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Seeds from atomic bomb-exposed tree

Kunihiko Sakuma (R), head of an association for Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors' groups, hands ginkgo seeds taken from a tree that survived the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima to an official at the Botanical Garden in Oslo on Dec. 9, 2024, ahead of the award ceremony the following day for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The seeds from the over 200-year-old tree, located about 1.4 kilometers away from Ground Zero, were donated to the botanical garden administered by the University of Oslo at the request of Oslo city, made after Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, won the prize in October. (Pool photo)

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Seeds from atomic bomb-exposed tree planted in Oslo

Kunihiko Sakuma (C), head of an association for Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors' groups, plants ginkgo seeds taken from a tree that survived the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Botanical Garden in Oslo on Dec. 9, 2024, ahead of the award ceremony the following day for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The seeds from the over 200-year-old tree, located about 1.4 kilometers away from Ground Zero, were donated to the botanical garden administered by the University of Oslo at the request of Oslo city, made after Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, won the prize in October. (Pool photo)

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Journalist visits whale meat shop to examine theory of food culture

TOKYO, Japan - Journalist Junko Sakuma visits a whale meat store in the Tsukiji Market in Tokyo's Chuo Ward for her research into the consumption trend of whale meat in Japan.

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A-bomb survivor reports on NY activities in Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kunihiko Sakuma (R), an atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima, reports at a press conference in Hiroshima on May 13, 2014 on the activities he undertook during a recent visit to New York to campaign against nuclear weapons. He attended the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in New York.

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75% of whale meat offered for auction remains unsold

TOKYO, Japan - Whale meat is sold at an Osaka department store in January 2011. Three-quarters of more than 1,200 tons of meat from whales caught during Japan's self-described "research whaling" activities in the Northwest Pacific remains unsold, although the whaling organizer began inviting bids for the meat in 2011, according to the Iruka & Kujira (Dolphin & Whale) Action Network, a Japanese anti-whaling group. The Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research has organized 13 rounds of public auctions since October, but 908.8 tons, or 75.0 percent of the 1,211.9 tons offered, remain unsold, according to a report compiled by freelance journalist Junko Sakuma and released by the group.

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75% of whale meat offered for auction remains unsold

TOKYO, Japan - A minke whale, catch during Japan's self-described "research whaling" activities, is landed at Kushiro port, Hokkaido, in September 2010. Three-quarters of more than 1,200 tons of meat from whales caught during such activities in the Northwest Pacific remains unsold, although the whaling organizer began inviting bids for the meat in 2011, according to the Iruka & Kujira (Dolphin & Whale) Action Network, a Japanese anti-whaling group. The Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research has organized 13 rounds of public auctions since October, but 908.8 tons, or 75.0 percent of the 1,211.9 tons offered, remain unsold, according to a report compiled by freelance journalist Junko Sakuma and released by the group.

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Antinuclear protest in U.S.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Sendai residents Hirohide Sakuma (L) and Kyoko Sugasawa (C) address the crowd at an antinuclear protest near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (back) on the California coast on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan that triggered the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Residents near the two-reactor San Onofre plant say its location puts it in danger of earthquakes and possible tsunamis.

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Highest temperatures marked in many parts of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People lie or sit on benches in Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Aug. 6 to flee from a heat wave. A Pacific anticyclone brought the highest temperatures this summer to many parts of Japan, with the mercury reaching 39.0 C in Sakuma, Shizuoka Prefecture, 38.2 C in Nagoya and Gigu, central Japan, and 35.7 C in central Tokyo.

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Arabian Oil, Fuji Oil to unite under holding firm

TOKYO, Japan - Arabian Oil Co. President Keiichi Konaga (L) and Fuji Oil Co. President Michio Sakuma shake hands after agreeing to integrate operations under a joint holding company to be set up in January 2003.

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Japan's Satomi and Sakuma double-team

Japan's Yuiko Satomi (L) and Chie Sakuma (R) put on a double-team in first period women's ice-hockey action on Feb. 9. Japan went on to lose 11-1 to the powerful Finnish team.

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NPT review conference opens in New York

Kunihiko Sakuma (2nd from front), a 77-year-old survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima who heads a group of A-bomb sufferers, listens to a speech given by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Aug. 1, 2022.

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Arabian Oil, Fuji Oil to unite under holding firm

TOKYO, Japan - Arabian Oil Co. President Keiichi Konaga (L) and Fuji Oil Co. President Michio Sakuma shake hands after agreeing to integrate operations under a joint holding company to be set up in January 2003.

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Confederation of A-bomb suffers' bodies in Hiroshima gets new head

Kunihiko Sakuma speaks in Hiroshima, western Japan, on June 12, 2015, after being chosen as new chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Halal Japan Business Association head Sakuma in interview

Tomohiro Sakuma, chairman of the Halal Japan Business Association founded in 2012, speaks in an interview. Sakuma serves as a bridge between Japan and the Islamic world. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima group set to dispatch mission to NY NPT review confab

Kunihiko Sakuma (C), deputy head of a group of sufferers of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks in the western Japan city on March 18, 2015, at a ceremony marking the formation of a delegation to be dispatched by the Hiroshima Council against A- and H-Bombs to New York for the Apr. 27-May 22 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mt. Fuji and pine tree in Oiwa Village

The name of the location Oyuwamura in the caption cannot be found. It could be the present Oyui-mura of Sakuma-machi. Mount Fuji can be seen standing over the pine tree protruding sideways. A traveler can be seen in front of the pine tree.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number37‐51‐0]

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Early rice shipped in Fukushima

KORIYAMA, Japan - Early harvest rice is shipped from the rice farm of Shunichi Sakuma (L) in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 29, 2011. Sakuma shipped the rice first among the five growers of the rice brand ''Mizuhokogane'' in the prefecture, following the announcement by the Fukushima prefectural government that no radioactive substances were found in samples of rice harvested in the nuclear crisis-hit prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Antinuclear protest in U.S.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Sendai residents Hirohide Sakuma (L) and Kyoko Sugasawa (C) address the crowd at an antinuclear protest near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (back) on the California coast on March 11, 2012, the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan that triggered the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Residents near the two-reactor San Onofre plant say its location puts it in danger of earthquakes and possible tsunamis. (Kyodo)

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Japanese A-bomb survivors leave for Oslo

Kunihiko Sakuma (2nd from L) and Toshiyuki Mimaki (L), representatives of groups for victims and families of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, meet the press at Narita airport near Tokyo on Dec. 7, 2017, before leaving for Oslo where the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony will be held on Dec. 10. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Hiroshima anti-nuke group head calls for unification with another body

Kunihiko Sakuma, new chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, pictured on June 22, 2015, calls for the unification of the group and another body of A-bomb victims in the western Japanese prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Highest temperatures marked in many parts of Japan

TOKYO, Japan - People lie or sit on benches in Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Aug. 6 to flee from a heat wave. A Pacific anticyclone brought the highest temperatures this summer to many parts of Japan, with the mercury reaching 39.0 C in Sakuma, Shizuoka Prefecture, 38.2 C in Nagoya and Gigu, central Japan, and 35.7 C in central Tokyo. (Kyodo)