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2nd shooting of NHK TV drama 'Massan' starts

SAPPORO, Japan - Tetsuji Tamayama (2nd from L), a Japanese actor playing the lead role in NHK's morning serial TV drama "Massan," and Charlotte Kate Fox (C), a U.S. actress cast as the first foreign heroine in the public broadcaster's drama, pose with other cast members at a press conference during the second round of shooting in Yoichi on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Oct. 23, 2014.

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Abe vows to revise Constitution in 3 yrs in upcoming election

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) responds to a question on the ''Ask the Premier'' program of NHK TV on June 24. During the program, Abe pledged to revise the Constitution in three years, making constitutional revision one of the key issues in the July 29 House of Councillors election. (Pool photo)

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Suit against NHK over 'comfort women' program rejected

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan) and lawyers speak at a press conference March 24 after the Tokyo District Court mostly rejected a 20 million yen damages suit they filed against NHK and two production companies over an NHK TV program on a 2000 wartime sex slavery mock tribunal in Tokyo. The plaintiff had claimed the defendants reedited the program without explaining to the group which helped NHK and the production agencies to produce the program.

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Koizumi gives NHK interview

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is interviewed by NHK-TV on March 30 at NHK's Chiyoda broadcasting hall in Tokyo. The videotaped interview will be aired in the morning of March 31. Koizumi said tighter anticorruption legislation is necessary to eradicate political money scandals.

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Koizumi eyes law revision following Ikeda massacre

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says June 9 his government will begin studying possible law revisions regarding crimes by mentally ill people following Friday's massacre of eight children by a man with a history of psychiatric illness. ''There are issues that must be dealt with both from the point of view of medical treatment and the Penal Code,'' the premier told an NHK TV program that is to be aired on the morning of June 10.

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Koizumi gives NHK interview

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is interviewed by NHK-TV on March 30 at NHK's Chiyoda broadcasting hall in Tokyo. The videotaped interview will be aired in the morning of March 31. Koizumi said tighter anticorruption legislation is necessary to eradicate political money scandals.

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Abe vows to revise Constitution in 3 yrs in upcoming election

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) responds to a question on the ''Ask the Premier'' program of NHK TV on June 24. During the program, Abe pledged to revise the Constitution in three years, making constitutional revision one of the key issues in the July 29 House of Councillors election. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Puppeteer reunites with old buddy in Tokyo

Veteran puppeteer Ikue Namba poses for photos at a cafe in Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2015, with a puppet of "Torahige," a character from the children's puppet show "Hyokkori Hyotanjima" aired on the public network NHK TV in the 1960s. Namba, 80, manipulated the puppet on the program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Puppeteer delights fans with live performance in Tokyo

Veteran puppeteer Ikue Namba (L) operates a puppet of "Torahige," a character from the children's puppet show "Hyokkori Hyotanjima" aired on the public network NHK TV in the 1960s, at a cafe in the Harajuku district of Tokyo on Aug. 15, 2015. Namba, 80, manipulated the puppet on the program. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Actor Hideo Takamatsu dies at 77

TOKYO, Japan - Movie and TV actor Hideo Takamatsu died of a heart attack on Feb. 26, his family said Feb. 27. He was 77. This photo was taken in February 1976 in Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture where Takamatsu was playing in the NHK TV drama ''Kumori no Jutan'' (The Cloud Carpet). (Kyodo)

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PM Abe urges S. Korea to remove new "comfort women" statue

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, shown in this undated photo, urged South Korea to remove a new statue dedicated to women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels on a TV program broadcasted Jan. 8, 2017. "The South Korean side should show its sincerity," the premier said during the NHK TV program recorded Jan. 6. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NHK TV program 'Eigo de Shabera Night'

TOKYO, Japan - Patrick Harlan (L), Yumiko Shaku (C) and Kazuya Matsumoto pose for a photo during the recording of an NHK TV program, ''Eigo de Shabera Night,'' at Waseda University in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. The photo was taken on July 16, 2004. (Kyodo)

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Suit against NHK over 'comfort women' program rejected

TOKYO, Japan - Members of Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan) and lawyers speak at a press conference March 24 after the Tokyo District Court mostly rejected a 20 million yen damages suit they filed against NHK and two production companies over an NHK TV program on a 2000 wartime sex slavery mock tribunal in Tokyo. The plaintiff had claimed the defendants reedited the program without explaining to the group which helped NHK and the production agencies to produce the program. (Kyodo)

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Koizumi eyes law revision following Ikeda massacre

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi says June 9 his government will begin studying possible law revisions regarding crimes by mentally ill people following Friday's massacre of eight children by a man with a history of psychiatric illness. ''There are issues that must be dealt with both from the point of view of medical treatment and the Penal Code,'' the premier told an NHK TV program that is to be aired on the morning of June 10.