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Centennial of birth of gold-medal swimmer Maehata

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Masaomi Hyodo (far L), a son of legendary Olympic gold-medal swimmer Hideko Maehata, sees some 50 exhibits of his mother during a centennial ceremony of her birth at a gymnasium in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on July 31, 2014. Maehata is best remembered by many Japanese for a live NHK radio broadcast of the 200-meter breaststroke final in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in which an announcer repeatedly shouted "Ganbare (Go for it), Maehata!"

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Museum head to visit Cambodia to help save cultural heritage

NAGOYA, Japan - Masaomi Yokota, 77, head of Yokota Museum in the village of Tsukude southeast of Nagoya, poses for picture March 7 before his departure March 11 for Cambodia to advise officials about preserving its cultural heritage. His museum features ancient ceramics and artifacts from Southeast Asia.

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Museum head to visit Cambodia to help save cultural heritage

NAGOYA, Japan - Masaomi Yokota, 77, head of Yokota Museum in the village of Tsukude southeast of Nagoya, poses for picture March 7 before his departure March 11 for Cambodia to advise officials about preserving its cultural heritage. His museum features ancient ceramics and artifacts from Southeast Asia.

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Toa fabricated reinforcement work data at another 2 airports

Masaomi Matsuo (C), president of Toa Corp., and other executives of the Tokyo construction company hold a press conference at the transport ministry in Tokyo on May 13, 2016. Matsuo said the company has discovered that falsified data for seismic reinforcement work were submitted for two airports in addition to Haneda airport in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former systems engineer gets prison sentence for Benesse data leak

Undated photo shows former systems engineer Masaomi Matsuzaki. A branch of the Tokyo District Court on March 29, 2016, sentenced the 41-year-old to three years and six months in prison and a fine of 3 million yen ($26,400) for his involvement in a massive customer data theft from educational service provider Benesse Corp. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Centennial of birth of gold-medal swimmer Maehata

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Masaomi Hyodo (far L), a son of legendary Olympic gold-medal swimmer Hideko Maehata, sees some 50 exhibits of his mother during a centennial ceremony of her birth at a gymnasium in Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on July 31, 2014. Maehata is best remembered by many Japanese for a live NHK radio broadcast of the 200-meter breaststroke final in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in which an announcer repeatedly shouted "Ganbare (Go for it), Maehata!" (Kyodo)

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Man arrested over Benesse data theft

TOKYO, Japan - Masaomi Matsuzaki is taken into custody by police officers in Tokyo's Fuchu city on July 17, 2014, after being arrested over a massive customer data theft from Benesse Holdings Inc., a major correspondence education provider for children. Matsuzaki worked as a temporary systems engineer at a database management contractor for Benesse's affiliate, Synform Co. (Kyodo)

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Japanese, French villages of "love" strike accord

Masaomi Tokuta (L), mayor of Sagara, Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan, and Pierre Rousseau, mayor of Saint-Valentin, central France, attend a signing ceremony in Paris on Nov. 10, 2017. The Japanese and French villages formed a sister-city relationship, each relying on "love" to boost their economy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo