan's wartime foreign minister mulled ending China war

Japan's wartime foreign minister mulled ending China war

TOKYO, Japan - A page from among classified telegrams circulated among Japanese diplomats during World War II is photographed on Aug. 14, 2014. The documents newly discovered by a relative of a former Japanese ambassador showed that then Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

File photo of Japan's WWII foreign minister Shigemitsu

File photo of Japan's WWII foreign minister Shigemitsu

TOKYO, Japan - An undated file photo of Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan's foreign minister during World War II. Classified telegrams discovered by a relative of a former Japanese diplomat showed that Shigemitsu in May 1944 considered asking the Soviet Union to broker an agreement to end war with China.

Japan museum unveils advanced android robots

Japan museum unveils advanced android robots

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Mohri (C), chief executive director of the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, hands an appointment letter to Otonaroid, an adult female android, to work as science communicator, at the museum in Tokyo's Koto Ward on June 24, 2014, while Kodomoroid (L), a child android, looks on. The museum describes the robots as the world's most advanced android robots that closely resemble humans.

Japan museum unveils advanced android robots

Japan museum unveils advanced android robots

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Mohri (center R), chief executive director of the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, and Hiroshi Ishiguro (center L), a special professor at Osaka University, pose with Kodomoroid (far L), a child android, and Otonaroid (R front), an adult female android, at the museum in Tokyo's Koto Ward on June 24, 2014. The museum describes the robots as the world's most advanced android robots that closely resemble humans.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi apologizes during a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi apologizes during a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - A sign language interpreter (front) accompanies Mamoru Samuragochi (back) at his press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after Samuragochi admitted he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him. Although there have been allegations that Samuragochi had also lied about his deafness, he asserted that he does have some hearing problems.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi apologizes during a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi (far R) apologizes during a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi apologizes during a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.

Mamoru Samuragochi

Mamoru Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Mamoru Samuragochi holds a press conference in Tokyo on March 7, 2014, about a month after admitting he had employed a ghostwriter for years for a series of classical music works purported to have been composed by him.