Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Yomiuri Giants manager Shigeo Nagashima (33) cheers with outfielder Hideki Matsui following the team's walk-off win against the Yakult Swallows in a baseball game at Tokyo Dome on Sept. 14, 1996. Japanese baseball legend Nagashima died on June 3, 2025, aged 89.

XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

XINHUA PHOTOS OF THE DAY

(231214) -- BEIJING, Dec. 14, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 5, 2023 shows Yan Gongming (R) holding his father Yan Xinqiang's hand when walking at a section of the Great Wall in Yanqing of Beijing, capital of China. Yan Xinqiang, a 78-year-old retired art editor, and his son Yan Gongming, a 45-year-old teacher teaching Chinese as a foreign language, are a father and son who have a long story with the Great Wall. Since 1984, they have been, all at their own expense, investigating, photographing and recording the Great Wall of various locations, times and types. In 1996, at Futuyu Great Wall in Laiyuan County of north China's Hebei Province, they found the shooting place of a piece of photo work by Sha Fei, a China's famous wartime photojournalist, which shows Chinese soldiers are battling near a section of ancient Great Wall. Based on their research experience, they began to gradually focus the research on the form of the Great Wall. This year they published a picture book on the forms of

U.S. to study Futemma relocation plans 'carefully,' Foley says

U.S. to study Futemma relocation plans 'carefully,' Foley says

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley speaks at a forum in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 14, saying the United States will ''carefully'' study Japanese proposals on a possible site for the relocation of the U.S. Futemma Air Station in the prefecture. Japan and the U.S. agreed in 1996 to close the Futemma base, located close to residential areas in Ginowan, in five to seven years on condition its heliport functions are relocated within the prefecture.

Toyota adds new SUV model to luxury Lexus series in Japan

Toyota adds new SUV model to luxury Lexus series in Japan

Toyota Motor Corp. unveils a plan on Aug. 20, 2015, to introduce to the Japanese market its LX570 sports utility vehicle from the luxury Lexus line from Sept. 14. The LX series debuted in the North America market in 1996 as the first Lexus SUV and has been selling well overseas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

U.S. to study Futemma relocation plans 'carefully,' Foley says

U.S. to study Futemma relocation plans 'carefully,' Foley says

NAHA, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley speaks at a forum in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sept. 14, saying the United States will ''carefully'' study Japanese proposals on a possible site for the relocation of the U.S. Futemma Air Station in the prefecture. Japan and the U.S. agreed in 1996 to close the Futemma base, located close to residential areas in Ginowan, in five to seven years on condition its heliport functions are relocated within the prefecture.