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Akutagawa, Naoki literary prize winners

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Ryutaro Abe, Ryo Asai and Natsuko Kuroda join hands in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2013, after Kuroda was awarded the Akutagawa award for up-and-coming authors of serious fiction and Abe and Asai were awarded the Naoki award for popular literature.

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Akutagawa, Naoki literary prize winners

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Ryutaro Abe, Ryo Asai and Natsuko Kuroda hold their works in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2013, after Kuroda was awarded the Akutagawa award for up-and-coming authors of serious fiction and Abe and Asai received the Naoki award for popular literature.

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Kuroda becomes oldest Akutagawa literary award winner

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in December 2012 shows Natsuko Kuroda. Kuroda became the oldest Akutagawa award at age 75 on Jan. 16, 2013, in the almost 80-year history of the prestigious Japanese literary prize.

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Doi, Fujimori practice snowboard cross in Sapporo for Olympics

SAPPORO, Japan - Japanese snowboarders Natsuko Doi (L) and Yuka Fujimori (R) speaks to reporters in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Feb. 3, 2010, before taking part in the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

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Doi, Fujimori practice snowboard cross in Sapporo for Olympics

SAPPORO, Japan - Japanese snowboarders Yuka Fujimori (L) and Natsuko Doi (R) practice snowboard cross in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Feb. 3, 2010, for the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

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5 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

GENEVA, Switzerland - Five Japanese high school students from Nagasaki pose for photos after listening to a debate at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Aug. 18. They later handed a petition of signatures and paper cranes calling for nuclear disarmament to a conference official. They are (from L to R) Shiro Yamada, Natsuko Kobiyama, Ayumi Hirayu, Shun Nishizako and Michiru Nakamura.

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Sylvanian shop opens in Tokyo's Jiyugaoka

Natsuko Yoshida (R), manager of a toy store in Tokyo's Jiyugaoka district, poses on April 9, 2015, with Sanno University students at the Jiyugaoka Sylvanian Forest, a shop featuring the Sylvanian toys as well as playing and hands-on activity areas operated mainly by the university students, in Jiyugaoka. Yoshida advised the students on how to operate a toy shop, and the facility is open for a year to mark the 30th anniversary of the launch of Sylvanian Families toys. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5 Nagasaki teens deliver antinuclear petition to U.N.

GENEVA, Switzerland - Five Japanese high school students from Nagasaki pose for photos after listening to a debate at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Aug. 18. They later handed a petition of signatures and paper cranes calling for nuclear disarmament to a conference official. They are (from L to R) Shiro Yamada, Natsuko Kobiyama, Ayumi Hirayu, Shun Nishizako and Michiru Nakamura. (Kyodo)

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Doi, Fujimori practice snowboard cross in Sapporo for Olympics

SAPPORO, Japan - Japanese snowboarders Natsuko Doi (L) and Yuka Fujimori (R) speaks to reporters in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Feb. 3, 2010, before taking part in the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. (Kyodo)

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Doi, Fujimori practice snowboard cross in Sapporo for Olympics

SAPPORO, Japan - Japanese snowboarders Yuka Fujimori (L) and Natsuko Doi (R) practice snowboard cross in Sapporo, Hokkaido, on Feb. 3, 2010, for the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. (Kyodo)

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Raid into homes of couple arrested for road incident

Police head for an apartment building in Osaka on Aug. 23, 2019, to search the homes of Fumio Miyazaki and his girlfriend Natsuko Kimoto. Earlier in the month, Miyazaki was arrested for allegedly chasing a car and punching its driver on a highway in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, while Kimoto was arrested for allegedly hiding Miyazaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Raid into homes of couple arrested for road incident

Police enter an apartment building in Osaka on Aug. 23, 2019, to search the homes of Fumio Miyazaki and his girlfriend Natsuko Kimoto. Earlier in the month, Miyazaki was arrested for allegedly chasing a car and punching its driver on a highway in Ibaraki Prefecture, eastern Japan, while Kimoto was arrested for allegedly hiding Miyazaki. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese literary awards winners

(From R) Natsuko Imamura and Masumi Oshima pose for photos at a hotel in Tokyo on July 17, 2019, after Imamura won the Akutagawa Prize for her novel "Murasaki no Sukato no Onna" (The woman in the purple skirt), and Oshima won the Naoki Prize for "Uzu Imoseyama Onna Teikin Tamamusubi" (Whirlpool, husband and wife mountains: a mirror of virtuous women, requiem). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese literary awards winners

(From R) Natsuko Imamura and Masumi Oshima pose for photos at a hotel in Tokyo on July 17, 2019, after Imamura won the Akutagawa Prize for her novel "Murasaki no Sukato no Onna" (The woman in the purple skirt), and Oshima won the Naoki Prize for "Uzu Imoseyama Onna Teikin Tamamusubi" (Whirlpool, husband and wife mountains: a mirror of virtuous women, requiem). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese literary award winner

Natsuko Imamura speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2019, after winning the Akutagawa Prize for her novel "Murasaki no Sukato no Onna" (The woman in the purple skirt). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese literary awards winners

(From R) Natsuko Imamura and Masumi Oshima pose for photos at a hotel in Tokyo on July 17, 2019, after Imamura won the Akutagawa Prize for her novel "Murasaki no Sukato no Onna" (The woman in the purple skirt), and Oshima won the Naoki Prize for "Uzu Imoseyama Onna Teikin Tamamusubi" (Whirlpool, husband and wife mountains: a mirror of virtuous women, requiem). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese literary award winner

Natsuko Imamura speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2019, after winning the Akutagawa Prize for her novel "Murasaki no Sukato no Onna" (The woman in the purple skirt). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo