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Literary award winners in Japan

TOKYO, Japan, July 18 Kyodo - Michi Ichiho, Sanzo K. Matsunaga and Aki Asahina pose with their award-winning books during a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2024. Matsunaga and Asahina won the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors, while Ichiho won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction. (Kyodo)

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Literary award winner in Japan

Author Sanzo K. Matsunaga speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2024, after winning the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors.

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Literary award winners in Japan

(From L) Michi Ichiho, Sanzo K. Matsunaga and Aki Asahina pose with their award-winning books during a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2024. Matsunaga and Asahina won the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors, while Ichiho won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction.

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Literary award winners in Japan

(From L) Michi Ichiho, Sanzo K. Matsunaga and Aki Asahina pose with their award-winning books during a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2024. Matsunaga and Asahina won the Akutagawa Prize for up-and-coming authors, while Ichiho won the Naoki Prize for popular fiction.

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Ota wins Japan's 1st Olympic fencing medal with foil silver

BEIJING, China - Yuki Ota (R) wins the silver medal in the men's individual foil competition at the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 13, giving Japan its first-ever Olympic fencing medal. The photo shows Ota during a semifinal match with Italy's Salvatore Sanzo at the National Convention Center in Beijing earlier Aug. 13.

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3 coded letters written by ex-JCP head Nosaka unearthed

TOKYO, Japan - Three coded letters written by Sanzo Nosaka, a controversial Japanese Communist Party leader who was later expelled by his party and died seven years ago at age 101, shed light on his underground life in the United States after he sneaked into the country in 1934. The photo shows copies of the letters, translated into German, which were sent by Nosaka from New York to his Comintern handlers in Moscow in 1934 and now preserved at Russia's National Archives. The letters prove that Nosaka did more than produce antiwar propaganda during his four-year stay in the U.S., as generally believed by Japanese historians.

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New facts emerge in Moscow on ex-JCP chief Nosaka

TOKYO, Japan - Three newly unearthed coded letters written by Sanzo Nosaka (file photo), a controversial Japanese Communist Party leader who was later expelled by his party and died seven years ago at age 101, shed light on his underground life in the United States after he sneaked into the country in 1934 as an agent for Comintern -- the international communist organization headed by Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin.

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Ota wins Japan's 1st Olympic fencing medal with foil silver

BEIJING, China - Yuki Ota (R) wins the silver medal in the men's individual foil competition at the Beijing Olympics on Aug. 13, giving Japan its first-ever Olympic fencing medal. The photo shows Ota during a semifinal match with Italy's Salvatore Sanzo at the National Convention Center in Beijing earlier Aug. 13. (Kyodo)

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Painter Hirayama dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - In this file photo taken in January 2001, traditional-style Japanese painter Ikuo Hirayama applies a finishing touch to his famous work ''Daito Seiiki Mural'' at Genjo Sanzo-in Hall in Yakushiji Temple, in Nara. Hirayama died of a stroke at a Tokyo hospital on Dec. 2, 2009. He was 79. (Kyodo)

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New facts emerge in Moscow on ex-JCP chief Nosaka

TOKYO, Japan - Three newly unearthed coded letters written by Sanzo Nosaka (file photo), a controversial Japanese Communist Party leader who was later expelled by his party and died seven years ago at age 101, shed light on his underground life in the United States after he sneaked into the country in 1934 as an agent for Comintern -- the international communist organization headed by Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin.

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3 coded letters written by ex-JCP head Nosaka unearthed

TOKYO, Japan - Three coded letters written by Sanzo Nosaka, a controversial Japanese Communist Party leader who was later expelled by his party and died seven years ago at age 101, shed light on his underground life in the United States after he sneaked into the country in 1934. The photo shows copies of the letters, translated into German, which were sent by Nosaka from New York to his Comintern handlers in Moscow in 1934 and now preserved at Russia's National Archives. The letters prove that Nosaka did more than produce antiwar propaganda during his four-year stay in the U.S., as generally believed by Japanese historians.