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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.