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Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko watch New Year sumo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko are guided by Japan Sumo Association Chairman Kitanoumi on Jan. 18, 2015, as the imperial couple arrive at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan to watch the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament for the first time since January 2011. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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S. Korean protesters stop car carrying Japanese reporter

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a South Korean conservative group block a car carrying Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, in front of the Seoul Central District Court in this file photo taken on Nov. 27. 2014. Kato has been indicted on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. Local police sent papers on three of the protesters to prosecutors for damaging the vehicle on Dec. 24.

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Japan takes up indictment of Sankei reporter in talks with S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara, head of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Nov. 27, 2014, after talks with Lee Sang Deok, head of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of South Korea's Foreign Ministry. Ihara said the Japanese side took up the indictment of a Japanese reporter accused of slandering the South Korean president in the talks, calling the action "extremely regrettable."

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Japan takes up indictment of Sankei reporter in talks with S. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Junichi Ihara (R), head of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau of Japan's Foreign Ministry, speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Nov. 27, 2014, after talks with Lee Sang Deok, head of the Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau of South Korea's Foreign Ministry. Ihara said the Japanese side took up the indictment of a Japanese reporter accused of slandering the South Korean president in the talks, calling the action "extremely regrettable."

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Reporter pleads not guilty to defaming S. Korean pres.

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a conservative South Korean civic group protest against a car carrying Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of the Japanese mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, in the South Korean capital on Nov. 27, 2014, after Kato pleaded not guilty at the first preliminary hearing at the Seoul Central District Court on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article about her whereabouts during the deadly ferry disaster in April.

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Japanese reporter pleads not guilty to defaming S. Korean president

SEOUL, South Korea - Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of the Japanese mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, appears at the Seoul Central District Court in the South Korean capital on Nov. 27, 2014, for the first preliminary hearing on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article about her whereabouts during the deadly ferry disaster in April. Kato pleaded not guilty at the hearing.

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Japanese reporter pleads not guilty to defaming S. Korean president

SEOUL, South Korea - Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of the Japanese mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, appears at the Seoul Central District Court in the South Korean capital on Nov. 27, 2014, for the first preliminary hearing on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article about her whereabouts during the deadly ferry disaster in April. Kato pleaded not guilty at the hearing.

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Japan protests S. Korea's indictment of Japanese journalist

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Kim Won Jin, minister at the South Korean Embassy in Japan, leaves Japan's Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2014, after Junichi Ihara, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, lodged a protest over South Korea's indictment of the former Seoul bureau chief of a Japanese newspaper. Seoul prosecutors the previous day indicted Tatsuya Kato, 48, of the Sankei Shimbun, for allegedly defaming President Park Geun Hye in an article about her whereabouts on the day of a deadly ferry accident in April.

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S. Korea indicts Japanese journalist on defamation charges

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a South Korean conservative civic group scuffle with riot police near a building housing the Seoul bureau of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper on Oct. 8, 2014. South Korean public prosecutors the same day indicted Sankei's former Seoul bureau chief on defamation charges over an article on President Park Geun Hye.

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S. Korea indicts Japanese journalist on defamation charges

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Tatsuya Kato, the Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, appearing at a prosecutors' office in Seoul on Oct. 2, 2014, for questioning about a controversial article suspected of having defamed South Korean President Park Geun Hye. On Oct. 8, South Korean public prosecutors indicted Kato, who has since been relieved of his position as Seoul bureau chief, on defamation charges.

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Seoul protesters demand Sankei Shimbun correct article on president

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a South Korean conservative group and others protest outside the building housing the Seoul bureau of the Sankei Shimbun Japanese newspaper on Oct. 7, 2014. They demanded the correction of an article on President Park Geun Hye over which the former bureau chief was indicted on defamation charges.

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Seoul protesters against Japan's Sankei Shimbun article

SEOUL, South Korea - Protesters confront police outside the building housing the Seoul bureau of the Sankei Shimbun Japanese newspaper on Oct. 7, 2014. They demanded the correction of an article on President Park Geun Hye over which the bureau's former chief is indicted on defamation charges.

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Sankei reporter appears at prosecutors' office again

SEOUL, South Korea - Tatsuya Kato (C), former chief of the Seoul bureau of the Japan mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, appears Oct. 2, 2014, at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in the South Korean capital. Kato, 48, was questioned a third time about an article suspected of defaming President Park Geun Hye. It is possible the investigation has entered the final stage.

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India's Modi visits Japan to boost security ties

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Kyoto State Guest House in Kyoto on Aug. 30, 2014, after Modi arrived at Kansai International Airport near Osaka for a five-day visit to Japan earlier in the day. The two leaders will hold a summit in Tokyo on September 1. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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India's Modi visits Japan to boost security ties

KYOTO, Japan - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L), along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C), feeds carp in a pond at the Kyoto State Guest House in Kyoto on Aug. 30, 2014. Modi arrived at Kansai International Airport near Osaka for a five-day visit to Japan earlier in the day. The two leaders will hold a summit in Tokyo on September 1. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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India's Modi visits Japan to boost security ties

KYOTO, Japan - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) is greeted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he arrives at the Kyoto State Guest House in Kyoto on Aug. 30, 2014. Modi arrived at Kansai International Airport near Osaka for a five-day visit to Japan earlier in the day. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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India's Modi visits Japan to boost security ties

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Kyoto State Guest House in Kyoto on Aug. 30, 2014, after Modi arrived at Kansai International Airport near Osaka for a five-day visit to Japan earlier in the day. The two leaders will hold a summit in Tokyo on September 1. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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Sankei reporter appears at prosecutors' office

SEOUL, South Korea - Tatsuya Kato, the Seoul bureau chief of the mass circulation Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun, appears on Aug. 18, 2014, at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in the South Korean capital. Kato, 48, was summoned for questioning to determine whether an article he penned defamed President Park Geun Hye.

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Photographer recalls memory of 1964 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Masuo Yamaguchi, president of Sankei Eiga Co. and a sports photographer took part in the filming of "Tokyo Olympiad," a documentary on the 1964 Tokyo Olympics directed by Kon Ichikawa, talks about his memory of the Olympics at his company in Tokyo. He said marathon winner Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia ran some 100 meters outside the National Stadium in the same marathon uniform on the day after his marathon victory at the request of Ichikawa so that the Olympic flame could be filmed along with a running Abebe.

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Prince Hisahito at elementary school athletic meet

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Hisahito, the 7-year-old son of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko and the third in line to the Japanese throne, takes part in a tug-of-war event at an athletic meet at an elementary school affiliated with Ochanomizu University in Tokyo on May 24, 2014. The athletic meet was open to the media for the first time since Prince Hisahito entered the school in April last year. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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Prince Hisahito at elementary school athletic meet

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Hisahito (R), the 7-year-old son of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko and the third in line to the Japanese throne, cheers for his team during a tug-of-war event at an athletic meet at an elementary school affiliated with Ochanomizu University in Tokyo on May 24, 2014. The athletic meet was open to the media for the first time since Prince Hisahito entered the school in April last year. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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Prince Hisahito at elementary school athletic meet

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Hisahito (R), the 7-year-old son of Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko and the third in line to the Japanese throne, takes part in a tug-of-war event at an athletic meet at an elementary school affiliated with Ochanomizu University in Tokyo on May 24, 2014. The athletic meet was open to the media for the first time since Prince Hisahito entered the school in April last year. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits nuclear plant in Fukushima

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (C) and her son Jack Schlossberg (R) wearing protective suits and masks are briefed during their visit to the central control room for the Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in the town of Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, on May 14, 2014. The plant was devastated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Sankei Shimbun, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Sankei correspondent awarded French honor

PARIS, France - Shoko Yamaguchi, the Paris bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, is awarded the French decoration Officier of the National Order of the Legion of Honor by a press secretary of the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Paris on Jan. 27, 2010, becoming the first Japanese journalist to receive the fourth rank of the order's five degrees. Yamaguchi, who has been covering France since 1990 as bureau chief, received the Chevalier, the fifth-ranked order, in 2001.

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Columnist Hanaoka abandons bid for Nagano governorship

NAGANO, Japan - Former Sankei Shimbun editorial writer Nobuaki Hanaoka (L) shakes hands with lawyer Keiko Hasegawa at the Nagano prefectural government head office in the city of Nagano on Aug. 14 after his announcement to retreat from the Nagano gubernatorial election. Hanaoka, who had earlier this month announced his intention to run in the Sept. 1 election, said he will give full support to Hasegawa to run against former Nagano Gov. Yasuo Tanaka.

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Hanaoka speaks about candidacy in Nagano governor poll

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Hanaoka, former Sankei Shimbun editorial writer, speaks about his candidacy in the Sept. 1 gubernatorial election in Nagano Prefecture at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 12.

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Sankei Shimbun to scrap Tokyo evening edition in April

TOKYO, Japan - Takehiko Kiyohara, president of the mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, announces Nov. 7 in Tokyo that the paper's evening edition will be scrapped next April in the Tokyo metropolitan area and surrounding prefectures, including Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa, as part of a new marketing strategy.

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Sony in talks with Fuji TV on capital tie-up

TOKYO, Japan - The file photos show Hisashi Hieda (L), president of Fuji Television Network Inc., and Nobuyuki Idei, president of Sony Corp. Sony said April 24 it has been in talks with Fuji Television on a business tie-up, including obtaining an equity stake in the broadcaster. A senior official at Fuji TV, a core member company of the Fuji-Sankei business group, said his company would have no objection to a tie-up if Sony is willing.

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Sankei Shimbun to scrap Tokyo evening edition in April

TOKYO, Japan - Takehiko Kiyohara, president of the mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, announces Nov. 7 in Tokyo that the paper's evening edition will be scrapped next April in the Tokyo metropolitan area and surrounding prefectures, including Chiba, Saitama and Kanagawa, as part of a new marketing strategy.

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Hanaoka speaks about candidacy in Nagano governor poll

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuaki Hanaoka, former Sankei Shimbun editorial writer, speaks about his candidacy in the Sept. 1 gubernatorial election in Nagano Prefecture at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Aug. 12. (Kyodo)

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Ex-Sankei Seoul bureau chief speaks about defamation trial

Tatsuya Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief of the Sankei Shimbun newspaper, shares his experience of being acquitted after being charged with defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in his speech in Fukuoka, Japan, on Jan. 26, 2016. Things became "abnormal" in Seoul after he was accused, Kato said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese journalist returns home after being acquitted of defamation

Tatsuya Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief for Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, is seen at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Dec. 18, 2015, after arriving from Seoul, the day after he was acquitted by a court of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese journalist returns home after being acquitted of defamation

Tatsuya Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief for Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, is seen at Narita airport, near Tokyo, on Dec. 18, 2015, after arriving from Seoul, the day after he was acquitted by a court of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese journalist acquitted of defaming S. Korean leader

Tatsuya Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun daily, speaks at a news conference in Seoul on Dec. 17, 2015, after the Seoul Central District Court acquitted of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article published in August 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese journalist acquitted of defaming S. Korean leader

Tatsuya Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun daily, speaks at a news conference in Seoul on Dec. 17, 2015, after the Seoul Central District Court acquitted of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article published in August 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean court to hand down ruling on Japanese reporter

Tatsuya Kato, a former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, arrives on Dec. 17, 2015, at the Seoul Central District Court, which will hand down a ruling on him. Kato was indicted for defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecution to demand punishment for ex-Sankei bureau chief

Tatsuya Kato, a former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court on Oct. 19, 2015, to hear the prosecution's demand for punishment against him. Kato has been accused of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an online article in which he referred to rumors she was meeting secretly with a former male aide during the Sewol ferry disaster in 2014 that killed more than 300 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress visit flood-hit area

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko bow at a site near the recent levee rupture at the Kinugawa River in Joso, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, on Oct. 1, 2015. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Subdrain pit to pump groundwater shown at Fukushima plant

A subdrain pit used to pump up groundwater in an effort to reduce flows into contaminated buildings at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan is shown to the press on Sept. 4, 2015, ahead of the four and a half year anniversary of the 2011 disaster. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima Daiichi No. 1 reactor building cover being removed

Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows works to dismantle the cover of the No. 1 reactor building at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan to the press on Sept. 4, 2015, a week before marking the four and a half year anniversary of the 2011 disaster. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tanks storing pumped groundwater at Fukushima plant

Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows tanks storing groundwater pumped by a subdrain system, in an effort to reduce the amount of contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan, to the press on Sept. 4, 2015, prior to the four and a half year anniversary of the 2011 disaster. The stored water will be released into the sea after going through the treatment process. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Clearing debris at Fukushima Daiichi No. 3 reactor

Tokyo Electric Power Co. shows its debris clearing work to the press at the disaster-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant's No. 3 reactor in northeastern Japan on Sept. 4, 2015, ahead of the four and a half year mark of the 2011 disaster. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea to demand Japanese daily remove column insulting Park

People gather in front of the Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun's Seoul bureau on Sept. 1, 2015, to protest a column Sankei published a day earlier. South Korea has decided to demand that Sankei retract the column, saying it seriously insulted President Park Geun Hye. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese reporter had no intention of defaming ROK leader: academic

Tatsuya Kato (R), former Seoul bureau chief for the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun, and Yasuhiko Tajima, professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, enter the Seoul Central District Court on Aug. 17, 2015. Tajima testified that Kato had no intention of defaming South Korean President Park Geung Hye in his story that cited local news reports saying that Park was absent for several hours during the Sewol ferry disaster in April 2014 because she was with a man. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress view paintings at Tokyo art museum

Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visit the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum on Aug. 13, 2015, for an exhibition titled "Legendary Artists of Japanese Western Painting: The Centennial of the NIKA Exhibition" featuring painters from the Nika Association art group. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan journalist testifies for compatriot charged with defaming S. Korea leader

Yuichi Ueda, Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Nishinippon Shimbun newspaper, speaks to reporters on July 27, 2015, after testifying on behalf of Japanese journalist Tatsuya Kato at the Seoul Central District Court. Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of the Sankei Shimbun daily, has been indicted for allegedly defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indicted Japanese journalist enters Seoul court for hearing

Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper indicted for allegedly defaming South Koran President Park Geun Hye, enters the Seoul Central District Court for a hearing on July 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Crown Prince Naruhito speaks to intellectually impaired artist

Crown Prince Naruhito (L) speaks to an artist at a studio for intellectually handicapped people in Osaka, western Japan, on July 16, 2015. The studio, Atelier Incurve, offers a place for intellectually impaired artists to work. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese journalist enters Seoul court for defamation trial

Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun, enters the Seoul Central District Court in the South Korean capital on June 29, 2015, for his trial on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article about the Sewol ferry disaster in April last year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo