10th anniversary of Harry Potter area at USJ

OSAKA, Japan, July 16 Kyodo - Actor Seishiro Kato (C) attends an event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, an attraction based on the hit book and movie series, at Universal Studios Japan in the western city of Osaka on July 15, 2024. Kato was invited to attend a pre-opening event in 2014. (Kyodo)

10th anniversary of Harry Potter area at USJ

10th anniversary of Harry Potter area at USJ

Actor Seishiro Kato (C) attends an event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, an attraction based on the hit book and movie series, at Universal Studios Japan in the western city of Osaka on July 15, 2024. Kato was invited to attend a pre-opening event in 2014.

10th anniversary of Harry Potter area at USJ

10th anniversary of Harry Potter area at USJ

Actor Seishiro Kato (C) poses for photos in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, an attraction based on the hit book and movie series, at Universal Studios Japan in the western city of Osaka with people dressed as characters from the series during a ceremony to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the attraction's opening on July 15, 2024. Kato was invited to attend a pre-opening event in 2014.

Baseball: Japan Series

Baseball: Japan Series

Hanshin Tigers catcher Seishiro Sakamoto (front) and closer Suguru Iwazaki celebrate winning the Japan Series baseball championship with victory over the Orix Buffaloes in the deciding Game 7 at Kyocera Dome Osaka in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 5, 2023.

Harry Potter area at USJ

Harry Potter area at USJ

OSAKA, Japan - Seishiro Kato (C), a child actor, tastes "butterbeer," a beverage that appears in the "Harry Potter" film series, in a new section of Universal Studios Japan in Osaka based on the "Harry Potter" film series on June 8, 2014. USJ Co., the operator of the theme park, invited the children and the press to the area ahead of its opening on July 15.

Yokomichi gives news conference

Yokomichi gives news conference

TOKYO, Japan - Takahiro Yokomichi (R), former vice speaker of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during a press conference at the Diet building after being elected as lower house speaker during a special session of the Diet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2009, while newly elected lower house vice speaker Seishiro Eto of the Liberal Democratic Party listens.

Aide to LDP's Eto raised 140 mil. yen in suspicious way

Aide to LDP's Eto raised 140 mil. yen in suspicious way

OITA, Japan - Former Defense Agency Director General Seishiro Eto speaks to reporters in Saiki, Oita Prefecture, er one of his secretaries was found to have collected at least 140 million yen in questionable funds over a nine-year period from 1996. His aide allegedly gathered 50,000-200,000 yen per month each from 17-18 companies as fees for information gathering by a company he set up in 1996.

Eto meets with U.S. Pacific Commander in Chief Blair

Eto meets with U.S. Pacific Commander in Chief Blair

HONOLULU, United States - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seishiro Eto meets with U.S. Pacific Commander in Chief Adm. Dennis Blair on Feb. 17 at the U.S. Pacific Command in Honolulu. Eto asked Blair to continue the search for nine Japanese missing after a Japanese fisheries training ship was sunk Feb. 9 by a surfacing U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, the Greeneville. Eto arrived in Hawaii earlier in the day after meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and U.S. Undersecretary of State Alan Larson in Washington on Feb. 16.

Japan assures Manila of $515 million yen loan package+

Japan assures Manila of $515 million yen loan package+

MANILA - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seishiro Eto (2nd from R) assures Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (L) at the presidential palace in Manila on Feb. 12 that Tokyo is ready to approve some $515 million in soft loans under the 24th yen-loan package for the Philippines.

Aide to LDP's Eto raised 140 mil. yen in suspicious way

Aide to LDP's Eto raised 140 mil. yen in suspicious way

OITA, Japan - Former Defense Agency Director General Seishiro Eto speaks to reporters in Saiki, Oita Prefecture, er one of his secretaries was found to have collected at least 140 million yen in questionable funds over a nine-year period from 1996. His aide allegedly gathered 50,000-200,000 yen per month each from 17-18 companies as fees for information gathering by a company he set up in 1996. (Kyodo)

Head of lawmakers' group aimed at normalizing Japan-N. Korea ties

Head of lawmakers' group aimed at normalizing Japan-N. Korea ties

The Liberal Democratic Party's Seishiro Eto (C), who heads a bipartisan group of parliamentarians who aim to normalize diplomatic ties between Japan and North Korea, meets the press at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 13, 2021, after having talks with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden are scheduled to meet in Washington on April 16.

Head of lawmakers' group aimed at normalizing Japan-N. Korea ties

Head of lawmakers' group aimed at normalizing Japan-N. Korea ties

The Liberal Democratic Party's Seishiro Eto (C), who heads a bipartisan group of parliamentarians who aim to normalize diplomatic ties between Japan and North Korea, meets the press at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 13, 2021, after having talks with Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. Suga and U.S. President Joe Biden are scheduled to meet in Washington on April 16.

Nationalist group seeking to write new history textbook meets press

Nationalist group seeking to write new history textbook meets press

Seishiro Sugihara (L), head of the Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, and other members meet reporters at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Aug. 10, 2015. They urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe not to use "invasion" and other words that the group regards as unilaterally condemning Japan in his statement to be issued on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Eventually Abe used such words in his statement issued on Aug. 14 in the form of quotes from similar statements by his predecessors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Yokomichi gives news conference

Yokomichi gives news conference

TOKYO, Japan - Takahiro Yokomichi (R), former vice speaker of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party of Japan, speaks during a press conference at the Diet building after being elected as lower house speaker during a special session of the Diet in Tokyo on Sept. 16, 2009, while newly elected lower house vice speaker Seishiro Eto of the Liberal Democratic Party listens. (Kyodo)

Eto meets with U.S. Pacific Commander in Chief Blair

Eto meets with U.S. Pacific Commander in Chief Blair

HONOLULU, United States - Japan's Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seishiro Eto meets with U.S. Pacific Commander in Chief Adm. Dennis Blair on Feb. 17 at the U.S. Pacific Command in Honolulu. Eto asked Blair to continue the search for nine Japanese missing after a Japanese fisheries training ship was sunk Feb. 9 by a surfacing U.S. nuclear-powered submarine, the Greeneville. Eto arrived in Hawaii earlier in the day after meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and U.S. Undersecretary of State Alan Larson in Washington on Feb. 16.

Japan assures Manila of $515 million yen loan package+

Japan assures Manila of $515 million yen loan package+

MANILA - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seishiro Eto (2nd from R) assures Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (L) at the presidential palace in Manila on Feb. 12 that Tokyo is ready to approve some $515 million in soft loans under the 24th yen-loan package for the Philippines.