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Japan, U.S. start 2-day talks on beef trade

TOKYO, Japan - Michitaka Nakatomi (L), deputy director general of the Economic Affairs Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry, and Chuck Lambert, U.S. deputy agriculture undersecretary for marketing and regulatory products, shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on May 17 as they start two-day talks to discuss what further steps need to be implemented for Japan to lift its reimposed ban on American beef imports.

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(1)Kenyan Riri wins Lake Biwa race

OTSU, Japan - Kenyan runner Joseph Riri (R), who won the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on March 6, breaks away from defending champion Jose Rios of Spain (L) and Japan's Michitaka Hosokawa (C) at the Ojiyama track and field stadium in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture.

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Kao and PFN collaborate on sebum RNA analysis

On the 20th, Kao announced that it will collaborate with Preferred Networks (PFN, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) on the practical application of sebum RNA monitoring technology, which extracts and analyzes ribonucleic acid (RNA) from sebum. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning and deep learning will be applied to the data obtained from sebum RNA. PFN's AI technology will be incorporated into this technology. Mr. Michitaka Sawada, President of Kao Corporation, said, "Accumulation of data makes prediction possible. "We can expect to use preventive cosmetics to improve the skin in a few years," he said. This technology is also expected to be used in the medical industry. The company is also conducting research with a view to using the technology in the early diagnosis of intractable diseases such as Parkinson's disease. Photo taken on November 19, 2019, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Japan, U.S. start 2-day talks on beef trade

TOKYO, Japan - Michitaka Nakatomi (L), deputy director general of the Economic Affairs Bureau at Japan's Foreign Ministry, and Chuck Lambert, U.S. deputy agriculture undersecretary for marketing and regulatory products, shake hands at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on May 17 as they start two-day talks to discuss what further steps need to be implemented for Japan to lift its reimposed ban on American beef imports. (Kyodo)

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(1)Kenyan Riri wins Lake Biwa race

OTSU, Japan - Kenyan runner Joseph Riri (R), who won the Lake Biwa Mainichi Marathon on March 6, breaks away from defending champion Jose Rios of Spain (L) and Japan's Michitaka Hosokawa (C) at the Ojiyama track and field stadium in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Sale field

In Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture, Mr. Shinichi Nakayama has been protecting the traditional Iruhama method of salt production for 50 years. 　 <Caption> Mr. Shinichi Nakayama, who has been making salt using the old Iruhama method; scenery of the salt fields and people working in the salt town of Sakaide City, Kagawa Prefecture; a statue of Michitaka Kume Eizaemon; Mr. Shinichi Nakayama taking care of his dog while naked; Mr. Shinichi Nakayama wearing a necktie at a meeting to build a shrine at the city hall; a father and son preserving the traditional salt making method; Mr. Nakayama and his son working all day from early in the morning. Mr. Nakayama and his son working all day from early in the morning, making an effort to produce good quality salt. Date of shooting unknown, release date: September 4, 1964.

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The Accession of Empress Taisho

This is a photograph of Empress Teimei (Empress Taisho) taken at the time of coronation. She was the fourth daughter of government official Kujo Michitaka and Noma Ikuko Noma. Sadako by name, she completed middle school at the school for the imperial family and married Prince Yoshihito in 1900 and became Empress in 1912. She is the birth mother of Emperor Showa .==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐36‐0]

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Consumer products maker Kao Corp.

Michitaka Sawada, president and CEO of Japanese cosmetics and toiletry products maker Kao Corp., shows samples of eco-friendly packages being used for his company's products during an interview in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tepco apologizes to 102-yr-old suicide victim's kin in nuclear crisis

Michitaka Kondo (3rd from R), a senior official of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima main office, apologizes in Fukushima Prefecture on April 5 to the family of a 102-year-old man who killed himself in the face of an evacuation order amid the 2011 nuclear crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tepco apologizes to 102-yr-old suicide victim's kin in nuclear crisis

Michitaka Kondo, a senior official of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima main office, offers a prayer on April 5 at the residence in Fukushima Prefecture of the family of a 102-year-old man who killed himself in the face of an evacuation order amid the 2011 nuclear crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo