Letter from Naoe Kanetsugu to Uesugi clan vassals

Letter from Naoe Kanetsugu to Uesugi clan vassals

YAMAGATA, Japan - Yamagata University displays on Feb. 4, 2014 in Yamagata, northeastern Japan, a letter written by feudal lord Naoe Kanetsugu (1560-1619) addressed to vassals of the Uesugi clan, praising them for putting up a good fight against the forces of rival lord Date Masamune.

Japanese woman works for WFP in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

Japanese woman works for WFP in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

TOKYO, Japan - Naoe Yakiya, seen in this undated file photo, works as deputy chief of the office of the U.N. World Food Program in Sierra Leone, western Africa, caught in an outbreak of the Ebola virus.

MUFG group firms tie up to revamp credit card business

MUFG group firms tie up to revamp credit card business

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Omori (L), president of Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos, Naoe Sugimoto (C), president and chief executive officer of Jaccs Co., and Tetsuya Wada, an executive of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., join hands during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 20. They announced that they have agreed a capital and business tie-up to help restructure the struggling credit card business of Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos.

MUFG group firms tie up to revamp credit card business

MUFG group firms tie up to revamp credit card business

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhiro Omori (L), president of Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos, Naoe Sugimoto (C), president and chief executive officer of Jaccs Co., and Tetsuya Wada, an executive of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., join hands during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 20. They announced that they have agreed a capital and business tie-up to help restructure the struggling credit card business of Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos. (Kyodo)

74th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

74th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Naoe Nakasone and her daughter Karin from Nago, Okinawa, southern Japan, offer paper cranes, a symbol of hope in Japan, at the hypocenter cenotaph in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2019, the 74th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo