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The Critics Choice Association's Annual Celebration Of AAPI - LA

BEVERLY HILLS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA - NOVEMBER 14: Japanese filmmaker and former actress Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki) arrives at The Critics Choice Association's 4th Annual Celebration Of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Cinema And Television held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles At Beverly Hills on November 14, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Critics Choice Association's Annual Celebration Of AAPI - LA

BEVERLY HILLS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA - NOVEMBER 14: Japanese filmmaker and former actress Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki) arrives at The Critics Choice Association's 4th Annual Celebration Of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Cinema And Television held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles At Beverly Hills on November 14, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Critics Choice Association's Annual Celebration Of AAPI - LA

BEVERLY HILLS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA - NOVEMBER 14: Japanese filmmaker and former actress Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki) arrives at The Critics Choice Association's 4th Annual Celebration Of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Cinema And Television held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles At Beverly Hills on November 14, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The Critics Choice Association's Annual Celebration Of AAPI - LA

BEVERLY HILLS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, USA - NOVEMBER 14: Japanese filmmaker and former actress Hikari (Mitsuyo Miyazaki) arrives at The Critics Choice Association's 4th Annual Celebration Of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) Cinema And Television held at the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles At Beverly Hills on November 14, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Writer Kawasaki wins Miura Ayako award

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Japanese novelist Akiko Kawasaki, winner of the Miura Ayako literary award, is seen in front of a picture of novelist Ayako Miura and her husband Mitsuyo. Kawasaki, a Hokkaido native also engaging in dairy farming, won the award in November 2014. The one-off literary award was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miura's debut with her best-selling novel "Hyoten."

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Comedian Hazama back in Japan

FUKUOKA, Japan - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama (R), with his wife Mitsuyo, celebrates his return to Japan at Fukuoka Marina in southwestern Japan on Jan. 4, 2011, two years after setting sail on the Pacific for his run-and-sail ''Earth Marathon.'' Hazama will complete the globetrotting journey in Osaka on Jan. 21.

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Japanese comedian Hazama arrives in Long Beach

LOS ANGELES, United States - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama (L) is greeted by his wife Mitsuyo after arriving by yacht in Long Beach, California, on March 10 as he runs and sails around the world. Hazama departed Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 17, 2008, on a journey that will cover 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea.

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Ito wins Akutagawa literary prize following wife's Naoki prize

TOKYO, Japan - Takami Ito (L) wins the 135th Akutagawa Prize on July 13 for promising new writers of serious fiction, a year after his wife Mitsuyo Kakuta received the Naoki Prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction last year. The Naoki Prize this year was given to Shion Miura (C) and Eto Mori (R).

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Winners of Akutagawa and Naoki literature prizes

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuyo Kakuta (L), winner of the Naoki Prize, and Kazushige Abe, winner of Akutagawa Prize, shake hands in Tokyo on Jan. 13. The prizes, which were named after the novelists Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Sanjugo Naoki, were launched in 1935 to encourage writers.

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Winners of Akutagawa and Naoki literature prizes

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuyo Kakuta (L), winner of the Naoki Prize, and Kazushige Abe, winner of Akutagawa Prize, shake hands in Tokyo on Jan. 13. The prizes, which were named after the novelists Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Sanjugo Naoki, were launched in 1935 to encourage writers. (Kyodo)

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Ito wins Akutagawa literary prize following wife's Naoki prize

TOKYO, Japan - Takami Ito (L) wins the 135th Akutagawa Prize on July 13 for promising new writers of serious fiction, a year after his wife Mitsuyo Kakuta received the Naoki Prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction last year. The Naoki Prize this year was given to Shion Miura (C) and Eto Mori (R). (Kyodo)

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Japanese comedian Hazama arrives in Long Beach

LOS ANGELES, United States - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama (L) is greeted by his wife Mitsuyo after arriving by yacht in Long Beach, California, on March 10 as he runs and sails around the world. Hazama departed Osaka in western Japan on Dec. 17, 2008, on a journey that will cover 20,000 kilometers on land and 16,000 km at sea. (Kyodo)

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Writer Kawasaki wins Miura Ayako award

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Japanese novelist Akiko Kawasaki, winner of the Miura Ayako literary award, is seen in front of a picture of novelist Ayako Miura and her husband Mitsuyo. Kawasaki, a Hokkaido native also engaging in dairy farming, won the award in November 2014. The one-off literary award was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Miura's debut with her best-selling novel "Hyoten." (Kyodo)

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Comedian Hazama back in Japan

FUKUOKA, Japan - Japanese comedian Kampei Hazama (R), with his wife Mitsuyo, celebrates his return to Japan at Fukuoka Marina in southwestern Japan on Jan. 4, 2011, two years after setting sail on the Pacific for his run-and-sail ''Earth Marathon.'' Hazama will complete the globetrotting journey in Osaka on Jan. 21. (Kyodo)

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