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Kyushu Electric stresses need for successful reactor restart

FUKUOKA, Japan - Michiaki Uriu, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., delivers a New Year address to company officials at the utility's head office in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 5, 2015. He stressed that Kyushu Electric must be successful in reactivating its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, possibly in March, to become the first of the idled nuclear plants to restart operations in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Niece of Japanese POW visits his grave in Australia

COWRA, Australia - Yasuko Hayashi (R), a niece of Michiaki Wakaomi who died of illness in 1945 as a prisoner of war in Australia, visits his grave at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra, eastern Australia, with her husband on Aug. 5, 2014, following the confirmation of Wakaomi's grave earlier this year.

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Tokyo Skytree attracts 6.34 mil. visitors

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Komine (4th from L) and his wife and children pose for photos at Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on May 20, 2013, with Michiaki Suzuki (far L), president of Tobu Tower Skytree Co., the tower's operator, as one of them became the 6.34 millionth visitor to the observation deck of the world's tallest broadcasting tower at 634 meters, matching the numerals of its height two days before the first anniversary of its opening.

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Suu Kyi in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) takes in the view from the observation deck of Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on April 18, 2013. At right in back is Michiaki Suzuki, president of Tobu Tower Skytree Co., the tower's operator. (Pool photo)

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Suu Kyi in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) takes in the view from the observation deck of Tokyo Skytree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward on April 18, 2013. At right is Michiaki Suzuki, president of Tobu Tower Skytree Co., the tower's operator. (Pool photo)

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Schindler-made elevator accident

KANAZAWA, Japan - Michiaki Otsuki (L), representative director of Schindler Elevator, leaves the family home in Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture, of a woman who died when she became wedged between the floor of an ascending elevator and the frame of the doorway at a hotel in Kanazawa in the prefecture. Otsuki visited the woman's relatives on Nov. 2, 2012, to apologize and pay respects.

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Japan's power-saving period begins

FUKUOKA, Japan - (from L) Fukuoka Gov. Hiroshi Ogawa, Fukuoka Mayor Soichiro Takashima and Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu distribute handouts calling for electricity saving near JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka City on July 2, 2012. A government-requested power-saving period began in Japan that day to cope with power supply constraints caused by the prolonged halt of nuclear reactors following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.

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Top 2 Kyushu Electric executives to resign

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. Executive Vice President Michiaki Uriu speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 12, 2012. The utility said Uriu will become president, succeeding Toshio Manabe who will resign along with Chairman Shingo Matsuo on April 1, 2012, over a scandal involving the company's attempt to manipulate public opinion regarding nuclear power generation.

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Kyushu Electric to name Uriu as new president

FUKUOKA, Japan - Undated file photo shows Kyushu Electric Power Co. Executive Vice President Michiaki Uriu. The company plans to name Uriu as its new president to succeed Toshio Manabe, who will resign over a scandal involving the utility manipulating public opinion on nuclear power generation, company sources said on Jan. 11, 2012.

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3-year extension sought for AUM surveillance

TOKYO, Japan - Michiaki Ozaki, director general of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, attends a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2011. The agency sought the same day to keep the AUM Shinrikyo cult and its splinter group under state surveillance for another three years, asserting they remain under the strong influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara and could still commit mass murder.

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Tokyo Sky Tree is world's tallest tower: Guinness World Records

TOKYO, Japan - Alistair Richards (R), managing director of Guinness World Records, and Michiaki Suzuki, president of Tobu Tower Sky Tree Co., hold a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing the 634-meter-high broadcast tower as the world's tallest tower during a ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2011. Tokyo Sky Tree is scheduled to open to the public in May 2012.

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Japanese cellist Ueno wins Geneva music competition

Michiaki Ueno of Japan performs on his way to winning the top prize in the cello division of the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Japanese cellist Ueno wins Geneva music competition

Michiaki Ueno of Japan performs on his way to winning the top prize in the cello division of the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Japanese cellist Ueno wins Geneva music competition

Michiaki Ueno of Japan (2nd from L) poses for a photo after winning the top prize in the cello division of the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Japanese cellist Ueno wins Geneva music competition

Japanese cellist Michiaki Ueno receives applause after performing at the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. Ueno won the top prize in the cello division.

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Japanese cellist Michiaki Ueno

File photo show Japanese cellist Michiaki Ueno in Geneva, Switzerland, on Oct. 27, 2021. Ueno won the top prize in the cello division of the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28.

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Top 3 finishers in cello division of Geneva music competition

(From) Winner Michiaki Ueno of Japan, second-place Bryan Cheng of Canada and third-place Jaemin Han of South Korea pose for photos after the cello division of the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Japanese cellist Ueno wins Geneva music competition

Michiaki Ueno of Japan performs on his way to winning the top prize in the cello division of the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Japanese cellist Ueno wins Geneva music competition

Michiaki Ueno of Japan performs on his way to winning the top prize in the cello division of the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Japanese cellist Ueno wins Geneva music competition

Michiaki Ueno of Japan performs on his way to winning the top prize in the cello division of the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Japanese cellist Ueno wins Geneva music competition

Japanese cellist Michiaki Ueno (front R) is pictured after performing at the Geneva International Music Competition on Oct. 28, 2021, in Geneva, Switzerland. Ueno won the top prize in the cello division.

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Kyushu Electric to build thermal power plant in Chiba Pref.

Michiaki Uriu, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., gives a press conference in Fukuoka on March 27, 2015. The utility officially announced the same day that it will jointly develop a coal-fired power plant in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, with Idemitsu Kosan Co. and Tokyo Gas Co. The plant will be the utility's first power station outside Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Elec. president on scrapping Genkai plant's No.1 unit

Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu meets the press in Saga City on March 18, 2015, after explaining to the Saga vice-governor the decision to scrap the No. 1 reactor at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on cost-effectiveness grounds. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People stage rally to protest Sendai plant resumption

People stage a rally to protest the expected resumption of the Sendai nuclear plant on March 2, 2015, in front of the headquarters of Kyushu Electric Power Co., the operator, in the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka. They demanded they meet with the utility's president, Michiaki Uriu, to discuss the issue, but the company rejected it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Niece of deceased Japanese POW seeks to recover remains in Australia

Yasuko Hayashi (R), a niece of Michiaki Wakaomi who died of illness in 1945 as a prisoner of war in Australia, and her husband lay flowers at Wakaomi's grave at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra, eastern Australia, in this file photo taken on Aug. 5, 2014. Procedures are expected to begin in early March 2015 to retrieve part of his remains from the grave upon Hayashi's request to bring them back to Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Electric Power eyes extended operation of 2 restarted reactors

Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu (R) visits Satsumasendai Mayor Hideo Iwakiri in the southwestern Japanese city on Nov. 18, 2015. Uriu told reporters following the meeting that the company hopes to apply for the extension of the operation of its two recently reactivated nuclear power reactors, some 30 years since their launch, beyond their current 40-year life. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese POW's bereaved family reads sutra at Aussie cemetery

Priest Hiromichi Wakaomi (C), a relative of deceased Japanese prisoner of war Michiaki Wakaomi, and others concerned recite a sutra in front of an urn containing Michiaki's exhumed ashes and a grave marker at a cemetery for Japanese soldiers in Cowra, eastern Australia, on Sept. 11, 2015. Over 230 Japanese POWs were killed in a prison break in Cowra in 1944. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Japan POW's ashes found in Australia returned

Yasuko Hayashi (C), niece of deceased Japanese prisoner of war Michiaki Wakaomi, offers prayer to his ashes at a cemetery for Japanese soldiers in Cowra, eastern Australia, on Sept. 11, 2015. The ashes, dug out at the cemetery earlier, were returned to Hayashi for the first such return to a bereaved family. A total of 231 Japanese prisoners were killed in a prison break in Cowra in 1944. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cowra mayor permits exhumation of ex-Japanese POW's ashes

Cowra Mayor Bill West speaks in an interview in the eastern Australian city on Sept. 10, 2015. He said he understands bereaved Japanese family members' feelings and allowed the exhumation of the ashes the following day of Michiaki Wakaomi, one of the 231 Japanese prisoners of war killed in the 1944 Cowra prison break. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Work to retrieve Japanese remains conducted in Australia

A worker digs at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra, eastern Australia, on Sept. 11, 2015, to retrieve the remains of Michiaki Wakaomi who died there as a prisoner of war in 1945. Yasuko Hayashi (far L), a niece of Wakaomi, and his relative Hiromichi Wakaomi (3rd from L) were also present. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Electric chief to seek early nuclear plant resumption

Monitor image shows Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu addressing the company's general shareholders' meeting in the southwestern Japan city of Fukuoka on June 25, 2015. While some shareholders argued dependence on nuclear power has caused deterioration in its businesses, Uriu said the utility will seek the early reactivation of its reactors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Electric stresses need for successful reactor restart

FUKUOKA, Japan - Michiaki Uriu, president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., delivers a New Year address to company officials at the utility's head office in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 5, 2015. He stressed that Kyushu Electric must be successful in reactivating its Sendai nuclear power plant in Kagoshima Prefecture, possibly in March, to become the first of the idled nuclear plants to restart operations in Japan after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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3-year extension sought for AUM surveillance

TOKYO, Japan - Michiaki Ozaki, director general of the Public Security Intelligence Agency, attends a press conference at the Justice Ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2011. The agency sought the same day to keep the AUM Shinrikyo cult and its splinter group under state surveillance for another three years, asserting they remain under the strong influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara and could still commit mass murder. (Kyodo)

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Top 2 Kyushu Electric executives to resign

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Electric Power Co. Executive Vice President Michiaki Uriu speaks during a press conference in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 12, 2012. The utility said Uriu will become president, succeeding Toshio Manabe who will resign along with Chairman Shingo Matsuo on April 1, 2012, over a scandal involving the company's attempt to manipulate public opinion regarding nuclear power generation. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Sky Tree is world's tallest tower: Guinness World Records

TOKYO, Japan - Alistair Richards (R), managing director of Guinness World Records, and Michiaki Suzuki, president of Tobu Tower Sky Tree Co., hold a Guinness World Records certificate recognizing the 634-meter-high broadcast tower as the world's tallest tower during a ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2011. Tokyo Sky Tree is scheduled to open to the public in May 2012. (Kyodo)

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Kyushu Electric to name Uriu as new president

FUKUOKA, Japan - Undated file photo shows Kyushu Electric Power Co. Executive Vice President Michiaki Uriu. The company plans to name Uriu as its new president to succeed Toshio Manabe, who will resign over a scandal involving the utility manipulating public opinion on nuclear power generation, company sources said on Jan. 11, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Kagoshima gov. hints at dropping request to halt reactors' operation

Kagoshima Gov. Satoshi Mitazono (front) is seen at the prefectural government offices on Sept. 9, 2016, after receiving a written rejection from Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu (back) of his request to have the utility immediately suspend the operation of two reactors at its nuclear power plant in the southwestern prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Governor again requests reactor suspension

Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu meets with reporters on Sept. 7, 2016, in the city of Fukuoka after receiving a request from Satoshi Mitazono, governor of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima, to suspend operations of two reactors at its Sendai nuclear plant. Mitazono issued the initial request on Aug. 26, but the utility rejected it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Governor again requests reactor suspension

Satoshi Mitazono (R), governor of the southwestern Japan prefecture of Kagoshima, hands over a written request on Sept. 7, 2016, in the city of Fukuoka to Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu calling on the suspension of operations of two reactors at Sendai nuclear plant. Mitazono issued the initial request on Aug. 26, but the utility rejected it. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kyushu Electric rejects governor's call to suspend nuclear reactors

Michiaki Uriu (L), president of Kyushu Electric Power Co., hands a written reply to Kagoshima Gov. Satoshi Mitazono at the prefectural government office on Sept. 5, 2016, rejecting a request by the governor to immediately suspend operations of two reactors at the company's Sendai nuclear plant in the southwestern Japan prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kagoshima governor asks Kyushu Electric to halt nuclear reactors

Kagoshima Gov. Satoshi Mitazono (L) hands a written request to Kyushu Electric Power Co. President Michiaki Uriu at the prefectural government office on Aug. 26, 2016, urging the company to temporarily halt two reactors at its Sendai nuclear plant in the southwestern Japan prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo