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Suzuki Shokan signboard and logo

Suzuki Shokan signboard and logo=Date:July 4, 2023Place:Tokyo

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Suzuki Shokan signboard and logo

Suzuki Shokan signboard and logo=Date:July 4, 2023Place:Tokyo

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Film director Kumai, acclaimed for tackling social issues, dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - Kei Kumai (in file photo taken in October 1995), an eminent film director known for tackling social issues, died of subarachnoid hemorrhage at a hospital in Tokyo on May 23. He was 76. Kumai won acclaim both at home and abroad for ''Sandakan Hachiban Shokan Bokyo (Sandakan No. 8)'' in 1974, a film depicting the tragedy of a woman who worked as a prostitute in Sandakan, Borneo, before World War II.

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Japanese book carrying French satirical cartoons not on sale

Hussain Khan (C), head of an association of Pakistanis living in Japan, and others tell the press in Tokyo on Feb. 13, 2015, that they did not find any Japanese bookstores selling a book featuring satirical cartoons of Islam from French magazine Charlie Hebdo on Feb. 10 when the book was released by Tokyo publisher Daisan Shokan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Muslims in Japan protest against publisher of satirical book

A group of Muslims residing in Japan unveils a protest at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 6, 2015, against Daisan Shokan for publishing a book containing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad previously carried in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Muslims protest publisher over book with Muhammad cartoons

Some 20 Muslims living in Japan demonstrate near the office of publisher Daisan Shokan in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Feb. 13, 2015, three days after the company released a book containing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad previously published in the French satirical weekly paper Charlie Hebdo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Film director Kumai, acclaimed for tackling social issues, dies

TOKYO, Japan - Kei Kumai (in file photo taken in October 1995), an eminent film director known for tackling social issues, died of subarachnoid hemorrhage at a hospital in Tokyo on May 23. He was 76. Kumai won acclaim both at home and abroad for ''Sandakan Hachiban Shokan Bokyo (Sandakan No. 8)'' in 1974, a film depicting the tragedy of a woman who worked as a prostitute in Sandakan, Borneo, before World War II. (Kyodo)