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Japan financial diplomat

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhiro Furusawa, Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 11, 2013.

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Blind sailor, supporter rescued

TOKYO, Japan - Blind sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (2nd from front, R) and his supporter and newscaster Jiro Shimbo (front) get off a rescue flying boat at the Maritime Self-Defense Force's Atsugi Base in Kanagawa Prefecture on June 21, 2013. The pair were rescued earlier in the day by the MSDF in the Pacific off northeastern Japan after their small yacht was flooded with seawater. They had left a port in northeastern Japan on June 16, 2013, in a bid to cross the Pacific to San Diego, California.

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Blind sailor, partner set sail to cross Pacific

OSAKA, Japan - Blind sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (R) and his partner Jiro Shinbo pose for photos on a small yacht before setting sail from Osaka harbor on June 8, 2013. They plan to cross the Pacific Ocean in what the organizer calls the world's first such attempt by such a pair.

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Blind sailor, partner set sail to cross Pacific

OSAKA, Japan - Blind sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (L) and his partner Jiro Shinbo set sail on a small yacht from Osaka harbor on June 8, 2013. They plan to cross the Pacific Ocean in what the organizer calls the world's first such attempt by such a pair.

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Blind sailor, partner set sail to cross Pacific

OSAKA, Japan - Blind sailor Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (L) and his partner Jiro Shinbo pose for photos on a small yacht before setting sail from Osaka harbor on June 8, 2013. They plan to cross the Pacific Ocean in what the organizer calls the world's first such attempt by such a pair.

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ERINA researcher Mimura

CHANGCHUN, China - Mitsuhiro Mimura, an associate senior researcher at the Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, poses during an interview in Changchun, China, on Sept. 3, 2010. Mimura said China has pushed North Korea into adopting a so-called ''reform and opening-up policy,'' while the North's economic development has become increasingly dependent on China.

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Fisherman's body returns to Japan

NEMURO, Japan - The coffin of Mitsuhiro Morita, a 35-year-old fisherman who was shot dead on Aug. 16 by a Russian border patrol boat, is unloaded from the Japanese Coast Guard patrol vessel Saroma at Nemuro port, Hokkaido, on Aug. 19. Earlier in the day, Russia handed over the body to Japanese officials on Russian-held Kunashiri Island.

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Japan formally decides to lift import ban on U.S. beef

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi (L), senior vice minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries speaks during a meeting of the farm ministry in Tokyo on July 27 to endorse the resumption of beef trade with the United States.

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Saikyo mulls scrapping plan to create Net bank with Livedoor

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Mitsuhiro Ohashi, president of Saikyo Bank, a second-tier regional bank in Yamaguchi Prefecture, speaks to reporters in the city of Shunan in the prefecture on Jan. 24. Ohashi said the bank is considering scrapping a plan to set up an Internet bank with Livedoor Co.

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Japan formally decides to resume North American beef imports

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture Vice Minister Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi speaks during a news conference at his ministry Dec. 12 as Japan formally decided the same day to conditionally resume imports of beef from young cattle of the United States and Canada, about two years after Japan imposed a ban on the beef due to concerns about mad cow disease.

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(2)Japan gets best finishes in relays

ATHENS, Greece - Japan's squad of Mitsuhiro Sato, Jun Osakada, Yuki Yamaguchi and Tomohiro Ito (clockwise from left bottom) smile after missing out on the podium with the best-ever fourth-place finish in the men's 4x100-meter relay at Olympic Stadium on Aug. 28. They were just 0.09 shy of third-place Nigeria, as they completed the race in 3 minutes, 0.99 seconds.

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Japanese men squeeze into 4x400-meter relay

ATHENS, Greece - (From L to R) Tomohiro Ito, June Kosakada, Mitsuhiro Sato and Yuki Yamaguchi put together a time of 3 minutes, 2.71 seconds in the men's 4x400-meter relay to qualify for the final at the Olympic Stadium in Athens on Aug. 27.

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Nippon Life solvency margin ratio up in 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhiro Ishibashi (C), vice president of Nippon Life Insurance Co., briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for the first half of fiscal 2003 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo Nov. 27.

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8 of 10 insurers' financial health down on weak stocks

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhiro Ishibashi (C), vice president of Nippon Life Insurance Co., briefs reporters on the insurer's earnings report for the fiscal year ended March 31, at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on May 30.

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Miyazaki firm paid salaries of lawmaker Uesugi's aides

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Mitsuhiro Uesugi, a House of Councillors lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. A construction company in Miyazaki paid half the salaries of two secretaries to Uesugi, the lawmaker's office and the firm admitted Feb. 21.

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Nippon Life's solvency margin falls in fiscal 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Life Insurance Co. Vice President Mitsuhiro Ishisbashi (C) speaks on interim earnings results at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26. He said his company's solvency margin ratio, a key gauge of an insurer's ability to pay policyholders, stood at 632.0% as of Sept. 30, down from 714.4% as of March 31.

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Envoys named to Panama, Ivory Coast, Vatican

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows new Japanese ambassadors named on Aug. 10 -- (from L to R) Mitsui Matsuzu, ambassador to Panama, Yuji Kurokawa, ambassador to the Ivory Coast, and Mitsuhiro Nakamura, ambassador to the Vatican.

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Japan formally decides to resume North American beef imports

TOKYO, Japan - Agriculture Vice Minister Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi speaks during a news conference at his ministry Dec. 12 as Japan formally decided the same day to conditionally resume imports of beef from young cattle of the United States and Canada, about two years after Japan imposed a ban on the beef due to concerns about mad cow disease. (Kyodo)

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Saikyo mulls scrapping plan to create Net bank with Livedoor

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Mitsuhiro Ohashi, president of Saikyo Bank, a second-tier regional bank in Yamaguchi Prefecture, speaks to reporters in the city of Shunan in the prefecture on Jan. 24. Ohashi said the bank is considering scrapping a plan to set up an Internet bank with Livedoor Co. (Kyodo)

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Japan formally decides to lift import ban on U.S. beef

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhiro Miyakoshi (L), senior vice minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries speaks during a meeting of the farm ministry in Tokyo on July 27 to endorse the resumption of beef trade with the United States. (Kyodo)

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8 of 10 insurers' financial health down on weak stocks

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhiro Ishibashi (C), vice president of Nippon Life Insurance Co., briefs reporters on the insurer's earnings report for the fiscal year ended March 31, at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo on May 30. (Kyodo)

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(1)Gov't appoints ambassadors

TOKYO, Japan - The government appointed new ambassadors May 9. (Top, from L to R) Masaki Saito was named ambassador to New Zealand, Mitsuhiro Kagami ambassador to Nicaragua, Hiroshi Shiojiri ambassador to Libya, (bottom, from L to R) Takao Natsume ambassador to Bahrain, and Yuichi Ishii ambassador to Yemen. (Kyodo)

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Miyazaki firm paid salaries of lawmaker Uesugi's aides

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Mitsuhiro Uesugi, a House of Councillors lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. A construction company in Miyazaki paid half the salaries of two secretaries to Uesugi, the lawmaker's office and the firm admitted Feb. 21. (Kyodo)

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Japanese city flies drone to video cherry blossoms

Mitsuhiro Kadowaki (R), mayor of the northeastern Japan city of Semboku, and Yoichiro Hirano, president of software developer Infoteria Corp., observe a drone flying to take video of cherry blossoms in Semboku on April 20, 2016. The Akita Prefecture city, designated as a special zone where the use of drones for public purposes is promoted, said the same day it will fly drones with the cooperation of software developer Infoteria Corp. to take video of cherry blossoms and promote tourism. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese R&D firm's noninvasive patient monitoring device

Mitsuhiro Sakamoto, president of Ideaquest Inc., a start-up that originated at Keio University, explains a noninvasive infrared device developed by the company to monitor patients, in Tokyo in May 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to retain deputy chief post at IMF

Photo shows Mitsuhiro Furusawa, 58, a former Japanese vice finance minister. The International Monetary Fund announced Feb. 5, 2015, that it will appoint Furusawa to the post of deputy managing director. Furusawa will become one of the four deputy managing directors under IMF chief Christine Lagarde effective March 2 and will replace countryman Naoyuki Shinohara, 61, who is stepping down at the end of February. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Student activist aspires to take up antinuke fight in future

Mitsuhiro Hayashida, one of the university students who founded SEALDs, a group protesting against security laws, speaks at an event to discuss peace issues in Tokyo on Nov. 14, 2015. The 23-year-old descendant of an atomic bomb survivor has also engaged in efforts to abolish nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Contents of Nobel laureate Yukawa's letters to poet Yoshii disclosed

File photo taken in 1956 shows world-known physicist Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981), the first Japanese national who received a Nobel prize. Detailed contents of Yukawa's six letters sent to poet Isamu Yoshii (1886-1960) between March 1945 and January 1947, before receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949, were disclosed by Mitsuhiro Hosokawa, a professor at the University of Shizuoka, in an academic journal published in September 2015. The letters contain a total of nine "tanka" poems of Yukawa, including four unpublished poems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Japan gets best finishes in relays

ATHENS, Greece - Japan's squad of Mitsuhiro Sato, Jun Osakada, Yuki Yamaguchi and Tomohiro Ito (clockwise from left bottom) smile after missing out on the podium with the best-ever fourth-place finish in the men's 4x100-meter relay at Olympic Stadium on Aug. 28. They were just 0.09 shy of third-place Nigeria, as they completed the race in 3 minutes, 0.99 seconds. (Kyodo)

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Fisherman's body returns to Japan

NEMURO, Japan - The coffin of Mitsuhiro Morita, a 35-year-old fisherman who was shot dead on Aug. 16 by a Russian border patrol boat, is unloaded from the Japanese Coast Guard patrol vessel Saroma at Nemuro port, Hokkaido, on Aug. 19. Earlier in the day, Russia handed over the body to Japanese officials on Russian-held Kunashiri Island. (Kyodo)

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Man nabbed over 5 deaths in robbery-arson case

AOMORI, Japan - Mitsuhiro Kobayashi, a 43-year-old taxi driver, was arrested March 4, on suspicion of setting fire to consumer finance firm Takefuji Corp.'s Hirosaki branch in Aomori Prefecture in a bungled robbery last May, killing five people and injuring four others.

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ERINA researcher Mimura

CHANGCHUN, China - Mitsuhiro Mimura, an associate senior researcher at the Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia, poses during an interview in Changchun, China, on Sept. 3, 2010. Mimura said China has pushed North Korea into adopting a so-called ''reform and opening-up policy,'' while the North's economic development has become increasingly dependent on China. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (L), a blind Japanese sailor who sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 2019, poses for a photo in Amakusa in Kumamoto Prefecture on May 5, 2021, with Kumamon, the official black bear mascot of the southwestern Japan prefecture.

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Blind Japanese sailor

Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (L), a blind Japanese sailor, celebrates with a sighted navigator, after successfully completing a near two-month, non-stop voyage from San Diego to Fukushima Prefecture on April 20, 2019. The success made him the first to make a so-called blind sailing Pacific Ocean crossing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Blind Japanese sailor

Photo taken April 20, 2019, shows Dream Weaver, on which Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (L), a blind Japanese sailor, successfully completed a near two-month, non-stop voyage from San Diego to Fukushima Prefecture with sighted navigator Doug Smith on April 20, 2019. The success made Iwamoto the first to make a so-called blind sailing Pacific Ocean crossing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Blind Japanese sailor

Mitsuhiro Iwamoto (L), a blind Japanese sailor, celebrates with a sighted navigator, after successfully completing a near two-month, non-stop voyage from San Diego to Fukushima Prefecture on April 20, 2019. The success made him the first to make a so-called blind sailing Pacific Ocean crossing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nippon Life solvency margin ratio up in 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuhiro Ishibashi (C), vice president of Nippon Life Insurance Co., briefs reporters on the company's earnings report for the first half of fiscal 2003 at the Bank of Japan's head office in Tokyo Nov. 27. (Kyodo)

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Man gets death for killing 5 in Takefuji arson attack

AOMORI, Japan - The Aomori District Court sentenced a former taxi driver, Mitsuhiro Kobayashi (file photo), to death Feb. 12 for setting fire to a branch office of major consumer credit firm Takefuji Corp. in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, and killing five staff members during an attempted robbery in May 2001. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Life's solvency margin falls in fiscal 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Life Insurance Co. Vice President Mitsuhiro Ishisbashi (C) speaks on interim earnings results at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 26. He said his company's solvency margin ratio, a key gauge of an insurer's ability to pay policyholders, stood at 632.0% as of Sept. 30, down from 714.4% as of March 31. (Kyodo)

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Envoys named to Panama, Ivory Coast, Vatican

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows new Japanese ambassadors named on Aug. 10 -- (from L to R) Mitsui Matsuzu, ambassador to Panama, Yuji Kurokawa, ambassador to the Ivory Coast, and Mitsuhiro Nakamura, ambassador to the Vatican.

Japan financial diplomat

Blind sailor, supporter rescued

Blind sailor, partner set sail to cross Pacific

Blind sailor, partner set sail to cross Pacific

Blind sailor, partner set sail to cross Pacific

ERINA researcher Mimura

Fisherman's body returns to Japan

Japan formally decides to lift import ban on U.S. beef

Saikyo mulls scrapping plan to create Net bank with Livedoor

Japan formally decides to resume North American beef imports

(2)Japan gets best finishes in relays

Japanese men squeeze into 4x400-meter relay

Nippon Life solvency margin ratio up in 1st half

8 of 10 insurers' financial health down on weak stocks

Miyazaki firm paid salaries of lawmaker Uesugi's aides

Nippon Life's solvency margin falls in fiscal 1st half

Envoys named to Panama, Ivory Coast, Vatican

Japan formally decides to resume North American beef imports

Saikyo mulls scrapping plan to create Net bank with Livedoor

Japan formally decides to lift import ban on U.S. beef

8 of 10 insurers' financial health down on weak stocks

(1)Gov't appoints ambassadors

Miyazaki firm paid salaries of lawmaker Uesugi's aides

Japanese city flies drone to video cherry blossoms

Japanese R&amp;D firm's noninvasive patient monitoring device

Japan to retain deputy chief post at IMF

FEATURE: Student activist aspires to take up antinuke fight in future

Contents of Nobel laureate Yukawa's letters to poet Yoshii disclosed

(2)Japan gets best finishes in relays

Fisherman's body returns to Japan

Man nabbed over 5 deaths in robbery-arson case

ERINA researcher Mimura

Tokyo Olympic torch relay

Blind Japanese sailor

Blind Japanese sailor

Blind Japanese sailor

Nippon Life solvency margin ratio up in 1st half

Man gets death for killing 5 in Takefuji arson attack

Nippon Life's solvency margin falls in fiscal 1st half

Envoys named to Panama, Ivory Coast, Vatican

Japanese R&D firm's noninvasive patient monitoring device