Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai, singer Nakajima to get cultural prize

Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai, singer Nakajima to get cultural prize

TOKYO, Japan - Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai -- Yuji Tanaka (L) and Hikari Ota -- pose during a press conference in Tokyo on March 15 after they were chosen as one of 28 recipients of the Art Encouragement Prizes for fiscal 2005.

Disarmament advocate and ex-lawmaker Utsunomiya dies

Disarmament advocate and ex-lawmaker Utsunomiya dies

TOKYO, Japan - Tokuma Utsunomiya, a former Diet member and advocate of disarmament, died of pneumonia on July 1 at a hospital in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, his family said. He was 93. The Kyodo News file photo was taken in 1989. Utsuomiya, a native of Tokyo, is known for founding the monthly magazine ''Gunshuku Mondai Shiryo'' (Data for Disarmament Issues) in 1980, using his own funds.

Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai, singer Nakajima to get cultural prize

Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai, singer Nakajima to get cultural prize

TOKYO, Japan - Comedy duo Bakusho Mondai -- Yuji Tanaka (L) and Hikari Ota -- pose during a press conference in Tokyo on March 15 after they were chosen as one of 28 recipients of the Art Encouragement Prizes for fiscal 2005. (Kyodo)

Disarmament advocate and ex-lawmaker Utsunomiya dies

Disarmament advocate and ex-lawmaker Utsunomiya dies

TOKYO, Japan - Tokuma Utsunomiya, a former Diet member and advocate of disarmament, died of pneumonia on July 1 at a hospital in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, his family said. He was 93. The Kyodo News file photo was taken in 1989. Utsuomiya, a native of Tokyo, is known for founding the monthly magazine ''Gunshuku Mondai Shiryo'' (Data for Disarmament Issues) in 1980, using his own funds.