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Sumo: Kiribayama promoted to ozeki

Kiribayama (top), holding a card revealing his new ring name Kirishima, is carried by other wrestlers in celebration of his promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki, next to his mother (far R) and father (far L) at his Michinoku stable in Tokyo on May 31, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Sumo: Kiribayama promoted to ozeki

Kiribayama (C), holding a card revealing his new ring name Kirishima, gets a kiss on each cheek from his parents after a ceremony at which he accepted promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki at his Michinoku stable in Tokyo on May 31, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Sumo: Kiribayama promoted to ozeki+

Kiribayama (top) is carried by other wrestlers in celebration of his promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki at his Michinoku stable in Tokyo on May 31, 2023. Kiribayama inherited a new ring name, Kirishima, from his stablemaster. (Pool photo)

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Sumo: Kiribayama promoted to ozeki

Kiribayama holds up a card revealing his new ring name Kirishima, which he inherited from his stablemaster, after a ceremony at which he accepted promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki at his Michinoku stable in Tokyo on May 31, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Sumo: Kiribayama promoted to ozeki

Kiribayama (2nd from L) gives his "kojo" stage speech after he is officially informed of his promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki by messengers (R) at his Michinoku stable in Tokyo on May 31, 2023. Kiribayama will now be known as Kirishima, which was a ring name used by his stablemaster (3rd from L). (Pool photo)

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Sumo: Kiribayama promoted to ozeki

Kiribayama (L) holds up a card revealing his new ring name Kirishima with his stablemaster, from whom he inherited the name, after a ceremony at which he accepted promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki at his Michinoku stable in Tokyo on May 31, 2023. (Pool photo)

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Sumo: Kiribayama promoted to ozeki

Kiribayama (C) gives his "kojo" stage speech after he is officially informed of his promotion to sumo's second-highest rank of ozeki at his Michinoku stable in Tokyo on May 31, 2023. Kiribayama will now be known as Kirishima, which was a ring name used by his stablemaster (R). (Pool photo)

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SDF builds pontoon bridge in quake-tsunami drill

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces inspect a pontoon bridge they built across the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, during a large-scale earthquake-tsunami disaster drill, named Michinoku Alert 2014, on Nov. 7, 2014.

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SDF builds pontoon bridge in quake-tsunami drill

SENDAI, Japan - Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces build a pontoon bridge across the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, during a large-scale earthquake-tsunami disaster drill, named Michinoku Alert 2014, on Nov. 7, 2014.

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Osprey takes part in disaster drill

SENDAI, Japan - A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft makes a landing at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force airfield in northwestern city of Sendai on Nov. 7, 2014. The Osprey from the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa is to take part in a large-scale disaster drill called "Michinoku ALERT 2014" that simulates a severe earthquake in the northeastern Japan.

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3 sumo executives to resign for proteges' match fixing

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows (from L) stablemasters Kitanoumi, Kokonoe and Michinoku who will step down from the Japan Sumo Association board as a special investigative panel ruled that their proteges have been involved in match fixing. Kitanoumi is former yokozuna Kitanoumi, Kokonoe is former yokozuna Chiyonofuji and Michinoku is former ozeki Kirishima.

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Sumo officials visit sports ministry over gambling scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association officials Kazuhiro Michinoku (R) and Nobuyoshi Hakkaku call at the sports ministry on June 16, 2010, to apologize for a gambling scandal enveloping the world of sumo.

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Michinoku Bank to withdraw from overseas banking business

AOMORI, Japan - Yasuo Sugimoto (R), chairman of Michinoku Bank, briefs reporters about the selling of its Russian banking subsidiary to Mizuho Corporate Bank and dissolving its Hong Kong subsidiary at the bank's head office in Aomori on Oct. 12.

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Michinoku Bank ordered to step up customer data protection

SENDAI, Japan - Kazuo Harada, president of Michinoku Bank in northern Japan, is summoned by the Tohoku Local Finance Bureau on May 20. The Aomori-based bank has been ordered by financial authorities to improve security measures to protect customers' information, following its loss of such data stored on CD-ROMs in April. It is the first such order issued by financial authorities under the personal privacy law, which went into force in April.

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Michinoku Bank ordered to step up customer data protection

SENDAI, Japan - Kazuo Harada, president of Michinoku Bank in northern Japan, is summoned by the Tohoku Local Finance Bureau on May 20. The Aomori-based bank has been ordered by financial authorities to improve security measures to protect customers' information, following its loss of such data stored on CD-ROMs in April. It is the first such order issued by financial authorities under the personal privacy law, which went into force in April. (Kyodo)

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Michinoku Bank to withdraw from overseas banking business

AOMORI, Japan - Yasuo Sugimoto (R), chairman of Michinoku Bank, briefs reporters about the selling of its Russian banking subsidiary to Mizuho Corporate Bank and dissolving its Hong Kong subsidiary at the bank's head office in Aomori on Oct. 12. (Kyodo)

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Michinoku Sendai Orihimetai at Japan Expo in Paris suburbs

Michinoku Sendai Orihimetai, an idol group from the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi, performs at the Japan-themed festival Japan Expo 2015 in the suburbs of Paris on July 2, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Michinoku Sendai Orihimetai at Japan Expo in Paris suburbs

Michinoku Sendai Orihimetai, an idol group from the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Miyagi, poses for photos at the Japan-themed festival Japan Expo 2015 in the suburbs of Paris on July 2, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sumo officials visit sports ministry over gambling scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association officials Kazuhiro Michinoku (R) and Nobuyoshi Hakkaku call at the sports ministry on June 16, 2010, to apologize for a gambling scandal enveloping the world of sumo. (Kyodo)

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3 sumo executives to resign for proteges' match fixing

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows (from L) stablemasters Kitanoumi, Kokonoe and Michinoku who will step down from the Japan Sumo Association board as a special investigative panel ruled that their proteges have been involved in match fixing. Kitanoumi is former yokozuna Kitanoumi, Kokonoe is former yokozuna Chiyonofuji and Michinoku is former ozeki Kirishima. (Kyodo)

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SDF builds pontoon bridge in quake-tsunami drill

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces inspect a pontoon bridge they built across the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, during a large-scale earthquake-tsunami disaster drill, named Michinoku Alert 2014, on Nov. 7, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Osprey takes part in disaster drill

SENDAI, Japan - A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft makes a landing at a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force airfield in northwestern city of Sendai on Nov. 7, 2014. The Osprey from the Marines' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa is to take part in a large-scale disaster drill called "Michinoku ALERT 2014" that simulates a severe earthquake in the northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)