New attire for Kyoto ''Aoi Matsuri'' unveiled

New attire for Kyoto ''Aoi Matsuri'' unveiled

KYOTO, Japan - New attire to be worn by participants in Kyoto's annual ''Aoi Matsuri (festival)'' in May are on display at the Kyoto Imperial Palace on April 19. On May 15, some 500 participants, dressed like nobles in the Heian period (794-1185), take part in a procession that makes its way across the city's Aoi Bridge to Shimo-Gamo Shrine and then to Kami-Gamo Shrine.

servant boy

servant boy

Yoshio Shimo, President and Representative Director of Hino Motors, explains the Flat Former electric vehicle (EV) mobility concept, which imagines the realization of a next-generation commercial vehicle that can respond to a variety of services by replacing its body parts, at the Tokyo Motor Show 2019. (October 23, 2019, Koto-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

servant of the lower house

servant of the lower house

Yoshio Shimo, President and Representative Director of Hino Motors, explains the Flat Former electric vehicle (EV) mobility concept, which imagines the realization of a next-generation commercial vehicle that can respond to a variety of services by replacing its body parts, at the Tokyo Motor Show 2019. (October 23, 2019, Koto-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

servant boy

servant boy

Yoshio Shimo, President and Representative Director of Hino Motors, explains the Flat Former electric vehicle (EV) mobility concept, which imagines the realization of a next-generation commercial vehicle that can respond to a variety of services by replacing its body parts, at the Tokyo Motor Show 2019. (October 23, 2019, Koto-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

servant boy

servant boy

Yoshio Shimo, President and Representative Director of Hino Motors, explains the Flat Former electric vehicle (EV) mobility concept, which imagines the realization of a next-generation commercial vehicle that can respond to a variety of services by replacing its body parts, at the Tokyo Motor Show 2019. (October 23, 2019, Koto-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

servant of the lower house

servant of the lower house

Yoshio Shimo, President and Representative Director of Hino Motors, explains the Flat Former electric vehicle (EV) mobility concept, which imagines the realization of a next-generation commercial vehicle that can respond to a variety of services by replacing its body parts, at the Tokyo Motor Show 2019. (October 23, 2019, Koto-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

servant of the lower house

servant of the lower house

Yoshio Shimo, President and Representative Director of Hino Motors, explains the Flat Former electric vehicle (EV) mobility concept, which imagines the realization of a next-generation commercial vehicle that can respond to a variety of services by replacing its body parts, at the Tokyo Motor Show 2019. (October 23, 2019, Koto-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

New attire for Kyoto ''Aoi Matsuri'' unveiled

New attire for Kyoto ''Aoi Matsuri'' unveiled

KYOTO, Japan - New attire to be worn by participants in Kyoto's annual ''Aoi Matsuri (festival)'' in May are on display at the Kyoto Imperial Palace on April 19. On May 15, some 500 participants, dressed like nobles in the Heian period (794-1185), take part in a procession that makes its way across the city's Aoi Bridge to Shimo-Gamo Shrine and then to Kami-Gamo Shrine.

Toyota, Isuzu to take stake in each other to co-develop new vehicles

Toyota, Isuzu to take stake in each other to co-develop new vehicles

(From L) Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda and Isuzu Motors Ltd. President Masanori Katayama attend a press conference in Tokyo on March 24, 2021. Toyota and Isuzu will take a stake in each other to jointly develop next-generation small-sized commercial vehicles with Hino.

Toyota, Isuzu to take stake in each other to co-develop new vehicles

Toyota, Isuzu to take stake in each other to co-develop new vehicles

(From L) Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda and Isuzu Motors Ltd. President Masanori Katayama attend a press conference in Tokyo on March 24, 2021. Toyota and Isuzu will take a stake in each other to jointly develop next-generation small-sized commercial vehicles with Hino.

Toyota, Isuzu to take stake in each other to co-develop new vehicles

Toyota, Isuzu to take stake in each other to co-develop new vehicles

(From L) Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo, Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda and Isuzu Motors Ltd. President Masanori Katayama attend a press conference in Tokyo on March 24, 2021. Toyota and Isuzu will take a stake in each other to jointly develop next-generation small-sized commercial vehicles with Hino.

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo (L) and Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH CEO Andreas Renschler shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2018, after the two companies agreed to form a strategic commercial vehicle alliance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo (L) and Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH CEO Andreas Renschler hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2018, after the two companies agreed to form a strategic commercial vehicle alliance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo (L) and Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH CEO Andreas Renschler hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2018, after the two companies agreed to form a strategic commercial vehicle alliance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo (L) and Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH CEO Andreas Renschler shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2018, after the two companies agreed to form a strategic commercial vehicle alliance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino, Volkswagen Truck to tie up in commercial vehicles

Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo (L) and Volkswagen Truck & Bus GmbH CEO Andreas Renschler hold a press conference in Tokyo on April 12, 2018, after the two companies agreed to form a strategic commercial vehicle alliance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Practicing doctor on remote island to retire in 2016

Practicing doctor on remote island to retire in 2016

File photo taken in March 2008 shows Kenjiro Setoue (L), a practicing doctor on Shimo Koshiki Island off Satsumasendai in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, receiving his likeness from cartoonist Takatoshi Yamada. Setoue, 74, the inspiration for the main character of Yamada's popular comic and TV drama series "Dr. Koto's Clinic," will retire in March 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Daimyo street near west gate of imperial palace

Daimyo street near west gate of imperial palace

A residence of a daimyo (lord) can be seen across the moat. There were three kinds of residences for daimyo in Edo: the Kami Yashiki, Naka Yashiki and Shimo Yashiki. The residence adjoining Edo castle is a Kami Yashiki.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number4‐8‐0]

Owari Garden

Owari Garden

This is probably Shimo Ofuke Garden in Ofukemaru, located in the northern part of the Honmaru and Ninomaru areas of Nagoya Castle. This garden is said to have represented a sort of fairyland or utopia, consisting of 14 islands, big and small, such as Matsubara-jima and Takefuji-jima in a huge lotus pond. In 1889, it was purchased by the Department of the Army and turned into a military drill field. In 1908, part of the Ofukemaru area became an imperial villa. This is a valuable photograph because none of these scenes remain today.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagoya, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐22‐0]

Large tree at Nakasendo Shimo-no-Suwa Shrine

Large tree at Nakasendo Shimo-no-Suwa Shrine

The magnificent tree which roots spread out. It was at the entrance side of Suwa Taisha Shimosha Akimiya. The size can be observed from the traveler, holding the trunk. Now, this tree had lost.\r\nAlso there are no stone pavement for the approach maintenance.\r\n==Date:unknown, Place:Nagano, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number38‐38‐0]

Inns at Nakasendo Shimo-no-Suwa and Suwa Lake

Inns at Nakasendo Shimo-no-Suwa and Suwa Lake

Shimosuwa village on the Nakasendo, one of the five kaidos. Shimosuwa is located to the northeast bank of Lake Suwa, and spreads with the Yashima highlands to the back. There are many spas in the juku, and was also called the city of spas. It is the terminal point of the Koshukaido.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagano, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number38‐40‐0]

Fire bell and inn at Nakasendo Shimo-no-Suwa

Fire bell and inn at Nakasendo Shimo-no-Suwa

The townscape of Shimosuwa-juku(post town) on the Nakasendo. Tea houses line on both sides of the road and you can see the man at the foot of high ladder, hanging the fire bell in the center. In the back, you can see the Shaso(Shrine forest) of Suwa Taisha Shimosha Akimiya. Shimosuwa-juku is near Wada-toge(pass) and have much hot spings, it has prospered for a junction of Koshukaido.\r\n==Date:unknown, Place:Nagano, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number38‐39‐0]

The Kamijinko (sacred storehouse),Toshogu Shrine,Nikko

The Kamijinko (sacred storehouse),Toshogu Shrine,Nikko

The left corner is the Gyosuisha, and next to it is the bronze torii, Rinzo ( storage for scriptures), and the Kami Jinko (warehouse). The Kami Jinko is done in Azekura style, and the end has a statue of two elephants, one white and the other black, their rough drafts drawn by Kano Tanyu.Costumes of a procession of a thousand warriors in the spring and autumn are stored in the three Jinko (Kami, Naka and Shimo). In the Rinzo, a complete collection of the Buddhist scriptures is stored, along with statues of Fudaishi (inventor of Rinzo ) and his son.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number11‐10‐0]

Hino Motors to seek alliances with overseas firms in self-driving

Hino Motors to seek alliances with overseas firms in self-driving

Hino Motors Ltd. President Yoshio Shimo gives an interview in Tokyo on July 5, 2017. The truck maker will seek partnerships with overseas firms to further develop self-driving and other advanced technologies, as part of efforts to address a driver shortage in parcel delivery services in Japan, he said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Toyota fills Daihatsu, Hino senior positions to strengthen group ties

Toyota fills Daihatsu, Hino senior positions to strengthen group ties

Yoshio Shimo, managing officer of Toyota Motor Corp., seen in this file photo, will become the president of Hino Motors Ltd., Toyota representatives said on March 1, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo