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Japan Golf Tour record winner Jumbo Ozaki dies at 78

Masashi Ozaki lifts the victor's trophy after winning the ANA Open golf tournament at Sapporo Golf Club in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Sept. 22, 2002, becoming the oldest winner on the Japan Golf Tour at 55 years and 7 months. Nicknamed Jumbo Ozaki, he died of sigmoid colon cancer aged 78 on Dec. 23, 2025, after scoring 112 wins, the most for a Japanese player, including 94 on the Japan Golf Tour.

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-YANGTZE FINLESS PORPOISES-PROTECTION (CN)

(230727) -- WUHAN, July 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff members carry out observation work during the Yangtze Finless Porpoise Expedition 2022 in the Shishou section of Yangtze River, central China's Hubei Province, Sept. 23, 2022. Three generations of researchers at the Institute of Hydrobiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have spent decades rescuing and nursing endangered species - the Baiji dolphin and the Yangtze finless porpoise. The latter is dubbed the "smiling angel of the Yangtze River" as its slightly curly lips resemble those of a smiling person. Baiji dolphin Qi Qi passed away in July 2002 after living for more than 22 years at the Baiji Dolphin House under CAS Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan. There was no more Baiji dolphin at the house after Qi Qi's death, but the house and the Wuhan Baiji Conservation Foundation kept their names unchanged. Researchers there decided to apply protective measures designed for Baiji dolphins to their "cousins" - Yangtze finless porpoises. Eleven Yangtze fi

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CHINA-HUBEI-WUHAN-YANGTZE FINLESS PORPOISES-PROTECTION (CN)

(230727) -- WUHAN, July 27, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Hao Yujiang, an associate researcher of the the Institute of Hydrobiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), conducts an observation of the Yangtze finless porpoise at the Shishou section of Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province, Sept 23, 2022. Three generations of researchers at the Institute of Hydrobiology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have spent decades rescuing and nursing endangered species - the Baiji dolphin and the Yangtze finless porpoise. The latter is dubbed the "smiling angel of the Yangtze River" as its slightly curly lips resemble those of a smiling person. Baiji dolphin Qi Qi passed away in July 2002 after living for more than 22 years at the Baiji Dolphin House under CAS Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan. There was no more Baiji dolphin at the house after Qi Qi's death, but the house and the Wuhan Baiji Conservation Foundation kept their names unchanged. Researchers there decided to apply protective measures designed for Ba

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Lebanese wins 2002 Miss Int'l title

TOKYO, Japan - Christina Sawaya (C), a 22-year-old Lebanese, wins the 2002 Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo on Sept. 30. Emmanuelle Jagodsinski (L), a 20-year-old French student, placed second, and 20-year-old Japanese Hana Urushima (R) came in third.

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Lebanese wins 2002 Miss Int'l title

TOKYO, Japan - Christina Sawaya (C), a 22-year-old Lebanese, wins the 2002 Miss International Beauty Pageant in Tokyo on Sept. 30. Emmanuelle Jagodsinski (L), a 20-year-old French student, placed second, and 20-year-old Japanese Hana Urushima (R) came in third. (Kyodo)