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Paris Olympics: Equestrian

(from L) Japan's eventing team members Toshiyuki Tanaka, Ryuzo Kitajima, Yoshiaki Oiwa, and Kazuma Tomoto attend a press conference in Paris on July 30, 2024, the day after winning bronze in the Paris Olympic team event at the Chateau de Versailles in Versailles near Paris, marking the country's first equestrian medal in 92 years.

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Paris Olympics: Equestrian

(from L) Japan's eventing team members Toshiyuki Tanaka, Ryuzo Kitajima, Yoshiaki Oiwa, and Kazuma Tomoto pose with their bronze medals during a press conference in Paris on July 30, 2024, the day after winning the third place in the Paris Olympic team event at the Chateau de Versailles in Versailles near Paris, marking the country's first equestrian medal in 92 years.

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Paris Olympics: Equestrian

(from L) Japan's eventing team members Ryuzo Kitajima, Yoshiaki Oiwa, Toshiyuki Tanaka and Kazuma Tomoto wave to the crowd after winning bronze in the Paris Olympic team event at the Chateau de Versailles in Versailles near Paris on July 29, 2024, marking the country's first equestrian medal in 92 years.

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Paris Olympics: Equestrian

(from L) Japan's eventing team members Ryuzo Kitajima, Yoshiaki Oiwa, Toshiyuki Tanaka and Kazuma Tomoto wave to the crowd after winning bronze in the Paris Olympic team event at the Chateau de Versailles in Versailles near Paris on July 29, 2024, marking the country's first equestrian medal in 92 years.

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Paris Olympics: Equestrian

(from L) Japan's eventing team members Yoshiaki Oiwa, Kazuma Tomoto, Toshiyuki Tanaka and Ryuzo Kitajima pose after winning bronze in the Paris Olympic team event at the Chateau de Versailles in Versailles near Paris on July 29, 2024, marking the country's first equestrian medal in 92 years.

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Paris Olympics: Equestrian

(from L) Japan's eventing team members Ryuzo Kitajima, Yoshiaki Oiwa, Toshiyuki Tanaka and Kazuma Tomoto pose after winning bronze in the Paris Olympic team event at the Chateau de Versailles in Versailles near Paris on July 29, 2024, marking the country's first equestrian medal in 92 years.

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JAPAN-KYOTO-KYOTO PRIZE-AWARDING CEREMONY

(231110) -- KYOTO, Nov. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A picture of the late Japanese reproductive biologist Ryuzo Yanagimachi, who was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, is projected at the awarding ceremony of the 38th annual Kyoto Prize in Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 10, 2023. Three scholars were awarded the 38th annual Kyoto Prize at a ceremony in Japan's Kyoto on Friday in recognition of their great achievements in the fields of advanced technology, basic sciences and arts and philosophy, respectively. (Xinhua/Tu Yifan)

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Ex-Itochu chairman Sejima dies at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuzo Sejima (file photo taken in 1997), an Imperial Headquarters staffer-turned-Itochu Corp. chairman, died of old age on Sept. 4 at his Tokyo home. He was 95. While Itochu chairman, Sejima played a major role in privatizing Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp. and the Japan National Railways as a member of the government's commission on administrative reform. He was also known for his close ties with former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

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2 chosen as Kansai Economic Federation deputy chiefs

OSAKA, Japan - Ryuzo Sakamoto (R), chairman of Toyobo Co., and Shinichi Otake, adviser to NTT West Corp., meet reporters after their selection as vice chairmen of the Kansai Economic Federation in Osaka on May 19, 2014.

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Chiba Marine Stadium renamed

CHIBA, Japan - (From L to R) QVC Japan Inc. President Hayashi Sasaki, Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai and Lotte Marines baseball club president Ryuzo Setoyama hold up a signboard reading ''QVC Marine Field,'' the new name for Chiba Marine Stadium, on Dec. 27, 2010. The city said it had reached a 10-year sponsorship agreement with the local television shopping company, including the naming rights for the stadium, which will come into effect in March.

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Lotte Marines' celebration

FUKUOKA, Japan - (From R) Lotte Marines acting owner Akio Shigemitsu, club president Ryuzo Setoyama and manager Norifumi Nishimura are dunked with a barrel of sake in celebration after their club clinched a berth in the Japan Series at a Fukuoka hotel on Oct. 19, 2010.

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Power industry leader Morimoto tapped as BOJ Policy Board member

TOKYO, Japan - The government on March 12, 2010, nominated Yoshihisa Morimoto (file photo), vice chairman of the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, as a policymaker on the Bank of Japan's Policy Board. The nine-member board has two vacancies and the government has been in the process of obtaining approval from the Diet to fill one of the seats with Ryuzo Miyao, a Kobe University processor.

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Lotte makes Iguchi 3-year, 600 mil. yen offer

TOKYO, Japan - Infielder Tadahito Iguchi shakes hands with Lotte Marines president Ryuzo Setoyama at a hotel in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 7. Lotte offered Iguchi, who was released by the Philadelphia Phillies at the end of the 2008 season, a three-year deal worth about 600 million yen. Iguchi has not made a decision yet as he is awaiting offers from several other clubs in Japan as well as in the major leagues.

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Former Nagoya Grampus manager Hiraki dies at 77

NAGOYA, Japan - Former Nagoya Grampus Eight manager Ryuzo Hiraki (in file photo taken in June 1998) died Jan. 2 after losing a battle with severe pneumonia, the J-League first-division club said. He was 77.

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(2)Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Baseball players and management averted a strike on Sept. 25 and 26 after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta (R), head of the players' association, and Ryuzo Setoyama, the Lotte Marines general manager in charge of negotiations, signed documents on the accord at a hotel in Nagoya.

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(2)Ball players to strike after NPB talks fail

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuzo Setoyama (R), representative of the Pacific League ball club Lotte Marines, speaks to reporters at a Tokyo hotel Sept. 17 after negotiations between management and players broke down. At left is Atsuya Furuta, a catcher with the Central League baseball club Yakult Swallows who heads the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association.

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(4)Players' strike this weekend averted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuya Furuta (L), Yakult Swallowers catcher and head of the Japan pro baseball players association, a labor union, looks grim as Ryuzo Setoyama, Chiba Lotte Marines general manager and representative of management, speaks at a joint press conference after two days of negotiations in Osaka on Sept. 10. They failed to make a clear-cut deal but agreed to avert a strike at least for this weekend.

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(3)Players' strike this weekend averted

OSAKA, Japan - Japan pro baseball players association (labor union) head Atsuya Furuta (C) declines to shake hands with Ryuzo Setoyama, general manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines and representative of management, as he leaves a joint press conference after two days of inconclusive negotiations in Osaka on Sept. 10. They failed to make a clear-cut deal but agreed to avert a strike at least for this weekend.

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LDP's Aramaki wins Fukuoka Pref. lower house by-election

KURUME, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate Ryuzo Aramaki, 30, shouts ''banzai'' in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 27 as he emerges the winner of a House of Representatives by-election in the Fukuoka No. 6 constituency.

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(16)Japan vs Turkey

RIFU, Japan - Goalkeeper Seigo Narazaki (L), Ryuzo Morioka (2nd from L) and other Japan players console each other after a 1-0 defeat by Turkey in a second-round World Cup match at Miyagi Stadium on June 18. (World Cup 2002)

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(2)23 members of Japan's World Cup squad

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers), Toshihiro Hattori (Jubilo Iwata), Ryuzo Morioka (Shimizu S-Pulse) and Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (Gamba Osaka).

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Panel calls for ending Diet committees' prior review of bills

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuzo Sejima (L), chairman of a private advisory panel to House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki, presents a report to Watanuki on reforming the lower house at Watanuki's official residence in Tokyo on Nov. 19. In the report, the panel proposes to scrap the Diet committees' prior review of bills before they reach the Diet floor.

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(3)Players' strike this weekend averted

OSAKA, Japan - Japan pro baseball players association (labor union) head Atsuya Furuta (C) declines to shake hands with Ryuzo Setoyama, general manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines and representative of management, as he leaves a joint press conference after two days of inconclusive negotiations in Osaka on Sept. 10. They failed to make a clear-cut deal but agreed to avert a strike at least for this weekend. (Kyodo)

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(4)Players' strike this weekend averted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuya Furuta (L), Yakult Swallowers catcher and head of the Japan pro baseball players association, a labor union, looks grim as Ryuzo Setoyama, Chiba Lotte Marines general manager and representative of management, speaks at a joint press conference after two days of negotiations in Osaka on Sept. 10. They failed to make a clear-cut deal but agreed to avert a strike at least for this weekend. (Kyodo)

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(2)Ball players to strike after NPB talks fail

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuzo Setoyama (R), representative of the Pacific League ball club Lotte Marines, speaks to reporters at a Tokyo hotel Sept. 17 after negotiations between management and players broke down. At left is Atsuya Furuta, a catcher with the Central League baseball club Yakult Swallows who heads the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association. (Kyodo)

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(2)Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Baseball players and management averted a strike on Sept. 25 and 26 after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta (R), head of the players' association, and Ryuzo Setoyama, the Lotte Marines general manager in charge of negotiations, signed documents on the accord at a hotel in Nagoya. (Kyodo)

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Lotte signs 2-year deal with slugger Zuleta

TOKYO, Japan - The Lotte Marines said on Dec. 29 that they have signed a two-year, $3 million contract with Panamanian slugger Julio Zuleta (in file photo), whose contract talks with the Softbank Hawks broke down recently. ''He'll be a major force in our bid to regain the Japan Series title (the club won in 2005),'' Lotte team president Ryuzo Setoyama said at a press conference. (Kyodo)

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Former Nagoya Grampus manager Hiraki dies at 77

NAGOYA, Japan - Former Nagoya Grampus Eight manager Ryuzo Hiraki (in file photo taken in June 1998) died Jan. 2 after losing a battle with severe pneumonia, the J-League first-division club said. He was 77. (Kyodo)

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Lotte makes Iguchi 3-year, 600 mil. yen offer

TOKYO, Japan - Infielder Tadahito Iguchi shakes hands with Lotte Marines president Ryuzo Setoyama at a hotel in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 7. Lotte offered Iguchi, who was released by the Philadelphia Phillies at the end of the 2008 season, a three-year deal worth about 600 million yen. Iguchi has not made a decision yet as he is awaiting offers from several other clubs in Japan as well as in the major leagues. (Kyodo)

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Panel calls for ending Diet committees' prior review of bills

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuzo Sejima (L), chairman of a private advisory panel to House of Representatives Speaker Tamisuke Watanuki, presents a report to Watanuki on reforming the lower house at Watanuki's official residence in Tokyo on Nov. 19. In the report, the panel proposes to scrap the Diet committees' prior review of bills before they reach the Diet floor.

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Ex-Imperial Japanese Army officer Sejima at Tokyo tribunal

Ryuzo Sejima, a former Imperial Japanese Army officer who played a key role in the planning of many operations during the Pacific War and became a prisoner of war in Siberia after he served as a staff officer at the Manchuria-based Kwantung Army, testifies at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo on Oct. 18, 1946, after being flown from Vladivostok to appear at a hearing. Following his return to Japan after 11 years of hard labor in Siberia, Sejima went into business and later advised Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on the privatization of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp. and Japanese National Railways in the 1980s.

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Ex-Itochu chairman Sejima dies at 95

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuzo Sejima (file photo taken in 1997), an Imperial Headquarters staffer-turned-Itochu Corp. chairman, died of old age on Sept. 4 at his Tokyo home. He was 95. While Itochu chairman, Sejima played a major role in privatizing Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corp. and the Japan National Railways as a member of the government's commission on administrative reform. He was also known for his close ties with former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. (Kyodo)

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(2)23 members of Japan's World Cup squad

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers), Toshihiro Hattori (Jubilo Iwata), Ryuzo Morioka (Shimizu S-Pulse) and Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (Gamba Osaka).

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(16)Japan vs Turkey

RIFU, Japan - Goalkeeper Seigo Narazaki (L), Ryuzo Morioka (2nd from L) and other Japan players console each other after a 1-0 defeat by Turkey in a second-round World Cup match at Miyagi Stadium on June 18. (World Cup 2002)

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Lotte Marines' celebration

FUKUOKA, Japan - (From R) Lotte Marines acting owner Akio Shigemitsu, club president Ryuzo Setoyama and manager Norifumi Nishimura are dunked with a barrel of sake in celebration after their club clinched a berth in the Japan Series at a Fukuoka hotel on Oct. 19, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Power industry leader Morimoto tapped as BOJ Policy Board member

TOKYO, Japan - The government on March 12, 2010, nominated Yoshihisa Morimoto (file photo), vice chairman of the Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan, as a policymaker on the Bank of Japan's Policy Board. The nine-member board has two vacancies and the government has been in the process of obtaining approval from the Diet to fill one of the seats with Ryuzo Miyao, a Kobe University processor. (Kyodo)

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Chiba Marine Stadium renamed

CHIBA, Japan - (From L to R) QVC Japan Inc. President Hayashi Sasaki, Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai and Lotte Marines baseball club president Ryuzo Setoyama hold up a signboard reading ''QVC Marine Field,'' the new name for Chiba Marine Stadium, on Dec. 27, 2010. The city said it had reached a 10-year sponsorship agreement with the local television shopping company, including the naming rights for the stadium, which will come into effect in March. (Kyodo)

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Temporary housing in 2011 quake, tsunami-hit areas

Photo taken Feb. 20, 2019, shows Ryuzo Kaiyama in prefabricated temporary housing that he lives in with three other family members in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a region hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. Around 1,300 people are expected to remain in such housing after April 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Temporary housing in 2011 quake, tsunami-hit areas

Photo taken Feb. 20, 2019, shows Ryuzo Kaiyama in prefabricated temporary housing that he lives in with three other family members in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, a region hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. Around 1,300 people are expected to remain in such housing after April 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP's Aramaki wins Fukuoka Pref. lower house by-election

KURUME, Japan - Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) candidate Ryuzo Aramaki, 30, shouts ''banzai'' in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Oct. 27 as he emerges the winner of a House of Representatives by-election in the Fukuoka No. 6 constituency. (Kyodo)