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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki reads out a peace declaration during a memorial ceremony held at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in World War II.

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80th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki (3rd from L) prepares to place a wreath during a memorial ceremony held at Peace Park in Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 2025, to mark the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city in World War II.

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Nobel Peace Prize committee chair in Nagasaki

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, hands a replica of the prize medal to Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki (L) during a visit to the southwestern Japan city on July 23, 2025.

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A-bomb exhibition at U.N. headquarters

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki explains on May 1, 2025, about a photo shown at an exhibition at the United Nations headquarters in New York that aims to convey the reality of the damage caused by the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The exhibition, sponsored by Mayors for Peace, an international organization of cities committed to peace, runs through May 9.

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NPT preparatory committee in New York

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (front, 3rd from R) and his Nagasaki counterpart Shiro Suzuki (2nd from R) attend the third meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons review conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 30, 2025.

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Nagasaki mayor speaks at U.N. school

Shiro Suzuki, mayor of Nagasaki in southwestern Japan, makes a speech on April 28, 2025, at the United Nations International School in New York, where he is attending the third meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons review conference that opened the same day.

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Japan's nuke-bomb survivors group wins Nobel Peace Prize

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki meets the press in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2024, after Japan's leading organization of atomic bomb survivors, Nihon Hidankyo, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

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[Breaking News]79th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan, Aug. 9 Kyodo - Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki reads out his Peace Declaration in the southwestern Japan city on Aug. 9, 2024, during a memorial ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II. (Kyodo)

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79th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki reads out his Peace Declaration in the southwestern Japan city on Aug. 9, 2024, during a memorial ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II.

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Israel not invited to Nagasaki A-bomb event

Photo taken Aug. 7, 2024, shows a joint letter from the envoys from the European Union and the Group of Seven countries excluding Japan to Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki, expressing concern over the southwestern Japan city's decision not to invite Israel to an Aug. 9 ceremony to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. The city said the envoys would skip the ceremony.

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Israel not invited to Nagasaki A-bomb event

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki meets the press on Aug. 8, 2024, a day after the southwestern Japan city received a joint letter from the envoys from the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, excluding Japan, over Nagasaki's decision not to invite Israel to the Aug. 9 ceremony to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. Suzuki said that the decision was not politically motivated and would not be changed.

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Israel not invited to Nagasaki A-bomb event

Photo taken Aug. 8, 2024, shows a letter from U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel to Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki, expressing concern over the southwestern Japan city's decision not to invite Israel to the Aug. 9 ceremony to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. The embassy announced on Aug. 7 the ambassador would skip the peace ceremony because of the city's decision.

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Israel not invited to Nagasaki A-bomb event

Photo taken Aug. 7, 2024, shows a joint letter from the envoys from the Group of Seven countries excluding Japan and the European Union to Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki, expressing concern over the southwestern Japan city's decision not to invite Israel to an Aug. 9 ceremony to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. The city said the envoys would skip the ceremony.

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Israel not invited to Nagasaki A-bomb event

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki meets the press on Aug. 8, 2024, a day after the southwestern Japan city received a joint letter from the envoys from the European Union and the Group of Seven countries, excluding Japan, over Nagasaki's decision not to invite Israel to the Aug. 9 ceremony to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. Suzuki said that the decision was not politically motivated and would not be changed.

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Israel not invited to Nagasaki A-bomb event

Photo taken Aug. 8, 2024, shows a letter from U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel to Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki, expressing concern over the southwestern Japan city's decision not to invite Israel to the Aug. 9 ceremony to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing. The embassy announced on Aug. 7 the ambassador would skip the peace ceremony because of the city's decision.

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Chinese electric buses introduced to Ethiopia to advance green transport agenda

STORY: Chinese electric buses introduced to Ethiopia to advance green transport agenda SHOOTING TIME: March 26, 2024 DATELINE: April 2, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:15 LOCATION: Addis Ababa CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of electric buses 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Amharic): NAOL ABERA, Passenger 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Amharic): MOHAMED MUSSA, Electric bus driver STORYLINE: Naol Abera was among the first passengers to board an electric bus for a recent journey from the Bole airport area to Shiro Meda in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital. These electric buses were assembled by a local company using components imported from China. The Ethiopian government has allowed duty-free importation of EV components to promote the use of EVs and facilitate technology transfer in response to a global fuel price hike and climate change. SOUNDBITE 1 (Amharic): NAOL ABERA, Passenger "I am thrilled to see electric vehicles are introduced in Ethiopia. I believe that such kinds of vehicles would bring a positive impact on climate change.

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Mayors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki at U.N.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki attend a U.N. session of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in New York on Nov. 29, 2023.

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Mayors of Hiroshima, Nagasaki at U.N.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) and Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki attend a U.N. session of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in New York on Nov. 29, 2023.

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Mayors for Peace event in N.Y.

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki speaks at an event organized by Mayors for Peace, a nongovernmental organization comprising more than 8,000 cities in 166 countries and regions, at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Nov. 27, 2023, on the sidelines of the second meeting of parties to the U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

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Baseball: U-18 World Cup

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's high school baseball national team attend the press conference at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 11, 2023, a day after winning the men's Under-18 Baseball World Cup in Taipei.

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Baseball: U-18 World Cup

Players toss Japan's high school baseball national team manager Shiro Mabuchi in the air in Taipei on Sept. 10, 2023, after winning the men's Under-18 Baseball World Cup for the first time.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki (lower left) reads out his Peace Declaration during a memorial ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city on Aug. 9, 2023.

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78th A-bomb anniversary in Nagasaki

Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki reads out his Peace Declaration during a memorial ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern Japan city on Aug. 9, 2023.

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Nissan Evalia at India motor show

NEW DELHI, India - Nissan Motor Co. unveils the Evalia multipurpose vehicle at the Auto Expo 2012 in New Delhi on Jan. 5, 2012. 2nd from R is Shiro Nakamura, senior vice president and chief creative officer, design and brand management for Nissan.

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Vodafone to promote shift to 3G mobile phone handsets

TOKYO, Japan - Vodafone K.K. President Shiro Tsuda speaks at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 22. Tsuda said that the Japanese unit of British mobile phone service company Vodafone Group PLC will encourage its customers to shift to third-generation handsets for faster data communications. ''Vodafone will offer its last 2G handset next year and no more 2G later,'' Tsuda said in an interview with Kyodo News.

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Fukushima town accepts storage of contaminated soil

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Shiro Izawa, mayor of Futaba in Fukushima Prefecture, announces a decision at the town's temporary office in the prefectural city of Iwaki on Jan. 13, 2015, to accept a central government plan to build interim storage facilities in the northeastern Japan town for contaminated soil from cleanup operations under way since the 2011 nuclear disaster.

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Big wooden plaque at Shinto shrine before sheep year

HASHIMOTO, Japan - Shiro Miyazaki, chief priest of the Niukanshobu Shrine in Kudoyama, Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, shows off a large wooden plaque depicting sheep on Dec. 7, 2014, before the start of 2015 or the Year of the Sheep in the Chinese zodiac calendar. The Shinto shrine is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site involving pilgrimage routes in the Kii Mountain Range.

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New variety of mushroom shown in Kanagawa Pref.

HADANO, Japan - Shiro Kigawa, head of an amateur group studying fungi in Kanagawa Prefecture, shows a new variety of mushrooms harvested in the 1990s in the prefecture at the Hiratsuka City Museum in the prefecture on July 9, 2014, following the Mycological Society of Japan's recognition of the mushroom as a new species.

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Japanese performers commemorate Lafcadio Hearn in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Japanese actor Shiro Sano (L) recites passages from works of Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo, an author originally from Lefkada, Greece, with music played by Japanese guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto on the Greek island on July 5, 2014, to mark the 110th anniversary of Hearn's birth. Both Sano and Yamamoto are from Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, where Hearn spent his later life.

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4 patients at Kyoto hospital died after norovirus outbreak

KYOTO, Japan - Shiro Nagasawa, head of the Soseikai General Hospital, speaks to reporters at the hospital in Kyoto on Jan. 22, 2014, about an outbreak of infectious gastroenteritis caused by norovirus. A total of 101 patients and hospital staff have suffered from gastroenteritis since December, of whom four died during that month.

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Kameda brothers

NARITA, Japan - The three Kameda brothers, (from L) second-oldest Daiki, the former WBA flyweight champion, the oldest Koki, the WBA bantamweight champion, and the youngest Tomoki, newly crowned WBO bantamweight champion, pose with their father Shiro at Narita airport near Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2013. Tomoki won the crown in the Philippines on Aug. 1.

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Ainu party gives up fielding candidates

SAPPORO, Japan - Shiro Kayano, leader of the Ainu Party of Japan, is pictured in Biratori, Hokkaido in northern Japan, on June 28, 2013. His party, launched in January 2012 to better represent Japan's indigenous Ainu people, has given up its plan to field 10 candidates in the July 21 House of Councillors election after failing to collect sufficient campaign funds.

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Indigenous Ainu launch party

SAPPORO, Japan - Shiro Kayano (L), leader of the Ainu Party of Japan, speaks during a meeting in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, on Jan. 21, 2012, as members of the Ainu indigenous group, who primarily reside in Hokkaido, launch the party, aiming to field 10 candidates in the House of Councillors election in 2013. To the right is vice leader Shizue Ukaji.

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Indigenous Ainu launch party

SAPPORO, Japan - Shiro Kayano (2nd from L), leader of the Ainu Party of Japan, speaks during a meeting in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, on Jan. 21, 2012, as members of the Ainu indigenous group, who primarily reside in Hokkaido, launch the party, aiming to field 10 candidates in the House of Councillors election in 2013.

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Hoya to sell Pentax-brand camera business to Ricoh

TOKYO, Japan - Ricoh Co. President Shiro Kondo (L) and Hoya Corp. President Hiroshi Suzuki shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on July 1, 2011. Optical products maker Hoya said it will sell the Pentax-brand digital camera business to office equipment maker Ricoh on Oct. 1 to focus its management resources on its mainstay medical equipment.

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Decade after heroic death

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean woman Shin Yoon Chan (L) places flowers on a platform at JR Shin-Okubo Station in Tokyo on Jan. 26, 2011, where her son Lee Su Hyon was killed by a train as he tried to rescue a stranger 10 years ago. On the right is Lee's father Lee Song Dae. Lee Su Hyon was 26 and studying at a Japanese language school when he was killed along with 47-year-old photographer Shiro Sekine, who also attempted to save a drunken man who had fallen off the platform on Jan. 26, 2001. The drunken man also died. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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JBC voids Kameda's license, banned for life from boxing

TOKYO, Japan - Undated photo shows Shiro Kameda, the father of former WBC flyweight champion Koki Kameda. The Japan Boxing Commission on April 13, 2010, annulled his corner license effectively banning him for life from activities related to professional boxing. The elder Kameda offered to return his license, which had been suspended since 2007, to take responsibility for an epithet-laden tirade against WBC fight officials last month.

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G-8 summit: Fukuda receives proposal from Junior 8 summiteers

TOYAKO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda flanked by other leaders of the Group of Eight nations receives a ''Junior Eight'' declaration from Shiro Kuriwaki, a high school student who represented Japan at the Junior Eight Summit, at Windsor Hotel Toya in Toyako, Hokkaido, on July 7. The declaration, drafted by teenagers from 15 countries who gathered for the Junior Eight Summit in Chitose, Hokkaido, from July 2, urges G-8 leaders to be environmentally friendly and to promote low-cost medicines. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Boxing: Controversial Kameda father leaves Kyoei gym

TOKYO, Japan - Kyoei gym head Keiichiro Kanehira (L) and Koki Kameda, the elder brother of the suspended boxer Daiki, bow in apology at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 26 in which Kanehira said Shiro Kameda, the father and trainer of the boxer family, has offered to leave the gym. Koki said he and his father, working on the corner, instructed Daiki to resort to underhanded tactics in a WBC flyweight title fight against Daisuke Naito on Oct. 11.

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Suspended trainer apologizes, no words from boxer D. Kameda

TOKYO, Japan - Boxer Daiki Kameda (L), his father and trainer Shiro Kameda (C) and Kyoei gym president Keiichiro Kanehira hold a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 17. Shiro Kameda and Kanehira apologized for breaching regulations in a WBC title fight on Oct. 11, which resulted in a one-year suspension for Daiki Kameda.

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Suspended trainer apologizes, no words from boxer D. Kameda

TOKYO, Japan - Boxer Daiki Kameda looks dejected during a press conference with his father and trainer Shiro Kameda and Kyoei gym president Keiichiro Kanehira in Tokyo on Oct. 17. Daiki Kameda did not utter a word and left after appearing before the press for less than 10 minutes.

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Tokyo gubernatorial election draws Ishihara, 13 other candidates

TOKYO, Japan - People crowd the thoroughfare near JR Yurakucho Station in Tokyo to listen to candidates on March 22 as the campaigning begins for the April 8 Tokyo gubernatorial election. A total of 14 candidates including incumbent Gov. Shintaro Ishihara and former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano officially filed for candidacy.

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Campaigning for governor polls in Tokyo, 12 prefectures begins

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano makes an election campaign speech in front of the Tokyo metropolitan government building in Tokyo on March 22 after filing his candidacy for the April 8 gubernatorial election to challenge incumbent Governor Shitaro Ishihara.

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Campaigning for governor polls in Tokyo, 12 prefectures begins

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano waves to supporters during his election campaign in Tokyo March 22 after filing his candidacy for the April 8 gubernatorial election to challenge incumbent Governor Shintaro Ishihara.

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Campaigning for governor races in Tokyo, 12 prefectures to begin

TOKYO, Japan - Candidates contesting the Tokyo gubernatorial election in April attend a public debate in Nakano Ward, Tokyo on March 15 on the issue whether Tokyo should bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. From L to R: architect Kisho Kurokawa, former Adachi Ward mayor Manzo Yoshida, former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano, and incumbent Shintaro Ishihara, who is running for a third four-year term. Campaigning for gubernatorial elections in Tokyo and 12 other prefectures is set to begin March 22.

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Ishihara, challengers split over Olympics in election debate

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (R) and his three challengers -- (from L to R) renowned architect Kisho Kurokawa, former mayor of Tokyo's Adachi Ward Manzo Yoshida, and former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano -- attend the first public policy debate in Tokyo's Nakano Ward before the April 8 gubernatorial election. They discussed issues including whether Tokyo should try to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Asano declares bid against Ishihara in Tokyo gubernatorial election

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano announces at a news conference in Tokyo on March 6 that he will run in the Tokyo gubernatorial election on April 8 against incumbent Gov. Shintaro Ishihara.

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Asano likely to declare Tokyo gubernatorial candidacy next week

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 2 about his willingness to challenge Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara in the Tokyo gubernatorial election slated for April.

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Asano to declare candidacy for Tokyo gubernatorial race

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano (file photo) on March 2 expressed willingness to challenge Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, who is planning to seek a third four-year term in the Tokyo gubernatorial election slated for April.

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Ex-Miyagi Gov. Asano mulls running in Tokyo governor race

TOKYO, Japan - Former Miyagi Gov. Shiro Asano speaks to reporters on Feb. 28 after announcing that he is considering a run for Tokyo governor in the Tokyo gubernatorial election in April to stop incumbent Gov. Shintaro Ishihara from getting a third four-year term. Asano served as governor of Miyagi for three terms through 2005.