Baseball: Stanford slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Baseball: Stanford slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Rintaro Sasaki hits an RBI double during Game 2 of Stanford University's season-opening doubleheader against California State University, Fullerton, on Feb. 15, 2025, in Fullerton, California.

Baseball: Stanford slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Baseball: Stanford slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Rintaro Sasaki hits a two-run single during Game 1 of Stanford University's season-opening doubleheader against California State University, Fullerton, on Feb. 15, 2025, in Fullerton, California.

Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Japanese teenage slugger Rintaro Sasaki poses for a photo in front of journalists at Hanamaki Higashi High School -- which Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani also attended -- in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2024. Stanford University announced a week before that Sasaki, who hit 140 home runs in his high school career, will enroll at the school in April before joining its baseball team for the 2025 season.

Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Japanese teenage slugger Rintaro Sasaki poses in front of journalists at Hanamaki Higashi High School -- which Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani also attended -- in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2024. Stanford University announced a week before that Sasaki, who hit 140 home runs in his high school career, will enroll at the school in April before joining its baseball team for the 2025 season.

Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Baseball: Teenage slugger Sasaki

Japanese teenage slugger Rintaro Sasaki meets the press at Hanamaki Higashi High School -- which Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani also attended -- in Hanamaki, Iwate Prefecture, on Feb. 20, 2024. Stanford University announced a week before that Sasaki, who hit 140 home runs in his high school career, will enroll at the school in April before joining its baseball team for the 2025 season.

Lumiere Film Festival Sorties D Usines Reenactment

Lumiere Film Festival Sorties D Usines Reenactment

Laurent Gerra, Rintaro attending the reenactment of the first ever made film Sortie D Usines Lumiere (Exiting Lumiere Factories) during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 21, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Sorties D Usines Reenactment

Lumiere Film Festival Sorties D Usines Reenactment

Laurent Gerra, Rintaro attending the reenactment of the first ever made film Sortie D Usines Lumiere (Exiting Lumiere Factories) during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 21, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Prix Lumiere Ceremony

Lumiere Film Festival Prix Lumiere Ceremony

Rintaro attending the Prix Lumiere Ceremony during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Lumiere Film Festival Masterclass Rintaro

Rintaro holds a masterclass during 15th Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon, France on October 20, 2023. Photo by Julien Reynaud/APS-Medias/ABACAPRESS.COM

Baseball: High school slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Baseball: High school slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Rintaro Sasaki, a baseball slugger who plays for MLB star Shohei Ohtani's alma mater Hanamaki Higashi High School, is pictured during a game in the southwestern Japan city of Kagoshima on Oct. 10, 2023. Sasaki revealed the same day his plan to forgo the upcoming Nippon Professional Baseball draft and pursue a college education in the United States.

Baseball: High school slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Baseball: High school slugger Rintaro Sasaki

Rintaro Sasaki, a baseball slugger who plays for MLB star Shohei Ohtani's alma mater Hanamaki Higashi High School, leaves the park after a game in the southwestern Japan city of Kagoshima on Oct. 10, 2023. Sasaki revealed the same day his plan to forgo the upcoming Nippon Professional Baseball draft and pursue a college education in the United States.

Doctor promotes evidence-based medicine in Japan

Doctor promotes evidence-based medicine in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Rintaro Mori, seen in this file photo taken on Sept. 1, 2014, is a doctor at the National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo who leads a program to promote evidence-based medicine in Japan, advocated by the late Scottish doctor Archie Cochrane.

Arctic explorer Yamazaki

Arctic explorer Yamazaki

RESOLUTE, Canada - Japanese adventurer Tetsuhide Yamazaki drills in sea ice to measure its thickness off Resolute, Canada, in the Arctic on Feb. 26, 2013. (Photo by Rintaro Sawano)

Arctic explorer Yamazaki

Arctic explorer Yamazaki

RESOLUTE, Canada - Japanese adventurer Tetsuhide Yamazaki rides a dog sled on sea ice off Resolute, Canada, in the Arctic on Feb. 22, 2013. (Photo by Rintaro Sawano)

Tamaki considered for OECD deputy head

Tamaki considered for OECD deputy head

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Rintaro Tamaki. Tamaki has been tapped for the post of deputy secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, sources familiar with the matter said June 25, 2011.

Lawmaker's son dies after falling from Diet dormitory

Lawmaker's son dies after falling from Diet dormitory

TOKYO, Japan - The Akasaka dormitory for members of the House of Representatives in Tokyo, where Rintaro Nishimura, the 26-year-old son House member Shingo Nishimura, fell from a balcony on the 20th floor on Jan. 9 and died, police said.

Scandal-hit Fujiya picks new chief outside of founder clan

Scandal-hit Fujiya picks new chief outside of founder clan

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai (R), new president of Fujiya Co., and former president Rintaro Fujii (L) hold a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 22. Fujiya, one of Japan's oldest established confectioners known for introducing Japan to Western-style cakes, faces a scandal involving the use of out-of-date ingredients in some of its products. Sakurai is the first president of Fujiya not related to the founding family.

Gov't rebukes Fujiya for using old ingredients, not providing data

Gov't rebukes Fujiya for using old ingredients, not providing data

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (R) listens to Kiyomichi Fujisaki (back to the camera), Food Safety Department director general of the health ministry, at the ministry on Jan. 17. The health and farm ministries rebuked the confectionery maker for using out-of-date ingredients for cream puffs and other sweets. ''The scandal could affect consumers' confidence in food products on sale and is extremely regrettable,'' Fujisaki told Fujii, who has offered to resign.

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii is about to leave a room after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Fujii said that he will resign to take the blame for the major confectioner's shipment of cream puffs and other products made from old ingredients.

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (L) is stern-faced at his press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Fujii said that he will resign to take the blame for the major confectioner's shipment of cream puffs and other products made from old ingredients.

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (C), flanked by his aides, bows at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Fujii said that he will resign to take the blame for the major confectioner's shipment of cream puffs and other products made from old ingredients.

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (L) bows at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Fujii said that he will resign to take the blame for the major confectioner's shipment of cream puffs and other products made from old ingredients.

Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

TOKYO, Japan - Rintaro Fujii (R), president of major Japanese confectioner Fujiya Co., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11 following a revelation that the Tokyo-based company has shipped cream puffs made with outdated milk.

Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

TOKYO, Japan - Rintaro Fujii (R), president of major Japanese confectioner Fujiya Co., bows by way of apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11. The Tokyo-based company said it has suspended the sale of all cakes and pastry products at its chain stores across Japan until quality control is reestablished following a revelation that it has shipped cream puffs made with outdated milk.

Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

TOKYO, Japan - Rintaro Fujii (R), president of major Japanese confectioner Fujiya Co., bows by way of apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11. The Tokyo-based company said it has suspended the sale of all cakes and pastry products at its chain stores across Japan until quality control is reestablished following a revelation that it has shipped cream puffs made with outdated milk. (Kyodo)

Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

TOKYO, Japan - Rintaro Fujii (R), president of major Japanese confectioner Fujiya Co., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11 following a revelation that the Tokyo-based company has shipped cream puffs made with outdated milk. (Kyodo)

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (C), flanked by his aides, bows at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Fujii said that he will resign to take the blame for the major confectioner's shipment of cream puffs and other products made from old ingredients. (Kyodo)

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (L) bows at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Fujii said that he will resign to take the blame for the major confectioner's shipment of cream puffs and other products made from old ingredients. (Kyodo)

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (L) is stern-faced at his press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Fujii said that he will resign to take the blame for the major confectioner's shipment of cream puffs and other products made from old ingredients. (Kyodo)

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

Fujiya chief to resign over old ingredient scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii is about to leave a room after a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 15. Fujii said that he will resign to take the blame for the major confectioner's shipment of cream puffs and other products made from old ingredients. (Kyodo)

Gov't rebukes Fujiya for using old ingredients, not providing da

Gov't rebukes Fujiya for using old ingredients, not providing da

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Rintaro Fujii (R) listens to Kiyomichi Fujisaki (back to the camera), Food Safety Department director general of the health ministry, at the ministry on Jan. 17. The health and farm ministries rebuked the confectionery maker for using out-of-date ingredients for cream puffs and other sweets. ''The scandal could affect consumers' confidence in food products on sale and is extremely regrettable,'' Fujisaki told Fujii, who has offered to resign. (Kyodo)

Scandal-hit Fujiya picks new chief outside of founder clan

Scandal-hit Fujiya picks new chief outside of founder clan

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai (R), new president of Fujiya Co., and former president Rintaro Fujii (L) hold a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 22. Fujiya, one of Japan's oldest established confectioners known for introducing Japan to Western-style cakes, faces a scandal involving the use of out-of-date ingredients in some of its products. Sakurai is the first president of Fujiya not related to the founding family. (Kyodo)

Lawmaker's son dies after falling from Diet dormitory

Lawmaker's son dies after falling from Diet dormitory

TOKYO, Japan - The Akasaka dormitory for members of the House of Representatives in Tokyo, where Rintaro Nishimura, the 26-year-old son House member Shingo Nishimura, fell from a balcony on the 20th floor on Jan. 9 and died, police said. (Kyodo)

Tamaki considered for OECD deputy head

Tamaki considered for OECD deputy head

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Japanese Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Rintaro Tamaki. Tamaki has been tapped for the post of deputy secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, sources familiar with the matter said June 25, 2011. (Kyodo)