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Memorial service for WWII Japanese internees in Australia

COWRA, Australia - Miyoko Watanabe (R, middle row) and others pray during a memorial service on March 9, 2014, for Japanese nationals interned as enemy aliens in Cowra, eastern Australia, during World War II.

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Blackout finally over in tsunami-hit area

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - Shigeo Ogawa (R) and his wife Miyoko smile as they turn on the light at their home in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on Aug. 25, 2013, as electricity is restored in the last areas of Ishinomaki that had remained without power since the March 2011 tsunami. According to the local power company, the blackout stemming from the disaster has ended except in areas of Fukushima Prefecture designated as evacuation zones due to the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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Actor Rentaro Mikuni dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in July 2009 shows Japanese actor Rentaro Mikuni (R) together with costars Miyoko Asada (L) and Toshiyuki Nishida after the completion of filming of the movie "Tsuribaka Nisshi 20 Final" (Fishing Fool's Diary 20 Final), the last production in the series. Mikuni died on April 14, 2013, of acute cardiac failure. He was 90.

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Amagasaki case suspect dies

OSAKA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Hyogo prefectural police headquarters in Kobe on Dec. 12, 2012. Miyoko Sumida, the woman suspected in the deaths and disappearances of several persons known to her, died the same morning in an apparent suicide at a police detention facility.

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Amagasaki case suspect dies

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the Hyogo prefectural police headquarters in Kobe on Dec. 12, 2012. Miyoko Sumida, the woman suspected in the deaths and disappearances of several persons known to her, died the same morning in an apparent suicide at a police detention facility.

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Suspected body abandoning

BIZEN, Japan - Police raise a drum stuffed with concrete from the sea at a fishing port in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2012. The police searched the port based on information that a drum containing a body and concrete had been dumped. The body is believed to be of a man linked to Miyoko Sumida, a 64-year-old woman in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Four other bodies linked to Sumida have been found.

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Suspected body abandoning

BIZEN, Japan - Police raise a drum stuffed with concrete from the sea at a fishing port in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2012. The police searched the port based on information that a drum containing a body and concrete had been dumped. The body is believed to be of a man linked to Miyoko Sumida, a 64-year-old woman in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Four other bodies linked to Sumida have been found.

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Suspected body abandoning

BIZEN, Japan - Police raise a drum stuffed with concrete from the sea at a fishing port in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2012. The police searched the port based on information that a drum containing a body and concrete had been dumped. The body is believed to be of a man linked to Miyoko Sumida, a 64-year-old woman in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Four other bodies linked to Sumida have been found.

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Suspected body abandoning

BIZEN, Japan - Police raise a drum stuffed with concrete from the sea at a fishing port in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, on Oct. 30, 2012. The police searched the port based on information that a drum containing a body and concrete had been dumped. The body is believed to be of a man linked to Miyoko Sumida, a 64-year-old woman in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture. Four other bodies linked to Sumida have been found.

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'Sakura' trees in Lithuania to honor wartime Japan diplomat

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Japanese Ambassador to Lithuania Miyoko Akashi (2nd from L) and Mikio Sugiyama (L) and Kazuo Kawashima (3rd from L) of the Gifu Cherry Blossoms Group, and others plant cherry blossom trees at Chiune Sugihara Park in Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 3, 2011. Some 500 people took part in an event to plant cherry blossom trees in honor of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, a native of Gifu, who saved thousands of Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the wartime period by issuing them transit visas.

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Journalist Yamaji in marriage scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese journalist Toru Yamaji (C), president of Tokyo-based video news provider APF News Inc., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2010. Yamaji apologized over problems involving marriages with his former wives Miyoko Omomo and Kuniko Asagi, both TV personalities.

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Osaka court orders gov't to pay damages for asbestos hazards

OSAKA, Japan - Miyoko Sato (C), one of a group of plaintiffs who filed a damages lawsuit against the government over asbestos hazards, wipes tears during a press conference in Osaka on May 19, 2010, after the Osaka District Court held the government responsible for failing to take measures against asbestos hazards. The court ordered the government to pay a total of 435 million yen in damages to 26 people, less than the 946 million yen in damages demanded by the plaintiffs.

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Elderly Japanese-Peruvians do not hide anger at World War II

LIMA, Peru - Sisters Yuriko Tanaka (R) and Miyoko Sakata are photographed together in Lima on June 19 as they view photos of a U.S. internment camp in Texas and other facilities.

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Police recover bodies of 4 men hit by avalanche in Gifu

TAKAYAMA, Japan - The three survivors of a avalanche that killed four climbers from two mountain-climbing groups on Mt. Yarigatake in Gifu Prefecture earlier this week descend the mountain unaided on Jan. 2. From extreme right: Yutaka Takeuchi, 38, of a mountaineering group from Tokyo, and Motoo Suzuki, 47, and Miyoko Nagase, 30, both from a mountaineering group in Tokushima. The seven climbers were sleeping inside two nearby tents on a 2,000-meter-high slope of Mt. Yarigatake when the avalanche struck at around 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, local officials say. The bodies of the four climbers were recovered earlier Jan. 2.

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Kochi, Sapporo courts reject war orphans' damages claims

SAPPORO, Japan - Miyoko Ito, a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by a group of war-displaced Japanese from China, weeps outside the Sapporo District Court on June 15 after the court rejected their claim for state compensation over their plight in Japan. The banner on Ito's left calls the ruling ''unfair.'' The Kochi District Court also delivered a similar ruling on the same day. A total of 2,200 war-displaced Japanese have filed 15 damages suits at various district courts in Japan since 2001. The courts have issued eight rulings, all against them.

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13 war-displaced women sue state for compensation

SAITAMA, Japan - Miyoko Ozeki (R) speaks of her hard life at a press conference in Saitama on April 26 after filing a damages suit with 12 other Japanese women against the state. The women, who were among those left in China after the end of World War II, accuse the government for failing to enable them to come to Japan earlier and to fully support them after they did so.

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Watai speaks about former chess champion Fischer

TOKYO, Japan - Miyoko Watai, acting president of the Japan Chess Association, speaks about her decision to marry former world chess champion Bobby Fischer at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 19. Fischer, 61, has been held in a Japanese detention center since July after being taken into custody at Narita airport because he had what U.S. officials say was an invalid passport.

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Kitamura marks 50th year at Hawaii radio station

HONOLULU, United States - Miyoko Kitamura, a popular disk jockey in Hawaii, has marked her 50th year at KZOO, a Japanese-language AM radio station in Honolulu. Born in Tokyo, Kitamura, 77, married a Japanese American in 1950 and went to Hawaii two years later.

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(2)Statute of limitations expires for reporter's murder

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Nobukatsu Kojiri (R) and his wife Miyoko visit the tomb of their son Tomohiro, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The statute of limitations for the 1987 murder expired at midnight May 2 without an arrest.

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Hiroshima survivor speaks to U.S. students by videophone

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Miyoko Matsubara, representative of the Group to Convey the Spirit of Hiroshima, tells of her experiences Nov. 10 during an interactive distance learning class via videoconference system to dozens of students from elementary and high schools in and around Detroit. From the Hiroshima branch office of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp., Matsubara, 68, answered questions from students aged between 11 and 17 who were gathered at a Detroit facility.

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Watai speaks about former chess champion Fischer

TOKYO, Japan - Miyoko Watai, acting president of the Japan Chess Association, speaks about her decision to marry former world chess champion Bobby Fischer at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 19. Fischer, 61, has been held in a Japanese detention center since July after being taken into custody at Narita airport because he had what U.S. officials say was an invalid passport. (Kyodo)

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13 war-displaced women sue state for compensation

SAITAMA, Japan - Miyoko Ozeki (R) speaks of her hard life at a press conference in Saitama on April 26 after filing a damages suit with 12 other Japanese women against the state. The women, who were among those left in China after the end of World War II, accuse the government for failing to enable them to come to Japan earlier and to fully support them after they did so. (Kyodo)

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Children's literature writer Matsutani dies at 89

File photo taken in October 2010 shows Japanese children's book author Miyoko Matsutani, known for her work "Tatsunoko Taro" (Taro the Dragon Boy) and the "Chiisai Momo-chan" (Little Momo) series. Matsutani died of old age at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 28, 2015, at 89, her family said on March 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children's literature writer Matsutani dies at 89

File photo taken in October 2010 shows Japanese children's book author Miyoko Matsutani, known for her work "Tatsunoko Taro" (Taro the Dragon Boy) and the "Chiisai Momo-chan" (Little Momo) series. Matsutani died of old age at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 28, 2015, at 89, her family said on March 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Children's book writer Matsutani dies at 89

Photo taken in December 2013 shows Japanese children's book author Miyoko Matsutani, known for her work "Tatsunoko Taro" (Taro the Dragon Boy) and the "Chiisai Momo-chan" (Little Momo) series. Matsutani died of old age at a Tokyo hospital on Feb. 28, 2015, at 89, her family said on March 9. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Footgolf getting growing attention as novel sport in Japan

Photo taken Dec. 12, 2015 shows Miyoko Takura (L) from Tokyo kicking a soccer ball toward a 50-centimeter "cup" at Kento's Golf Club in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, a specialized course for footgolf. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Elderly Japanese-Peruvians do not hide anger at World War II

LIMA, Peru - Sisters Yuriko Tanaka (R) and Miyoko Sakata are photographed together in Lima on June 19 as they view photos of a U.S. internment camp in Texas and other facilities. (Kyodo)

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Kochi, Sapporo courts reject war orphans' damages claims

SAPPORO, Japan - Miyoko Ito, a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by a group of war-displaced Japanese from China, weeps outside the Sapporo District Court on June 15 after the court rejected their claim for state compensation over their plight in Japan. The banner on Ito's left calls the ruling ''unfair.'' The Kochi District Court also delivered a similar ruling on the same day. A total of 2,200 war-displaced Japanese have filed 15 damages suits at various district courts in Japan since 2001. The courts have issued eight rulings, all against them. (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Police recover bodies of 4 men hit by avalanche

TAKAYAMA, Japan - The three survivors of a avalanche that killed four climbers from two mountain-climbing groups on Mt. Yarigatake in Gifu Prefecture earlier this week descend the mountain unaided on Jan. 2. From extreme right: Yutaka Takeuchi, 38, of a mountaineering group from Tokyo, and Motoo Suzuki, 47, and Miyoko Nagase, 30, both from a mountaineering group in Tokushima. The seven climbers were sleeping inside two nearby tents on a 2,000-meter-high slope of Mt. Yarigatake when the avalanche struck at around 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 31, local officials say. The bodies of the four climbers were recovered earlier Jan. 2. (Kyodo)

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Otsuchi being hit by tsunami, afterward

MORIOKA, Japan - Top photo shows the town of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, being hit by an estimated 15-meter or higher tsunami at 3:22 p.m. on March 11, 2011, taken by a local housewife Miyoko Sasaki, 50, using a cellphone. Her husband took the photo below on March 29, 2011, facing the same direction. (Photo courtesy of Miyoko Sasaki)(Kyodo)

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'Sakura' trees in Lithuania to honor wartime Japan diplomat

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Japanese Ambassador to Lithuania Miyoko Akashi (2nd from L) and Mikio Sugiyama (L) and Kazuo Kawashima (3rd from L) of the Gifu Cherry Blossoms Group, and others plant cherry blossom trees at Chiune Sugihara Park in Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 3, 2011. Some 500 people took part in an event to plant cherry blossom trees in honor of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, a native of Gifu, who saved thousands of Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the wartime period by issuing them transit visas. (Kyodo)

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Osaka court orders gov't to pay damages for asbestos hazards

OSAKA, Japan - Miyoko Sato (C), one of a group of plaintiffs who filed a damages lawsuit against the government over asbestos hazards, wipes tears during a press conference in Osaka on May 19, 2010, after the Osaka District Court held the government responsible for failing to take measures against asbestos hazards. The court ordered the government to pay a total of 435 million yen in damages to 26 people, less than the 946 million yen in damages demanded by the plaintiffs. (Kyodo)

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Journalist Yamaji in marriage scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese journalist Toru Yamaji (C), president of Tokyo-based video news provider APF News Inc., speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2010. Yamaji apologized over problems involving marriages with his former wives Miyoko Omomo and Kuniko Asagi, both TV personalities. (Kyodo)

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(2)Statute of limitations expires for reporter's murder

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Nobukatsu Kojiri (R) and his wife Miyoko visit the tomb of their son Tomohiro, an Asahi Shimbun reporter fatally shot in 1987 by a suspected right-wing extremist at the newspaper's bureau in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. The statute of limitations for the 1987 murder expired at midnight May 2 without an arrest.

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10th appeal for wine-poisoning retrial rejected

Miyoko Oka tears up at a press conference on Dec. 8, 2017, after the Nagoya High Court in Aichi Prefecture rejected a 10th appeal for a retrial of her late brother Masaru Okunishi over a 1961 wine-poisoning case. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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10th appeal for wine-poisoning retrial rejected

Miyoko Oka (front R) speaks at a press conference on Dec. 8, 2017, after the Nagoya High Court in Aichi Prefecture rejected a 10th appeal for a retrial of her late brother Masaru Okunishi over a 1961 wine-poisoning case. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wine poisoner's appeal rejected

Miyoko Oka heads to a press conference on Dec. 8, 2017, after the Nagoya High Court in Aichi Prefecture rejected a 10th appeal for a retrial of her late brother Masaru Okunishi in a 1961 wine-poisoning case. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(3)Ex-lawmaker Sato arrested in pay embezzlement scandal

NAGOYA, Japan - Miyoko Sato, wife of former House of Representatives lawmaker Kanju Sato, leaves her home in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, March 7 to turn herself in to police for questioning over allegations her husband embezzled some 17 million yen from the state intended as salary for his aide. (Kyodo)

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(4)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Katsumi Yajima, Keiko Shimizu, Chukichi Nakamasu, Yoshimi Kato, (from L to R, bottom) Miyoko Iwamoto, Masahiro Anzai and Kazuya Miyauchi. (Kyodo)

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Kitamura marks 50th year at Hawaii radio station

HONOLULU, United States - Miyoko Kitamura, a popular disk jockey in Hawaii, has marked her 50th year at KZOO, a Japanese-language AM radio station in Honolulu. Born in Tokyo, Kitamura, 77, married a Japanese American in 1950 and went to Hawaii two years later. (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima survivor speaks to U.S. students by videophone

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Miyoko Matsubara, representative of the Group to Convey the Spirit of Hiroshima, tells of her experiences Nov. 10 during an interactive distance learning class via videoconference system to dozens of students from elementary and high schools in and around Detroit. From the Hiroshima branch office of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp., Matsubara, 68, answered questions from students aged between 11 and 17 who were gathered at a Detroit facility.