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Türkiye detains 17 in operation against IS financing network

STORY: Türkiye detains 17 in operation against IS financing network DATELINE: Sept. 23, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:00 LOCATION: ISTANBUL, Türkiye CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. various of special operations police raiding the house in Türkiye (file) 2. various of Tekirdag Palace of Justice in Türkiye 3. various of suspects arrested in the operations STORYLINE: Turkish police have detained at least 17 people for their suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) in a massive operation against the terrorist group's financing network launched on Friday, local media reported. The operation centers in the northwestern province of Tekirdag and covers nine provinces, the state-run TRT broadcaster said. According to TRT, one of the suspects was believed to be the "treasurer" of the IS. The IS has carried out a series of deadly attacks in Türkiye since 2015, while the country's counter-terrorism forces have been carrying out operations against members of the group in the country. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporti

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Tokyo Game Show kicks off amidst changing industry trends

TOKYO, Sept. 17 Kyodo - Photo taken Sept. 17, 2015 at the Tokyo Game Show in Chiba, east of Tokyo, shows Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s VR headset for its game console PlayStation 4 "PlayStation VR." The device, which will be released in 2016, is on display at the event.

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Retired Japanese footballer coaches children in Bosnia

MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Former Japan captain and retired footballer Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (C) shakes hands with children after giving a soccer lesson in Mostar, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Sept. 17, 2014. Miyamoto is preparing to launch a kids' football academy there in autumn 2015 to help enhance ethnic reconciliation in the region.

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Retired Japanese footballer coaches children in Bosnia

MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Former Japan captain and retired footballer Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (C) coaches children during a soccer lesson in Mostar, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Sept. 17, 2014. Miyamoto is preparing to launch a kids' football academy there in autumn 2015 to help enhance ethnic reconciliation in the region.

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Old industrial facility

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2013, shows Hashima Island, known as "Battleship Island" that once flourished with its undersea coal mine, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The Japanese government said the same day that it will seek to have the old industrial facilities, including the island, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites in 2015.

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Old industrial facility

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Sept. 17, 2013, shows Hashima Island, known as "Battleship Island" that once flourished with its undersea coal mine, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The Japanese government said the same day that it will seek to have the old industrial facilities, including the island, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites in 2015.

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Old industrial facility

TOKYO, Japan - A November 2008 file photo shows Hashima Island, known as "Battleship Island" that once flourished with its undersea coal mine, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The Japanese government said on Sept. 17, 2013, that it will seek to have the old industrial facilities, including the island, entered on UNESCO's list of World Heritage cultural sites in 2015.

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Xinjiang, My home: An artist's passion for painting

STORY: Xinjiang, My home: An artist's passion for painting DATELINE: Sept. 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:17 LOCATION: URUMQI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): AZGUL GHUPUR, Head of the Guiji art creation team in Urumqi STORYLINE: An artist from China's Xinjiang has innovated a new form of painting. For many years, Azgul Ghupur has been trying painting on leather. After years of efforts, this new art form has been known and appreciated by more and more people. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): AZGUL GHUPUR, Head of the Guiji art creation team in Urumqi "Hello, my name is Azgul Ghupur. I'm the head of the Guiji art creation team in Urumqi. We are a team that focuses on painting on leather. It was in 2008 when I was riding a horse, an idea suddenly occurred to me. What kind of effect would there be if I could draw on leather? So I started to try painting on leather. What I didn't expect was that although we have been insisting on creation for so many years, after I returned to my hometown in 2015, I took

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Photos from Aleppo, Syria

A banner showing portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad side by side is displayed in Aleppo, northern Syria, on Oct. 17, 2015. Russia began its air campaign in Syria on Sept. 30. Putin said his military is targeting Islamic State militants, but human rights groups say it is also attacking other groups involved in the country's four-year-old civil war, in effect giving support to Assad's military. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hispanic residents oppose Trump's policy on immigrants

Mexican men are frisked by a U.S. law enforcement official in San Ysidro, a San Diego district, on Sept. 17, 2015. Home to a large group of Hispanics, residents of the town on the border with Mexico have expressed frustration with the rise in support for U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has a staunch position against illegal immigrants and has made discriminatory comments about Mexican immigrants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Custom-made hand puppet shop popular in Tokyo's Yanaka area

Harumi Ikeda beams with joy as she receives a custom-made hand puppet of herself from puppeteer Mitsuaki Tsuyuki at his studio in Tokyo's Yanaka area on Sept. 17, 2015. Tsuyuki takes orders to make puppets based on photos provided by the customer and is so popular that the waiting list was at one point as long as six years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Custom-made hand puppet shop popular in Tokyo's Yanaka area

A scene from hand puppet play "Winter Sonata after 50 years" created and performed by puppeteer Mitsuaki Tsuyuki at his studio in Tokyo's Yanaka area on Sept. 17, 2015. Tsuyuki takes orders for custom-made puppets and is so popular that the waiting list was at one point as long as six years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese doctor wins 2015 Ig Nobel medicine prize

A video message by Japanese doctor Hajime Kimata, a winner of the 2015 Ig Nobel medicine prize, is played during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 17, 2015. Kimata won the prize for his study "Kissing reduces allergic skin wheal responses and plasma neurotrophin levels." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Winner of ssireum wrestling competition in N. Korea

The winner of the open category at North Korea's national ssireum wrestling championships in Pyongyang rides a bull, weighing 1.1 tons, a tournament prize, on Sept. 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ssireum wrestling competition in N. Korea

Spectators cheer for the winner of the open category at North Korea's national ssireum wrestling championships in Pyongyang on Sept. 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hawks capture 2nd straight PL title

Rookie manager Kimiyasu Kudo of the SoftBank Hawks holds a press conference at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka on Sept. 17, 2015, after capturing the team's second straight Pacific League title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hawks capture 2nd straight PL title

Players of the SoftBank Hawks celebrate after the team's 5-3 win over the Seibu Lions to capture their second straight Pacific League title at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka on Sept. 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hawks capture Pacific League title

SoftBank Hawks manager Kimiyasu Kudo (R) and player Nobuhiro Matsuda (2nd from R) appear jubilant at a party to celebrate the team clinching the Pacific League pennant at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka on Sept. 17, 2015, the earliest in the league's history. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hawks capture 2nd straight PL title

Nobuhiro Matsuda (L) of the SoftBank Hawks and others pour a barrel of sake on teammate Dennis Sarfate (lower) at a party to celebrate the team's capture of the second straight Pacific League pennant on Sept. 17, 2015, at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hawks capture 2nd straight PL title

The SoftBank Hawks' players and others, including Hawks Chairman Sadaharu Oh (front, 3rd from L) and skipper Kimiyasu Kudo (R of Oh), pose for commemorative photos at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka on Sept. 17, 2015, after capturing the Pacific League pennant for the second year in a row. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Photojournalist Ishikawa honored for donating his works

Veteran photojournalist Bunyo Ishikawa, known for his photographs taken during the Vietnam War, poses on Sept. 17, 2015, with a medal given by Ho Chi Minh City for donating more than 100 photographs he took to the War Remnants Museum in the city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Mizkan to open museum featuring hands-on activity areas

Mizkan Holdings Co. President Kenji Hasegawa (L) holds an image of the vinegar maker's new museum at a press conference in Handa, central Japan, on Sept. 17, 2015. The museum to be open on Nov. 8 will have a section where visitors can simulate sushi-making. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan mourns death of "father of Japanese soccer" Cramer

File photo taken in Tokyo in October 1964 shows Dettmar Cramer (2nd from R) celebrating with Japan soccer players after they beat Argentina at the Tokyo Olympics. Cramer, dubbed "the father of Japanese soccer" for helping develop the game as a coach in the country in the 1960s, passed away on Sept. 17, 2015, aged 90. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan mourns death of "father of Japanese soccer" Cramer

File photo taken in March 2012 shows Dettmar Cramer posing for a photo with gifts from Japan at his home in Reit im Winkl in Germany. Cramer, dubbed "the father of Japanese soccer" for helping develop the game as a coach in the country in the 1960s, passed away on Sept. 17, 2015, aged 90. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Taiwan's National Palace Museum to open southern branch

The Asian Art and Culture Museum, under construction in Chiayi, southwestern Taiwan, is unveiled to the press on Sept. 17, 2015. The museum, a branch of Taiwan's renowned National Palace Museum situated in Taipei, will open on a trial basis on Dec. 28. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese doctor wins Ig Nobel award for kissing as allergy relief study

A couple kiss during the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 17, 2015. Japanese scientist Hajime Kimata received the prize jointly with three Slovakian scientists for a study that revealed kissing could reduce allergic reactions in humans. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsuyama in BMW Championship

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama hits a tee shot on the 10th hole during the first round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, on Sept. 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's security bills clear upper house panel

Photo taken early Sept. 18, 2015, in Tokyo shows a House of Councillors plenary session, at which a censure motion against Defense Minister Gen Nakatani was submitted. Japan's ruling camp passed security bills during an upper house panel session on Sept. 17 despite strong protests, and the opposition bloc proposed the motion to delay the final voting at the plenary session. It was eventually rejected. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's security bills clear upper house panel

People stage a rally on Sept. 17, 2015, in front of the Diet building in Tokyo, as the ruling camp passed security bills through a House of Councillors panel despite strong protests from opposition lawmakers, paving the way for enactment of legislation that could for the first time since World War II enable Japanese troops to fight overseas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Matsuyama in BMW Championship

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama hits a shot from a bunker on the 13th hole during the first round of the BMW Championship at Conway Farms GC in Lake Forest, Illinois, on Sept. 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's security bills clear upper house panel

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani (rear) watches House of Councillors lawmakers casting ballots during a plenary session early Sept. 18, 2015, after a censure motion against him was submitted. Japan's ruling camp passed security bills through an upper house panel on Sept. 17 despite strong protests, and the opposition bloc proposed the censure motion to delay the final voting at the plenary session. It was eventually rejected. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's security bills clear upper house panel

People stage a rally on Sept. 17, 2015, in front of the Diet building in Tokyo, as the ruling camp passed security bills through a House of Councillors panel despite strong protests from opposition lawmakers, paving the way for enactment of legislation that could for the first time since World War II enable Japanese troops to fight overseas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan coach Jones meets with reporters

Japan coach Eddie Jones attends a press conference in Brighton, England, on Sept. 17, 2015, prior to the Rugby World Cup opening game against South Africa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Italy's Teatro Comunale di Bologna performs at Himeji Castle

Italian opera company Teatro Comunale di Bologna, directed by the Japanese artistic director of the company's philharmonic orchestra, performs "Pagliacci" composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo on a stage in front of the main tower of Himeji Castle, a World Heritage site, in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's security bills clear upper house panel

Photo taken Sept. 17, 2015, shows turmoil in a Diet chamber in Tokyo as Japan's ruling parties passed security bills through a House of Councillors panel despite strong protests from opposition lawmakers, paving the way for enactment of legislation that could for the first time since World War II enable Japanese troops to fight overseas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Italy's Teatro Comunale di Bologna performs at Himeji Castle

Italian opera company Teatro Comunale di Bologna, directed by the Japanese artistic director of the company's philharmonic orchestra, performs "Pagliacci" composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo on a stage in front of the main tower of Himeji Castle, a World Heritage site, in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sept. 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hawks rock to 2nd straight Pacific League title

Kimiyasu Kudo, manager of Japan's Pacific League baseball club Softbank Hawks, is tossed into the air by his players at Yafuoku Dome in Fukuoka on Sept. 17, 2015, after the team captured its second straight league pennant and the 19th in franchise history following a 5-3 victory over the Seibu Lions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan ready for Rugby World Cup

Japan rugby head coach Eddie Jones smiles during his team's training session in Brighton, England, on Sept. 17, 2015, ahead of Japan's Rugby World Cup Group B match against South Africa on Sept. 19. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indian historian Guha receives Academic Prize

Indian historian and sociologist Ramachandra Guha delivers a speech in the western Japan city of Fukuoka on Sept. 17, 2015, after receiving the Academic Prize of the Fukuoka Prize for his work aimed at explaining the complex history of India. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Vietnamese designer Minh Hanh receives Arts and Culture Prize

Vietnamese fashion designer Minh Hanh delivers makes a speech in the western Japan city of Fukuoka on Sept. 17, 2015, after receiving the Arts and Culture Prize of the Fukuoka Prize for creating contemporary fashions by fusing "ao dai," embroidery and fabrics of Vietnamese ethnic minorities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Myanmar historian Thant Myint U receives Fukuoka Prize

Myanmar historian Thant Myint U delivers an acceptance speech for the Grand Prize of the Fukuoka Prize in the western Japan city on Sept. 17, 2015. Thant Myint U was awarded the prize for his devotion to furthering peace in his country and the world. The Fukuoka Prize was established by the city authorities, academia and businesses in 1990 to honor the outstanding work of individuals and organizations in preserving and creating Asian culture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's controversial security bills clear upper house panel

People continue rallying to oppose the government security bills in front of the Diet building in Tokyo on the night of Sept. 17, 2015, after the ruling camp passed the bills through a House of Councillors special committee during a session of the panel. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Terunofuji beats Sadanoumi at Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament

Mongolian ozeki Terunofuji (back) forces third-ranked maegashira Sadanoumi out of the ring at the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sept. 17, 2015, day five of the 15-day event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Game Show kicks off as diverse options challenge game consoles

Visitors line up in front of a booth operated by Amazon.com at the Tokyo Game Show at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2015, the opening day of the four-day event that is expected to draw 220,000 visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kakuryu beats Sadanofuji at Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament

Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Kakuryu slaps down No. 2 maegashira Sadanofuji on the fifth day of the 15-day Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Sept. 17, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo Game Show kicks off as diverse options challenge game consoles

YouTube opens a booth at the Tokyo Game Show at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, east of Tokyo, on Sept. 17, 2015, the opening day of the four-day event that is expected to draw 220,000 visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Controversial Japan security bills clear upper house panel

(From back) Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe watch as lawmakers of the ruling and opposition camps clash during a session of a House of Councillors special committee on security bills in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015. The ruling camp majority passed the bills, which would greatly expand the role of Japan's Self-Defense Forces abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Controversial Japan security bills clear upper house panel

Lawmakers of the ruling and opposition camps clash around the seat of the chairman of a House of Councillors special committee on security bills during a session of the panel in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015. The ruling camp majority passed the bills, which would greatly expand the role of Japan's Self-Defense Forces abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Controversial Japan security bills clear upper house panel

Opposition lawmakers crowd around Yoshitada Konoike (upper L), chairman of a House of Councillors special committee on security bills, during a session of the panel in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015, attempting to block a vote on the controversial national security legislation. The ruling camp majority passed the bills, which would greatly expand the role of Japan's Self-Defense Forces abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Controversial Japan security bills clear upper house panel

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) watches as lawmakers of the ruling and opposition camps clash during a session of a House of Councillors special committee on security bills in the Diet building in Tokyo on Sept. 17, 2015. The ruling camp majority passed the bills, which would greatly expand the role of Japan's Self-Defense Forces abroad. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo