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New Year police march in Tokyo

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department chief Yoshimi Ogata pays tribute to members of the Tokyo police during an annual New Year march in the Japanese capital on Jan. 10, 2025.

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World Athletics President Sebastian Coe in Tokyo

(from L) Japan Association of Athletics Federations President Mitsugi Ogata, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and World Athletics President Sebastian Coe pose for a photo in Tokyo on Oct. 2, 2024.

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Giants' 1st title at Tokyo Dome stadium

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 3 Kyodo - Japan's Yomiuri Giants professional baseball players -- including Warren Cromartie (49), Koichi Ogata (44) and Tatsunori Hara (8) -- acknowledge the cheers of the fans with a banzai salute on Sept. 8, 1990, after winning their first Central League title at their new home field Tokyo Dome stadium, built in 1988, in the Japanese capital.

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Paris Olympics: Japan delegation

Fencer Misaki Emura (4th from R) and breaker Shigeyuki "Shigekix" Nakarai (3rd from R), the flagbearers for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, hand the Japanese delegation's flag to chef de mission Mitsugi Ogata (4th from L) during its disbandment ceremony in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 2024.

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Paris Olympics: Japan delegation head

Mitsugi Ogata, head of Japan's delegation for the Paris Olympics, holds a press conference in Paris on July 26, 2024, ahead of the opening ceremony later in the day.

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Judo, athletics members depart for Paris Olympics

Mitsugi Ogata, head of Japan's Olympic delegation, speaks to judo and athletics members at Tokyo's Haneda airport ahead of their departure to France for the Paris Olympics on July 22, 2024.

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Baseball: U-18 World Cup

Yokohama High School infielder Ren Ogata receives his MVP trophy after helping Japan win the men's Under-18 Baseball World Cup in Taipei on Sept. 10, 2023.

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(SP)HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-ATHLETICS-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS-DAY 9

(230828) -- BUDAPEST, Aug. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Ogata Mitsugi (3rd L), President of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF), waves the flag after the handover during the closing ceremony of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Zheng Huansong)

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(SP)HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-ATHLETICS-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS-DAY 9

(230828) -- BUDAPEST, Aug. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- World Athletics president Sebastian Coe (L) hands over the flag to Ogata Mitsugi, President of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF) during the closing ceremony of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Ming)

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(SP)HUNGARY-BUDAPEST-ATHLETICS-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS-DAY 9

(230828) -- BUDAPEST, Aug. 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Ogata Mitsugi (2nd L), President of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations (JAAF), waves the flag after the handover during the closing ceremony of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 27, 2023. (Xinhua/Li Ming)

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Athletics: World championships

Japanese athletes (from L) Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, Kentaro Sato, Haruka Kitaguchi and Nozomi Tanaka join Mitsugi Ogata (far R), president of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations, for a photo after a flag handover ceremony on the final day of the world athletics championships in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2023. The ceremony marked the handover of the World Athletics flag to Tokyo, which will host the 2025 championships.

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Philippines decorates JICA's Ogata for helping Mindanao peace talks

TOKYO, Japan - Philippine President Benigno Aquino (L) and Sadako Ogata, former head of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and the U.N. refugee agency, pose for a photo at a hotel in Tokyo on Dec. 14, 2013, after Ogata received the Order of Sikatuna from Aquino for her contribution to peace talks between the Philippine government and rebel leaders in Mindanao. The order is given to individuals who have provided exceptional service to the Philippines. Aquino is in Tokyo to attend a Japan-ASEAN summit.

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Assembly member brings baby to session

KUMAMOTO, Japan, Nov. 22 Kyodo - Kumamoto City assembly member Yuka Ogata holds her baby during a session in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, on Nov. 22, 2017. Ogata's action aimed at raising public awareness regarding working mothers caused controversy as a local rule only allows assembly members in the chamber.

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Ex-UNHCR Ogata given award in U.S.

WASHINGTON, United States - Former U.N. high commissioner for refugees Sadako Ogata gives an address on Oct. 23, 2014, in Washington, the United States, as she received the Pragmatist and Idealist Award from a major think tank, Stimson Center, for her contribution to strengthening global security.

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Statue of yokozuna Taiho set to leave for birthplace in Russia

AKITA, Japan - Photo taken on July 11, 2014, in Ogata in the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Akita shows a bronze statue of sumo legend Taiho, who won a record 32 tournaments and died last year at age 72, and his wife Yoshiko Naya. The statue will soon be shipped to Sakhalin, his birthplace in eastern Russia, where it is to be erected.

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Sculptor looks prototype of yokozuna Taiho's sculpture

ASAHIKAWA, Japan - Sculptor Toshio Kamada looks up at the wooden prototype of his sculpture of the legendary yokozuna Taiho in the village of Ogata, Akita Prefecture, on April 22, 2014.

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Rice producers association head delivers speech

TOKYO, Japan - Toru Wakui, president of Ogata-Village Akitakomachi Producer's Association Co., gives a lecture in Tokyo on June 5, 2014.

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Ogata Kenzan's pottery fragment excavated in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - A woman shows a fragment of "Kenzanyaki" pottery (L front) by renowned potter Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743) found at the excavation site of the remains of the Nijo family's house in Kyoto on May 28, 2014.

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Wooden model for Taiho's statue

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows sculptor Toshio Kamada unveiling a wooden model he has carved for a statue of the late sumo great Taiho (1940-2013), whose real name was Koki Naya, in the village of Ogata in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 22, 2014. After being cast by Kamada, the bronze statue of Taiho, who held sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is expected to be donated around August 2014 to Poronaysk on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, Taiho's birthplace.

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Wooden model for Taiho's statue

AKITA, Japan - Photo shows sculptor Toshio Kamada unveiling a wooden model he has carved for a statue of the late sumo great Taiho (1940-2013), whose real name was Koki Naya, in the village of Ogata in Akita Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 22, 2014. After being cast by Kamada, the bronze statue of Taiho, who held sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, is expected to be donated around August 2014 to Poronaysk on the Russian Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, Taiho's birthplace.

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Davos Forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (3rd from R) takes part in a ceremony to open a sake barrel in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2014. It was part of the Japan Night event in the Swiss resort hosting the World Economic Forum.

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EV distance world record on single battery charge

OGATA, Japan - Members of a Japanese team, including Kenjiro Shinozuka (2nd from R), who became the first Japanese driver to win the Dakar Rally in 1997, pose in Ogata, Akita Prefecture, on Nov. 15, 2013, after the team set a new world record for distance traveled by an electric vehicle on a single battery charge, running 1,300 kilometers on a course in the prefecture in northeastern Japan. The vehicle with which the team set the new world record is seen behind them.

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EV distance world record on single battery charge

OGATA, Japan - Members of a Japanese team, including Kenjiro Shinozuka (2nd from R), who became the first Japanese driver to win the Dakar Rally in 1997, pose in Ogata, Akita Prefecture, on Nov. 15, 2013, after the team set a new world record for distance traveled by an electric vehicle on a single battery charge, running 1,300 kilometers on a course in the prefecture in northeastern Japan. The vehicle with which the team set the new world record is seen behind them.

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Man in Miyako revives legendary jazz concert at local beach

MORIOKA, Japan - Yoichi Ogata, who revived a jazz concert at the Jodogahama beach in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, after a hiatus of two decades, stands at the beach on Aug. 25, 2013, the day when the concert dubbed "Jazz in Jodogahama" was held.

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Japan women win team gold at judo c'ships

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Members of Japan's women judo team -- (standing, from L) Megumi Tachimoto, Kana Abe, Miki Tanaka and Akari Ogata, and (sitting, from L) Yuki Hashimoto, Haruka Tachimoto and Anzu Yamamoto -- pose with the gold medals they won in the team event at the world judo championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sept. 1, 2013.

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Ex-U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Ogata

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata. At a high-level meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on May 8, 2013, Ogata called for greater support from the international community for some of the world's most vulnerable people, including those threatened by internal violence, health pandemics and climate change.

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Mexico decoration

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto awards the Order of Aztec Eagle to former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, Mazda Motor Corp. President Takashi Yamanouchi and former Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone for their contributions to bilateral friendship at the Mexican Embassy in Tokyo on April 10, 2013.

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Japan judo athletes leave for Paris

NARITA, Japan - Akari Ogata (far L), member of London Olympics, and other judo athletes are pictured at Narita airport near Tokyo on Feb. 5, 2013, before departing for the Paris Grand Slam. Their departures came amid revelations that top female judoka had been subjected to physical and verbal abuse by coaching staff. Masaru Tanabe, who has temporarily replaced then head coach Ryuji Sonoda, is seen 4th from left front.

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Japan event in Davos

DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese singer MISIA (R), who has been appointed as an honorary ambassador for the fifth round of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama in June 2013, speaks about aid for Africa during an event to introduce Japanese food on Jan. 24, 2013 in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum was being held. At left is Sadako Ogata, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and former president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) receives the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, from Christine Lagarde (R), the chief of the International Monetary Fund, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata (L) receives the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - Former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata delivers a speech after receiving the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group, during a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012. Three other recipients were Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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Suu Kyi, 3 others receive Global Citizen Award

NEW YORK, United States - (From L to R) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata attend a ceremony in New York on Sept. 21, 2012, to receive the "Global Citizen Award" given by the Atlantic Council, a U.S. public policy group. The other recipient was record producer and composer Quincy Jones.

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UNRWA Commissioner General Grandi in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Filippo Grandi (R), commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and Sadako Ogata, special adviser to the president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, attend a symposium in Tokyo on Aug. 8, 2012.

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Ogata crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Akari Ogata (R) reacts after losing to Dutch Marhinde Verkerk in the round of 16 in the women's judo 78-kilogram category at the 2012 London Olympics, at the ExCeL competition venue on Aug. 2, 2012.

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Ogata crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Akari Ogata (bottom) and Dutchwoman Marhinde Verkerk compete in the women's 78-kg class in the second round at the London Olympics on Aug. 2, 2012. Ogata lost to Verkerk.

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Ogata crashes out of judo competition at London

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Akari Ogata (back) and Dutchwoman Marhinde Verkerk compete in the women's 78-kg class in the second round at the London Olympics on Aug. 2, 2012. Ogata lost to Verkerk.

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Japan's Ogata beats S. Korean Jeong in women's 78-kg judo at London

LONDON, Britain - Japan's Akari Ogata (L) fights South Korea's Jeong Gyeong Mi during a first round match in the women's judo 78-kilogram category at the 2012 London Olympics, at the ExCeL competition venue on Aug. 2, 2012. Ogata beat Jeong.

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Afghan development conference in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Participants at an international conference on Afghan development, including (from L to R, front) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and adviser to the Foreign Ministry and former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata, pose for photos in Tokyo on July 8, 2012.

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Departing JICA chief Ogata

TOKYO, Japan - Sadako Ogata, chief of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, speaks at a news conference at the organization's headquarters in Tokyo on March 29, 2012, two days before stepping down as JICA chief.

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JICA President Ogata

CAIRO, Egypt - Japan International Cooperation Agency President Sadako Ogata speaks in Cairo, Egypt, to diplomatic circles on March 19, 2012. She said the Japanese aid organization will offer a broad range of support to Egypt and other countries that have experienced the ''Arab Spring'' democratization movements while paying attention to correcting social inequalities.

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Univ. of Tokyo's Tanaka to head JICA

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows University of Tokyo Vice President Akihiko Tanaka. Tanaka, a professor of international politics, will replace Sadako Ogata as president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency effective April 1, 2012, Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba said Jan. 17, 2012.

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Solar car race in Akita

OGATA, Japan - Solar cars wait for the start of the World Green Challenge race in Ogata, Akita Prefecture, on Aug. 10, 2011. Fifteen solar and other eco-friendly cars are participating in the three-day rally.

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Kan at Davos forum

DAVOS, Switzerland - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (L, front) meets with former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan (R, front) and Japan International Cooperation Agency President Sadako Ogata (C, front) in Davos on Jan. 29, 2011. Kan was in the Swiss resort to attend an annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

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Japan's Ruika Sato wins women's 78kg-class at Grand Slam juto

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Akari Ogata (L) attempts to throw her compatriot Ruika Sato during the women's 78kg-class final at the Grand Slam judo event in Rio de Janeiro on May 23, 2010. Sato won the event.

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Japan's Ogata wins women's 78kg-class at Grand Slam judo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Akari Ogata (front) overpowers compatriot Sayaka Anai in the women's 78-kilogram-class final at Grand Slam Tokyo 2009 international judo tournament in Tokyo on Dec. 11, 2009. Ogata won the gold.

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JICA chief Ogata visits Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sadako Ogata (L), chief of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, meets with Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Rafie al-Issawi in Baghdad on Oct. 10, 2009. Ogata became the first leader of the Japanese public foreign aid entity to visit Iraq since the U.S. invaded the country in 2003.

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'Gal' farmers work in rice paddy

AKITA, Japan - Shiho Fujita, a Japanese fashion icon, holds rice stalks she harvested in a paddy in Ogata in the northeastern prefecture of Akita on Oct. 10, 2009. Fujita, clad in specially designed Edwin overalls, has encouraged women, including the fashion conscious, to give farming a try in a project called ''Agriculture Gal.'' Earlier in the day, when holding three packets of rice, Fujita commented, ''Rice is really heavy,'' but added, ''It's a weight to be thankful for, isn't it.''