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World aquatics championships

Japan's Yukiko Inui (L) hugs her coach Masayo Imura after checking her score in the women's artistic swimming solo free routine final at the world aquatics championships at Marine Messe Fukuoka in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on July 19, 2023. Inui won gold.

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World's 1st transplant surgery using iPS cells conducted

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi, researcher of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, holds a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 12, 2014, after a Japanese research team led by Takahashi transplanted retinal cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells to a woman in her 70s. It marked the first time iPS-derived cells have been introduced into a human body by surgery.

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World's 1st transplant surgery using iPS cells conducted

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi, researcher of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, smiles during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 12, 2014, after a Japanese research team led by Takahashi transplanted retinal cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells to a woman in her 70s. It marked the first time iPS-derived cells have been introduced into a human body by surgery.

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World's 1st iPS cell transplant

OSAKA, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (L), project leader at Riken Center for Developmental Biology, inspects an experiment at Riken's stem cell culture laboratory in Kobe, western Japan, in February 2013. A Japanese team has recently conducted the world's first surgery to implant tissue derived from induced pluripotent stem cells into a human body as part of the clinical study led by Takahashi and others.

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World's 1st iPS clinical research to begin

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi, project leader from the state-backed scientific research institute Riken, speaks at a news conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 30, 2013. Riken and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation said that the world's first clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, for the regeneration of retina will begin on August 1, 2013.

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World's 1st iPS clinical research to begin

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (far L), project leader from the state-backed scientific research institute Riken, speaks at a news conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 30, 2013. Riken and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation said that the world's first clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, for the regeneration of retina will begin on August 1, 2013.

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World's 1st iPS clinical research to begin

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi, project leader from the state-backed scientific research institute Riken, speaks at a news conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 30, 2013. Riken and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation said that the world's first clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, for the regeneration of retina will begin on August 1, 2013.

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World's 1st iPS clinical research to begin

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi, project leader from the state-backed scientific research institute Riken, speaks at a news conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 30, 2013. Riken and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation said that the world's first clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, for the regeneration of retina will begin on August 1, 2013.

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World's 1st iPS clinical research to begin

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (L), project leader from the state-backed scientific research institute Riken, speaks at a news conference in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 30, 2013. Riken and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation said that the world's first clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, for the regeneration of retina will begin on August 1, 2013.

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Clinical research using iPS cells approved

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2013 shows Masayo Takahashi (2nd from L), an ophthalmologist who heads Riken's research team on retinal regeneration, and other researchers seeing an experiment on cultured stem cells in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. On June 26, 2013, a Japanese government panel approved a clinical research plan by the Riken governmental scientific research institute and the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation to use human induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, for regenerating retinas. It would be the world's first clinical research using iPS cells that can grow into any type of human body tissue.

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Riken eyes iPS clinical research

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (L), an ophthalmologist who heads Riken's research team on retinal regeneration at the Riken Center for Development Biology, speaks during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Feb. 28, 2013. Riken, Japan's state-backed scientific research institute, applied for government permission the same day for its plan to conduct clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, to regenerate retina.

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Riken eyes iPS clinical research

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (L), an ophthalmologist who heads Riken's research team on retinal regeneration at the Riken Center for Development Biology, speaks during a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Feb. 28, 2013. Riken, Japan's state-backed scientific research institute, applied for government permission the same day for its plan to conduct clinical research using induced pluripotent stem cells, known as iPS cells, to regenerate retina.

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Dainippon Sumitomo to buy U.S. drugmaker Sepracor for $2.6 bil.

TOKYO, Japan - Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma Co. President Masayo Tada speaks about the company's plan to buy U.S. pharmaceutical maker Sepracor Inc. for about $2.6 billion (around 240 billion yen) at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 3. Sepracor will become a wholly owned unit of Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma America Holdings Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese drugmaker.

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China wins bronze medal in synchronized swimming team event

BEIJING, China - Legendary Japanese coach Masayo Imura (R), now in charge of China, celebrates with Chinese swimmers after they won their first Olympic synchro medal by taking bronze in the team competition of the Beijing Olympic Games at National Aquatics Center on Aug. 23.

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China 3rd after synchronized swim's team technical routine

BEIJING, China - Chinese swimmers perform during the technical routine in the synchronized swimming team competition of the Beijing Olympics at Beijing's National Aquatics Center on Aug. 22. The Chinese, trained by Japanese coach Masayo Imura, outperformed Japan and finished third.

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Japanese girl taken hostage in Cambodia arrives with family in Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Ea Sovanntevi, a 4-year-old girl who was one of dozens of children taken hostage at an international school in Cambodia on June 16, and her Japanese mother Ea Masayo smile in Osaka on June 18 after arriving in Japan to attend her aunt's wedding.

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230 GSDF troops leave for E. Timor on peacekeeping mission

CHITOSE, Japan - Masayo Mori (L), one of seven female Ground Self-Defense Force troops to be sent to East Timor to engage in U.N. peacekeeping operations, is seen off by her husband and pet dog April 10 at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Chitose, Hokkaido. It is the first time Japan has dispatched female Self-Defense Force troops overseas on a peacekeeping mission.

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Artistic swimming: World c'ships in Budapest

Japanese artistic swimmer Yukiko Inui (R) poses with her gold medal, alongside her coach Masayo Imura, after the women's solo free final at the world swimming championships in Budapest on June 22, 2022.

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Artistic swimming: World c'ships in Budapest

Japanese artistic swimming coach Masayo Imura (L) hugs Yukiko Inui after Inui won the gold medal in the women's solo free event at the world swimming championships in Budapest on June 22, 2022.

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Artistic swimming: World Championships

Yukiko Inui (R) of Japan poses for a photo with her coach Masayo Imura after winning the women's solo technical event at the artistic swimming world championships on June 18, 2022 in Budapest.

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230 GSDF troops leave for E. Timor on peacekeeping mission

CHITOSE, Japan - Masayo Mori (L), one of seven female Ground Self-Defense Force troops to be sent to East Timor to engage in U.N. peacekeeping operations, is seen off by her husband and pet dog April 10 at an Air Self-Defense Force base in Chitose, Hokkaido. It is the first time Japan has dispatched female Self-Defense Force troops overseas on a peacekeeping mission.

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House; Hausu (1977)

Kumiko Ohba, Masayo Miyako, Eriko Tanaka, Kimiko Ikegami, Yoko Minamida, Ai Matsubara, Mieko Sato & Miki Jinbo Characters: Fanta, Suito, Merodi, Angel / Angel's Mother, Auntie, Gari, Makku, Kunf

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Japanese research team to resume iPS cell transplants

Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka (2nd from L), co-winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his development of induced pluripotent stem cells, and Masayo Takahashi (3rd from L) of Japan's government-backed Riken research institute attend a press conference in the western Japan city of Kobe on June 6, 2016. The government announced the same day that a research team led by Takahashi, composed of Riken, Kyoto University and two other institutions, will resume clinical tests to treat an eye disease by transplanting retinal cells grown from iPS cells. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman makes progress 1 year after world's 1st iPS cell transplant

Masayo Takahashi (R), a Riken researcher, holds a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Oct. 2, 2015, to announce that a woman in her 70s is making good progress in her eye disease treatment after the world's first transplant using iPS-derived cells a year ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Inui, Mitsui win synchro swim bronze at world c'ships

Japan's synchronized swimming head coach Masayo Imura (far L) congratulates Yukiko Inui (2nd from L) and Risako Mitsui (4th from L) after their performance in the duet technical routine final at the world championships in Kazan, Russia, on July 26, 2015. The duo took bronze while Russia's Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina secured gold. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kobe to open center to support people with low vision

(from L) Taku Miyake, Masayo Takahashi and Satoshi Nakadomari gather at Riken institute in Kobe, western Japan, around a scale model of a support facility for low-vision people on Feb. 27, 2017. They are in a team to prepare for the facility's opening in the fall. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese researcher hopes to lower cost of iPS cell transplant

Masayo Takahashi, a Riken institute project leader and member of the team that conducted the world's first transplant using iPS-derived cells in 2014, gives a talk at the Kansai Press Club in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 25, 2015. Takahashi said she hopes to find ways to lower the cost of such transplants and make them a standard treatment in the future. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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China wins bronze medal in synchronized swimming team event

BEIJING, China - Legendary Japanese coach Masayo Imura (R), now in charge of China, celebrates with Chinese swimmers after they won their first Olympic synchro medal by taking bronze in the team competition of the Beijing Olympic Games at National Aquatics Center on Aug. 23. (Kyodo)

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China 3rd after synchronized swim's team technical routine

BEIJING, China - Chinese swimmers perform during the technical routine in the synchronized swimming team competition of the Beijing Olympics at Beijing's National Aquatics Center on Aug. 22. The Chinese, trained by Japanese coach Masayo Imura, outperformed Japan and finished third. (Kyodo)

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Japanese girl taken hostage in Cambodia arrives with family in J

OSAKA, Japan - Ea Sovanntevi, a 4-year-old girl who was one of dozens of children taken hostage at an international school in Cambodia on June 16, and her Japanese mother Ea Masayo smile in Osaka on June 18 after arriving in Japan to attend her aunt's wedding. (Kyodo)

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World's 1st transplant surgery using iPS cells conducted

KOBE, Japan - Masayo Takahashi, researcher of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology, holds a press conference in Kobe, western Japan, on Sept. 12, 2014, after a Japanese research team led by Takahashi transplanted retinal cells grown from induced pluripotent stem cells to a woman in her 70s. It marked the first time iPS-derived cells have been introduced into a human body by surgery. (Kyodo)

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World's 1st iPS cell transplant

OSAKA, Japan - Masayo Takahashi (L), project leader at Riken Center for Developmental Biology, inspects an experiment at Riken's stem cell culture laboratory in Kobe, western Japan, in February 2013. A Japanese team has recently conducted the world's first surgery to implant tissue derived from induced pluripotent stem cells into a human body as part of the clinical study led by Takahashi and others. (Kyodo)

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Synchronized swimming: Japan's Inui advances to solo free final

Japanese synchronized swimmer Yukiko Inui (L) and her head coach Masayo Imura speak after her performance in the solo free routine preliminary at the world championships in Budapest on July 17, 2017. Inui placed fourth to qualify for the 12-woman final to be held two days later. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan artistic swimming head coach Imura

Japanese artistic swimming national team head coach Masayo Imura oversees her athletes at a training session in Yamaguchi, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2020, the second day of the national championships, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan artistic swimming head coach Imura

Japanese artistic swimming national team head coach Masayo Imura (facing camera, R) oversees her athletes at a training session in Yamaguchi, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2020, the second day of the national championships, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Japan artistic swimming head coach Imura

Japanese artistic swimming national team head coach Masayo Imura oversees her athletes at a training session in Yamaguchi, western Japan, on Nov. 13, 2020, the second day of the national championships, wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Artistic swimming: Japanese championships

Masayo Imura (C), head coach of Japan's Tokyo Olympic-bound artistic swimming team, is pictured before the team's performance in the free routine at the national championships on Nov. 13, 2020, at Yamaguchi Kirara Expo Memorial Park in Yamaguchi, western Japan.

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Renowned researcher leaves Riken institute

Photo taken Nov. 10, 2017, shows Masayo Takahashi, a researcher at the Japanese government-backed Riken institute who led a team that succeeded for the first time in the world in transplanting into a woman retinal cells grown from her own iPS cells in 2014. Riken announced on July 31, 2019, that Takahashi will leave the institute the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Artistic swimming: World championships

Japanese artistic swimming national team head coach Masayo Imura smiles at Yukiko Inui after Inui's performance in the solo free routine final at the world swimming championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 17, 2019. Inui finished third. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Artistic swimming: World championships

Japan's artistic swimming head coach Masayo Imura (2nd from R) meets team members after their performance in the free routine preliminary round at the world swimming championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 17, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Artistic swimming: World championships

Japanese artistic swimmers are greeted by head coach Masayo Imura (R) after their team technical preliminary performance at the world swimming championships in Gwangju, South Korea, on July 14, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Retina transplants via donor iPS cells

Photo taken Nov. 10, 2017, shows Masayo Takahashi, a researcher at the Japanese government-backed Riken institute. She said in Tokyo on April 18, 2019 that five patients suffering a severe eye disease were doing well a year after they received in 2017 the world's first transplant surgeries using induced pluripotent stem cells from donors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Retina transplants via donor iPS cells

Masayo Takahashi, a researcher at the Japanese government-backed Riken institute, speaks at an academic conference in Tokyo on April 18, 2019. Five patients suffering a severe eye disease were doing well a year after they received in 2017 the world's first transplant surgeries using induced pluripotent stem cells from donors, she said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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1st serious reaction to iPS-derived retinal cell transplant reported

Masayo Takahashi, a researcher at the Japanese government-backed Riken institute, speaks at a press conference in Kobe on Jan. 16, 2018. A patient who received a transplant of retinal cells derived from so-called iPS cells from another person has suffered a swollen retina, said her project team that is implementing the world's first clinical trials of the procedure. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World's 1st transplant performed of retinal cells from another's iPS cells

Masayo Takahashi (R), a researcher at Riken institute, and Yasuo Kurimoto, an eye doctor at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, attend a press conference in the western Japan city of Kobe on March 28, 2017, after performing a pioneering transplant surgery utilizing so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, to treat an older man suffering from wet-type age-related macular degeneration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World's 1st transplant performed of retinal cells from another's iPS cells

Masayo Takahashi (R), a researcher at Riken institute, and Yasuo Kurimoto, an eye doctor at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, attend a press conference in the western Japan city of Kobe on March 28, 2017, after performing a pioneering transplant surgery utilizing so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, to treat an older man suffering from wet-type age-related macular degeneration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World's 1st transplant performed of retinal cells from another's iPS cells

Masayo Takahashi (R), a researcher at Riken institute, and Yasuo Kurimoto, an eye doctor at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, attend a press conference in the western Japan city of Kobe on March 28, 2017, after performing a pioneering transplant surgery utilizing so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, to treat an older man suffering from wet-type age-related macular degeneration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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World's 1st transplant performed of retinal cells from another's iPS cells

Masayo Takahashi (R), a researcher at Riken institute, and Yasuo Kurimoto, an eye doctor at Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, attend a press conference in the western Japan city of Kobe on March 28, 2017, after performing a pioneering transplant surgery utilizing so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, to treat an older man suffering from wet-type age-related macular degeneration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transplants of eye cells grown from another's iPS stem cells to begin

Masayo Takahashi of the Riken Center for Developmental Biology speaks at a press conference in Kobe on Feb. 6, 2017. A Japanese research team, led by Takahashi, said it will begin the world's first clinical trials involving transplanting retinal cells grown from iPS stem cells obtained from another person. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Olympics: Japan wins synchronized swimming team bronze

Japan's synchronized swimming team members celebrate with coach Masayo Imura (C) after receiving their bronze medals for the team event at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Aug. 19, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo