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Woman, baby daughter die in 7-vehicle Tomei Expressway pileup

NAGOYA, Japan - Police officers examine vehicles damaged by a pileup on the Tomei Expressway in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, on Aug. 12. Mayumi Nakata, 31, and her 6-month-old daughter Mika were killed in the seven-car pileup.

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Hokkaido Electric Power chief sees need for reactor restart

TOKYO, Japan - Akihiko Mayumi, president of Hokkaido Electric Power Co., tells a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2014, that the utility will lower electricity charges if it is allowed to reactivate its nuclear power plant in the village of Tomari, west of Sapporo, on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido.

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Mental support teams sent to landslide-hit Hiroshima

OKAYAMA, Japan - Mayumi Saeki (R), a Disaster Psychiatric Assistance Team member dispatched by the health ministry, talks with another member on Aug. 24, 2014, on ways to give health support to mentally distressed people affected by the recent massive landslides that hit Hiroshima, western Japan.

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Woman leads therapy dog training in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Mayumi Tokiwa, head of a training section of the Japan Animal Therapy Association, shows how she trains canines to become therapy dogs at the association in Yamato, Kanawaga Prefecture, west of Tokyo, in this file photo taken on July 15, 2014.

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Woman aims to mitigate deer damage to crops

KUSHIRO, Japan - Mayumi Ueno hunts deer with a rifle in the snow-covered mountains in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on March 30, 2013. Ueno, a chief researcher who works to mitigate damage to crops by "Ezo" deer, went hunting 11 times this season and shot six deer. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Wedding at Tokyo Disneyland Cinderella Castle

CHIBA, Japan - Takayuki Abiko (L center), 35, and Mayumi Kagoshi (R center), 32, both company employees from Saitama Prefecture, hold their wedding at Tokyo Disneyland's Cinderella Castle in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture on Sept. 28, 2012. The theme park hosted its first wedding at its landmark facility as park operator Oriental Land Co. began a service enabling couples to marry at the site recreating a famous fairy tale.

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Japan's Kawasaki finishes in women's race walk

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Mayumi Kawasaki finishes the women's 20-kilometer race walk at the 2012 London Olympics on The Mall on Aug. 11, 2012. Kawasaki placed 18th with a time of 1 hour, 30 minutes, 20 seconds.

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Hanshin Tigers' new manager Wada

OSAKA, Japan - The Hanshin Tigers' new manager Yutaka Wada gives a press conference in Osaka on Oct. 28, 2011. The former batting coach replaced Akinobu Mayumi after the Tigers finished fourth in the regular season and failed to reach the Climax Series playoffs.

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Hanshin Tigers' new manager Wada

OSAKA, Japan - The Hanshin Tigers' new manager Yutaka Wada speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Oct. 28, 2011. The former batting coach replaced Akinobu Mayumi after the Tigers finished fourth in the regular season and failed to reach the Climax Series playoffs.

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Hanshin Tigers to part ways with Mayumi

OSAKA, Japan - Hanshin Tigers manager Akinobu Mayumi (front) heads to exchange rosters before a game with the Hiroshima Carp at Koshien Stadium in Hyogo Prefecture on Oct. 16, 2011. Hanshin's front office announced the same day it will part ways with Mayumi after the Tigers failed to reach the Climax Series playoffs.

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Murton reaches 200-hit mark in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - Hanshin Tigers leadoff man Matt Murton (L) high-fives manager Akinobu Mayumi after the Tigers beat the Chunichi Dragons 6-1 at Nagoya Dome on Sept. 23, 2010. Murton from the United States belted three hits the same day to become only the fourth player in Japanese baseball history to have a 200-hit season.

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Japan claims relay double at Asian c'ships

GUANGZHOU, China - (From L to R) Momoko Takahashi, Mayumi Watanabe, Chisato Fukushima and Maki Wada celebrate after winning gold in the women's 4x100-meter relay final at the Asian championships at Guangdong Olympic Stadium on Nov. 14, 2009. They finished in 43.93 seconds, ahead of Thailand (44.55) and South Korea (45.46).

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Jojima signs 4-year deal with Hanshin

OSAKA, Japan - Former Seattle Mariners catcher Kenji Jojima (R) shakes hands with Akinobu Mayumi, manager of the Hanshin Tigers, during a press conference at a hotel in Osaka on Nov. 13, 2009. Jojima signed a four-year, 2 billion yen contract with the Central League baseball club.

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Mayumi formally unveiled as new Hanshin manager

OSAKA, Japan - Baseball commentator Akinobu Mayumi speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Osaka on Oct. 27 as he was officially introduced in a two-year deal as the new Hanshin Tigers manager.

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Cuba's Bermoy wins women's 48kg at Kano judo tournament

TOKYO, Japan - Cuba's Yanet Bermoy (L) grapples with Japan's Mayumi Takara in the final of the women's 48-kilogram contest at the Kano Cup international judo tournament at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Dec. 9. Bermoy won the gold.

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Japanese women build orphanage in Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan - Mayumi Karako (L) describes a picture to Akhbar (C), who is blind, at Khoja Abdullah Ansari Orphanage in western Herat, Afghanistan on Feb. 9.

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LDP to expel ex-minister Norota, recommends 26 to leave party

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Liberal Democratic Party member Mayumi Moriyama (R) presides over the party's discipline committee to discuss how to cope with party members who voted against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills in Diet in August.

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LDP expels 9 as punishment for voting against postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Mayumi Moriyama, who chairs the Liberal Democratic Party's Party Ethics Committee, speaks at a press conference at the LDP Headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 21 on her panel's decision to expel nine current and former LDP lawmakers for voting against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills during the previous Diet session ended Aug. 13.

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(2)Narita wins women's 100m freestyle in Athens Paralympics

ATHENS, Greece - Japan's Mayumi Narita holds up her gold medal in the women's 100 meter freestyle category S4 in the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games on Sept. 19.

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(1)Narita wins women's 100m freestyle in Athens Paralympics

ATHENS, Greece - Japan's Mayumi Narita swims in the women's 100 meter freestyle category S4 final of the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games on Sept. 19. Narita won the race to break her Sydney 2000 world record by 5 seconds in a time of 1:25.07.

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(3)Tokyo meeting on human trafficking opens

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker (L) talks with Japanese Assistant Chief Cabinet Secretary Shotaro Yati (C) as former Japanese Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama looks on at the beginning of a two-day international meeting on human trafficking in Asia at the United Nations University in Tokyo on June 23. (Pool photo)

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Nozawa appointed justice minister to replace Moriyama

TOKYO, Japan - Daizo Nozawa, a technocrat-turned-politician who was named as justice minister, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 22. Nozawa replaced Mayumi Moriyama in the reshuffled cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.

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Moriyama inspects Tokyo's Kabukicho

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (C), accompanied by her aides and plainclothesmen, inspects Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo's biggest entertainment quarters, on July 29.

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(1)Justice minister says watch on Pana Wave group to continue

VILLAGE OF IZUMI, Japan - Members of the white-robed doomsday group Pana Wave Laboratory take rest in the village of Izumi in Fukui Prefecture during their move from adjoining Gifu Prerecture on May 9. In Tokyo, Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama said that a watch will continue on the group, which has been moving around central Japan in a caravan of white motor vehicles.

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Whirlpool tour season opens with ceremony

NARUTO, Japan - Mayumi Yanagawa, a woman promoting sightseeing trips to whirlpools off Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, throws a golden key into the sea off Naruto on March 1 in a ceremony to open the tour season.

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Opposition parties urge Moriyama to resign over prison case

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama listens to Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda durikng a session of the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Feb. 19. Four opposition parties agreed earlier in the day to urge Moriyama to resign over what they allege as the ministry's cover-up of the death of a male inmate in December 2001 at Nagoya Prison.

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Diet debate on Koizumi policy speech begins

TOKYO, Japan - Yukio Hatoyama (front), president of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, questions Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (back, R) on his policy speech in a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Oct. 21 with Koizumi, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa (back, C) and Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama listening.

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Justice minister proposes introducing conspiracy charge

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama addresses a meeting of the Legislative Council, her advisory panel, on Sept. 3. She proposed revising the law on organized crime to enable investigative authorities to file charges against people who conspire to commit such crimes. The proposal is in line with the Japanese government's intention to ratify a treaty on international organized crimes, which obliges signatory nations to punish conspirators even if they do not commit actual crimes.

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(2)Diet OKs request to arrest Suzuki on bribery charge

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama bows in appreciation June 19 after the House of Representatives authorized public prosecutors to arrest lawmaker Muneo Suzuki on suspicion of bribery.

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Moriyama meets press after Osaka high prosecutor's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama holds a news conference at her ministry in Tokyo on April 22 after Tamaki Mitsui, head of the Osaka High Prosecutors Office's public security department, was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud and abuse of power concerning the sale of a condominium by auction.

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Japan, S. Korea sign extradition pact ahead of World Cup

SEOUL, South Korea - Visiting Japanese Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) and South Korean Justice Minister Song Jeong Ho shake hands at the South Korea's Justice Ministry in Seoul on April 8 after signing the bilateral criminal extradition treaty. The two countries plan to enforce the treaty ahead of the World Cup soccer finals, which they will co-host from late May to late June.

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Kamei calls on justice minister to suspend executions

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (3rd from R), a former policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and seven other lawmakers belonging to a group opposing capital punishment urge Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (3rd from L) not to carry out any further death sentences.

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Koizumi smiles at opposition question in Diet session

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa and Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (from R to L) react with smiles to questions on government policies from an opposition lawmaker during a House of Councillors plenary session on Oct. 2.

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Justice minister visits Osaka elementary school

OSAKA, Japan - Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) on July 18 visits Ikeda Elementary School in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, the site of the June 8 massacre where eight children were stabbed to death and 15 others injured. Moriyama made the visit to talk to the victims' parents amid growing calls for revisions to a law exempting mentally ill criminal suspects from criminal liability for their actions.

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Panel recommends judicial reform to Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Koji Sato (R), chairman of the Judicial Reform Council, hands a report on his panel's recommendations to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on June 12. Seated at left is Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama.

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Korean A-bomb survivor asks gov't not to appeal ruling

TOKYO, Japan - Kwak Kwi Hun (2nd from R), 76, a Korean survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima who won what could be a landmark suit for overseas survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in 1945, asks Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (L) not to appeal the ruling. The Osaka District Court on June 1 ordered the Osaka prefectural government to pay compensation to Kwak for cutting off his medical allowance after he left Japan for home.

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Leprosy patients urge gov't not to appeal ruling

TOKYO, Japan - A representative (R) of leprosy patients suing the state for forcing them into isolation during treatment delivers a note to Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama on May 17, asking the Justice Ministry not to appeal a district court ruling May 11 that ordered the state to pay compensation.

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Ex-education minister Moriyama named justice minister

TOKYO, Japan - Former Education Minister Mayumi Moriyama arrives at the prime minister's official residence April 26 after being appointed new justice minister.

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Narita return home from Paralympics

NARITA, Japan - With seven gold medals hung around her neck, Japanese swimmer Mayumi Narita poses for pictures on returning from the Sydney Paralympic Games on Nov. 1.

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Narita wins gold medal with Paralympic world record

SYDNEY, Australia - Japanese swimmer Mayumi Narita waves at fans after winning gold medal in the women's 150-meter individual medley at the Sydney Paralympics on Oct. 20, with a world record time of 2 minutes, 53.73 seconds.

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Japan wins women's marathon team gold medal in Seville

SEVILLE, Spain - Japanese women marathoners receive gold medals in the team division at the world athletics championships in Seville on the final day, Aug. 29. Photo shows the marathoners at the prize-giving ceremony -- (from L) Ari Ichihashi finishing 2nd, Kayoko Obata eighth, Junko Asari 16th, and Mayumi Ichikawa 17th.

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Murai has record-setting win at Japan Women's Open

Mayumi Murai double-bogeys the final hole of an even-par 72 on June 27, but still manages to come away with a record-setting victory in the Japan Women's Open golf tournament. She finished four rounds at Kasumigaseki Country Club with the record for most strokes under par (7) in the 32-year history of the event and the lowest strokes total (281) since the tournament went to 72 holes in 1982.

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Mayumi NARITA

Japanese Emperor and Empress talk to Paralympic gold medalist Mayumi NARITA. (Picture taken in Tokyo, on May 14, 1997)

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Japan's 1st female Chief Cabinet Secretary Moriyama dies

Photo taken in January 2011 shows Mayumi Moriyama, Japan's first female chief Cabinet secretary. She died on Oct. 14, 2021, at the age of 93, the House of Representatives said.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Swimming

Mayumi Narita of Japan meets the press after competing in the women's S5 50-meter backstroke final at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 30, 2021, at Tokyo Aquatics Centre.

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Kamei calls on justice minister to suspend executions

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (3rd from R), a former policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and seven other lawmakers belonging to a group opposing capital punishment urge Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama (3rd from L) not to carry out any further death sentences.

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LDP expels 9 as punishment for voting against postal bills

TOKYO, Japan - Mayumi Moriyama, who chairs the Liberal Democratic Party's Party Ethics Committee, speaks at a press conference at the LDP Headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 21 on her panel's decision to expel nine current and former LDP lawmakers for voting against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills during the previous Diet session ended Aug. 13. (Kyodo)

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LDP to expel ex-minister Norota, recommends 26 to leave party

TOKYO, Japan - Senior Liberal Democratic Party member Mayumi Moriyama (R) presides over the party's discipline committee to discuss how to cope with party members who voted against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization bills in Diet in August. (Kyodo)

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Cuba's Bermoy wins women's 48kg at Kano judo tournament

TOKYO, Japan - Cuba's Yanet Bermoy (L) grapples with Japan's Mayumi Takara in the final of the women's 48-kilogram contest at the Kano Cup international judo tournament at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on Dec. 9. Bermoy won the gold. (Kyodo)

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Mayumi formally unveiled as new Hanshin manager

OSAKA, Japan - Baseball commentator Akinobu Mayumi speaks during a news conference at a hotel in Osaka on Oct. 27 as he was officially introduced in a two-year deal as the new Hanshin Tigers manager. (Kyodo)