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Shinto adapting to era of globalization

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsutaka Inui (C), a Shinto priest at Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto City's Kita Ward, poses for photos at the shrine with tourists from Israel at their request after providing them with explanations about Shinto and shrine buildings in English on Dec. 7, 2012.

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Nippon Shinpan to merge with UFJ Card

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Shinpan Co. President Kazuhiro Omori (L), UFJ Bank President Masaji Teranishi (C) and UFJ Card Co. President Mitsutaka Ando pose at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 20 after announcing a deal to merge the two credit card firms in March 2005 or later. The deal will give the UFJ Group the largest credit card operations among the Japan's four megabanks.

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Goto allows only run in six innings

YONAGO, Japan - Seibu Lions starter Mitsutaka Goto allows one run in six innings against the Orix Bluewave at Yonago ball park May 22. Seibu trounced Orix 9-2.

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Scott, 3 others tied for Chunichi Crowns lead

TOGO, Japan - Australian Adam Scott hits the ball out of the rough on the second day of the Chunichi Crowns golf tournament on the Nagoya Golf Club's par-70 Wago Course on April 27. Scott made two eagles in shooting a 6-under-par 64 to move into a tie for the lead with Eiji Mizoguchi, Mitsutaka Kusakabe of Japan and Dean Wilson of the United States.

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Nippon Shinpan to merge with UFJ Card

TOKYO, Japan - Nippon Shinpan Co. President Kazuhiro Omori (L), UFJ Bank President Masaji Teranishi (C) and UFJ Card Co. President Mitsutaka Ando pose at a news conference in Tokyo on Jan. 20 after announcing a deal to merge the two credit card firms in March 2005 or later. The deal will give the UFJ Group the largest credit card operations among the Japan's four megabanks. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Osaka resident produces salt in western Japan mountains

Mitsutaka Matsuura, a 65-year-old former Osaka resident, watches boiling seawater in a giant iron pot at his salt-making factory in the depopulated Irokawa district of Nachikatsuura town on the Pacific coast on Feb. 4, 2015. The district started accepting immigrants from urban areas about 40 years ago, with these new residents now accounting for about 45% of its population. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Former urban resident produces salt in western Japan mountains

Mitsutaka Matsumura, a 65-year-old former urban resident, produces plum-flavored pink salt deep in the mountains in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Feb. 4, 2015. He moved from Osaka to the depopulated Irokawa district of Nachikatsuura town on the Pacific coast about 17years ago. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese expensive grapes

Mitsutaka Sakamoto, head chef at Japanese inn Hyakurakusou, poses for a photo holding a bunch of Ruby Roman grapes that the inn bought for record 1.3 million yen ($12,000) at the season's first auction for the fruit in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, on July 16, 2020.

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Goto allows only run in six innings

YONAGO, Japan - Seibu Lions starter Mitsutaka Goto allows one run in six innings against the Orix Bluewave at Yonago ball park May 22. Seibu trounced Orix 9-2.

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Scott, 3 others tied for Chunichi Crowns lead

TOGO, Japan - Australian Adam Scott hits the ball out of the rough on the second day of the Chunichi Crowns golf tournament on the Nagoya Golf Club's par-70 Wago Course on April 27. Scott made two eagles in shooting a 6-under-par 64 to move into a tie for the lead with Eiji Mizoguchi, Mitsutaka Kusakabe of Japan and Dean Wilson of the United States.