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Japanese politician pleads innocent at drugs trial in China

GUANGZHOU, China - A lawyer for a Japanese politician accused of drug smuggling in China meets with reporters in Guangzhou, China, on Aug. 26, 2014, the date of the first court hearing for his client. The lawyer said Takuma Sakuragi, a member of the Inazawa municipal assembly in Aichi Prefecture, has denied any wrongdoing since his arrest in December.

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Japanese politician pleads innocent at drugs trial in China

GUANGZHOU, China - Photo taken on Aug. 26, 2014, shows the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Guangzhou, China, where the first hearing for a Japanese politician accused of drug smuggling is being held. Takuma Sakuragi, a member of the Inazawa municipal assembly in Aichi Prefecture, has denied any wrongdoing since his arrest in December.

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Literary award winners

TOKYO, Japan - Shino Sakuragi, winner of the 149th Naoki prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction, attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2013, after the selection committee for the prestigious Japanese literary award announced earlier in the day that she had won. Sakuragi, 48, won the prize for her collection of seven short stories titled "Hotel Royal," describing various people associated with a love hotel in Kushiro, Hokkaido.

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Literary award winners

TOKYO, Japan - Kaori Fujino (R), winner of the 149th Akutagawa award, and Shino Sakuragi, winner of the 149th Naoki prize, attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2013, after the selection committees for the two prestigious Japanese literary awards announced earlier in the day that they had won.

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Literary award winners

TOKYO, Japan - Kaori Fujino (R), winner of the 149th Akutagawa award, and Shino Sakuragi, winner of the 149th Naoki prize, attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2013, after the selection committees for the two prestigious Japanese literary awards announced earlier in the day that they had won.

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2 women, girl die in Tokyo residential fire

TOKYO, Japan - The wooden, two-story house of Setsuko Sakuragi in Tokyo's Ota Ward was gutted by a predawn fire on Jan. 3, 2010. Two women and a girl -- believed to be Sakuragi, 82, her second daughter Hiroko, 48, and Hiroko's daughter Natsumi, 9 -- were killed in the fire.

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Nearly two-thirds of Kumamoto schools remain closed after quakes

Students at Sakuragi junior high school in the southwestern Japan city of Kumamoto clean up April 25, 2016, on the premises of the school, which has been used as an evacuation center following powerful earthquakes about 10 days earlier. The school is expected to resume classes around mid-May. Nearly two-thirds of educational facilities in Kumamoto Prefecture remained closed, local governments and education boards said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Japanese photographer brings "cinema stars" to Africa

Photographer/writer Naoko Sakuragi (L) and musician Gen Nagahara address children at Toyotama Minami Elementary School in Tokyo's Nerima Ward on Jan. 13, 2018. Sakuragi showed the children a premier of their music video collaboration with Ugandan children, talking about her "Cinema Stars for Africa" project. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 women, girl die in Tokyo residential fire

TOKYO, Japan - The wooden, two-story house of Setsuko Sakuragi in Tokyo's Ota Ward was gutted by a predawn fire on Jan. 3, 2010. Two women and a girl -- believed to be Sakuragi, 82, her second daughter Hiroko, 48, and Hiroko's daughter Natsumi, 9 -- were killed in the fire. (Kyodo)

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A distant view of Yokohama Station

This is the original Yokohama Station designed by American architect R. P. Bridgens and built in 1871. The building is of stone and wood construction. This is the site of present-day Sakuragi-cho Station. Connecting to Honmachi Dori on the right is Benten Bridge, a triple-arch bridge built by the Train Works Division of the Ministry of Engineering in 1871.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number93‐28‐0]

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A distant view of Yokohama Station

This is the original Yokohama Station designed by American architect R. P. Bridgens and built in 1871. The building is of stone and wood construction. This is the site of present-day Sakuragi-cho Station. Since the bridge is of iron construction, this photograph must have been taken after 1885. The shack by the river is a public lavatory.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number92‐4‐0]

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A distant view of Yokohama Station

This is the original Yokohama Station designed by American architect R. P. Bridgens and built in 1871. The building is of stone and wood construction. Renamed Sakuragi-cho Station in 1915, the building was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number55‐40‐0]

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Harbour town from the hillside

Cabinet number 46 series from an individual's collection taken in Japan and China. Many photos of the time are single photos, while this is a series of photos in an individual's album. They are all coloured with brilliant colours. Shooting location:It seems vicinity of bus stop of Yayoigaoka, Sakuragi-machi, Nagasaki-city.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐59‐0]

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Sakuragicho station close to oebashi bridge

A post card depicting Sakuragi-cho Station from the Oe Bridge at the end of the Taisho era.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number20‐22‐0]

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Japanese politician pleads innocent at drugs trial in China

GUANGZHOU, China - Photo taken on Aug. 26, 2014, shows the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court in Guangzhou, China, where the first hearing for a Japanese politician accused of drug smuggling is being held. Takuma Sakuragi, a member of the Inazawa municipal assembly in Aichi Prefecture, has denied any wrongdoing since his arrest in December. (Kyodo)

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Japanese politician pleads innocent at drugs trial in China

GUANGZHOU, China - A lawyer for a Japanese politician accused of drug smuggling in China meets with reporters in Guangzhou, China, on Aug. 26, 2014, the date of the first court hearing for his client. The lawyer said Takuma Sakuragi, a member of the Inazawa municipal assembly in Aichi Prefecture, has denied any wrongdoing since his arrest in December. (Kyodo)