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Disaster recovery exhibition at Osaka expo

OSAKA, Japan, May 20 Kyodo - Turin Olympics figure skating gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa (far R) pitches fishery foods at a just-opened exhibition at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 19, 2025, highlighting the recovery of three northeastern Japan prefectures severely affected by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. (Kyodo)

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Disaster recovery exhibition at Osaka expo

Turin Olympics figure skating gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa (2nd from R) poses in front of a "digital monument" at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 19, 2025, as an exhibition highlighting the recovery of the three northeastern Japan prefectures severely affected by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster begins the same day. Shown on the screen is the "Miracle Pine," the only tree that survived in a coastal forest flattened by tsunami in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture.

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Disaster recovery exhibition at Osaka expo

Turin Olympics figure skating gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa (far R) pitches fishery foods at a just-opened exhibition at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 19, 2025, highlighting the recovery of three northeastern Japan prefectures severely affected by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Disaster recovery exhibition at Osaka expo

Turin Olympics figure skating gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa (2nd from L) poses for a photo during the opening ceremony of an exhibition at the World Exposition in Osaka on May 19, 2025, highlighting the recovery of the three northeastern Japan prefectures severely affected by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster.

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Paris 2024 Paralympics - Para Judo

Shizuka Hangai (JAP), judo -48kg J1 during the 1/4 finals of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on September 5, 2024. Photo by Tomas Stevens/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Arakawa pulls out of nationals after short program

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Reigning world champion Shizuka Arakawa withdrew from the national figure skating championships in Yokohama on Dec. 25 with a foot injury. She withdrew after topping the women's field with a near-flawless short program (in photo) the same day.

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Monk follows Kukai's footsteps for 30 yrs

OSAKA, Japan - Jien Shizuka, a monk from Mt. Koya in Wakayama Prefecture, speaks about pilgrimages to China he has made for 30 years to follow the footsteps of Japanese monk Kukai, during an interview on Nov. 4, 2013. Mt. Koya is Japan's headquarters of the Shingon sect of esoteric Buddhism founded by Kukai in the early ninth century.

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Kazu in Puma store opening event

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuyoshi Miura (L), the oldest player in the J-League at 45 and currently with Yokohama FC of the second division, and Shizuka Arakawa, a professional figure skater and Turin Olympics gold medalist, take part in an opening event for a store operated by Puma Japan K.K. in Osaka on Dec. 19, 2012.

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Nagoya mayor to join hands with Shiga governor

NAGOYA, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura holds a press conference in the central Japanese city on Nov. 27, 2012. A small party co-led by Kawamura and veteran lawmaker Shizuka Kamei decided the same day to merge with a new party to be established by Shiga Gov. Yukiko Kada. Both parties are against nuclear energy.

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Small parties merger

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) and veteran lawmaker Shizuka Kamei jointly hold a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2012. The pair said they have decided to team up their small political parties ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Small parties merger

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) and veteran lawmaker Shizuka Kamei jointly hold a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2012. The pair said they have decided to team up their small political parties ahead of the Dec. 16, 2012, general election.

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Kamei launches new party

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran lawmaker Shizuka Kamei holds a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2012, to announce the launch of a new political party. Kamei, who left the ruling bloc in April out of opposition to the government's tax hike plan, made the move ahead of the Dec. 16 general election.

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Shizuka Kamei, Akiko Kamei to leave PNP

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (R) announces his decision to leave the People's New Party, the junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, along with his supporter Akiko Kamei (L), at a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on April 6, 2012. Shizuka Kamei was dismissed from the post of party chief and Akiko Kamei from the post of the party's policy chief the previous day due to their opposition to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's key policy goal of a sales tax hike.

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DPJ, PNP to maintain coalition gov't

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (2nd from R), who heads the Democratic Party of Japan, shakes hands with Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi, the sole Cabinet minister from the People's New Party, after reconfirming that the two parties will maintain their coalition government in talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 6, 2012. Jimi replaced Shizuka Kamei as PNP chief after Kamei and the party's policy chief Akiko Kamei were dismissed from their posts over their opposition to Noda's key policy goal of a sales tax hike.

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PNP sacks party head, policy chief

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei answers reporters' questions in Tokyo on the evening of April 5, 2012 concerning his dismissal as chief of the People's New Party. The junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan decided the same day to dismiss its chief Kamei and policy chief Akiko Kamei. The decision comes after the two asserted the PNP should leave the ruling coalition after the Cabinet of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda decided to submit legislation to the Diet to double the sales tax in coming years.

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PNP sacks party head, policy chief

TOKYO, Japan - Akiko Kamei, a House of Councillors member from the People's New Party, holds a press conference in Tokyo on the evening of April 5, 2012, after she was dismissed from the post of the party's policy chief. The junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan decided the same day to dismiss its chief Shizuka Kamei and policy chief Kamei. The decision comes after the two asserted the PNP should leave the ruling coalition due to their opposition to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's key policy goal of a sales tax hike.

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PNP sacks party head, policy chief

TOKYO, Japan - Mikio Shimoji (L), secretary general of the People's New Party, and Financial Services Minister Shozaburo Jimi (C), the sole Cabinet minister from the PNP, hold a press conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on the evening of April 5, 2012, after the party's decision to dismiss its chief Shizuka Kamei and policy chief Akiko Kamei. The decision comes after the two asserted the PNP should leave the ruling coalition due to their opposition to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's key policy goal of a sales tax hike.

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Coalition partner chief Kamei against sales tax hike

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, head of the People's New Party, junior coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, speaks at a PNP lawmakers' meeting at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on March 28, 2012, expressing opposition to a hike in the sales tax rate. PNP Secretary General Mikio Shimoji is seen at the back.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (R) speaks at a meeting of the Sunrise Party of Japan in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. To the left is Sunrise Party of Japan leader Takeo Hiranuma. The two men plus People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei are said to be planning to launch a new party.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara (R) speaks at a meeting of the Sunrise Party of Japan in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2012. To the left is Sunrise Party of Japan leader Takeo Hiranuma. The two men plus People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei are said to be planning to launch a new party.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is pictured at a press conference at the Tokyo government office on Jan. 27, 2012. Political sources said the same day that People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei, Sunrise Party of Japan leader Takeo Hiranuma and Ishihara have agreed to launch a new political party in March.

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Tokyo Gov. Ishihara

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is pictured at a press conference at the Tokyo government office on Jan. 27, 2012. Political sources said the same day that People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei, Sunrise Party of Japan leader Takeo Hiranuma and Ishihara have agreed to launch a new political party in March.

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Coalition partner chief Kamei urges Noda not to join TPP talks

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, head of the People's New Party, the coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, heads for a meeting with DPJ President and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2011. Kamei asked Noda to decide against Japan joining negotiations for a U.S.-backed Pacific free-trade agreement, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, just days before the Japanese leader is expected to make a decision on the matter.

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PM Noda meets PNP leader Kamei

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (R) and Shizuka Kamei, leader of ruling coalition partner the People's New Party, hold talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 28, 2011. Noda and Kamei agreed on a third extra budget bill for fiscal 2011 and a tax hike plan to finance reconstruction following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

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Ex-Foreign Minister Maehara

TOKYO, Japan - Former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara (R center), seen as a leading contender in the Democratic Party of Japan's presidential election, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2011, after seeing Shizuka Kamei, chief of the People's New Party. Before seeing Kamei, Maehara met with Ichiro Ozawa, a power broker in the ruling DPJ, and asked for his support in the upcoming DPJ presidential election which will choose the successor to Naoto Kan, the current DPJ leader and prime minister.

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Kamei declines offer to become deputy premier

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, leader of the People's New Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, speaks with reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 27, 2011. Kamei said he was asked by Prime Minister Naoto Kan to become deputy prime minister but he declined the offer.

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Campaigning gets under way for upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, leader of the People's New Party, the tiny coalition partner of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, makes a stump speech in Tokyo's Yurakucho area on June 24, 2010, as official campaigning begins for the July 11 House of Councillors election.

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Political leaders hold pre-election debate

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of political parties -- (from L to R) New Renaissance Party's Yoichi Masuzoe, People's New Party's Shizuka Kamei, Japanese Communist Party's Kazuo Shii, Liberal Democratic Party's Sadakazu Tanigaki, Prime Minister Naoto Kan (who also serves as Democratic Party of Japan leader), New Komeito party's Natsuo Yamaguchi, Social Democratic Party's Mizuho Fukushima, Your Party's Yoshimi Watanabe and Sunrise Party of Japan's Takeo Hiranuma -- take part in a nationally televised debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 22, 2010, ahead of the June 24 start of official campaigning for the House of Councillors election.

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Political leaders hold pre-election debate

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of political parties -- (from L to R) New Renaissance Party's Yoichi Masuzoe, People's New Party's Shizuka Kamei, Japanese Communist Party's Kazuo Shii, Liberal Democratic Party's Sadakazu Tanigaki, Prime Minister Naoto Kan (who also serves as Democratic Party of Japan leader), New Komeito party's Natsuo Yamaguchi, Social Democratic Party's Mizuho Fukushima, Your Party's Yoshimi Watanabe and Sunrise Party of Japan's Takeo Hiranuma -- take part in a nationally televised debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 22, 2010, ahead of the June 24 start of official campaigning for the House of Councillors election.

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Party leaders hold public debate before upper house election

TOKYO, Japan - Leaders of political parties -- (from L to R) New Renaissance Party's Yoichi Masuzoe, People's New Party's Shizuka Kamei, Japanese Communist Party's Kazuo Shii, Liberal Democratic Party's Sadakazu Tanigaki, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who also serves as Democratic Party of Japan's leader, New Komeito party's Natsuo Yamaguchi, Social Democratic Party's Mizuho Fukushima, Your Party's Yoshimi Watanabe and Sunrise Party of Japan's Takeo Hiranuma -- line up at Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on June 22, 2010, before their public debate ahead of the June 24 start of official campaign for the House of Councillors election.

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Kamei to resign as minister

TOKYO, Japan - People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei (R) speaks during a news conference with party Secretary General Shozaburo Jimi in Tokyo on June 11, 2010. Kamei announced his resignation as postal and finance services minister in protest against the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's failure to fulfill an accord between the two parties over a postal reform bill, and expressed hope that Jimi will succeed his post.

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Kamei to resign as minister

TOKYO, Japan - People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei speaks during a news conference to announce his resignation as postal reform minister and financial services minister in Tokyo early June 11, 2010. Kamei protested the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's failure to fulfill an accord between the two parties over a postal reform bill, but said his party will not leave the coalition.

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Kamei to resign as minister

TOKYO, Japan - People's New Party leader Shizuka Kamei speaks during a news conference to announce his resignation as postal reform minister and financial services minister in Tokyo early June 11, 2010. Kamei protested the ruling Democratic Party of Japan's failure to fulfill an accord between the two parties over a postal reform bill, but said his party will not leave the coalition.

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Kan Cabinet gets to work

TOKYO, Japan - (from L) Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, Prime Minister Naoto Kan and banking and postal services minister Shizuka Kamei attend a Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 9, 2010, as the Cabinet got to work after inauguration the previous day.

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Financial Services Minister Kamei

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei speaks at a press conference after he was retained in the post at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2010.

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1st meeting of Kan Cabinet

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei attend the first meeting of the new Cabinet at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2010.

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Japan's new Cabinet formed ahead of looming election

TOKYO, Japan - Naoto Kan (R), president of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, and Shizuka Kamei, leader of the People's New Party, shake hands prior to their talks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 8, 2010. The two leaders agreed to continue their alliance to form a coalition government before Kan launches his Cabinet later in the day.

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People's New Party, New Party Nippon form parliamentary group

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (R), leader of the People's New Party, and Yasuo Tanaka, head of the New Party Nippon, hold a joint news conference at parliament in Tokyo on June 8, 2010, after they agreed to form a parliamentary group in the House of Representatives as they look toward this summer's House of Councillors election.

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People's New Party to remain DPJ's coalition partner

TOKYO, Japan - The ruling Democratic Party of Japan's new leader, Naoto Kan (C), holds a meeting with People's New Party chief Shizuka Kamei (L) in the Diet building in Tokyo on June 4, 2010, along with DPJ lawmaker Yoshito Sengoku (R), who is expected to be tapped as chief Cabinet secretary after Kan assumes the post of prime minister. Kan and Kamei agreed to keep the two-party ruling coalition.

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Hatoyama to quit before election, hit by U.S. base fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, Shizuka Kamei, state minister in charge of postal and financial affairs, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Deputy Prime and Finance Minister Naoto Kan, and Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Seiji Maehara are ready for an extra Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 2, 2010, after Hatoyama announced his resignation.

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Hatoyama to quit before election, hit by U.S. base fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) shakes hands with Shizuka Kamei, leader of the People's New Party who concurrently serves as state minister in charge of postal and financial affairs, before an extra Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 2, 2010. Earlier in the day, Hatoyama announced his decision to step down.

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Hatoyama to quit before election, hit by U.S. base fiasco

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (L), leader of the People's New Party who concurrently serves as state minister in charge of postal and financial affairs, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (C), and Deputy Prime and Finance Minister Naoto Kan sit for an extra Cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 2, 2010. Earlier in the day, Hatoyama announced his decision to step down.

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Lawmakers against giving foreign residents right to vote

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei (L), head of the People's New Party and state minister in charge of postal and financial affairs, addresses a gathering against proposed legislation to enfranchise permanent foreign residents for local elections. A group of lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties, including Kamei, Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Tadamori Oshima, took part in the rally.

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Gov't to make major changes in Japan Post privatization plans

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei (L) speaks at a news conference, also attended by Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi (R), to reveal an outline of a bill to make major changes in the nation's postal privatization plans at the Diet building on March 24, 2010. (Pool photo)

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Gov't to make major changes in Japan Post privatization plans

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei speaks at a news conferenc to reveal an outline of a bill to make major changes in the nation's postal privatization plans at the Diet building on March 24, 2010. (Pool photo)

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Gov't to make major changes in Japan Post privatization plans

TOKYO, Japan - Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei (L) speaks at a news conference, also attended by Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Kazuhiro Haraguchi (C), to reveal an outline of a bill to make major changes in the nation's postal privatization plans at the Diet building on March 24, 2010. (Pool photo)

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Gov't draft bill would realign Japan Post group into 3 firms

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, state minister in charge of postal and financial affairs, briefs reporters on the government draft bill to review the postal privatization process at the Financial Services Agency in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2020. The draft proposes a realignment of the Japan Post group into three companies from the current five.

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Upper House panel OKs FY 09 2nd extra budget

TOKYO, Japan - (From L) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, Finance Minister Naoto Kan, Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei and consumer affairs minister Mizuho Fukushima bow after the House of Councillors Budget Committee passed the second extra budget for fiscal 2009 on Jan. 28, 2010.

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Arakawa instructs children at Tokyo Midtown's new skating rink

TOKYO, Japan - Turin Olympics gold medalist Shizuka Arakawa (R) gives skating instructions to children at the outdoor skating rink in the Tokyo Midtown complex in Tokyo's Roppongi district on Jan. 5, 2010. Arakawa performed and held a skating class for children on the opening day of the ice skating rink constructed in the park area of the complex, which will be open until the end of February.

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Hatoyama, Kamei chat before Cabinet meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (R) and Financial Services Minister Shizuka Kamei chat before a Cabinet meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 22, 2009. The Cabinet approved an outline of tax reforms the same day as part of the drafting process for the fiscal 2010 budget.