Japanese weightlifter Mizuochi

Japanese weightlifter Mizuochi

LONDON, Britain - Honami Mizuochi waves to the crowd after successfully lifting 96 kilograms in the clean and jerk during the Olympic women's weightlifting 48-kg class at ExCel London on July 28, 2012.

Japanese weightlifter Mizuochi

Japanese weightlifter Mizuochi

LONDON, Britain - Honami Mizuochi hoists 96 kilograms in the clean and jerk during the Olympic women's weightlifting 48-kg class at ExCel London on July 28, 2012.

2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

KYOTO, Japan - The 11-story, 515-room Apa Hotel Kyoto-Eki-Horikawadori, one of two Kyoto hotels banned by the Kyoto city government on Jan. 25 from taking customers due to their vulnerability to earthquakes. The other hotel is the 10-story, 139-room Apa Villa Hotel Kyoto-Ekimae, which opened in 2004. Apa Hotel Kyoto-Eki-Horikawadori opened in 2005. The city government said construction of the two facilities was based on quakeproof data fabricated by Tamura Mizuochi Sekkei, a building planning firm based in Toyama.

2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

2 Kyoto hotels banned from taking customers over quake weakness

KYOTO, Japan - The 11-story, 515-room Apa Hotel Kyoto-Eki-Horikawadori, one of two Kyoto hotels banned by the Kyoto city government on Jan. 25 from taking customers due to their vulnerability to earthquakes. The other hotel is the 10-story, 139-room Apa Villa Hotel Kyoto-Ekimae, which opened in 2004. Apa Hotel Kyoto-Eki-Horikawadori opened in 2005. The city government said construction of the two facilities was based on quakeproof data fabricated by Tamura Mizuochi Sekkei, a building planning firm based in Toyama. (Kyodo)

Memorial service held for Japanese war dead in Russia's Far East

Memorial service held for Japanese war dead in Russia's Far East

Toshiei Mizuochi, a Japanese upper house member and head of the Japan War-Bereaved Families Association, pays floral tribute during a memorial service for Japanese World War II soldiers in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin on Nov. 11, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Russia hands over Japanese soldiers' remains recovered in Far East

Russia hands over Japanese soldiers' remains recovered in Far East

Toshiei Mizuochi (L), a Japanese upper house member who heads an association of people who lost family members during World War II, shakes hands with a Russian official at a memorial service held in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Russia's Far Eastern island of Sakhalin on Nov. 11, 2015. Russia handed over to Japan the same day a total of 31 sets of what are believed to be remains of Japanese soldiers recovered by a Russian group on Shumshu Island, now part of Russia's Kuril Islands chain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo