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Experts share new achievements in Turfan studies

STORY: Experts share new achievements in Turfan studies DATELINE: Aug. 26, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:25 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the archaeological sites 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ERICA HUNTER, Scholar, University of Cambridge 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): XIA LIDONG, Researcher 4. various of scholars 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): NOBUYOSHI YAMABE, Professor at Waseda University STORYLINE: Over 100 scholars from China and abroad gathered in Turpan, a city in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to attend a conference on the inheritance and development of Turfan studies from Monday to Wednesday. Turfan studies is a very important branch of Silk Road studies. It is also a window to understand the diversity and integration of different civilizations in Turpan, also known as Turfan. Experts shared their latest findings and visited archaeological sites. Among the relics they visited was the Xipang Jingjiao monastery relics site. Texts including Buddhist and Taoist

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Arakida wins bronze in freestyle 125kg

INCHEON, South Korea - Japan's Nobuyoshi Arakida wins the Asian Games bronze in men's wrestling freestyle 125 kilograms division on Sept. 29, 2014, in Incheon, South Korea.

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Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine to donate plum trees to Fukushima school

FUKUOKA, Japan - Nobuyoshi Nishitakatsuji (C), chief priest of Dazaifu Tenmangu, a Shinto shrine in Dazaifu, Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, poses with Minoru Honma (L), the principal of Fukushima High School, and graduate Yuji Shinogi in front of young plum trees before their transportation to the school in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Farmer still holds grudge against TEPCO

IITATE, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 15, 2013 shows Nobuyoshi Ito, who describes himself as an "apprentice farmer," holding a dosimeter in front of snow-covered bags containing earth and sand resulting from decontamination work in the village of Iitate, Fukushima Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Kabuki master's funeral

TOKYO, Japan - Nakamura Kankuro (C), son of the late Kabuki master Nakamura Kanzaburo (in portrait at top), speaks during a funeral for Kanzaburo at Tsukiji Honganji temple in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2012. At R is Kanzaburo's other son, Shichinosuke, and at L is Shochiku Co. Chairman Nobuyoshi Otani. (Pool photo)

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Sumo officials visit sports ministry over gambling scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association officials Kazuhiro Michinoku (R) and Nobuyoshi Hakkaku call at the sports ministry on June 16, 2010, to apologize for a gambling scandal enveloping the world of sumo.

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Ex-Shimane Gov. Sumita dies at 74

TOKYO, Japan - Former Shimane Gov. Nobuyoshi Sumita (in this undated file photo) died June 13.

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Kabuki Theater closes next year for rebuilding

TOKYO, Japan - (From R to L) Kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro, Nakamura Tomijuro and Nakamura Shikan, and Shochiku Co. Chairman Nobuyoshi Otani attend a ceremony on May 1 marking the start of a countdown clock at the Kabuki Theater in Tokyo for the theater's rebuilding, one year before it closes at the end of next April.

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Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in February 2008 shows Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

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Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on June 5, 2001 shows Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

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Kyodo's Ota, Asahi's Sakajiri awarded Vaughn-Uyeda prize

TOKYO, Japan - Masakatsu Ota (R, file photo), a Kyodo News reporter who recently wound up his stint in Washington, and Nobuyoshi Sakajiri (L, file photo), an Asahi Shimbun reporter at the newspaper's China bureau, were chosen March 12 as the recipients of the 2006 Vaughn-Uyeda Prize honoring contributions made by Japanese journalists in the field of international affairs.

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3 steelmakers to consider anti-takeover measures

TOKYO, Japan - The vice presidents of three steel makers -- (from L to R) Toshio Kimura of Kobe Steel Ltd., Nobuyoshi Fujiwara of Nippon Steel Corp. and Fumio Hombe of Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. -- hold a joint press conference in Tokyo on March 29. They announced that they will jointly consider measures against hostile takeover bids.

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Shimane Prefecture marks 1st 'Takeshima Day'

MATSUE, Japan - Shimane Governor Nobuyoshi Sumita speaks with journalists after attending ceremonies marking the first ''Takeshima Day'' on Feb. 22. The prefecture government designated day in 2005 to promote Japan's claim to a disputed group of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan.

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Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki

AOMORI, Japan - Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki holds a press conference on his project, Nihonjin-no-kao (Japanese faces), at the Aomori prefectural government office on Dec. 12, 2005.

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Supreme Court rejects damages suit over textbook screenings

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Takashima, a professor at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, speaks to reporters in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Dec. 1 after the court rejected his appeal demanding 1 million yen in compensation from the government over textbook screenings.

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(4)Shimane assembly passes 'Takeshima Day' ordinance

MATSUE, Japan - Shimane Gov. Nobuyoshi Sumita speaks at a press conference March 16 after the Prefectual Assembly adopted a bill designate Feb. 22 as ''Takeshima Day.'' Sumita said, ''The Takeshima issue has had less visibility compared with the Northern Territory issue in national policy. I hope the central government will take this opportunity to work actively toward establishing Japanese territorial rights to the island.''

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Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki

KANAZAWA, Japan - Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki holds a press conference on the publication of his photo collection, "Nihonjin-no-kao Ishikawa" (Japanese faces from Ishikawa Prefecture), at Kanazawa city hall on March 15, 2004.

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High court overturns ruling on textbook screening

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Takashima, 60, a professor at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa Prefecture, speaks with the media in Tokyo on May 29 after the Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court decision and dismissed a suit filed by him demanding 1 million yen in compensation for the government's 1992 textbook screenings. Takashima said he will appeal to the Supreme Court as the high court ruling was merely parroting the opinion of the state.

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Ehime gov't, U.S. Navy sign $11 mil. compensation accord

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Yano (L), deputy governor of Ehime Prefecture, signs an accord April 10 at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo for about $11.47 million in compensation over the collision of fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and USS sub Greenville off Hawaii on Feb. 9 last year. U.S. Consul Peter Barlerin (R) looks on. Photo by media representative.

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Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki

OSAKA, Japan - Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki holds a press conference on his project, Nihonjin-no-kao (Japanese faces), in Osaka City on Dec. 20, 2001.

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Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2001 shows Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

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U.S., Ehime Maru kin lawyers hold 1st compensation talks

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Ehime Vice Gov. Nobuyoshi Yano (R) is greeted May 9 by Capt. Carol Cooper from the legal affairs division of the U.S. Navy in Japan in Yokosuka, as he arrives to attend the first round of compensation talks between lawyers for relatives of 25 of 35 Japanese aboard a high school fisheries ship hit and sunk by a U.S. Navy submarine on Feb. 9 and U.S. representatives.

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Breeder held for allegedly starving 100 dogs to death

URAWA, Japan - Kennels and cages lie scattered around where nearly 100 dogs were found starved to death at a farm in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Nobuyoshi Aota, a 52-year-old dog breeder, has been arrested for allegedly abandoning his farm sometime in February without providing food or water to his dogs, which were living in filthy conditions.

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Japanese, German research team sequences human chromosome 21

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Shimizu (L), professor of molecular biology at Keio University's School of Medicine, and Yoshiyuki Sakaki (R), professor at the University of Tokyo, speak at a news conference May 8. They said they and German scientists have decoded the DNA sequence of a human chromosome that contains genes causing Downs syndrome, Alzheimer, leukemia and other genetic disorders.

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Sanwa Bank, Toyo Trust to form partnership

Sanwa Bank President Naotaka Saeki (L) shakes hands with Toyo Trust President Nobuyoshi Takeuchi at a Tokyo hotel Jan. 20 prior to a press conference to announce an agreement to expand their business collaboration, including pension services and sharing of their automatic teller machines.

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Japan's first lung transplant operation

A medical team of Okayama University Hospital, led by Professor Nobuyoshi Shimizu (R), walks into an operating theater on Wednesday Oct. 28 for Japan's first lung transplant operation on a 24-year-old woman. In the seven-hour operation, half of the left lung of the woman's 48-year-old mother and one-third of the right lung of her 21-year-old sister will be transplanted.

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Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken on Feb. 9, 1996 shows Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.

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Tohoku University and TEPCO to conduct joint research on decommissioning

The term is five years. The division will conductresearch in a wide range of fields to solve various technical problems at the decommissioning site, including evaluation technology to detect the aging deterioration of structures. With the aim of fostering human resources, a CFReND branch office will be established at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant site this summer. On-site exchanges of opinions between engineers at the decommissioning site and Tohoku University faculty and graduate students will be promoted. Nobuyoshi Hara, vice president of Tohoku University (photo at right), says, "We will continue our efforts to promote decommissioning. (Photo taken on March 24, 2020, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Ehime gov't, U.S. Navy sign $11 mil. compensation accord

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Yano (L), deputy governor of Ehime Prefecture, signs an accord April 10 at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo for about $11.47 million in compensation over the collision of fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and USS sub Greenville off Hawaii on Feb. 9 last year. U.S. Consul Peter Barlerin (R) looks on. Photo by media representative.

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(4)Shimane assembly passes 'Takeshima Day' ordinance

MATSUE, Japan - Shimane Gov. Nobuyoshi Sumita speaks at a press conference March 16 after the Prefectual Assembly adopted a bill designate Feb. 22 as ''Takeshima Day.'' Sumita said, ''The Takeshima issue has had less visibility compared with the Northern Territory issue in national policy. I hope the central government will take this opportunity to work actively toward establishing Japanese territorial rights to the island.'' (Kyodo)

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Shimane Prefecture marks 1st 'Takeshima Day'

MATSUE, Japan - Shimane Governor Nobuyoshi Sumita speaks with journalists after attending ceremonies marking the first ''Takeshima Day'' on Feb. 22. The prefecture government designated day in 2005 to promote Japan's claim to a disputed group of South Korean-controlled islets in the Sea of Japan. (Kyodo)

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3 steelmakers to consider anti-takeover measures

TOKYO, Japan - The vice presidents of three steel makers -- (from L to R) Toshio Kimura of Kobe Steel Ltd., Nobuyoshi Fujiwara of Nippon Steel Corp. and Fumio Hombe of Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd. -- hold a joint press conference in Tokyo on March 29. They announced that they will jointly consider measures against hostile takeover bids. (Kyodo)

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High court overturns ruling on textbook screening

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Takashima, 60, a professor at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa Prefecture, speaks with the media in Tokyo on May 29 after the Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court decision and dismissed a suit filed by him demanding 1 million yen in compensation for the government's 1992 textbook screenings. Takashima said he will appeal to the Supreme Court as the high court ruling was merely parroting the opinion of the state.

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Japanese, German research team sequences human chromosome 21

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Shimizu (L), professor of molecular biology at Keio University's School of Medicine, and Yoshiyuki Sakaki (R), professor at the University of Tokyo, speak at a news conference May 8. They said they and German scientists have decoded the DNA sequence of a human chromosome that contains genes causing Downs syndrome, Alzheimer, leukemia and other genetic disorders.

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Fujitsu, Panasonic to square off in Japan X Bowl

Panasonic Impulse head coach Nobuyoshi Araki (L) and Fujitsu Frontiers head coach Satoshi Fujita shake hands at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2015, for the Dec. 14 Japan X Bowl, the final of corporate American football in the country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kabuki plays to be staged in Beijing along with Chinese opera

Kabuki actor Onoe Kikunosuke (C) is flanked by Shochiku Co. Chairman Nobuyoshi Otani (L) and former Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone at a press conference in Tokyo on March 25, 2015, held to announce the staging of kabuki plays jointly with Chinese opera in Beijing in April. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Shimane Gov. Sumita dies at 74

TOKYO, Japan - Former Shimane Gov. Nobuyoshi Sumita (in this undated file photo) died June 13. (Kyodo)

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Kabuki Theater closes next year for rebuilding

TOKYO, Japan - (From R to L) Kabuki actors Ichikawa Danjuro, Nakamura Tomijuro and Nakamura Shikan, and Shochiku Co. Chairman Nobuyoshi Otani attend a ceremony on May 1 marking the start of a countdown clock at the Kabuki Theater in Tokyo for the theater's rebuilding, one year before it closes at the end of next April. (Kyodo)

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Kyodo's Ota, Asahi's Sakajiri awarded Vaughn-Uyeda prize

TOKYO, Japan - Masakatsu Ota (R, file photo), a Kyodo News reporter who recently wound up his stint in Washington, and Nobuyoshi Sakajiri (L, file photo), an Asahi Shimbun reporter at the newspaper's China bureau, were chosen March 12 as the recipients of the 2006 Vaughn-Uyeda Prize honoring contributions made by Japanese journalists in the field of international affairs. (Kyodo)

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Supreme Court rejects damages suit over textbook screenings

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuyoshi Takashima, a professor at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, speaks to reporters in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on Dec. 1 after the court rejected his appeal demanding 1 million yen in compensation from the government over textbook screenings. (Kyodo)

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Sumo officials visit sports ministry over gambling scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Sumo Association officials Kazuhiro Michinoku (R) and Nobuyoshi Hakkaku call at the sports ministry on June 16, 2010, to apologize for a gambling scandal enveloping the world of sumo. (Kyodo)

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Arakida wins bronze in freestyle 125kg

INCHEON, South Korea - Japan's Nobuyoshi Arakida wins the Asian Games bronze in men's wrestling freestyle 125 kilograms division on Sept. 29, 2014, in Incheon, South Korea. (Kyodo)

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Sawa Nobuyoshi

Sawa Nobuyoshi==Date:Early Meiji, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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Main Hall and Worship Hall at Suwa Shrine

The buildings starting from the right are, Worship Hall, Norito-den Hall, and the Main Hall at Suwa Shrine. Worship Hall is where commoners would worship. The building is made of hinoki (Japanese cypress) in irimoya-zukuri style (a hip-and- gable roof construction) with a hiwadabuki-style roof (Japanese cypress hinoki bark thatching). The right, left , and front walls flip open upwards like awnings. The tablet was written by Sawa Nobuyoshi who became the Kyushu Pacification Officer in 1868. The floor of the Norito-den Hall connected to the passageway is tatami-covered. The building in the far left is the main hall rebuilt in 1869 after burning down in 1857. The chancel enshrines the spirit of the three deities of the Suwa, Morisaki, and Sumiyoshi shrines.==Date:about 1874, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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New Japan envoys to Cambodia, Congo appointed

TOKYO, Japan - Japan appointed Fumiaki Takahashi (R, file photo) as its new ambassador to Cambodia and Nobuyoshi Takabe (R, file photo) as its new ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Oct. 31. (Kyodo)

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U.S., Ehime Maru kin lawyers hold 1st compensation talks

YOKOSUKA, Japan - Ehime Vice Gov. Nobuyoshi Yano (R) is greeted May 9 by Capt. Carol Cooper from the legal affairs division of the U.S. Navy in Japan in Yokosuka, as he arrives to attend the first round of compensation talks between lawyers for relatives of 25 of 35 Japanese aboard a high school fisheries ship hit and sunk by a U.S. Navy submarine on Feb. 9 and U.S. representatives.

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Breeder held for allegedly starving 100 dogs to death

URAWA, Japan - Kennels and cages lie scattered around where nearly 100 dogs were found starved to death at a farm in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Nobuyoshi Aota, a 52-year-old dog breeder, has been arrested for allegedly abandoning his farm sometime in February without providing food or water to his dogs, which were living in filthy conditions.

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Sanwa Bank, Toyo Trust to form partnership

Sanwa Bank President Naotaka Saeki (L) shakes hands with Toyo Trust President Nobuyoshi Takeuchi at a Tokyo hotel Jan. 20 prior to a press conference to announce an agreement to expand their business collaboration, including pension services and sharing of their automatic teller machines. ==Kyodo

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Japan's first lung transplant operation

A medical team of Okayama University Hospital, led by Professor Nobuyoshi Shimizu (R), walks into an operating theater on Wednesday Oct. 28 for Japan's first lung transplant operation on a 24-year-old woman. In the seven-hour operation, half of the left lung of the woman's 48-year-old mother and one-third of the right lung of her 21-year-old sister will be transplanted. ==Kyodo