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Nobel Prize in medicine winner Sakaguchi

Combined photo shows Shimon Sakaguchi (L), a distinguished professor at Osaka University, in Osaka in western Japan, and Yoshinori Ohsumi, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2016, in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, speaking on the phone after Sakaguchi was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two American scientists the previous night for their "groundbreaking" discoveries on how the immune system is kept in check, on Oct. 6, 2025.

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Fire guts former house of ex-premier Yoshida

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters try to put out a fire at what remains of a house formerly used by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida as his residence in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 22. The house where Yoshida met with foreign leaders while in office was gutted in a morning fire police suspect was caused by a short circuit.

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Fire guts former house of ex-premier Yoshida

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1985 shows a chair used by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida in a drawing room of his residence in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. The house where Yoshida met with foreign leaders while in office was gutted in a morning fire police suspect was caused by a short circuit on March 22.

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Fire guts former house of ex-premier Yoshida

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 1967 shows the former residence of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. The house where Yoshida met with foreign leaders while in office was gutted in a morning fire police suspect was caused by a short circuit.

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Emperor, empress visit Elizabeth Saunders Home

OISO, Japan - A child hugs Emperor Akihito (C) as he and Empress Michiko (L, background) visit the Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 6. The home was established in 1948 for orphans born to Japanese women and U.S. soldiers after World War II by the late Miki Sawada, a granddaughter of Yataro Iwasaki, who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate.

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Nigerian soccer team leaves for Narita

HIRATSUKA, Japan - Nigerian forward Nwankwo Kanu (C) shakes hands with a local woman in front of a hotel in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on May 31 as the Nigerian soccer team leaves for Narita, Chiba Prefecture, where they will prepare for their opening match against Argentina on June 2 in the first round of the World Cup soccer finals. (World Cup 2002)

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Nigeria welcomed at Oiso hotel

OISO, Japan - Nigerian soccer team members are welcomed by local children at a hotel in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, where the team will stay during training camp at nearby Hiratsuka ahead of the World Cup soccer finals. The tournament, being co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, runs from May 31-June 30.

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Emperor, empress visit Elizabeth Saunders Home

OISO, Japan - A child hugs Emperor Akihito (C) as he and Empress Michiko (L, background) visit the Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 6. The home was established in 1948 for orphans born to Japanese women and U.S. soldiers after World War II by the late Miki Sawada, a granddaughter of Yataro Iwasaki, who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate. (Kyodo)

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Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)

Hiro Abe Characters: Lt. Colonel Oiso Film: Letters From Iwo Jima (USA 2006) Director: Clint Eastwood 15 November 2006 Date: 15 November 2006

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Hiroshige - 53 Stations of the Tokaido - Print 9

9 Oiso - The approach through rice-fields along a narrow road lined with trees, to a curved street of huts, overlooking the sea, and travellers entering the village under a downpour of rain. This station was an isolated village on the coast. From ancient times, many poets referred to this seashore in their poems. Now a motorway has been built along the seashore and passing motorists pay less attention to this historic place. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 - 1858). The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido - Hoeido edition (1831-4) Date: 1831 - 1834

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(2) Imperial couple visit Elizabeth Saunders Home

OISO, Japan - Empress Michiko (L) talks with a child at the Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 6. The facility was established in 1948 for orphans born to Japanese women and U.S. soldiers. It was founded by the late Miki Sawada, a granddaughter of Yataro Iwasaki, who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate. (Kyodo)

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(4) Imperial couple visit Elizabeth Saunders Home

OISO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko (L, background) listen to a chorus singing during a visit to the Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 6. The facility was established in 1948 for orphans born to Japanese women and U.S. soldiers. It was founded by the late Miki Sawada, a granddaughter of Yataro Iwasaki, who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate. (Kyodo)

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(3) Imperial couple visit Elizabeth Saunders Home

OISO, Japan - Empress Michiko (C) talks with a child at the Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Nov. 6. The facility was established in 1948 for orphans born to Japanese women and U.S. soldiers. It was founded by the late Miki Sawada, a granddaughter of Yataro Iwasaki, who founded the Mitsubishi conglomerate. (Kyodo)

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Alumni from biracial orphanage in postwar Japan gather for "reunion"

Larry Nardini (far R) and fellow former residents of Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage established in Japan in 1948 for abandoned biracial children born between U.S. occupation troops and Japanese women, gather in Las Vegas on July 25, 2015. About 2,000 such children who were ostracized in Japan due to their looks and left by their parents because of poverty lived in the orphanage in Oiso, southwest of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Alumni from biracial orphanage in postwar Japan gather for "reunion"

Former residents of Elizabeth Saunders Home, an orphanage established in Japan in 1948 for abandoned biracial children born between U.S. occupation troops and Japanese women, gather to celebrate ex-resident Joni Honda's (4th from L) wedding in Las Vegas on July 25, 2015. About 2,000 such children who were ostracized in Japan due to their looks and left by their parents because of poverty lived in the orphanage in Oiso, southwest of Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nigeria welcomed at Oiso hotel

OISO, Japan - Nigerian soccer team members are welcomed by local children at a hotel in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, where the team will stay during training camp at nearby Hiratsuka ahead of the World Cup soccer finals. The tournament, being co-hosted by Japan and South Korea, runs from May 31-June 30.

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Fire guts former house of ex-premier Yoshida

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 1985 shows a chair used by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida in a drawing room of his residence in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. The house where Yoshida met with foreign leaders while in office was gutted in a morning fire police suspect was caused by a short circuit on March 22. (Kyodo)

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Fire guts former house of ex-premier Yoshida

TOKYO, Japan - Firefighters try to put out a fire at what remains of a house formerly used by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida as his residence in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 22. The house where Yoshida met with foreign leaders while in office was gutted in a morning fire police suspect was caused by a short circuit. (Kyodo)

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Fire guts former house of ex-premier Yoshida

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in October 1967 shows the former residence of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. The house where Yoshida met with foreign leaders while in office was gutted in a morning fire police suspect was caused by a short circuit. (Kyodo)

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Retreat for children with diseases

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Hiromi Kai, a key member of the foundation operating the Ocean View Forest, a retreat facility for children with serious diseases, chats with local children on Dec. 25, 2010, at a folk house turned into a facility in the town of Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Sea Bathing at Oiso Beach

Sea Bathing at Oiso Beach==Date:unknown, Place:Kanagawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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New shinkansen bullet train

Photo taken July 1, 2020, shows an N700S shinkansen bullet train making its maiden run in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. The fully remodeled bullet train for the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen line, the first in 13 years, came into service between Tokyo and Hakata in southwestern Japan on the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New shinkansen bullet train

Photo taken July 1, 2020, shows an N700S shinkansen bullet train making its maiden run in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. The fully remodeled bullet train for the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen lines, the first in 13 years, came into service between Tokyo and Hakata in southwestern Japan on the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New shinkansen bullet train

Photo taken July 1, 2020, shows an N700S shinkansen bullet train making its maiden run in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. The fully remodeled bullet train for the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen line, the first in 13 years, came into service between Tokyo and Hakata in southwestern Japan on the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New shinkansen bullet train

Photo taken July 1, 2020, shows an N700S shinkansen bullet train making its maiden run in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan. The fully remodeled bullet train for the Tokaido and Sanyo shinkansen line, the first in 13 years, came into service between Tokyo and Hakata in southwestern Japan on the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Historical mansions near Tokyo

Photo taken in December 2018 shows people visiting the former residence of late Japanese Foreign Minister Munemitsu Mutsu during a public tour of historical mansions in Oiso, a beach resort southwest of Tokyo known as a popular retreat among politicians during the Meiji era (1868-1912). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Historical mansions near Tokyo

Photo taken in December 2018 shows people visiting the former residence of late Japanese Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma during a public tour of historical mansions in Oiso, a beach resort southwest of Tokyo known as a popular retreat among politicians during the Meiji era (1868-1912). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Historical mansions near Tokyo

Photo taken in December 2018 shows people visiting the former residence of late Japanese Prime Minister Shigenobu Okuma during a public tour of historical mansions in Oiso, a beach resort southwest of Tokyo known as a popular retreat among politicians during the Meiji era (1868-1912). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Historical mansions near Tokyo

Photo taken in December 2018 shows people visiting the former residence of first Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito during a public tour of historical mansions in Oiso, a beach resort southwest of Tokyo known as a popular retreat among politicians during the Meiji era (1868-1912). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan-Bhutan talks

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (L) and his Bhutanese counterpart Damcho Dorji shake hands in the former residence of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida in Oiso, near Tokyo, on April 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate's wife meets reporters

Mariko Ohsumi, wife of Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, leaves Oiso, near Tokyo, on Oct. 4, 2016, for Yokohama, where the couple is to attend a press conference as the 71-year-old honorary professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for elucidating mechanisms for autophagy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate's wife meets reporters

Mariko Ohsumi, wife of Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, meets with reporters in Oiso, near Tokyo, on Oct. 4, 2016, a day after the 71-year-old honorary professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for elucidating mechanisms for autophagy. The couple lives in the coastal town. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate's wife talks with husband on phone

Mariko Ohsumi, wife of Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, talks with her husband on the phone at their home in Oiso, near Tokyo, on Oct. 3, 2016, when it was announced that the honorary professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for elucidating mechanisms for autophagy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo