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Entertainment content producer to get extra investment

TOKYO, Japan - President Shizuko Yokote of MCIP Holdings Co. announces in Tokyo on Oct. 30, 2014, additional investment will be made in the Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. subsidiary producing entertainment content by six entities, including the government-financed Cool Japan Fund and advertising agency Dentsu Inc., to fuel its entertainment content business in Asia.

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NPO head talks about Iranian movie festival

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shizuko Tsuya, head of the nonprofit organization MOCT, announces the staging of a film festival introducing Iranian movies on June 10, 2014, in Hiroshima City. The event will run from Aug. 2-8 in the western Japanese city.

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Singer Mina Aoe dies of cancer at 54

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows veteran Japanese blues singer Mina Aoe, who died of pancreatic cancer on the night of July 2 at a Tokyo hospital, according to her family July 3. She was 54. Aoe, a native of Tokyo whose real name was Shizuko Ihara, made her debut as a singer with ''Kokotsu-no-Blues'' (Blues of Rapture) in 1966. She received the prestigious Japan Record Award in 1968 for ''Isezakicho Blues,'' which turned out to be a big hit.

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Jazz singer Sugano dies of cancer

TOKYO, Japan - Anli Sugano, a Japanese jazz singer who performed internationally, died of cancer on June 30 at the age of 51. In 1987, Sugano became the first Japanese singer to participate in Canada's prestigious Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. Her real name was Shizuko Umeyama.

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(7)Japan trying to meet 2 possible soldiers from World War II in

OCHI, Japan - Shizuko Nakauchi, sister-in-law of Tsuzuki Nakauchi believed to be alive in the Philippines, speaks May 27 about his early childhood. (Kyodo)

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Mystery writer Shizuko Natsuki dies at 77

Photo taken in March 2007 shows Japanese mystery writer Shizuko Natsuki, who won the Mystery Writers of Japan award for her 1973 work, "Johatsu" (Disappearance). Natsuki died of acute cardiac arrest at age 77 at a hospital in Fukuoka on March 19, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 female Japanese tourists kidnapped in Yemen safely released

SANAA, Yemen - Two female Japanese tourists kidnapped in Yemen -- Shizuko Endo (L) and Keiko Mishima -- speak to reporters in the country's capital of Sanaa on May 8. They were released in the early morning of the same day after local tribal leaders negotiated with their abductors. (Kyodo)

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NPO head talks about Iranian movie festival

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Shizuko Tsuya, head of the nonprofit organization MOCT, announces the staging of a film festival introducing Iranian movies on June 10, 2014, in Hiroshima City. The event will run from Aug. 2-8 in the western Japanese city. (Kyodo)

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Coronavirus-related arrest of woman

Photo taken April 6, 2020, at Kita police station in Nagoya, central Japan, shows a disinfectant stolen by a 74-year-old woman from a local hospital. Shizuko Matsuura, who was arrested the same day, has said she did so after being unable to find it at a drugstore in the middle of the coronavirus crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's NPO completes trip to chemically attacked Iran city

Shizuko Tsuya (2nd from R), chief of Japanese nonprofit organization MOCT, and its members meet with reporters on July 2, 2017, in Tehran after completing a trip to the northwestern Iran city of Sar Dasht, which was attacked 30 years ago with chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War. The Hiroshima-based MOCT has provided medical support to the victims of the attacks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's NPO members visit Iran city

Shizuko Tsuya (L), chief of a Japanese nonprofit organization MOCT, visits on June 29, 2017, the northwestern Iran city of Sar Dasht, which was attacked 30 years ago with chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War. The Hiroshima-based MOCT has provided medical supports to the victims of the attacks. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Singer Mina Aoe dies of cancer at 54

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows veteran Japanese blues singer Mina Aoe, who died of pancreatic cancer on the night of July 2 at a Tokyo hospital, according to her family July 3. She was 54. Aoe, a native of Tokyo whose real name was Shizuko Ihara, made her debut as a singer with ''Kokotsu-no-Blues'' (Blues of Rapture) in 1966. She received the prestigious Japan Record Award in 1968 for ''Isezakicho Blues,'' which turned out to be a big hit.

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Jazz singer Sugano dies of cancer+

TOKYO, Japan - Anli Sugano, a Japanese jazz singer who performed internationally, died of cancer on June 30 at the age of 51. In 1987, Sugano became the first Japanese singer to participate in Canada's prestigious Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. Her real name was Shizuko Umeyama.