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Physician Hinohara delivers speech on 103rd birthday

TOKYO, Japan - Physician Shigeaki Hinohara, honorary head of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, delivers a speech on his 103rd birthday on Oct. 4, 2014, at a hotel in the Japanese capital.

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Popular duo's Aska arrested for stimulant possession

TOKYO, Japan - Reporters and photographers gather in front of a house of singer-songwriter Aska, half of the well-known musical duo Chage and Aska, in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on May 17, 2014, after Aska, whose real name is Shigeaki Miyazaki, was arrested by police on suspicion of possessing stimulant drugs.

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Japan, China, S. Korea coordinate on environment education

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Shigeaki Kikuchi (C), president of Nishinippon Institute of Technology, explains about a coordination plan between Japan, China and South Korea on environmental education to Kitakyushu Mayor Kenji Kitahashi at the city hall in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 24, 2010.

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Hinohara appointed UNICEF ambassador

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeaki Hinohara, head of St. Luke's International Hospital, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 9 after UNICEF in Japan appointed him as its ambassador to promote fund-raising campaigns and pay visits to developing countries.

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Millenium Retailing to name Vice President Sano president

TOKYO, Japan - Millennium Retailing Inc. has decided to appoint Vice President Kazuyoshi Sano (file photo) as successor to current President Shigeaki Wada, company sources said Feb. 15.

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Seven & I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

TOKYO, Japan - Seven & I Holdings Co. President Toshifumi Suzuki (R) and Millennium Retailing Inc. President Shigeaki Wada announce an agreement on a business tie-up at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26. Seven & I Holdings will purchase a 65.45 percent equity stake in Millennium Retailing at the end of January 2006 and acquire the remaining shares by June that year in a move that will create Japan's largest and the world's fifth-largest retailer in terms of sales.

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Seven & I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

TOKYO, Japan - Seven & I Holdings Co. President Toshifumi Suzuki (R) and Millennium Retailing Inc. President Shigeaki Wada pose for photos after announcing a business tie-up deal at a press conference4 in Tokyo on Dec. 26. The deal will create Japan's largest and the world's fifth-largest retailer in terms of sales.

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Physician Hinohara, 4 others receive Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Makoto Saito, a researcher of the history of U.S. political diplomacy, Toshio Sawada, an expert in agricultural engineering, Shigeaki Hinohara, a terminal-care physician, Mitsuko Mori, an actress, and Ryuzan Aoki, a ceramics artist, pose for photos at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3 after receiving the Order of Culture, Japan's most prestigious honor in the fields of culture and science, from Emperor Akihito.

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Physician Hinohara, 4 others receive Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Terminal-care physician Shigeaki Hinohara (C) and actress Mitsuko Mori (R), who both received the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito, chat with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) during a photo session at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3 after the award-giving ceremony.

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Physician Hinohara receives Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese terminal-care physician Shigeaki Hinohara (R) receives the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, Culture Day. (Pool photo)

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Drawings of U.S. soldiers killed by A-bomb given to Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shigeaki Mori (L), a 68-year-old historian in Hiroshima, shows three drawings depicting U.S. soldiers killed while being detained when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on July 11. Mori brought the color-pencil drawings to the museum together with three of the eight witnesses who provided the accounts on which the drawings are based.

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Seibu, Sogo to integrate business operations

TOKYO, Japan - Sogo Inc. President Shigeaki Wada (C) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 12. He announced that his company and Seibu Department Stores Ltd. will create June 1 a holding company, Millennium Retailing, under which the struggling retailers will integrate their business operations.

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Requiem for 9 Ehime Maru victims performed at concert

UWAJIMA, Japan - A requiem for nine people who died when the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru sank Feb. 9, 2001 after being struck by a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii is performed at a concert on Feb. 16 in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. The requiem by Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa titled ''Kibokai'' (ocean of hope) was performed by a choir comprising politicians and cultural figures.

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Japan names 8 senior vice ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows eight new senior vice ministers whom the Japanese government replaced on Jan. 8. From left to right on the top are Akihiko Kumashiro of the Cabinet Office, Genichiro Sata and Kaneshige Wakamatsu of the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, and Takayoshi Taniguchi of the Finance Ministry. From left to right on the bottom are Kazuaki Miyaji and Yasu Kano of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Shigeaki Tsukihara of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Eiichi Yamashita of the Ministry of Environment.

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700 quake victims attend Kobe concert to support recovery

KOBE, Japan - Seven hundred victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake are invited to a New Year's concert on Jan. 5 at Kobe's Chuo Ward aimed at supporting cultural recovery efforts following the quake that killed over 6,400 people. The New Year's concert has been held annually in Kobe since 1998. The performers, including violinist Kyoko Yoshida and countertenor Yoshikazu Mera, volunteered for the event in response to a call from composer Shigeaki Saegusa, a member of one of the groups organizing the concert.

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Panel recommends increased payments for crime victims

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Miyazawa (R), head of a National Police Agency (NPA) panel, presents a report to the director of the NPA Secretariat, Shigeaki Ishikawa, on Dec. 25. The report recommends a steep rise in government payments to crime victims and bereaved families as well as expanding the scope of payment recipients.

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Sogo to build new main store in Osaka

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeaki Wada (C), special adviser to Sogo Co., the failed department-store operator seeking court-mandated rehabilitation, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 23. Wada, who assumed the post as a step toward becoming president, said Sogo will build a new main store in Osaka in one or two years after demolishing the existing one.

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Okinawa mass suicide survivor Shigeaki Kinjo dies at 93

File photo taken in June 2007 in the Okinawa Prefecture city of Naha, southern Japan, shows Shigeaki Kinjo talking about his experience as a survivor of civilian mass suicides during the World War II Battle of Okinawa. Kinjo died on July 19, 2022, at the age of 93.

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Japan names 8 senior vice ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows eight new senior vice ministers whom the Japanese government replaced on Jan. 8. From left to right on the top are Akihiko Kumashiro of the Cabinet Office, Genichiro Sata and Kaneshige Wakamatsu of the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, and Takayoshi Taniguchi of the Finance Ministry. From left to right on the bottom are Kazuaki Miyaji and Yasu Kano of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Shigeaki Tsukihara of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Eiichi Yamashita of the Ministry of Environment.

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Millenium Retailing to name Vice President Sano president

TOKYO, Japan - Millennium Retailing Inc. has decided to appoint Vice President Kazuyoshi Sano (file photo) as successor to current President Shigeaki Wada, company sources said Feb. 15. (Kyodo)

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Seven & I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

TOKYO, Japan - Seven & I Holdings Co. President Toshifumi Suzuki (R) and Millennium Retailing Inc. President Shigeaki Wada pose for photos after announcing a business tie-up deal at a press conference4 in Tokyo on Dec. 26. The deal will create Japan's largest and the world's fifth-largest retailer in terms of sales. (Kyodo)

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Seven & I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

TOKYO, Japan - Seven & I Holdings Co. President Toshifumi Suzuki (R) and Millennium Retailing Inc. President Shigeaki Wada announce an agreement on a business tie-up at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 26. Seven & I Holdings will purchase a 65.45 percent equity stake in Millennium Retailing at the end of January 2006 and acquire the remaining shares by June that year in a move that will create Japan's largest and the world's fifth-largest retailer in terms of sales. (Kyodo)

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Seibu, Sogo to integrate business operations

TOKYO, Japan - Sogo Inc. President Shigeaki Wada (C) speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on May 12. He announced that his company and Seibu Department Stores Ltd. will create June 1 a holding company, Millennium Retailing, under which the struggling retailers will integrate their business operations.

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Japan seeks talks with U.S. over "no first use" nuclear policy change

File photo taken May 27, 2016, shows U.S. President Barack Obama hugging atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori during his visit to Hiroshima. Japanese government sources said on July 15 that Japan wants to hold talks with the United States to relay its strong concern over Washington adopting a "no first use" policy for nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Obama makes historic visit to Hiroshima

U.S. President Barack Obama (front R) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front L) talk with Sunao Tsuboi, a 91-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing, while Shigeaki Mori (far L), a 79-year-old survivor, looks on, in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016. Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the atomic-bombed city that day. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Obama meets with hibakusha in Hiroshima

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs Shigeaki Mori, a 79-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016. Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the atomic-bombed city that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Obama meets with hibakusha in Hiroshima

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugs Shigeaki Mori, a 79-year-old survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016. Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the atomic-bombed city that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Centenarian doctor opposes new Japan security legislation

Shigeaki Hinohara, a renowned Japanese doctor, holds a press conference at Tokyo's St. Luke's International Hospital where he serves as honorary president, on Sept. 25, 2015, ahead of his 104th birthday on Oct. 4. Hinohara said he is "absolutely opposed" to controversial security legislation enacted recently to expand the role of the Self-Defense Forces overseas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Centenarian doctor opposes new Japan security legislation

Shigeaki Hinohara, a renowned Japanese doctor, holds a press conference at Tokyo's St. Luke's International Hospital where he serves as honorary president, on Sept. 25, 2015, ahead of his 104th birthday on Oct. 4. Hinohara said he is "absolutely opposed" to controversial security legislation enacted recently to expand the role of the Self-Defense Forces overseas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Centenarian doctor opposes new Japan security legislation

Shigeaki Hinohara, a renowned Japanese doctor, gestures during a press conference at Tokyo's St. Luke's International Hospital where he serves as honorary president, on Sept. 25, 2015, ahead of his 104th birthday on Oct. 4. Hinohara said he is "absolutely opposed" to controversial security legislation enacted recently to expand the role of the Self-Defense Forces overseas. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-METI bureaucrat Koga speaks at FCCJ in Tokyo

Shigeaki Koga, a former fast-track bureaucrat at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 16, 2015. Koga criticized the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for meddling in the content of TV programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-METI bureaucrat Koga speaks at FCCJ in Tokyo

Shigeaki Koga, a former fast-track bureaucrat at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on April 16, 2015. Koga criticized the ruling Liberal Democratic Party for meddling in the content of TV programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Obama decided on Hiroshima trip week before announcement: top aide

File photo shows U.S. President Barack Obama (L) hugging Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing, at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima on May 27, 2016. Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the atomic-bombed city that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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After Obama's visit, Hiroshima reaffirms its role toward nuke-free world

Shigeaki Mori, an atomic bomb survivor and historian, recalls at his home on June 29, 2016, in Hiroshima an embrace he shared with U.S. President Barack Obama during the latter's visit to the western Japan city as he reads a newspaper report of the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Drawings of U.S. soldiers killed by A-bomb given to Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shigeaki Mori (L), a 68-year-old historian in Hiroshima, shows three drawings depicting U.S. soldiers killed while being detained when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on July 11. Mori brought the color-pencil drawings to the museum together with three of the eight witnesses who provided the accounts on which the drawings are based. (Kyodo)

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Hinohara appointed UNICEF ambassador

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeaki Hinohara, head of St. Luke's International Hospital, holds a press conference in Tokyo on April 9 after UNICEF in Japan appointed him as its ambassador to promote fund-raising campaigns and pay visits to developing countries. (Kyodo)

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Physician Hinohara receives Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese terminal-care physician Shigeaki Hinohara (R) receives the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito (L) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, Culture Day. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Physician Hinohara, 4 others receive Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - Terminal-care physician Shigeaki Hinohara (C) and actress Mitsuko Mori (R), who both received the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito, chat with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) during a photo session at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3 after the award-giving ceremony. (Kyodo)

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Physician Hinohara, 4 others receive Order of Culture

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Makoto Saito, a researcher of the history of U.S. political diplomacy, Toshio Sawada, an expert in agricultural engineering, Shigeaki Hinohara, a terminal-care physician, Mitsuko Mori, an actress, and Ryuzan Aoki, a ceramics artist, pose for photos at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3 after receiving the Order of Culture, Japan's most prestigious honor in the fields of culture and science, from Emperor Akihito. (Kyodo)

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Requiem for 9 Ehime Maru victims performed at concert

UWAJIMA, Japan - A requiem for nine people who died when the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru sank Feb. 9, 2001 after being struck by a U.S. Navy submarine off Hawaii is performed at a concert on Feb. 16 in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. The requiem by Japanese composer Shigeaki Saegusa titled ''Kibokai'' (ocean of hope) was performed by a choir comprising politicians and cultural figures.

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Japan, China, S. Korea coordinate on environment education

KITAKYUSHU, Japan - Shigeaki Kikuchi (C), president of Nishinippon Institute of Technology, explains about a coordination plan between Japan, China and South Korea on environmental education to Kitakyushu Mayor Kenji Kitahashi at the city hall in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 24, 2010. (Kyodo)

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700 quake victims attend Kobe concert to support recovery

KOBE, Japan - Seven hundred victims of the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake are invited to a New Year's concert on Jan. 5 at Kobe's Chuo Ward aimed at supporting cultural recovery efforts following the quake that killed over 6,400 people. The New Year's concert has been held annually in Kobe since 1998. The performers, including violinist Kyoko Yoshida and countertenor Yoshikazu Mera, volunteered for the event in response to a call from composer Shigeaki Saegusa, a member of one of the groups organizing the concert.

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Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan's centenarian doctor, dies at 105

Tsuguya Fukui, head of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, attends a press conference in Tokyo on July 18, 2017, after Shigeaki Hinohara, honorary head of the hospital, died from respiratory failure at 105. Hinohara died at his home in Tokyo after declining steps to extend his life, Fukui said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan's centenarian doctor, dies at 105

File photo taken in November 2005 shows Shigeaki Hinohara, honorary head of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, speaking at a press conference at the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo after receiving the Order of Culture from the government. Hinohara died from respiration failure on July 18, 2017 at age 105. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan's centenarian doctor, dies at 105

File photo taken in October 2016 shows Shigeaki Hinohara, honorary head of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, cutting a cake in Taipei on his 105th birthday on Oct. 29, 2016. Hinohara died from respiration failure on July 18, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's vice finance minister

Mitsuru Ota, seen in this file photo, is set to succeed Shigeaki Okamoto as Japan's vice finance minister, sources familiar with the matter said on July 7, 2020.

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Japanese A-bomb survivor joins U.S. ceremony

Atomic bombing survivor and historian Shigeaki Mori (2nd from L) from Hiroshima gives a speech at a ceremony in Lowell, Massachusetts, on May 28, 2018, to honor 12 American POWs who died in the Japanese city after the U.S. nuclear attack at the end of World War II as well as other war dead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese A-bomb survivor joins U.S. ceremony

Shigeaki Mori (L), an atomic bombing survivor and historian from Hiroshima, and Susan Archinski (C), attend a ceremony in Lowell, Massachusetts, on May 28, 2018, to honor her uncle Normand Brissette and 11 other American POWs who died after the U.S. nuclear attack in the Japanese city at the end of World War II as well as other war dead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese A-bomb survivor joins U.S. ceremony

Atomic bombing survivor and historian Shigeaki Mori (R) from Hiroshima looks at a cenotaph which has the names of 12 American POWs who died in the Japanese city after the U.S. nuclear attack at the end of World War II during a World War II-related ceremony in Lowell, Massachusetts, on May 28, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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A-bomb survivor urges nuclear peace

Hiroshima A-bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori (L) is pictured in San Francisco where his documentary "Paper Lanterns" was shown on May 24, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Physician Hinohara delivers speech on 103rd birthday

Popular duo's Aska arrested for stimulant possession

Japan, China, S. Korea coordinate on environment education

Hinohara appointed UNICEF ambassador

Millenium Retailing to name Vice President Sano president

Seven &amp; I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

Seven &amp; I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

Physician Hinohara, 4 others receive Order of Culture

Physician Hinohara, 4 others receive Order of Culture

Physician Hinohara receives Order of Culture

Drawings of U.S. soldiers killed by A-bomb given to Hiroshima

Seibu, Sogo to integrate business operations

Requiem for 9 Ehime Maru victims performed at concert

Japan names 8 senior vice ministers

700 quake victims attend Kobe concert to support recovery

Panel recommends increased payments for crime victims

Sogo to build new main store in Osaka

Okinawa mass suicide survivor Shigeaki Kinjo dies at 93

Japan names 8 senior vice ministers

Millenium Retailing to name Vice President Sano president

Seven & I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

Seven & I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

Seibu, Sogo to integrate business operations

Japan seeks talks with U.S. over "no first use" nuclear policy change

Obama makes historic visit to Hiroshima

Obama meets with hibakusha in Hiroshima

Obama meets with hibakusha in Hiroshima

Centenarian doctor opposes new Japan security legislation

Centenarian doctor opposes new Japan security legislation

Centenarian doctor opposes new Japan security legislation

Ex-METI bureaucrat Koga speaks at FCCJ in Tokyo

Ex-METI bureaucrat Koga speaks at FCCJ in Tokyo

Obama decided on Hiroshima trip week before announcement: top aide

After Obama's visit, Hiroshima reaffirms its role toward nuke-free world

Drawings of U.S. soldiers killed by A-bomb given to Hiroshima

Hinohara appointed UNICEF ambassador

Physician Hinohara receives Order of Culture

Physician Hinohara, 4 others receive Order of Culture

Physician Hinohara, 4 others receive Order of Culture

Requiem for 9 Ehime Maru victims performed at concert

Japan, China, S. Korea coordinate on environment education

700 quake victims attend Kobe concert to support recovery

Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan's centenarian doctor, dies at 105

Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan's centenarian doctor, dies at 105

Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan's centenarian doctor, dies at 105

Japan's vice finance minister

Japanese A-bomb survivor joins U.S. ceremony

Japanese A-bomb survivor joins U.S. ceremony

Japanese A-bomb survivor joins U.S. ceremony

A-bomb survivor urges nuclear peace

Seven & I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June

Seven & I to take over Millennium Retailing completely by June