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Essayist Agawa

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 25, 2013 shows Sawako Agawa, an essayist and TV celebrity who has conducted 1,000 interviews with actors, athletes, writers and people from various other fields, with the 1,000th one appearing in the special 2014 New Year edition of the Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine released the same day.

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Kodansha President Noma dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2009 shows Sawako Noma, president of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., who died of heart failure on March 30, 2011, at a Tokyo hospital. She was 67.

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Freed Japanese in Paraguay meet press

ASUNCION, Paraguay - Hirokazu Ota (R), a Japanese businessman based in Paraguay, and his secretary Sawako Yamaguchi (L) speak to the press at the Japanese Embassy in Asuncion on April 21, on the ordeal they faced after they were kidnapped and detained for almost 20 days. Ota, 62, was released April 20 after a $138,000 ransom was paid to the kidnappers. Yamaguchi, 37, had been released earlier. Ota and Yamaguchi are members of the Unification Church, which owns over 600,000 hectares of land in Paraguay.

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Takeuchi confident of winning OECD secretary general race

TOKYO, Japan - World Bank economist Sawako Takeuchi, who is competing with five others for the leadership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 6.

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(2)Emperor's 70 years of age celebrated

TOKYO, Japan - Sawako Minayoshi (L) sings a popular folk song of Amami, Kagoshima Prefecture, to the shamisen played by Yutaka Tsuboyama at a folk entertainment show held at the Imperial Palace on March 14 in celebration of Emperor Akihito's 70 years of age. (Pool photo)

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Takeuchi confident of winning OECD secretary general race

TOKYO, Japan - World Bank economist Sawako Takeuchi, who is competing with five others for the leadership of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, speaks at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo on Sept. 6. (Kyodo)

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Dolls (2002)

Hidetoshi Nishijima & Miho Kanno Characters: Matsumoto, Sawako Film: Dolls (2002) Director: Takeshi Kitano 05 September 2002 Date: 05 September 2002

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Dolls (2002)

Hidetoshi Nishijima & Miho Kanno Characters: Matsumoto, Sawako Film: Dolls (2002) Director: Takeshi Kitano 05 September 2002 Date: 05 September 2002

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Freed Japanese in Paraguay meet press

ASUNCION, Paraguay - Hirokazu Ota (R), a Japanese businessman based in Paraguay, and his secretary Sawako Yamaguchi (L) speak to the press at the Japanese Embassy in Asuncion on April 21, on the ordeal they faced after they were kidnapped and detained for almost 20 days. Ota, 62, was released April 20 after a $138,000 ransom was paid to the kidnappers. Yamaguchi, 37, had been released earlier. Ota and Yamaguchi are members of the Unification Church, which owns over 600,000 hectares of land in Paraguay. (Kyodo)

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Kodansha President Noma dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in December 2009 shows Sawako Noma, president of Japanese publisher Kodansha Ltd., who died of heart failure on March 30, 2011, at a Tokyo hospital. She was 67. (Kyodo)

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(2)Emperor's 70 years of age celebrated

TOKYO, Japan - Sawako Minayoshi (L) sings a popular folk song of Amami, Kagoshima Prefecture, to the shamisen played by Yutaka Tsuboyama at a folk entertainment show held at the Imperial Palace on March 14 in celebration of Emperor Akihito's 70 years of age. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)