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19th anniv. of nerve gas attack

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuaki Ota, area manager at Tokyo Metro Co.'s Kasumigaseki station, offers flowers during a memorial service at the subway station on March 20, 2014, the 19th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly sarin nerve gas attack that killed 13 and injured over 6,000 people at subway stations in central Tokyo, including Kasumigaseki.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) shakes hands with Mitsuaki Takami, archbishop of the Urakami Cathedral, upon her arrival there in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. (Pool photo)

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (2nd from R) is briefed by Mitsuaki Takami (far R), archbishop of the Urakami Cathedral, on statues that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during her visit to the cathedral in the southwestern Japanese city on Dec. 10, 2013. (Pool photo)

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) is welcomed by Mitsuaki Takami (C), archbishop of the Urakami Cathedral, upon her arrival there in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Mass commemorates 400th anniv. of Korean church building

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami (C), archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, conducts a mass at Nakamachi Catholic Church in Nagasaki on August 10, 2010, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the construction of San Lorenzo Church in the western Japan city by Koreans brought to Japan as captives. San Lorenzo Church was later torn down.

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Japanese A-bomb survivors, mayors march for nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - The ''bombed Mary,'' a statue found around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, is placed on the altar during a mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York on May 2, 2010, a day before the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. The statue was brought to New York by Mitsuaki Takami, archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki.

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Nagasaki archbishop to meet U.N. chief in May

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami, the archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, looks at the ''bombed Mary,'' a scorched wooden head of a Virgin Mary statue, during a press conference in Nagasaki on April 13, 2010. Takami said he will take the head, which was found among ruins around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during his trip to the United States, where he will meet U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and attend a U.N. nuclear disarmament conference.

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Work by Japanese sculptor displayed at FAO headquarters

ROME, Italy - A work by Japanese sculptor Mitsuaki Tanabe (R, top) was put on display April 1 at the headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome to commemorate the completion of a large freezing facility in Norway to store a variety of seeds to prevent the extinction of agricultural crops. The stainless-steel sculpture, named ''Yasei Ine,'' meaning wild rice, imitates the shape of rough rice, which has a long awn that is distinctive to wild rice. The work is nine meters in length and weighs 250 kilograms.

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Bayern Munich vs Urawa Reds freindly

SAITAMA, Japan - Bayern Munich midfielder Ali Karimi (R) and Urawa Reds striker Mitsuaki Kurobe vie for control of the ball in the second half of their friendly match at Saitama Stadium on July 31. Urawa edged Bayern 1-0.

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Bayern Munich vs Urawa Reds freindly

SAITAMA, Japan - Bayern Munich midfielder Ali Karimi (R) and Urawa Reds striker Mitsuaki Kurobe vie for control of the ball in the second half of their friendly match at Saitama Stadium on July 31. Urawa edged Bayern 1-0. (Kyodo)

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Japanese aid workers extracted from S. Sudan amid violence

Mitsuaki Furukawa, head of the Japan International Cooperation Agency's South Sudan office, meets with reporters at an airport in Nairobi on July 13, 2016, after evacuating from the country following a surge of violence. Forty-seven Japanese nationals left the South Sudanese capital Juba. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Metro workers mark 21st anniversary of nerve gas attack in Tokyo

Tokyo Metro Co. Kasumigaseki Station area manager Mitsuaki Ota speaks with reporters after laying flowers at the station on March 20, 2016, the 21st anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 13 people and injured over 6,000 others in the capital. "We shouldn't forget the actions of those before us who acted to save people's lives," he said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Custom-made hand puppet shop popular in Tokyo's Yanaka area

Harumi Ikeda beams with joy as she receives a custom-made hand puppet of herself from puppeteer Mitsuaki Tsuyuki at his studio in Tokyo's Yanaka area on Sept. 17, 2015. Tsuyuki takes orders to make puppets based on photos provided by the customer and is so popular that the waiting list was at one point as long as six years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Custom-made hand puppet shop popular in Tokyo's Yanaka area

Puppeteer Mitsuaki Tsuyuki shows off a collection of hand puppets he created at his studio in Tokyo's Yanaka area on Sept. 3, 2015. Tsuyuki also takes orders for custom-made puppets and said he hopes to perform overseas in the future. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Custom-made hand puppet shop popular in Tokyo's Yanaka area

A scene from hand puppet play "Winter Sonata after 50 years" created and performed by puppeteer Mitsuaki Tsuyuki at his studio in Tokyo's Yanaka area on Sept. 17, 2015. Tsuyuki takes orders for custom-made puppets and is so popular that the waiting list was at one point as long as six years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica of damaged Maria statue in Guernica given to Nagasaki

A replica of the statue of Maria in Guernica, Spain, whose body was broken in the country's civil war in the 1930s, is presented to the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki at Urakami Cathedral in the southwestern Japan city on Aug. 9, 2015, as Nagasaki Catholic Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami (R) looks on. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ice hockey's Asian league player Inoue

Photo shows Mitsuaki Inoue, a goalkeeper of the Asia League Ice Hockey's Nippon Paper Cranes team. With experiences of playing with Chinese and South Korean teams, Inoue hopes for an improvement in Japan's strained relations with China and South Korea. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Work by Japanese sculptor displayed at FAO headquarters

ROME, Italy - A work by Japanese sculptor Mitsuaki Tanabe (R, top) was put on display April 1 at the headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome to commemorate the completion of a large freezing facility in Norway to store a variety of seeds to prevent the extinction of agricultural crops. The stainless-steel sculpture, named ''Yasei Ine,'' meaning wild rice, imitates the shape of rough rice, which has a long awn that is distinctive to wild rice. The work is nine meters in length and weighs 250 kilograms. (Kyodo)

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Mass commemorates 400th anniv. of Korean church building

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami (C), archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, conducts a mass at Nakamachi Catholic Church in Nagasaki on August 10, 2010, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the construction of San Lorenzo Church in the western Japan city by Koreans brought to Japan as captives. San Lorenzo Church was later torn down. (Kyodo)

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Japanese A-bomb survivors, mayors march for nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - The ''bombed Mary,'' a statue found around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, is placed on the altar during a mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York on May 2, 2010, a day before the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. The statue was brought to New York by Mitsuaki Takami, archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki archbishop to meet U.N. chief in May

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami, the archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, looks at the ''bombed Mary,'' a scorched wooden head of a Virgin Mary statue, during a press conference in Nagasaki on April 13, 2010. Takami said he will take the head, which was found among ruins around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during his trip to the United States, where he will meet U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and attend a U.N. nuclear disarmament conference. (Kyodo)

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Hitachi reports 15% drop in operating profit in April-Sept.

Hitachi Ltd. Chief Financial Officer Mitsuaki Nishiyama attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2016. The electronics maker reported a 15.0 percent year-on-year fall in April-September group operating profit to 232.84 billion yen ($2.21 billion) due to a stronger yen and the reorganization of its businesses. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo