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Rakugo on "itai-itai" disease doctor

Rakugo storyteller Yanagiya Sansho, a native of Toyama, performs rakugo in the central Japan city on April 5, 2025. He told of the life of late doctor Noboru Hagino (1915-1990), who devoted himself to treating patients of "itai-itai" disease, caused by cadmium poisoning in Toyama following the discharge of untreated water into rivers by a mining company in a neighboring prefecture.

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Rakugo on "itai-itai" disease doctor

Rakugo storyteller Yanagiya Sansho, a native of Toyama, performs rakugo in the central Japan city on April 5, 2025. He told of the life of late doctor Noboru Hagino (1915-1990), who devoted himself to treating patients of "itai-itai" disease, caused by cadmium poisoning in Toyama following the discharge of untreated water into rivers by a mining company in a neighboring prefecture.

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Japan's Unit 731: Ongoing cover-up of horrific experiments on humans

STORY: Japan's Unit 731: Ongoing cover-up of horrific experiments on humans DATELINE: Sept. 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:05:47 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS/MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): MASAKUNI KURUMIZAWA, Former Unit 731 member 2. various of Noboru Kubota 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): NOBORU KUBOTA, Former Chairman of Iida City Peace Material Collection Committee 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): AKIRA YOSHIZAWA, Member of Iida City Peace Material Collection Committee 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Japanese): HIDEO MOTOJIMA, Director of the Social Education Department, Iida City Board of Education 6. various of street views in Japan 7. SOUNDBITE 5 (Japanese): FUMIO HARA, Former President, Research Society for 15 years War and Japanese Medical Science and Service 8. SOUNDBITE 6 (Japanese): NOBORU KUBOTA, Former Chairman of Iida City Peace Material Collection Committee STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): MASAKUNI KURUMIZAWA, Former Unit 731 member "'Marutas' were human beings used for human experiments. My vivisection

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JAPAN-WAR CRIMES-EVIDENCE

(230903) -- TOKYO, Sept. 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Noboru Kubota, former chairman of the Shinshu War Exhibition for Peace Organizing Committee and the Iida City Peace Material Collection Committee, poses for a photo in front of his home in Iida City, Japan, Jan. 13, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: Who's covering up Japan's war crimes with evidence on notorious bacteriology unit kept invisible to public?" (Xinhua/Guo Dan)

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JAPAN-WAR CRIMES-EVIDENCE

(230903) -- TOKYO, Sept. 3, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Noboru Kubota, former chairman of the Shinshu War Exhibition for Peace Organizing Committee and the Iida City Peace Material Collection Committee, receives an interview with Xinhua at home in Iida City, Japan, Jan. 13, 2023. TO GO WITH "Feature: Who's covering up Japan's war crimes with evidence on notorious bacteriology unit kept invisible to public?" (Xinhua/Guo Dan)

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OSK star Oka leads procession in memory of legendary samurai

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Noboru Oka, an OSK Revue star, takes part in a traditional procession on May 5, 2014 in the town of Kudoyama-cho, Wakayama Prefecture, honoring the memory of legendary samurai Yukimura Sanada and his fellow warriors.

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Aichi Pref. seeks to host 2020 futsal world cup

TOKYO, Japan - Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura (C) hands Kuniya Daini (L), president of the Japan Football Association, in Tokyo on April 9, 2014, a request to invite the 2020 FIFA Futsal World Cup to the prefecture. Standing at right is Noboru Suzuki, chairman of the Aichi Football Association.

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Sharp looks to double ASEAN sales in fiscal 2016

OSAKA, Japan - Sharp Corp. Executive Managing Officer Noboru Fujimoto, who is in charge of the company's Asia-Pacific operations, holds a press conference in Osaka on June 13, 2013, on Sharp's operations in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Sharp said the same day it is looking to double its sales in the ASEAN region to 300 billion yen in the year through March 2017 by expanding its electrical appliance operations.

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Singh in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Karashima (R), a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, receives the Padma Shri medal from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) during a ceremony at a Tokyo hotel on May 28, 2013. Karashima, a scholar of South Indian history and medieval inscriptions, was honored for his contribution to the fields of literature and education.

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Yamada Denki to make Best Denki subsidiary

TOKYO, Japan - Yamada Denki Co. Chairman Noboru Yamada (R) and Best Denki Co. President Koji Ono shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on July 13, 2012. Yamada Denki, Japan's top home electronics retailer, will take a controlling stake in Best Denki by the end of 2012 as it seeks to strengthen its competitive edge amid a plunge in television sales.

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iPhone4 goes on sale in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Softbank Mobile Corp. President Masayoshi Son (L) poses for a photo with Noboru Takahashi, the first customer to purchase the iPhone 4 in Japan, at an event to mark the launch of sales of the latest version of Apple Inc.'s popular smartphone at Softbank's flagship store in Tokyo's Omotesando district on June 24, 2010. Softbank, the sales agent for the product, said demand for the phone has exceeded expectation.

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Japanese painter Hirayama, PM Takeshita

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama (C) is seen viewing Buddhism art in Dunhuang, in China's Gansu Province, in August 1988 together with then Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita (L). Hirayama, a traditional-style Japanese painter known for his works with themes based on the Silk Road and Buddhism, died of a stroke Dec. 2, 2009.

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Japan to host 2019 World Cup

DUBLIN, Ireland - Noboru Mashimo, chairman of the Japan Rugby Football Union, is all smiles after the International Rugby Board, meeting in Dublin, chose Japan as the host of the 2019 event on July 28. Japan will be the first Asian nation to host rugby's showcase event. Mashimo is seen here with the World Cup trophy.

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England, Japan to host 2015, 2019 World Cups

DUBLIN, Ireland - England Rugby Football Union Chairman Martyn Thomas and Noboru Mashimo, chairman of the Japan Rugby Football Union, show their delight after the International Rugby Board, meeting in Dublin, chose England and Japan as the hosts, respectively of the 2015 and 2019 World Cups on July 28.

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Kanji body chief to step down over business practice allegations

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Okubo (R), head of the Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, bows in apology during a press conference at the education ministry in Tokyo on April 15 after presenting the ministry with plans to reform the foundation's business practices following allegations of impropriety. Okubo said he will step down from the foundation's board in his first public appearance since the revelation in January of the problems with his organization.

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Sarin attack anniversary observed at Tokyo subway station

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Ueno, a senior official at Tokyo Metro Co.'s Kasumigaseki Station, lays flowers at an altar set up in the station on March 20 during a ceremony to mark the 14th anniversary of the AUM Shinrikyo cult's deadly 1995 sarin nerve gas attacks. (Pool photo)

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Wakamatsu, Aota among 4 Hall of Fame inductees

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Wakamatsu (R), who helped lead the Yakult Swallows to victory in the Japan Series as both a player and manager, poses for photos in Tokyo on Jan. 13 after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame along with three deceased figures -- (from L to R) baseball historian Ichiro Kimishima, Yoshinori Okoso, former owner of the Nippon Ham Fighters, and Noboru Aota, one of the top sluggers of his time.

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Wakamatsu, Aota among 4 Hall of Fame inductees

TOKYO, Japan - Tsutomu Wakamatsu (L in file photo), who helped lead the Yakult Swallows to victory in the Japan Series as both a player and a manager, has been inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame along with the late Noboru Aota (C in file photo), one of the top sluggers of his time, the selection panel announced Jan. 13. Yoshinori Okoso (R in file photo), a former Nippon Ham Fighters owner, was also inducted with baseball historian Ichiro Kimishima, both posthumously, bringing the total number of Hall of Fame inductees to 168.

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Yamada Denki expanding into central Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Yamada, president of Yamada Denki Co. tells a press conference on July 12 that Japan's largest home electronics retail chain will expand into central Tokyo in a major shift from its strategy till now of emphasizing suburban stores.

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Japanese-Brazilian admits to fleeing after hitting Japanese girl

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazilian Public Attorney Mario Sarrubo, who is in charge of the accusation, speaks at a press conference on Feb. 6 after the first court hearing on the case of Milton Noboru Higaki, a Japanese-Brazilian indicted over a hit-and-run accident in Japan. ''I am fully convinced that he is responsible for this crime,'' Sarrubo said.

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Meat wholesaler raided over record tariff evasion on pork

NIIHAMA, Japan - Prosecutors and customs officials walk into the residence of Noboru Sogabe, the former president of Kyochiku, a major meat wholesaler, in Niihama, Ehime Prefecture, on Nov. 16. The action was taken over pork the company imported in recent years in what would be a record-amount tax evasion case.

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Fishing boat skipper returns home from Kunashiri

NEMURO, Japan - Noboru Sakashita (C), the skipper of a Japanese crab-fishing boat, returned home on Oct. 3 after he was captured by Russian authorities over intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed waters off Nemuro, Hokkaido.

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Fishing boat skipper returns home from Kunashiri

NEMURO, Japan - Noboru Sakashita (C), the skipper of a Japanese crab-fishing boat, is moved to tears on returning home at Nemuro port, Hokkaido on Oct. 3 after he was captured by Russian authorities over intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed waters off Nemuro.

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Russian court imposes fine on Japanese fishing boat skipper

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Noboru Sakashita, the captain of the crab fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, attends a hearing at the South Kuril District Court in Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island on Sept. 21. The Russian court ordered him to pay about 500,000 rubles ($12,700, or 2.2 million yen) in fines and damages for intruding into and poaching in Russian-claimed territorial waters just off Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido in mid-August.

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Russian court likely to rule on Japanese skipper Thursday: report

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Noboru Sakashita, a Japanese fishing boat skipper, looks at photographers from the building in Kunashiri Island on Sept. 17, where he has been detained for alleged poaching in Russian waters. A Russian court is expected to hand down a ruling on him on Sept. 21. (Pool photo)

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3 Japanese fishermen on Russian-held Kunashiri Island

TOKYO, Japan - Three Japanese fishermen -- (From L to R) Noboru Sakashita, captain of the fishing boat Kisshin Maru No. 31, Haruki Kamiya and Akiyoshi Kawamura -- are seen detained at a facility on the Russian-held Kunashiri Island. The photo was taken on Aug. 18 by a local newspaper under permission of Russian authorities.

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Japan to send about 100 more troops to quake-hit Indonesia

YOKYAKARTA, Indonesia - Sakae Ueno (2nd from L), head of an 18-member medical aid team of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (SDF), is greeted by Noboru Hayabichi (R), chief of an SDF advance relief team, on arrival at Yokyakarta airport on Indonesia's Bali Island on June 2. In Tokyo, Defense Agency Director General Fukushiro Nukaga said Japan will send about 100 additional troops to quake-hit Indonesia to provide relief.

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Physician Iwamura who devoted 18 years to Nepal's sick dies at 78

KOBE, Japan - Noboru Iwamura (in file photo), a physician who devoted 18 years of his life to offering medical services for the sick of Nepal, died of an acute respiratory failure at a Hyogo Prefecture hospital on Nov. 27, his family said. He was 78. Iwamura, a former professor at Kobe University School of Medicine, was awarded the 1993 Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding for his overseas service.

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Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident.

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MMC names head of ethics committee

TOKYO, Japan - Struggling Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said June 27 it has named Noboru Matsuda (in file photo), former governor of the state-backed Deposit Insurance Corp. of Japan, as the chairman of its Business Ethics Committee to be launched on June 29. Matsuda, 70, will head the committee of outside experts charged with directly advising MMC's board of directors on issues concerning ethics, MMC said.

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Gov't hopes more disabled people can find jobs

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Kashiwagi, 21, helps pack furniture in Settsu, Osaka Prefecture. Kashiwagi, who is slightly retarded, works for Sakai Moving Service Co., based in Sakai in the western Japan prefecture.

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(1)Dalai Lama meets DPJ members at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - The Dalai Lama (L), Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, meets with Seishu Makino (2nd from R) and Noboru Usami (R), both House of Representatives members from the Democratic Party of Japan, on April 12 at a hotel near Narita airport on his way to the United States from India.

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Tomoyasu to head Sumitomo Mitsui Construction

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Sei (R), president of midsized builder Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co., said in Tokyo on Sept. 26 that Hiroshi Tomoyasu (L), vice president of the company, will succeed him as president on Oct. 1.

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Contractors Mitsui, Sumitomo to merge in 2003

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Construction Co. President Hitoshi Tsujimoto (L) and Mitsui Construction Co. President Noboru Sei pose at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 4 after announcing an agreement by the companies to merge their operations on April 1, 2003. The companies will integrate their operations on a fifty-fifty basis under Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co.

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JETRO's new chief meet the press

TOKYO, Japan - Osamu Watanabe, a former top bureaucrat of the trade ministry who has taken over Noboru Hatakeyama as chairman of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), gives his first news conference at his office in Tokyo on July 25.

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Sousuke Uno

Named Japan's 75th prime minister on June 3, 1989 following the resignation of Noboru Takeshita over a stocks-for-favors scandal. Uno resigned after only 69 days. Born Aug. 27, 1922, died May 19, 1998.

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Noboru Takeshita

Served as Japan's 74th prime minister from November 1987 to June 1989 and played a key role in the implementation of the consumption tax in April 1989. Takeshita was forced to step down as prime minister to take responsibility for the Recruit stock-for-favors scandal implicating politicians, senior government officials and businessmen. Born Feb. 26, 1924, died June 19, 2000.

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Demand for tombstone cleaning growing

MATSUE, Japan - Demand for tombstone cleaning is growing in Shimane and other prefectures by the elderly and those who live far away from relatives' graves. Noboru Sonoyama, a stone dealer in Matsue, cleans a tombstone in Matsue using special equipment.

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Contractors Mitsui, Sumitomo announce integration

TOKYO, Japan - Sumitomo Construction Co. President Hitoshi Tsujimoto (L) and Mitsui Construction Co. President Noboru Sei pose at a news conference Jan. 30 where they announced an agreement to merge their operations within the next two years, the first such integration involving listed general construction contractors in Japan. Mitsui and Sumitomo both rank around 15th in revenues and their integration would create the seventh-largest contractor in Japan in terms of consolidated revenues.

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NSE to pick local businessman as 1st president

NAGOYA, Japan - File photo shows Noboru Kuroyanagi, 67, former vice president of Chubu Electric Power Co., who will be named first president of the Nagoya Stock Exchange (NSE). NSE is due to transform from a membership organization of securities firms into a stock company in April 2002.

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Japan willing to mediate on illicit trade in small arms

NEW YORK, United States - Seiichiro Noboru, the Japanese ambassador on disarmament issues, sits for a U.N. conference on illicit trade of small arm July 10. He said Japan is willing to take on a mediating role and help shape a global consensus on how to reduce the huge arsenal of small arms in the world.

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Koizumi gets cabinet post

TOKYO, Japan - Junichiro Koizumi (L) shakes hands with Takeo Nishioka in December 1988 while waiting for their turns to appear at a news conference after being named health and welfare minister and education minister, respectively, in the cabinet of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita.

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Hospital officials meet press on arrested ex-nurse

SENDAI, Japan - Noboru Nikaido (R), director of the Hokuryo Clinic hospital in Sendai, northeastern Japan, and Ikuko Handa, the hospital's vice director, meet the press at the hospital in the city's Izumi Ward on Jan. 7 after a 29-year-old male former nurse of the hospital was arrested Jan. 6 on suspicion of attempting to kill an 11-year-old patient in October by intravenously administering a muscle relaxant to her.

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LDP's Kato attends faction meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Prime ministerial aspirant Koichi Kato (L) attends a meeting Nov. 13 of senior members of his faction, the second largest in Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Besides Kato is Noboru Harada, Kato's chief of staff. Kato, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister and LDP President Yoshiro Mori, has indicated he may support an opposition no-confidence motion against Mori rather than merely abstain from a vote on it.

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Gov't to pour 3.2 tril. yen into NCB before sale

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Matsuda, head of the state-run Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC), speaks at a news conference at his office Aug. 25. Under a scheme endorsed by the government earlier in the day, DIC will provide financial assistance to the nationalized Nippon Credit Bank (NCB), including the purchase of its bad loans, to help bolster the failed bank's capital base.

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4,000 attend funeral for former Prime Minister Takeshita

KAKEYA, Japan - About 4,000 people, including Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley and former South Korean Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, attend a funeral for former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a Kakeya municipal gymnasium in his hometown of Kakeya, Shimane Prefecture, on July 29. Former Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki, who chairs the funeral committee for Takeshita, said in a memorial address, weeping, ''He returned to dust in Shimane at last.''

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Softbank signs NCB deal

TOKYO, Japan - Noboru Matsuda (L), head of the state-run Deposit Insurance Corp. (DIC), and Masayoshi Son (C), president of Internet investor Softbank Corp., sign documents on the purchase of failed Nippon Credit Bank (NCB) on June 30. Under he deal, the Softbank consortium will pay the government one billion yen for all outstanding NCB common shares and another 100 billion yen to bolster NCB's capital base.

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Takeshita's brother cheered

MATSUE, Japan - Wataru Takeshita (L), younger brother and former secretary of the late Noboru Takeshita, a former prime minister, is cheered June 25 after he appeared certain to win the House of Representatives seat vacated by his elder brother.

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Takeshita's coffin carried from funeral hall

TOKYO, Japan - The coffin of former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita is carried at the end of a memorial service at Tokyo's Tsukiji Honganji Temple on June 21.

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Funeral of former Prime Minister Takeshita held

TOKYO, Japan - Mourners arrive at Tsukiji Honganji temple in Tokyo to attend the funeral of former Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita on June 21.