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Tohoku firm on track for recovery

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Aki Murakami (L) and Akie Hoshi, who started work at Yagisawa Shoten after the March 2011 disaster, showcase products of the established maker and seller of soy sauce and miso at the company in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture on Jan. 31, 2013.

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Hiroshima in ruins after U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a store, Odamasa Shoten, whose frame was twisted by the blast from the U.S. atomic bombing. Standing next to it is the exterior of the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper building. The photo was taken in Ebisu, Hiroshima City, sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945.

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Japanese dictionary

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 29 Kyodo - Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2017, shows the current (L) and new editions of the best-selling Japanese dictionary "Kojien" at Iwanami Shoten, the publisher's bookstore, in Tokyo.

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Fukui Pref.'s sake marketed in Israel

JERUSALEM, Israel - Atsuhide Kato, president of sake brewery Kato Kichibei Shoten in Sabae, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, holds a bottle of sake in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Oct. 21, 2014. The connection between Fukui and Israel dates back to World War II when thousands of Jews escaped from the Nazi persecution to the prefecture with the help of Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania.

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Japan's largest Tsutaya outlet in Maebashi

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 26, 2011, shows Tsutaya Shoten at the Maebashi Minami Mall in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, which opened the same day. With sales space of around 5,700 square meters, the shop is the largest outlet in Japan of the Tsutaya movie rental and bookshop chain, which is operated by Culture Convenience Club Co.

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2 men acquitted of murder 43 years after arrests

MITO, Japan - This file photo shows postcards that Shoji Sakurai and Takao Sugiyama, both 64, sent to each other while they were detained in isolation cells at the Tokyo Detention House. On May 24, 2011, the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court acquitted them of murder in a retrial, clearing their names more than 43 years after their arrests. The two men had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1970 for the August 1967 robbery and murder of Shoten Tamamura, a 62-year-old carpenter, and were freed on parole in 1996.

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2 men acquitted of murder 43 years after arrests

TSUCHIURA, Japan - Shoji Sakurai (L) and Takao Sugiyama, both 64, emerge from the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court in Ibaraki Prefecture after the branch court acquitted them in a retrial of the murder of a man in the prefecture, clearing their names more than 43 years after their arrests. The two men had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1970 for the August 1967 robbery and murder of Shoten Tamamura, a 62-year-old carpenter. They were freed on parole in 1996.

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Expensive melons

SAPPORO, Japan - Kazuo Watarai (R) from wholesaler Kurashige Shoten K.K. and Yubari Mayor Naomichi Suzuki hold a pair of Yubari melons, a type of premium orange-fleshed cantaloupe, after the company bought the fruits for 1 million yen (about $12,350) in the current harvest season's first auction at the Sapporo City Central Wholesale Markets in Hokkaido on May 13, 2011. Watarai said his company based in Sapporo will give the fruits as a gift to an association of retail companies

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Rakugo comedian Sanyutei Enraku dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in November 2007 is a portrait of ''Rakugo'' comedian Sanyutei Enraku, who died on Oct. 30 of lung cancer at 76. Enraku, whose real name was Hiroumi Yoshikawa, gained public popularity as a key member of the long-running TV comedy show ''Shoten'' and pioneered a boom of appearances by traditional rakugo performers on TV variety shows.

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Rakugo comedian Sanyutei Enraku dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken at Tokyo's National Engei Hall in February 2007, ''Rakugo'' comedian Sanyutei Enraku, who died on Oct. 30 of lung cancer at 76, gives his last rakugo performance, in which a lone storyteller relates a comic tale while seated. Known for his flowing storytelling, Entraku, whose real name was Hiroumi Yoshikawa, gained public popularity as a key member of the long-running TV comedy show ''Shoten.''

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Major manga comic weeklies 'Magazine,' 'Sunday' mark 50th anniv.

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's two pioneering manga weeklies, Shonen (boys) Magazine and Shonen Sunday, are on sale at the Meishodo Shoten bookstore in Tokyo's Ueno district March 11. Both weeklies mark their 50th anniversaries March 17 amid concerns about their future profitability.

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Damages suit against Oe over Okinawa battle rejected

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe speaks at a news conference in Osaka on March 28 after the Osaka District Court rejected a damage suit filed against him and Iwanami Shoten Publishers over his 1970 essay ''Okinawa Notes.'' The court dismissed two plaintiffs' claim that Oe wrongly stated in his book that military officers ordered civilians in Okinawa Prefecture to commit mass suicide in the closing days of World War II.

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Damages suit against Oe over Okinawa battle rejected

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe arrives at the Osaka District Court on March 28 to hear a court ruling on a damage suit filed against him and Iwanami Shoten Publishers over his 1970 essay ''Okinawa Notes.'' The court rejected two plaintiffs' claim that Oe wrongly stated in his book that military officers ordered civilians in Okinawa Prefecture to commit mass suicide in the closing days of World War II.

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Japan to publish Saddam Hussein's novel on May 19

TOKYO, Japan - Itsuko Hirata, translator of a novel by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, holds up a Japanese copy of the book, ''Akuma no Dance (Devil's Dance).'' Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co. said May 12 the novel has been published nowhere else. It will hit bookstores May 19.

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Major manga comic weeklies 'Magazine,' 'Sunday' mark 50th anniv.

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's two pioneering manga weeklies, Shonen (boys) Magazine and Shonen Sunday, are on sale at the Meishodo Shoten bookstore in Tokyo's Ueno district March 11. Both weeklies mark their 50th anniversaries March 17 amid concerns about their future profitability. (Kyodo)

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Popular rakugo show host earns minister's award

"Rakugo," or Japanese sit-down comedy, performer Utamaru Katsura (R) receives an award from Hiroshi Hase, minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, in Tokyo on May 31, 2016, for hosting a popular TV rakugo show, Shoten, for about 10 years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Time-honored Japan shop to showcase flying-fish paste at Milan expo

Mikiko Aoyama, the wife of the owner of Aoyama Shoten, a small shop in the western Japanese city of Matsue, grills Agonoyaki -- a flying-fish paste flavored with local rice wine -- on May 1, 2015. The shop, which has been producing Agonoyaki since its business started in 1727, will present it at Expo Milano 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese dictionary

Photo taken on Nov. 7, 2017, shows the current (L) and new editions of the best-selling Japanese dictionary "Kojien" at Iwanami Shoten, the publisher's bookstore, in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to publish Saddam Hussein's novel on May 19

TOKYO, Japan - Itsuko Hirata, translator of a novel by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, holds up a Japanese copy of the book, ''Akuma no Dance (Devil's Dance).'' Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co. said May 12 the novel has been published nowhere else. It will hit bookstores May 19. (Kyodo)

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Damages suit against Oe over Okinawa battle rejected

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe arrives at the Osaka District Court on March 28 to hear a court ruling on a damage suit filed against him and Iwanami Shoten Publishers over his 1970 essay ''Okinawa Notes.'' The court rejected two plaintiffs' claim that Oe wrongly stated in his book that military officers ordered civilians in Okinawa Prefecture to commit mass suicide in the closing days of World War II. (Kyodo)

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Damages suit against Oe over Okinawa battle rejected

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kenzaburo Oe speaks at a news conference in Osaka on March 28 after the Osaka District Court rejected a damage suit filed against him and Iwanami Shoten Publishers over his 1970 essay ''Okinawa Notes.'' The court dismissed two plaintiffs' claim that Oe wrongly stated in his book that military officers ordered civilians in Okinawa Prefecture to commit mass suicide in the closing days of World War II. (Kyodo)

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Rakugo comedian Sanyutei Enraku dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken at Tokyo's National Engei Hall in February 2007, ''Rakugo'' comedian Sanyutei Enraku, who died on Oct. 30 of lung cancer at 76, gives his last rakugo performance, in which a lone storyteller relates a comic tale while seated. Known for his flowing storytelling, Entraku, whose real name was Hiroumi Yoshikawa, gained public popularity as a key member of the long-running TV comedy show ''Shoten.'' (Kyodo)

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Rakugo comedian Sanyutei Enraku dies at 76

TOKYO, Japan - This file photo taken in November 2007 is a portrait of ''Rakugo'' comedian Sanyutei Enraku, who died on Oct. 30 of lung cancer at 76. Enraku, whose real name was Hiroumi Yoshikawa, gained public popularity as a key member of the long-running TV comedy show ''Shoten'' and pioneered a boom of appearances by traditional rakugo performers on TV variety shows. (Kyodo)

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Houses and streets in tokyo

A panel board with Eguchi Shoten can be seen across the river. There are no markings on the western building in the fore.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number9‐11‐0]

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Women nestling up

According to The Bakumatsu Photograph Collection of Ishiguro Keishichi published by Akashi Shoten, these women were dispatched by the Tokugawa Shogunate to the Paris Exposition in 1867. It is said that this photograph was sold in Yokohama. The pose struck by the women is understandably not typically Japanese.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number76‐6‐0]

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Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

View from Honcho Dori 1-chome to 2-chome. Honmachi Dori served as Yokohama's main street from the opening of the port, and many large trading companies had offices here. The fireproof warehouse-style building on the right is Hiranuma Shoten, a charcoal shop standing on the corner of 2-chome. The Western-style building next door is Tanaka Shinshichi Shoten.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number55‐9‐0]

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Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

View from Honcho Dori 1-chome to 2-chome. Honmachi Dori served as Yokohama's main street from the opening of the port, and many large trading companies had offices here. The fireproof warehouse-style building on the right is Hiranuma Shoten, a charcoal shop standing on the corner of 2-chome. The Western-style building next door is Tanaka Shinshichi Shoten.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐130‐0]

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Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

View from Honcho Dori 1-chome to 2-chome. Honmachi Dori served as Yokohama's main street from the opening of the port, and many large trading companies had offices here. The fireproof warehouse-style building on the right is Hiranuma Shoten, a charcoal shop standing on the corner of 2-chome. The Western-style building next door is Tanaka Shinshichi Shoten.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐80‐0]

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Honmachi-dori Avenue,Yokohama

View from Honcho Dori 1-chome to 2-chome. Honmachi Dori served as Yokohama's main street from the opening of the port, and many large trading companies had offices here. The fireproof warehouse-style building on the right is Hiranuma Shoten, a charcoal shop standing on the corner of 2-chome. The Western-style building next door is Tanaka Shinshichi Shoten.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number48‐3‐0]

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Benten-dori Street

Bentendori is parallel to Motomachi dori, two streets away. The photo is a view of the 3 chome to the 4 chome of Bentendori. The main spot of the Bentendori is the clock tower in the center of Kawakita Naozo Shoten.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number43‐25‐0]

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A grocery store

The shop of the dry-goods store. Dried salmon and sea weed line up with other dried food. The panel board written Katsuobushi dokoro, Matsuzaka Shoten is hanging. The panel board to the side has octopus written on it, with a special contract with Kanagawa prefecture.==Date:Middle Meiji, Place:Kanagawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number43‐9‐0]

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Subashiri

Subashiri located in the Sunto district of Suruga was an important crossroad from Suruga to the Kagosaka Pass through to Kai, and was also the entrance to Mt.Fuji. On page 91 of Scenes and People at the End of the Shogunate Era (published by Akashi Shoten, p.91) is a photo taken from almost the same angle.==Date:unknown, Place:Shizuoka, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number14‐4‐0]

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The German Club and Honmachi-dori Avenue

The caption reads German Club and Main Street, Yokohama in English. The photo shows the main street in the foreign settlement and, on the left, the Western-style building housing the German Club and facing the street. The clock tower of Kawakita Shoten can be seen in the background.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐3‐0]

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Benten-dori Street

Caption reads lantern festival, Bentendori, Yokohama in German and English. View of the 2-chome and 3-chome blocks on Yokohama Bentendori. People are wearing top hats and holding umbrellas. The clock tower of Kawakita Shoten can be seen in the background.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number1‐47‐0]

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Japan's largest Tsutaya outlet in Maebashi

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken on Aug. 26, 2011, shows Tsutaya Shoten at the Maebashi Minami Mall in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, which opened the same day. With sales space of around 5,700 square meters, the shop is the largest outlet in Japan of the Tsutaya movie rental and bookshop chain, which is operated by Culture Convenience Club Co. (Kyodo)

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2 men acquitted of murder 43 years after arrests

TSUCHIURA, Japan - Shoji Sakurai (L) and Takao Sugiyama, both 64, emerge from the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court in Ibaraki Prefecture after the branch court acquitted them in a retrial of the murder of a man in the prefecture, clearing their names more than 43 years after their arrests. The two men had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1970 for the August 1967 robbery and murder of Shoten Tamamura, a 62-year-old carpenter. They were freed on parole in 1996. (Kyodo)

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2 men acquitted of murder 43 years after arrests

MITO, Japan - This file photo shows postcards that Shoji Sakurai and Takao Sugiyama, both 64, sent to each other while they were detained in isolation cells at the Tokyo Detention House. On May 24, 2011, the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court acquitted them of murder in a retrial, clearing their names more than 43 years after their arrests. The two men had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1970 for the August 1967 robbery and murder of Shoten Tamamura, a 62-year-old carpenter, and were freed on parole in 1996. (Kyodo)

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Expensive melons

SAPPORO, Japan - Kazuo Watarai (R) from wholesaler Kurashige Shoten K.K. and Yubari Mayor Naomichi Suzuki hold a pair of Yubari melons, a type of premium orange-fleshed cantaloupe, after the company bought the fruits for 1 million yen (about $12,350) in the current harvest season's first auction at the Sapporo City Central Wholesale Markets in Hokkaido on May 13, 2011. Watarai said his company based in Sapporo will give the fruits as a gift to an association of retail companies (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima in ruins after U.S. atomic bombing

HIROSHIMA, Japan - This file photo shows a store, Odamasa Shoten, whose frame was twisted by the blast from the U.S. atomic bombing. Standing next to it is the exterior of the Chugoku Shimbun newspaper building. The photo was taken in Ebisu, Hiroshima City, sometime between Aug. 10 and Aug. 11, 1945. (Kyodo)

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FOCUS: LGBT books targeting elementary school students grab spotlight

Yu Iwashita, chief editor of Otsuki Shoten Co., talks in May 2017 in Tokyo about recent publications aimed at teaching elementary school children about issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. "It is important to have the books readily available at libraries and schools for when someone's interest is piqued," said Iwashita. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FOCUS: LGBT books targeting elementary school students grab spotlight

Photo shows "Watashirashiku, LGBTQ" (L) published by Otsuki Shoten Co. and "Iro-iro na Sei, Iro-iro na Ikikata" published by Poplar Publishing Co., both aimed at teaching elementary school children about issues concerning the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Rakugo" storyteller Utamaru Katsura returns to stage

Japanese "rakugo" comedic storyteller Utamaru Katsura (3rd from L in front row), surrounded by fellow members of long-running TV program "Shoten," speaks to reporters in Tokyo on June 17, 2017, after returning from illness leave. The 80-year-old is undergoing treatment for respiratory problems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Businesses await Japan's new era name as emperor's abdication looms

A page of a diary produced by Japanese textbook and calendar maker Takahashi Shoten Co. shows "H," which indicates Heisei, the current era name under Emperor Akihito, printed next to the years 2025 and 2026 in this photo taken Jan. 30, 2017. Companies that produce calendars and diaries are keeping close tabs on government debate about the likely upcoming change in Japanese era name, which is linked to the reigning emperor, as they prepare to put to market new era-correct products. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitors flock to corner for WWII books at Tokyo fair

A corner for books related to the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II set up by publisher Iwanami Shoten at the Tokyo International Book Fair attracts a large number of visitors on July 3, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo