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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Japan court orders dissolution of Unification Church

Lawyer Nobuya Fukumoto (front) is surrounded by journalists in front of the Tokyo District Court in the Japanese capital on March 25, 2025, after the court ordered that his client, the Unification Church, be dissolved, a decision that will deprive the controversial organization, criticized for soliciting financially ruinous donations from its members, of its status as a religious corporation with tax advantages.

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Carbon fiber material for Shinkansen seats shown to press

OSAKA, Japan - Nobuya Ando, president of Toray Carbon Magic Co., shows off the firm's carbon fiber material used to cover seats on Shinkansen bullet trains during an interview with Kyodo News in Maibara, western Japan, on Oct. 10, 2014. Ando called for Central Japan Railway Co. to adopt the material for its magnetically levitated train system to be put into practical use on a maglev line to be built between Tokyo and Nagoya.

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Japan win men's 4x400m relay at Asian Games

INCHEON, South Korea - (From L to R) Japan's Nobuya Kato, Shota Iizuka, Kenji Fujimitsu and Yuzo Kanemaru celebrate after winning the gold in the men's 4x400-meter relay at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on Oct. 2, 2014.

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'Dangerous drugs' become major agent of drug abuse in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - The Saitama prefectural psychiatric hospital treated more outpatients and inpatients for usage of what the government terms "dangerous drugs" -- drugs that are not banned by law in Japan but produce similar effects to illegal drugs -- than for usage of stimulant drugs in fiscal 2013, according to Nobuya Naruse, deputy director of the hospital seen in this photo.

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TEPCO chairman, president to resign over scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) President Nobuya Minami touches his face during a news conference on Sept. 17, where he said he will resign to take responsibility for the company's cover-up of defects at nuclear plants.

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(2)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), winces during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2 while announcing he and four TEPCO top executives will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in its nuclear power plants.

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(1)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2 while announcing that he and four TEPCO top executives will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in its nuclear power plants.

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METI finds false records of cracks at TEPCO's nuclear plants

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), holds a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 29 after the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it has found evidence of false records regarding cracks at TEPCO nuclear plants from the late 1980s to early 1990s.

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TEPCO hopes to challenge NTT dominance in Internet access

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Minami said TEPCO hopes to check the dominance of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) in Japan's telecom market by launching its own high-speed optical fiber Internet access service.

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TEPCO hopes to challenge NTT dominance in Internet access

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo. Minami said TEPCO hopes to check the dominance of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) in Japan's telecom market by launching its own high-speed optical fiber Internet access service.

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(3)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Tsunehisa Katsumata (file photo), one of five executive vice presidents at Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), is expected to succeed President Nobuya Minami, who will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in TEPCO nuclear power plants. (Kyodo)

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Japan win men's 4x400m relay at Asian Games

INCHEON, South Korea - (From L to R) Japan's Nobuya Kato, Shota Iizuka, Kenji Fujimitsu and Yuzo Kanemaru celebrate after winning the gold in the men's 4x400-meter relay at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, on Oct. 2, 2014. (Kyodo)

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TEPCO chairman, president to resign over scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) President Nobuya Minami touches his face during a news conference on Sept. 17, where he said he will resign to take responsibility for the company's cover-up of defects at nuclear plants. (Kyodo)

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(2)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), winces during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2 while announcing he and four TEPCO top executives will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in its nuclear power plants. (Kyodo)

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(1)TEPCO chief, others to quit over nuke plant scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 2 while announcing that he and four TEPCO top executives will resign to take the blame for a cover-up of cracks in its nuclear power plants. (Kyodo)

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METI finds false records of cracks at TEPCO's nuclear plants

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuya Minami, president of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), holds a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 29 after the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it has found evidence of false records regarding cracks at TEPCO nuclear plants from the late 1980s to early 1990s. (Kyodo)

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MOX fuel use to be postponed at Fukushima nuke plant

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Nobuya Minami (bowing, R), president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., tells Fukushima Gov. Eisaku Sato at the Fukushima prefectual government hall on Jan. 7 that the company will postpone using mixed oxide (MOX) fuel at its nuclear plant in the prefecture, originally scheduled to start in February, causing overall delay in the nation's nuclear fuel program. Minami said the company will use ordinary uranium fuel instead of MOX fuel for the time being.