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Japan Paralympic athletes return home from Paris

Keiko Sugiura, Japan's gold medalist in the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Paris Paralympics, arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo upon her return from France on Sept. 10, 2024.

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Golf: Japan PGA Championship

Yuta Sugiura poses for a photo with his parents and fans after winning the Japan PGA Championship golf tournament on July 7, 2024, at Fuji Country Kani Club in Kani, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.

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Golf: Japan PGA Championship

Yuta Sugiura poses with the victor's trophy after winning the Japan PGA Championship golf tournament on July 7, 2024, at Fuji Country Kani Club in Kani, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.

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Golf: Dunlop Phoenix

Japanese amateur Yuta Sugiura pumps his fist after winning the Dunlop Phoenix golf tournament at Phoenix Country Club in the southwestern Japan city of Miyazaki on Nov. 19, 2023.

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Golf: Dunlop Phoenix

Japanese amateur Yuta Sugiura lifts the trophy after winning the Dunlop Phoenix golf tournament at Phoenix Country Club in the southwestern Japan city of Miyazaki on Nov. 19, 2023.

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Golf: Dunlop Phoenix

Japanese amateur Yuta Sugiura lifts the trophy after winning the Dunlop Phoenix golf tournament at Phoenix Country Club in the southwestern Japan city of Miyazaki on Nov. 19, 2023.

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Asian Games: Golf

Yuta Sugiura of Japan hits off the tee on the 10th hole during the opening round of the Asian Games men's individual golf competition at the West Lake International Golf Course in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 28, 2023.

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M'bishi Estate to become biggest shareholder in Towa Real Estate

TOKYO, Japan - Takao Aihara, president of struggling condominium builder Towa Real Estate Development Co. speaks as Mitsubishi Estate Co. President Shigeatsu Sugiura listens at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29. Mitsubishi Estate will become Towa's largest shareholder under their agreement to create a strategic partnership.

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Couple holds wedding on steam locomotive

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Shinichi Sugiura (C) and Ayano (R) hold a wedding ceremony on a steam locomotive of Oigawa Railway Co. in Shimada, Shizuoka Prefecture, on April 26, 2014.

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Actor Sugiura dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows veteran Japanese actor Naoki Sugiura speaking of his joy after receiving a government decoration in Tokyo in April 2006. Sugiura died of lung adenocarcinoma aged 79 at his home in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2011.

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Japanese fighter pilot worshiped by Taiwanese

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Images of World War II Japanese fighter pilot Shigemine Sugiura are enshrined at Chen-an Temple in Tainan, Taiwan, on May 19, 2011. The temple worships the Japanese solider who died in the city during an Allied attack.

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Japanese fighter pilot worshiped by Taiwanese

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A resident in the neighborhood offers apples before the images of World War II Japanese fighter pilot Shigemine Sugiura at Chen-an Temple in Tainan, Taiwan, on May 19, 2011. The temple worships the Japanese solider who died in the city during an Allied attack.

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Business storyteller Shiroyama dies at 79

TOKYO, Japan - Saburo Shiroyama (in photo taken in May 2003), a leading Japanese writer of business and biographical novels, died on March 22 of interstitial lung disease at a hospital in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, his agent said. He was 79. Brought up in Nagoya, Shiroyama, whose real name is Eiichi Sugiura, pioneered a style of business novel featuring inside stories of corporate Japan in the early 1970s, and also authored a number of books often modeled on existing personalities.

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Justice minister again airs cautious view on death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - New Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura speaks at a press conference at his ministry on Nov. 1. He expressed a cautious view on capital punishment, saying, ''I think in the bottom of my heart that it is unforgivable under any conditions to claim a life.''

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New Justice Minister Sugiura retracts comments over executions

TOKYO, Japan - New Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura speaks at a press conference early on Nov. 1. He retracted his earlier comments that he would not sign any orders for executions. Immediately after he was appointed justice minister in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet reshuffle, Sugiura, a licensed lawyer who once served as vice chairman of the Tokyo Dai-Ichi Bar Association, said he believes the social trend is for the eventual abolition of capital punishment.

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Soga wants to visit U.S. with U.S. husband Jenkins

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L), a former Japanese victim of North Korean abduction, meets Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura in Tokyo on May 12. She said she wanted to visit the United States with her husband Charles Jenkins as soon as possible.

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(1)Gov't gets Soga's understanding on candidate reunion sites

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L), a repatriated victim of abduction by North Korea, shakes hands with Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura (R) in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 30. Sugiura visited Sado for talks with Soga about candidate sites for her to meet her American husband and two daughters living in North Korea.

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(2)Gov't gets Soga's understanding on candidate reunion sites

SADO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L, back), a repatriated victim of abduction by North Korea, meets Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura (L, front) and Cabinet Secretariat special adviser Kyoko Nakayama (2nd from L, front) in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, on May 30. Sugiura and Nakayama visited Sado to discuss candidate sites for her to meet her American husband and two daughters living in North Korea. (Pool photo)

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Gov't panel to seek early reunion of Soga family

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura (C, standing) speaks at a government panel on normalization of Japan-North Korea ties at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 26. The panel agreed to realize as soon as possible a reunion in a third country between repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga and her husband and two daughters in North Korea.

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Kin of abductees meet deputy chief cabinet secretary

TOKYO, Japan - A group of families of Japanese abducted by North Korea meet Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura (L, standing) at a Tokyo hotel on May 18 ahead of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Pyongyang scheduled for May 22.

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40 bil. yen in taxpayer money misused in FY 2002

TOKYO, Japan - Board of Audit of Japan President Tsutomu Sugiura (L) presents to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Nov. 28 a fiscal 2002 audit report stating government departments and affiliates wasted or improperly used about 40 billion yen in taxpayer money, the highest sum in 20 years.

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Ex-Nankai Hawks ace Sugiura dies of heart attack

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former Nankai Hawks ace Tadashi Sugiura who died of a heart attack on Nov. 11. He was found dead at a Sapporo hotel where he was staying prior to a baseball game of retired Japanese professionals. He was 66.

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Japanese envoy meets with President Musharraf

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura (R), special envoy of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, is in talks with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi on Sept. 27.

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Japan envoy meets Pakistani foreign minister

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura (R) meets Pakistan's Foreign Minister Abdus Sattar (L) in Islamabad on Sept. 26. Sugiura is expected to outline details of Japan's decision to provide Pakistan with 4.7 billion yen in emergency grant aid to help the country support the U.S.-led retaliation against the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.

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S. Korean lawmakers protest Koizumi's Yasukuni visit

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura (3rd from R) receives a letter Aug. 16 in Tokyo from five South Korean lawmakers of ruling and opposition parties in which they protest Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's controversial Aug. 13 visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.

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Foreign Ministry bares reform proposals

TOKYO, Japan - Two Senior Vice-Foreign Ministers Seiken Sugiura (L) and Shigeo Uetake brief the media on internal reform proposals for the Foreign Ministry at a news conference June 6. The ministry compiled the proposals in the wake of a scandal in which a diplomat allegedly embezzled more than 260 million yen in government funds.

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Tanaka pledges to overcome pending issues with China, S. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka talks with Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura (L) in the Diet on May 17 before appearing before the House of Councillors foreign and defense affairs committee. At the committee session, Tanaka pledged to make efforts to resolve contentious issues with China and South Korea.

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Japan captain Sugiura steps forward to pledge

TOKYO, Japan - Amateur baseball pitcher Masanori Sugiura (C) steps forward to pledge Japan's best efforts at the 2000 Olympic Games next month in Sydney as the 439-member Japanese Olympic delegation is formally launched in ceremonies Aug. 27. World champion judoka Kosei Inoue (R) holds the flag with Japanese Olympic Committee President Yushiro Yagi on the left.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan poses with her gold medal for the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan reacts after winning the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan reacts after winning the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan reacts after winning the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics en route to winning gold on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura (front, L) of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 cycling road race at the Tokyo Paralympics en route to winning gold on Sept. 3, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Japan's Keiko Sugiura (L) is pictured after competing in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Japan's Keiko Sugiura (L) and Sweden's Anna Beck congratulate each other after competing in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan. Sugiura and Beck finished first and second, respectively.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Tokyo Paralympics: Cycling Road

Keiko Sugiura of Japan competes in the women's C1-3 road cycling time trial at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 31, 2021, at Fuji International Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan.

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Ex-Nankai Hawks ace Sugiura dies of heart attack

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former Nankai Hawks ace Tadashi Sugiura who died of a heart attack on Nov. 11. He was found dead at a Sapporo hotel where he was staying prior to a baseball game of retired Japanese professionals. He was 66.

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M'bishi Estate to become biggest shareholder in Towa Real Estate

TOKYO, Japan - Takao Aihara, president of struggling condominium builder Towa Real Estate Development Co. speaks as Mitsubishi Estate Co. President Shigeatsu Sugiura listens at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 29. Mitsubishi Estate will become Towa's largest shareholder under their agreement to create a strategic partnership. (Kyodo)

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Soga wants to visit U.S. with U.S. husband Jenkins

TOKYO, Japan - Hitomi Soga (L), a former Japanese victim of North Korean abduction, meets Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura in Tokyo on May 12. She said she wanted to visit the United States with her husband Charles Jenkins as soon as possible. (Kyodo)

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New Justice Minister Sugiura retracts comments over executions

TOKYO, Japan - New Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura speaks at a press conference early on Nov. 1. He retracted his earlier comments that he would not sign any orders for executions. Immediately after he was appointed justice minister in Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Cabinet reshuffle, Sugiura, a licensed lawyer who once served as vice chairman of the Tokyo Dai-Ichi Bar Association, said he believes the social trend is for the eventual abolition of capital punishment. (Kyodo)

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Justice minister again airs cautious view on death penalty

TOKYO, Japan - New Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura speaks at a press conference at his ministry on Nov. 1. He expressed a cautious view on capital punishment, saying, ''I think in the bottom of my heart that it is unforgivable under any conditions to claim a life.'' (Kyodo)

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Japan envoy meets Pakistani foreign minister

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Seiken Sugiura (R) meets Pakistan's Foreign Minister Abdus Sattar (L) in Islamabad on Sept. 26. Sugiura is expected to outline details of Japan's decision to provide Pakistan with 4.7 billion yen in emergency grant aid to help the country support the U.S.-led retaliation against the terrorists behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States.

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3 AUM Shinrikyo members arrested over temp business

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Sugiura, a leader of Aleph, formerly the AUM Shinrikyo cult, was arrested in Tokyo on June 16, along with two other members, for allegedly sending group members to work at companies as temp staff without a government license to do so. (Kyodo)

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Japan captain Sugiura steps forward to pledge

TOKYO, Japan - Amateur baseball pitcher Masanori Sugiura (C) steps forward to pledge Japan's best efforts at the 2000 Olympic Games next month in Sydney as the 439-member Japanese Olympic delegation is formally launched in ceremonies Aug. 27. World champion judoka Kosei Inoue (R) holds the flag with Japanese Olympic Committee President Yushiro Yagi on the left.

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Gov't panel to seek early reunion of Soga family

TOKYO, Japan - Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiken Sugiura (C, standing) speaks at a government panel on normalization of Japan-North Korea ties at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 26. The panel agreed to realize as soon as possible a reunion in a third country between repatriated Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga and her husband and two daughters in North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Man recalls 1st post-WWII May Day rally in Tokyo's imperial garden

Masao Sugiura, a former secretary of the National Federation of Printing and Publishing Industry Workers' Unions, stands in the Imperial Palace Outer Garden in Tokyo on Jan. 18, 2015. Sugiura, playing a critical role in the labor union, participated in the first May Day rally there since the end of World War II in 1946. (Photo by Makoto Hori) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 ex-justice ministers join anti-death penalty rally

Seiken Sugiura (L) and Hideo Hiraoka, both of whom previously served as justice minister, attend an anti-death penalty rally in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2015, to appeal for the abolition of capital punishment. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo