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Artistic Gymnastics: World championships

Aiko Sugihara of Japan celebrates after winning the women's floor exercise gold at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta on Oct. 25, 2025.

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Artistic Gymnastics: World championships

Aiko Sugihara of Japan poses after winning the women's floor exercise gold at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta on Oct. 25, 2025.

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Artistic Gymnastics: World championships

Aiko Sugihara of Japan poses after winning the women's floor exercise gold at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta on Oct. 25, 2025.

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Artistic Gymnastics: World championships

Aiko Sugihara of Japan celebrates after winning the women's floor exercise gold at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta on Oct. 25, 2025.

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Artistic Gymnastics: World championships

Aiko Sugihara of Japan celebrates after winning the women's floor exercise gold at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta on Oct. 25, 2025.

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Artistic Gymnastics: World championships

Aiko Sugihara of Japan performs en route to winning the women's floor exercise gold at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta on Oct. 25, 2025.

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Artistic Gymnastics: World championships

Aiko Sugihara of Japan performs en route to winning the women's floor exercise gold at the artistic gymnastics world championships in Jakarta on Oct. 25, 2025.

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2

SUGIHARA Aiko (JPN) beam during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 25 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2

SUGIHARA Aiko (JPN) floor gold medal crying during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 25 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2

FLOOR Medal Ceremony: Gold SUGIHARA Aiko (JPN), Silver EVANS Ruby (GBR), Bronze MARTIN AbiGail (GBR) during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 25 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2

BEAM Medal Ceremony: GOLD ZHANG Qingying (CHN), SILVER NEMOUR Kaylia (ALG), BRONZE SUGIHARA Aiko (JPN) during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 25 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2

SUGIHARA Aiko (JPN) floor during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 25 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2

SUGIHARA Aiko (JPN) floor during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 25 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2

SUGIHARA Aiko (JPN) floor gold medal crying with the Japanise flag during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Apparatus finals Day 2, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 25 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Women's All-Around Final

SUGIHARA Aiko (JAP) floor during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Women's All-Around Final, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 23 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Women's All-Around Final

SUGIHARA Aiko (JAP) floor during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Women's All-Around Final, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 23 2025

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ALTRO - Ginnastica - 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Women's All-Around Final

SUGIHARA Aiko (JAP) floor during 53rd FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Women's All-Around Final, Gymnastics in Jakarta, Indonesia, October 23 2025

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Japanese rally outside PM residence to protest relaxed arms export control

STORY: Japanese rally outside PM residence to protest relaxed arms export control SHOOTING TIME: March 26, 2024 DATELINE: March 27, 2024 LENGTH: 00:032:48 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of Japanese citizens protesting in front of the Japanese prime minister's residence 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): MIZUHO FUKUSHIMA, Head of the Social Democratic Party of Japan 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): KOJI SUGIHARA, Representative of a local citizen's group named Network Against Japan Arms Trade STORYLINE: Many Japanese protesters, amid heavy rainfall, gathered on Tuesday in front of the prime minister's residence to rally against the government's eased defense equipment transfer rules and further relaxation of arms export control. Seen as a significant defense policy shift and another step contrary to the country's pacifist constitution, the Japanese government decided at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday to lift the ban on exporting the next-generation fighter jets set to be jointly developed with

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Tribute to wartime Japan diplomat who saved Jewish refugees

Japanese American Cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper (C) plays a symphony together with the New York City Opera Orchestra at New York's Carnegie Hall on April 19, 2023, in honor of wartime Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara. He disregarded the orders of his superiors and issued visas in 1940 to help Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution as the acting consul in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Tribute to wartime Japan diplomat who saved Jewish refugees

Japanese American Cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper (front, L) acknowledges the audience at New York's Carnegie Hall on April 19, 2023, after playing a symphony together with the New York City Opera Orchestra in honor of wartime Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara. He disregarded the orders of his superiors and issued visas in 1940 to help Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution as the acting consul in Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Protesters rally against Japan's increasing arms trade

STORY: Protesters rally against Japan's increasing arms trade DATELINE: March 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:30 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the rally 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): People attending the rally 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): KOJI SUGIHARA, Representative of the Network Against Japan Arms Trade 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): KIMIE NAKAMURA, Member of the Chiba City Assembly STORYLINE: Hundreds of Japanese gathered outside the venue of a military equipment fair near Tokyo on Wednesday to protest Japan's move to intensify its arms trade. The three-day event, or DSEI Japan 2023, kicked off Wednesday at the convention center of Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): Protestors "No war! No war preparation!" The crowd lay on the ground after the speech, in an attempt to oppose the trade of weapons in a country that boasts of "exclusive defense" using the "body language of death." SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): KOJI SUGIHARA, Representative of the Network A

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Aging Japanese seek return of Takeshima from S. Korea

MATSUE, Japan - Yumiko Sugihara, 69, holds a picture book she has completed in the town of Okinoshima, Shimane Prefecture, on Jan. 22, 2013. The book tells the story of infant sea lions that were hunted near Takeshima, a group of islets in the Sea of Japan now controlled by South Korea, which calls them Dokdo.

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Japanese golfer Sugihara dies at 74

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese golfer Teruo Sugihara speaks in an interview in June 2010. Sugihara, with a professional career lasting more than 50 years, died of prostate cancer on Dec. 28, 2011, at the age of 74.

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Japan pro golf Hall of Fame picks Sugihara, Okamoto

TOKYO, Japan - The late Teruo Sugihara (L) and Ayako Okamoto, shown in these undated file photos, are among the four players chosen to be inducted into the Japan Professional Golf Hall of Fame at a ceremony set for February 2015. Sugihara won 63 times worldwide in a career spanning more than 50 years. Okamoto, who won 17 times on the U.S. LPGA tour, was voted into the World Hall of Fame in 2005.

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Jewish woman who fled Nazis

NEW YORK, United States - Deborah Reed (L) receives a photo of her mother Sonia at the residence of the Japanese consul general in New York on Nov. 24, 2014. Sonia fled Nazi Germany, traveling to the United States via Japan, with the help of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who helped thousands of Jews by issuing travel documents. The identity of the woman in the photo, left behind in Japan, was recently identified as Deborah's mother.

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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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Ex-school teacher reads picture book about Takeshima

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Former elementary school teacher Yumiko Sugihara reads her picture book about how life was for local residents around Takeshima, a pair of islands held by South Korea and claimed by Japan, to children in Yokohama on June 20, 2014.

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Ex-school teacher reads picture book about Takeshima

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Former elementary school teacher Yumiko Sugihara (R) reads her picture book about how life was for local residents around Takeshima, a pair of islands held by South Korea and claimed by Japan, to children in Yokohama on June 20, 2014.

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Anne Frank books donated to Tokyo library in late diplomat's name

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library displays on Feb. 26, 2014, more than 130 copies of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank and related books donated by a person in the name of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara after vandalism left over 300 copies of such books in tatters in the Japanese capital's libraries. Sugihara, who disobeyed his government's orders and issued transit visas that saved thousands of Jewish refugees from the Nazis during World War II, died in 1986.

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Holocaust survivor, recipient of Sugihara visa, dies at 90

TOKYO, Japan - This undated file photo shows Samuil Manski, who was among upwards of 6,000 Jews granted life-saving transit visas by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara during World War II. Manski died on June 19, 2011, in Hyannis, Massachusetts, at the age of 90.

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'Sakura' trees in Lithuania to honor wartime Japan diplomat

VILNIUS, Lithuania - Japanese Ambassador to Lithuania Miyoko Akashi (2nd from L) and Mikio Sugiyama (L) and Kazuo Kawashima (3rd from L) of the Gifu Cherry Blossoms Group, and others plant cherry blossom trees at Chiune Sugihara Park in Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 3, 2011. Some 500 people took part in an event to plant cherry blossom trees in honor of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, a native of Gifu, who saved thousands of Jewish refugees from the Nazis in the wartime period by issuing them transit visas.

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Sugihara honored for playing Chunichi Crowns for 50 straight yrs

NAGOYA, Japan - Veteran golfer Teruo Sugihara shows off a watch he was presented with to celebrate his playing in the Chunichi Crowns for 50 years in a row at Nagoya Golf Club, Wago Course in Aichi Prefecture on April 30. The 71-year-old golfer placed in the cellar, at 114th, posting a 14-over 84 in the first round of the tournament which began the same day.

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UFJ Holdings reports 402 bil. yen net loss for FY 2003

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Holdings Inc. President Takeshi Sugihara briefs reporters on the UFJ group's earnings report for fiscal 2003 at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on May 24.

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3 top UFJ group executives to resign

TOKYO, Japan - Three new top executives of the UFJ financial group stand during a news conference at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on May 23. UFJ Trust Bank Vice President Shintaro Yasuda (L) will replace Yasukuni Doi as president, Takamune Okihara (C), a senior corporate officer of UFJ Bank, will succeed UFJ Bank President Masashi Teranishi and UFJ Bank Vice President Ryosuke Tamakoshi will become president of UFJ Holdings Inc. to replace Takeshi Sugihara.

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(2)3 UFJ execs to resign for failure to reach profit targets

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows UFJ Bank Vice President Ryosuke Tamakoshi who will replace Takeshi Sugihara as president of UFJ Holdings Inc.

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(1)3 UFJ execs to resign for failure to reach profit targets

TOKYO, Japan - The three top managers of the UFJ group will resign to take the blame for its failure to meet net profit goals, banking sources said May 19. Files photos show (from L to R) UFJ Holdings Inc. President Takeshi Sugihara, UFJ Bank President Masashi Teranishi and UFJ Trust Bank President Yasukuni Doi.

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UFJ Holdings stays in red on stock losses, bad-loan disposals

TOKYO, Japan - Takeshi Sugihara, president of UFJ Holdings Inc., speaks to reporters at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on May 26 about UFJ's earnings report for fiscal 2002 through March 31.

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Sugihara statue dedicated in L.A.'s Little Tokyo

LOS ANGELES, United States - A bronze statue of Chiune Sugihara (C) was dedicated Dec. 13 in the Little Tokyo district in downtown Los Angeles in a ceremony. The late Japanese diplomat disobeyed the Japanese government and rescued thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them exit visas when he was the consul general in the then Lithuanian capital of Kuanas from 1938 to 1940. Sugihara's son Chiaki Sugihara puts his hand on the left shoulder of the statue.

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Interview with 'Japan's Schindler' made public

GIFU, Japan - Visitors at a museum in Yaotsu in Gifu Prefecture commemorating Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who is known as ''Japan's Schindler'' use headphones to listen to a recording of an interview given by Sugihara. The museum made Sugihara's recording available to the general public on April 2, in which Sugihara revealed reasons for issuing transit visas to thousands of Jews in defiance of Japanese government policy.

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Sugishima thanks Foreign Ministry for efforts for his release

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Sugishima (C), a former Nihon Keizai Shimbun reporter who was detained in North Korea for over two years on suspicion of espionage until mid-February, thanks Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi (L) on April 1 for the ministry's efforts to have him released. Sugihara's wife Mutsuko is seated at right.

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Sugihara's widow speaks ahead of tree planting in Lithuania

TOKYO, Japan - Yukiko Sugihara (L), widow of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, speaks to reporters Sept. 24 at Tokyo's Waseda University ahead of the planting of 250 cherry trees in Lithuania beginning next month in memory of her husband. The late Chiune Sugihara served in World War II and saved more than 6,000 Jews by issuing them transit visas to Japan against orders from Tokyo. His widow expressed concern over Japan's potential involvement in military retaliations for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, saying, ''I'm very worried about Japan being drawn into war.''

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Nagano Gov. Tanaka's top aide to resign over dam policy

NAGANO, Japan - Yasuo Tanaka (front), governor of Nagano Prefecture, listens to questions posed by a Nagano prefectural assembly member at an assembly session on March 5, while his top aide, Yoshitaka Sugihara, looks at him in the background. Sugihara reportedly plans to resign later this month over a disagreement with the governor over his initiative to suspend the prefecture's future dam construction.

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Sugihara film garners another award

LOS ANGELES, United States - The International Documentary Association (IDA) awards the Pare Lorentz prize at a ceremony Oct. 27 to a film about Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Lithuania who issued more than 2,000 visas to Jews during World War II. Photo shows Diane Estelle Vicari, the film's producer, making a speech at the ceremony held in Los Angeles.

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Plaque unveiled for Japanese diplomat who saved Jews

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Yohei Kono (R) unveils a plaque commemorating Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who worked against the interests of his own country to save thousands of Jews in Lithuania during World War II, together with Sugihara's widow Yukiko at the Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Record Office in Tokyo on Oct. 10. Sugihara died in 1986 and five years later the ministry released an official statement aimed at recovering his honor.

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Film about Sugihara gets top documentary award

LOS ANGELES, United States - Film producer Diane Estelle Vicari (L) and writer/director Robert Kirk pose with the award they won for best documentary at the Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala on Aug. 7. They received the award for their film ''Conspiracy of Kindness,'' which tells the story of Chiune Sugihara, who used his position as a diplomat to save thousands of Jewish refugees in Europe from the Nazis.

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Memorial plaque to Sugihara to go up at Foreign Ministry

TOKYO, Japan - A plaque commemorating Chiune Sugihara (shown in this file photo), a Japanese diplomat who saved about 6,000 Jews from Nazi Germany during World War II, will go up at the Foreign Ministry. While working as vice consul at the Japanese mission in Kovno, Lithuania, Sugihara ignored orders from Tokyo and issued thousands of Japanese transit visas in 1940 to Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. In 1947, he retired and returned to the country, but reportedly faced punitive action for disobeying orders. He died in 1986.

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Memorial hall built for Japanese savior of Jews

GIFU, Japan - A memorial hall for Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved some 6,000 Jews from persecution by Nazi Germany during World War II, has been completed at his hometown of Yaotsu, Gifu Prefecture, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The hall was opened for press preview May 23. Public opening is scheduled for July 30.

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Japan center to open in Lithunia in Sugihara's honor

MOSCOW, Russia - File photo shows Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews flee Nazi Germany during World War II. His admirers plan to open a Japan research center in May at the site the former Japanese consulate in Lithuania where Sugihara was posted. The facility, an integral part of Vitautas Magnus University, will offer Japanese-language courses, hold Japanese cultural events and other activities. It will also provide reference materials on Sugihara and historical documents on the persecution of Jews under Nazi Germany.

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Exhibition honors diplomats who saved Jews from Nazis

NEW YORK, United States - A visitor looks at photos dating from the Holocaust at an exhibition entitled, ''Visas for Life: the Righteous Diplomats,'' that opened at the United Nations in New York on April 3. The exhibit honors some 80 diplomats from more than 20 countries who saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution during World War II by issuing them visas. On the far left is the photo of Chiune Sugihara, a former Japanese consul who served in Lithuania and is credited with saving the lives of about 6,000 Jews.

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"Chiune Sugihara Square" in Jerusalem

Nobuki Sugihara (3rd from R), a son of wartime Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, credited with helping Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution by issuing transit visas, attends a ceremony at a square in Jerusalem on Oct. 11, 2021, after the square was named "Chiune Sugihara Square."