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ANA jumbo jet

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways Co. pilot Michihiko Tanaka sits in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Dec. 18, 2013. The Japanese airline plans to withdraw the jumbo jets from its domestic service at the end of March 2014 in Tokyo.

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Noda retains DPJ leadership

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Former agriculture minister Michihiko Kano, former internal affairs minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi, former agriculture minister Hirotaka Akamatsu and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda bow after ending their speeches ahead of the presidential election of the Democratic Party of Japan at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 21, 2012. Noda easily defeated his three challengers in the election, remaining as Japan's premier despite low public support for the DPJ and the possibility he may be forced to dissolve the House of Representatives soon.

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Noda retains DPJ leadership

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Former agriculture minister Michihiko Kano, former internal affairs minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi, former agriculture minister Hirotaka Akamatsu and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stand on stage ahead of the presidential election of the Democratic Party of Japan at a Tokyo hotel on Sept. 21, 2012. Noda easily defeated his three challengers in the election, remaining as Japan's premier despite low public support for the DPJ and the possibility he may be forced to dissolve the House of Representatives soon.

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DPJ leadership race

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Former agriculture minister Michihiko Kano, former internal affairs minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi, former agriculture minister Hirotaka Akamatsu and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda attend a joint press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2012. The four filed candidacy papers the same day for the ruling party's Sept. 21, 2012, presidential election.

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DPJ leadership race

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Former agriculture minister Michihiko Kano, former internal affairs minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi, former agriculture minister Hirotaka Akamatsu and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda join hands after a joint press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2012. The four filed candidacy papers the same day for the ruling party's Sept. 21, 2012, presidential election.

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DPJ leadership race

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Former agriculture minister Michihiko Kano, former internal affairs minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi, former agriculture minister Hirotaka Akamatsu and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda join hands after a joint press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2012. The four filed candidacy papers the same day for the ruling party's Sept. 21, 2012, presidential election.

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DPJ leadership election

TOKYO, Japan - The Democratic Party of Japan's former agriculture minister Michihiko Kano announces his candidacy in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2012, for the party's presidential election later in the month.

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No classified documents given to China diplomat

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on June 2, 2012. Kano denied that he passed on classified documents to the repatriated Chinese diplomat police suspect of having engaged in spying activities.

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Japanese, Chinese farm ministers

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano (L) meets with his Chinese counterpart Han Changfu on Jeju Island, South Korea, on April 14, 2012.

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Japanese, South Korean farm ministers

JEJU ISLAND, South Korea - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano (R) meets with his South Korean counterpart Suh Kyu Yong on Jeju Island, South Korea, on April 14, 2012.

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Emperor Akihito, PM Noda at year-end luncheon

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) talk at an annual year-end luncheon hosted by the emperor for government officials at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Dec. 20, 2011. Farm minister Michihiko Kano is seated to the emperor's right. (Pool photo)

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New faces in Japan's 2011 year-end song festival

TOKYO, Japan - Singers selected for the first time to perform at the 62nd ''Kohaku Uta Gassen'' year-end song festival of NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corp., pose for photos at the head office of NHK in Tokyo on Nov. 30, 2011, as the public broadcaster announced the lineup of performers for the program. They are (from L front) Fuku Suzuki and Mana Ashida and (from L back) Girls' Generation's SeoHyun, Jessica, YuRi, Tiffany, TaeYeon and SooYoung, Sayaka Kanda, KARA's GYU RI, HARA and NICOLE, and Inawashirokos' Michihiko Yanai, Toshimi Watanabe, who is holding a fan with member Takashi Yamaguchi's picture on it, and Shinji Matsuda. Solo singer Ringo Sheena, who will also appear for the first time on the show, was not present for the photo.

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ASEAN-plus-3 nations sign emergency rice reserve pact

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano (C) signs the ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve accord in Jakarta on Oct. 7, 2011. The 10 agriculture ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and their counterparts from China, Japan and South Korea signed the agreement to stockpile rice with the aim of aiding the signatories in the event of disasters or other contingencies.

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Minister visits decontaminated rice paddy

IITATE, Japan - Farm minister Michihiko Kano (L) visits a rice paddy with rice planted after undergoing an experimental operation to reduce radioactive substances in Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture, on Sept. 7, 2011. Extensive areas of the prefecture and elsewhere were contaminated due to an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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Kano to remain as farm minister

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Michihiko Kano, who will stay in office as agriculture, forestry and fisheries minister in the new Cabinet under Prime Minister-elect Yoshihiko Noda.

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Noda to succeed Kan as Japan PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (3rd from L), outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan (3rd from R) and lawmakers who ran for the presidential election of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan -- former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (L), farm minister Michihiko Kano (2nd from L), industry minister Banri Kaieda (2nd from R) and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (R) -- shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, after Noda was elected as the DPJ president. Noda will also succeed Kan as the Japanese prime minister.

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Noda to succeed Kan as Japan PM

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (3rd from L), outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan (3rd from R) and lawmakers who ran for the presidential election of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan -- former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi (L), farm minister Michihiko Kano (2nd from L), industry minister Banri Kaieda (2nd from R) and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (R) -- shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, after Noda was elected as the DPJ president. Noda will also succeed Kan as the Japanese prime minister.

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DPJ leader election

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's farm minister Michihiko Kano (C) heads to a meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2011, of his Democratic Party of Japan to hear speeches of candidates before holding a vote to pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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DPJ presidential candidates

TOKYO, Japan - The five candidates for the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election, whose winner will take over as Japan's prime minister, shake hands in a party-sponsored policy debate at a Tokyo hotel on Aug. 28, 2011, on the eve of the election. They are (from L to R) former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara; former Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Sumio Mabuchi; Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda; Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda; and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano.

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Farm minister Kano

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing his candidacy for the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election slated for Aug. 29. Kano said Japan should not immediately raise taxes for reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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5 candidates vie for Japan's new leadership post

TOKYO, Japan - Five Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers -- (From L) former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi, industry minister Banri Kaieda, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and farm minister Michihiko Kano -- attend a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing their candidacies for the ruling party's presidential election slated for Aug. 29.

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5 candidates vie for Japan's new leadership post

TOKYO, Japan - Five Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers -- (From L) former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara, former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi, industry minister Banri Kaieda, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, and farm minister Michihiko Kano -- pose for photos before a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2011, after filing their candidacies for the ruling party's presidential election slated for Aug. 29.

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5 candidates to succeed PM Kan

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo shows the five declared candidates for the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election to be held on Aug. 29, 2011, which will pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan. They are (from L to R) former Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Sumio Mabuchi, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda and former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara.

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Farm minister Michihiko Kano

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 26, 2011, shortly after announcing his candidacy for the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election to be held on Aug. 29, 2011, which will pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

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Kan at upper house

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Naoko Kan (front) speaks at a plenary session of the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Aug. 22, 2011, with Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R back) and Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano (L back) seen in the background. The upper house deliberated a bill the same day to allow the government to issue deficit-covering bonds in fiscal 2011.

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Farm minister Kano willing to enter leadership race

TOKYO, Japan - Farm minister Michihiko Kano is surrounded by reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 19, 2011, after some of his colleagues called on him to run in the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election to pick a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Sources close to Kano said on Aug. 20 he is willing to run in the election.

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Rice straw contaminated with radiation

KURIHARA, Japan - A cattle farmer gazes at rice straw, from which radioactive materials have been detected, at a barn in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 26, 2011. Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano announced the same day an emergency policy of buying up beef contaminated with radiation following the recent impounding of a slew of cattle suspected of being fed cesium-tainted rice straw amid the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

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PM Kan, Noda, Kano in Diet

TOKYO, Japan - (from L to R) Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda and farm minister Michihiko Kano attend a meeting of the House of Councillors Budget Committee in the Diet building in Tokyo on June 10, 2011.

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Kan's possible successors

TOKYO, Japan - Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) answers questions during a House of Councillors Budget Committee session at a Diet building in Tokyo on June 10, 2011. Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and farm minister Michihiko Kano (2nd from L) are among the lawmakers who could possibly replace Kan.

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Experiment to decontaminate farmland

IITATE, Japan - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano (front, R) and Norio Kanno (front, L), mayor of Iitate Village, Fukushima Prefecture, sow sunflower seeds at a field rented from a local farmer in the village on May 28, 2011, as Japan began the same day an experiment to remove radioactive materials from farmland by growing plants and using a mineral, amid radiation leaks from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the prefecture.

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Promoting Fukushima produce

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano (R) buys ''Aizu Koshihikari'' brand rice at a sales and exhibit event for agricultural produce from Fukushima Prefecture held in front of the entrance of the ministry in Tokyo on May 20, 2011. The event, open to the public, was held to help farmers in the prefecture who have been hit by consumer fears about radiation following an accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Japan-Australia FTA talks

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano speaks during a press conference at his ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2011, on free trade negotiations between Japan and Australia. The two countries ended their latest round of bilateral free trade negotiations the same day in Tokyo apparently without seeing a substantial breakthrough over the major sticking point of farm trade issues.

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APEC meeting on food security in Niigata

NIIGATA, Japan - Participants, including Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano (C, front), hold a press conference after a two-day ministerial meeting on food security of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the city of Niigata on Oct. 17, 2010. The 21-member forum agreed to boost food output and facilitate farm trade at the first meeting of its kind.

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APEC meeting on food security in Niigata

NIIGATA, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano (C) speaks at a press conference after a two-day ministerial meeting on food security of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the city of Niigata on Oct. 17, 2010. The 21-member forum agreed to boost food output and facilitate farm trade at the first meeting of its kind.

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1st APEC meeting on food security in Niigata

NIIGATA, Japan - Participants, including Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano (C, front), pose for photos during the first day of a ministerial meeting on food security of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Niigata City on Oct. 16, 2010. The two-day meeting was held for the first time to discuss ways to expand the availability of food through agriculture development, investment and trade.

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1st APEC meeting on food security in Niigata

NIIGATA, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano (C) addresses the first day of a ministerial meeting on food security of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Niigata City on Oct. 16, 2010. The two-day meeting was held for the first time to discuss ways to expand the availability of food through agriculture development, investment and trade.

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Biodiversity talks

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano (R) and Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, shake hands as a meeting to discuss an international accord on compensation for damage to biological diversity and public health from genetically modified crops starts in Nagoya on Oct. 11, 2010. The session marks an official start of three-week biodiversity talks in the central Japanese city.

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Cabinet meeting

TOKYO, Japan - (from L) Farm minister Michihiko Kano, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi wait for the start of a Cabinet meeting at the premier's office on Sept. 21, 2010.

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Japan's farm minister Kano

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010, after taking the post in a reshuffle of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet.

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Japan's farm minister Kano

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese farm minister Michihiko Kano speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010, after taking the post in a reshuffle of Prime Minister Naoto Kan's Cabinet.

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Kan's reshuffled Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C), Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (R) and Michihiko Kano (L), farm minister, wait for the start of the first Cabinet meeting since the reshuffle at the premier's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010. Kan reshuffled his Cabinet after he was reelected as head of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.

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Japan's new farm minister Kano

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a veteran lower house member, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2010 after being named as farm minister in Prime Minister Naoto Kan's reshuffled Cabinet. Kano is a former vice president of Kan's ruling Democratic Party of Japan.

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2nd lay judge trial gives man 4 1/2 years for attempted murder

SAITAMA, Japan - Three lay judges, including Kenji Kikuchi (2nd from R), and Michihiko Sassa (far R), a substitute candidate for lay judges, at the second trial involving such judges under Japan's new criminal trial system on Aug. 12 attend a press conference at the Saitama District Court after the trial. They gave an unsuspended sentence of four-and-a-half years to a man who attempted to kill a male acquaintance in the prefecture. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Kano testifies at lower house committee

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, former vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, responds to questions as an unsworn witness at a House of Representatives Budget Committee session April 8. He denied any involvement in cases linked to his former secretary Mitsuro Ozaki, who has been indicted on charges of sending bribes to several individuals, including former Tokushima Gov. Toshio Endo.

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Kano to quit DPJ over suspected ties to scandal-hit firm

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), speaks at a news conference Feb. 5 about his decision to quit the party following allegations that two of his secretaries were paid salaries by a scandal-hit consulting firm.

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Kin's firm shoulders insurance policy for DPJ member Kano

YAMAGATA, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a Diet member and a vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, tells reporters Feb. 2 in Yamagata, northern Japan, that a firm run by his brother-in-law paid premiums on his behalf for a health insurance policy and pension plan he himself is forbidden to purchase.

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DPJ's Kano denies link to scam despite ex-secretary's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Jan. 15 about the arrest of his former secretary in relation to a scandal over a public works project in Ibaraki Prefecture.

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DPJ's Kano denies link to scam despite ex-secretary's arrest

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, a vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), speaks to reporters in the Diet building in Tokyo on Jan. 15 about the arrest of his former secretary in relation to a scandal over a public works project in Ibaraki Prefecture.

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Kano testifies at lower house committee

TOKYO, Japan - Michihiko Kano, former vice president of the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan, responds to questions as an unsworn witness at a House of Representatives Budget Committee session April 8. He denied any involvement in cases linked to his former secretary Mitsuro Ozaki, who has been indicted on charges of sending bribes to several individuals, including former Tokushima Gov. Toshio Endo.

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Art director Yanai to advise Fukushima gov't

Michihiko Yanai, art director and copywriter, speaks in Fukushima city on March 23, 2015, about his new role as a creative director for the Fukushima prefectural government, starting in April. Hailing from Koriyama in the prefecture, Yanai will advise the government on how to send out information in an effort to reconstruct the northeastern Japan region hit hard by the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo