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"The Friend" Premiere - 62nd New York Film Festival

Noma Dumezweni, Naomi Watts, Constance Wu and Carla Gugino. Arrivals at 62nd New York Film Festival in Alice Tully Hall, for 'The Friend' Premiere. NY, US on October 3, 2024. Photo by Roger Wong/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

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"The Friend" Premiere - 62nd New York Film Festival

Noma Dumezweni, Naomi Watts, Constance Wu and Carla Gugino. Arrivals at 62nd New York Film Festival in Alice Tully Hall, for 'The Friend' Premiere. NY, US on October 3, 2024. Photo by Roger Wong/INSTARimages/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Roger Pulvers

NEW YORK, United States - Roger Pulvers (3rd from L), 69, receives the Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature at Japan Society in New York on Sept. 16, 2013, for his English translation of Kenji Miyazawa's "Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems."

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Japan, China publishers cooperate in comics business

BEIJING, China - Yoshinobu Noma (L), president of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., and Du Sen, president of China's Guangxi Publishing & Media Group Co., shake hands during a press conference in Beijing on Sept. 2, 2011. Their companies agreed to cooperate in publishing comics.

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Japanese restaurants rank 12th, 20th in world

LONDON, Britain - Yoshihiro Narisawa (L), owner and chef of the French restaurant ''Les Creations de Narisawa'' in Tokyo's Minami-Aoyama district, and Seiji Yamamoto (R), chef of ''RyuGin,'' Japanese cuisine in Tokyo's Roppongi, pose for photos in London on April 18, 2011. ''Les Creations de Narisawa'' and ''RyuGin'' were ranked 12th, the best rank for a restaurant in Asia, and 20th, respectively, in the world's 50 best restaurant list released the same day. ''Noma,'' a Scandinavian restaurant in Copenhagen, topped the list for two consecutive years.

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Kodansha President Noma dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2009 shows Sawako Noma, president of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., who died of heart failure on March 30, 2011, at a Tokyo hospital. She was 67.

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Tourists enjoy traditional horse race

HARA, Japan - About 30,000 tourists enjoy the celebrated ''Soma-noma-oi'' horse race at the Hibarigahara field in the town of Hara, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 24. The annual event dates from the days of medieval warrior Taira no Masakado (?-940), the ruler of the Kanto region in eastern Japan, who encouraged his men to chase wide horses for routine training.

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The Accession of Empress Taisho

This is a photograph of Empress Teimei (Empress Taisho) taken at the time of coronation. She was the fourth daughter of government official Kujo Michitaka and Noma Ikuko Noma. Sadako by name, she completed middle school at the school for the imperial family and married Prince Yoshihito in 1900 and became Empress in 1912. She is the birth mother of Emperor Showa .==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐36‐0]

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Japan, China publishers cooperate in comics business

BEIJING, China - Yoshinobu Noma (L), president of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., and Du Sen, president of China's Guangxi Publishing & Media Group Co., shake hands during a press conference in Beijing on Sept. 2, 2011. Their companies agreed to cooperate in publishing comics. (Kyodo)

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Japanese restaurants rank 12th, 20th in world

LONDON, Britain - Yoshihiro Narisawa (L), owner and chef of the French restaurant ''Les Creations de Narisawa'' in Tokyo's Minami-Aoyama district, and Seiji Yamamoto (R), chef of ''RyuGin,'' Japanese cuisine in Tokyo's Roppongi, pose for photos in London on April 18, 2011. ''Les Creations de Narisawa'' and ''RyuGin'' were ranked 12th, the best rank for a restaurant in Asia, and 20th, respectively, in the world's 50 best restaurant list released the same day. ''Noma,'' a Scandinavian restaurant in Copenhagen, topped the list for two consecutive years. (Kyodo)

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Kodansha President Noma dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2009 shows Sawako Noma, president of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., who died of heart failure on March 30, 2011, at a Tokyo hospital. She was 67. (Kyodo)

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Award-winning author Tomie Ohara dies at 87

TOKYO, Japan - Award-winning author Tomie Ohara, who died of heart failure Jan. 27 at a Tokyo hospital, is shown in this file photo. Ohara, who was 87, gained greatest recognition for her novel describing the anguished life of a woman during the Edo period. In 1960, Ohara won the Noma Literary Award for her novel ''En to iu Onna'' (A Woman Named En). The novel depicted the life of En Nonaka, who spent about 40 years in confinement after her father was charged with rebelling against the ruling Tokugawa shogunate.