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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-WRESTLING(CN)

(231004) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Bronze medalist Sumi Masato of Japan attends the awarding ceremony for Men's Greco-Roman 87Kg Match of Wrestling at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 4, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-FOOTBALL (CN)

(231004) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 4, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Sumi Kohshiro (L) of Japan competes during the Men's Semifinal between China's Hong Kong and Japan at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 4, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Peng)

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17th Asian Games kicks off

INCHEON, South Korea - Famed opera singer Sumi Jo sings during the 17th Asian Games opening ceremony in Incheon, South Korea, on Sept. 19, 2014. Nearly 10,000 athletes will compete for 439 gold medals in 36 sports through Oct. 4.

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Tokio Marine president

TOKYO, Japan - Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. Vice President Tsuyoshi Nagano (R) speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on March 26, 2013, in conjunction with the announcement he will replace Shuzo Sumi (L) as president of the company.

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Tokio Marine president

TOKYO, Japan - Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. Vice President Tsuyoshi Nagano (R) and President Shuzo Sumi shake hands during a press conference in Tokyo on March 26, 2013. Tokio Marine announced that Nagano will replace Sumi as president of the company.

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Tokio Marine President Sumi

TOKYO, Japan - Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. President Shuzo Sumi speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 21, 2011. Tokio Marine said the same day it has agreed to acquire Delphi Financial Group Inc., a U.S. life, property and casualty insurance group.

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Doctor says 2 quake survivors in stable condition

SENDAI, Japan - Michio Kobayashi (C), a physician at Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital, where two rescued quake survivors have been hospitalized, told reporters that the two are in a stable condition at the hospital in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 21, 2011. Kobayashi said both Sumi Abe, 80, and her grandson Jin, 16, had eaten breakfast and were doing well.

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Vancouver Paralympics opening ceremony

VANCOUVER, Canada - The mascot Sumi takes to the sky during the opening ceremony of the Winter Paralympics at BC Place in Vancouver on March 12, 2010. Disabled athletes from a record 44 countries took part in the event.

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Japanese athletes at Paralympic village in Whistler

WHISTLER, Canada - Japanese athletes who will take part in skiing and biathlon events at the Vancouver Paralympic Winter Games are welcomed by the Paralympic mascot Sumi, an animal spirit who lives in the mountains of British Columbia, at Paralympic Village in Whistler, Canada, on March 8, 2020. The Paralympics will be held from March 12 to March 21.

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Nara craftspeople struggle to boost 'sumi' ink industry

NARA, Japan - Eiji Matsuda, a Japanese ''sumi'' black ink craftsman, sits near a box containing blocks of solidified sumi ink for sale at the workplace of Boku-undo Co. in the city of Nara on March 17.

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Nara craftspeople struggle to boost 'sumi' ink industry

NARA, Japan - This photo shows a half-solidified ball of Japanese ''sumi'' black ink put in a wooden mould to cast square blocks of sumi for sale.

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1-year countdown to Vancouver Games begins in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Vancouver Winter Olympics mascots -- (from L to R) Quatchi, Miga and Sumi -- take part in a one-year-countdown event for the Olympics at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on Feb. 12.

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Tokio Marine to acquire U.S. nonlife insurer for $4.7 billion

TOKYO, Japan - Shuzo Sumi, president of Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on July 23 about a plan to acquire all outstanding shares of U.S. nonlife insurer Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. for $4.7 billion (498.7 billion yen).

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Nonlife insurers punish execs over failures to pay benefits

TOKYO, Japan - President Kunio Ishihara (L) and Senior Managing Director Shuzo Sumi (R) of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. bow in apology at a news conference in Tokyo on April 13 where the insurer said it will punish senior executives over failure to pay due insurance benefits. Ishihara is stepping down and will be replaced by Sumi.

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Tokio Marine President Ishihara to resign over nonpayment scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Shuzo Sumi, senior managing director of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., speaks at a press conference on April 13 after being appointed to replace Kunio Ishihara as president. Japan's leading property and casualty insurer has been under fire for nonpayment of insurance benefits to policyholders.

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Tokio Marine President Ishihara to resign over nonpayment scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Shuzo Sumi, senior managing director of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., speaks at a press conference on April 13 after being appointed to replace Kunio Ishihara as president. Japan's leading property and casualty insurer has been under fire for nonpayment of insurance benefits to policyholders.

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2 women break all-male grip in Shimane prefectural assembly

MATSUE, Japan - Keiko Shiraishi (57), a former employee of the Shimane prefectural government, raises her arms in victory after winning a seat in the prefectural assembly election on April 8, breaking the all-male grip in the prefectural legislature for the first time in four years. The election also produced a second female assembly member, Tomoko Sumi, 52, a former Matsue city employee.

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Hankyu, Hanshin department stores to integrate under holding firm

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi (L), accompanied by his aide Shiunya Sakai, speaks at a press conference at an Osaka hotel on March 26. He said that Hankyu Department Stores Inc. and Hanshin Department Stores Ltd. will integrate operations on Oct. 1 under a holding firm to be formed from what is now Hankyu Department Stores.

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Group strives to keep memory of war-displaced Japanese in China

NAGANO, Japan - Sumi Karasawa, one of the thousands of Japanese settlers left behind in Manchuria in the pandemonium at the end of World War II, relates her experience in a speech at a hotel in Nagano City.

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Hankyu Hanshin Holdings set up

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. merged into Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc. on Oct. 1, creating Japan's third-largest railway operator excluding the nationwide Japan Railway group. The new holding company President Kazuo Sumi (L) and Representative Director Shinya Sakai (R) attended a management integration committee meeting in Osaka the same day.

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Hankyu to acquire 64% stake in Hanshin for 250 bil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuo Sumi (L), president of Hankyu Holdings Inc., and Shinya Sakai, managing director and president-designate of Hanshin Electric Railway Co, shake hands after a joint news conference in Osaka on June 20.

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Hankyu to acquire 64% stake in Hanshin for 250 bil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuo Sumi (L), president of Hankyu Holdings Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 20 about the company's public tender offer for Hanshin Electric Railway Co. At right is Shinya Sakai, managing director and president-designate of Hanshin Electric Railway.

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Hankyu to acquire 64% stake in Hanshin for 250 bil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuo Sumi (L), president of Hankyu Holdings Inc., and Shinya Sakai, managing director and president-designate of Hanshin Electric Railway Co, shake hands after a joint news conference in Osaka on June 20.

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Hankyu, Hanshin to consider merger of department store chains

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in an interview with Kyodo News and other media organizations in Osaka on June 8. Sumi said his firm and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. may consider a merger between their department store chains as part of their planned management integration in October.

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Hankyu not to change tender offer for Hanshin shares

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Sumi, president of Hankyu Holdings Inc., is surrounded by reporters at a hotel in Tokyo on June 2. He said, ''Hankyu Holdings has no plan to change the price of 930 yen per share or extend the 21-day period for the tender offer that started Tuesday.''

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Hankyu to launch tender offer for Hanshin shares

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi (L) and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. President Kyoji Nishikawa (R) shake hands in Osaka on May 29. Hankyu Holdings said the same day it will launch a public tender offer May 30 for shares of Hanshin Electric, though it has yet to agree on the purchase price with Hanshin's largest shareholder, the Murakami Fund.

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Nobel laureate's widow Yukawa dies at 96

KYOTO, Japan - Sumi Yukawa (in file photo taken in May 2005), antinuclear arms activist and widow of the first Japanese Nobel prize winning physicist Hideki Yukawa, died at her home in Kyoto of stomach cancer on May 14, her family said. She was 96.

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Hankyu hopes to resolve talks with Murakami Fund by mid-May

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Osaka on May 8. He said Hankyu will seek to settle stalled negotiations over the purchase of the so-called Murakami Fund's stake in Hanshin Electric Railway Co. by the middle of May.

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UNESCO honors late Nobel laureate Yukawa

KYOTO, Japan - The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization honored Japan's late Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa with special UNESCO medals on May 17, 2005, two years before the centenary of his birth in 2007. Sumi Yukawa, his widow, shows the medals given to her husband who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 to become the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel prize.

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(2)Japanese jailed for helping N. Koreans released, leaves China

NARITA, Japan - Takashi Noguchi (L) is welcomed by his mother Sumi at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Aug. 9 after arriving from the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China. Earlier in the day, Noguchi was released from a prison in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China. Noguchi was sentenced to eight months in prison and fined 20,000 yuan (about 260,000 yen) on June 28 for helping North Koreans who entered China go to a third country.

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Documentary on WWII female student corps screened in Okinawa

NAHA, Japan, June 14 Kyodo - Sumi Matsumoto, head of the Shiraume alumni association, speaks in Naha on June 14 at the preview of a documentary film on female high school students recruited as nurses to serve in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II. The film features interviews and testimonies by surviving members of the Shiraume student nurse corps on their experiences.

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Neighbors demand preserving old home of empress

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 1999 shows the former house of Empress Michiko, wife of Emperor Akihito, in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. A group of residents living near the house called for its preservation Nov. 1 to avoid having it torn down by the end of the month. ''Why hasten to tear it down? We've collected petitions from about 5,900 people as of Nov. 1,'' said Ikuo Sumi, leader of the group.

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UNESCO honors late Nobel laureate Yukawa

KYOTO, Japan - The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization honored Japan's late Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa with special UNESCO medals on May 17, 2005, two years before the centenary of his birth in 2007. Sumi Yukawa, his widow, shows the medals given for her husband who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 to become the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel prize. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu hopes to resolve talks with Murakami Fund by mid-May

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Osaka on May 8. He said Hankyu will seek to settle stalled negotiations over the purchase of the so-called Murakami Fund's stake in Hanshin Electric Railway Co. by the middle of May. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu to launch tender offer for Hanshin shares

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi (L) and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. President Kyoji Nishikawa (R) shake hands in Osaka on May 29. Hankyu Holdings said the same day it will launch a public tender offer May 30 for shares of Hanshin Electric, though it has yet to agree on the purchase price with Hanshin's largest shareholder, the Murakami Fund. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu not to change tender offer for Hanshin shares

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuo Sumi, president of Hankyu Holdings Inc., is surrounded by reporters at a hotel in Tokyo on June 2. He said, ''Hankyu Holdings has no plan to change the price of 930 yen per share or extend the 21-day period for the tender offer that started Tuesday.'' (Kyodo)

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Hankyu, Hanshin to consider merger of department store chains

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in an interview with Kyodo News and other media organizations in Osaka on June 8. Sumi said his firm and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. may consider a merger between their department store chains as part of their planned management integration in October. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu to acquire 64% stake in Hanshin for 250 bil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuo Sumi (L), president of Hankyu Holdings Inc., and Shinya Sakai, managing director and president-designate of Hanshin Electric Railway Co, shake hands after a joint news conference in Osaka on June 20. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu to acquire 64% stake in Hanshin for 250 bil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuo Sumi (L), president of Hankyu Holdings Inc., and Shinya Sakai, managing director and president-designate of Hanshin Electric Railway Co, shake hands after a joint news conference in Osaka on June 20. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu to acquire 64% stake in Hanshin for 250 bil. yen

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuo Sumi (L), president of Hankyu Holdings Inc., speaks at a news conference in Osaka on June 20 about the company's public tender offer for Hanshin Electric Railway Co. At right is Shinya Sakai, managing director and president-designate of Hanshin Electric Railway. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu Hanshin Holdings set up

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Holdings Inc. and Hanshin Electric Railway Co. merged into Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc. on Oct. 1, creating Japan's third-largest railway operator excluding the nationwide Japan Railway group. The new holding company President Kazuo Sumi (L) and Representative Director Shinya Sakai (R) attended a management integration committee meeting in Osaka the same day. (Kyodo)

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Hankyu, Hanshin department stores to integrate under holding fir

OSAKA, Japan - Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc. President Kazuo Sumi (L), accompanied by his aide Shiunya Sakai, speaks at a press conference at an Osaka hotel on March 26. He said that Hankyu Department Stores Inc. and Hanshin Department Stores Ltd. will integrate operations on Oct. 1 under a holding firm to be formed from what is now Hankyu Department Stores. (Kyodo)

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Tokio Marine & Nichido to reshuffle top management

TOKYO, Japan - Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., reeling from a scandal involving nonpayment of insurance benefits, has decided to reshuffle its top management with Shuzo Sumi (in file photo), senior management director, replacing Kunio Ishihara as president, informed sources said on April 12. Ishihara will become chairman without the right to represent the company, the sources said. (Kyodo)

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Nonlife insurers punish execs over failures to pay benefits

TOKYO, Japan - President Kunio Ishihara (L) and Senior Managing Director Shuzo Sumi (R) of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. bow in apology at a news conference in Tokyo on April 13 where the insurer said it will punish senior executives over failure to pay due insurance benefits. Ishihara is stepping down and will be replaced by Sumi. (Kyodo)

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Tokio Marine President Ishihara to resign over nonpayment scanda

TOKYO, Japan - Shuzo Sumi, senior managing director of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., speaks at a press conference on April 13 after being appointed to replace Kunio Ishihara as president. Japan's leading property and casualty insurer has been under fire for nonpayment of insurance benefits to policyholders. (Kyodo)

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Tokio Marine President Ishihara to resign over nonpayment scanda

TOKYO, Japan - Kunio Ishihara (L), president of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., speaks at a press conference on April 13 after the company decided to promote Senior Managing Director Shuzo Sumi (R) to president in late June. Ishihara will become chairman without the right to represent the company, which has been under fire for nonpayment of insurance benefits to policyholders. (Kyodo)

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Tokio Marine to acquire U.S. nonlife insurer for $4.7 billion

TOKYO, Japan - Shuzo Sumi, president of Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on July 23 about a plan to acquire all outstanding shares of U.S. nonlife insurer Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. for $4.7 billion (498.7 billion yen). (Kyodo)

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1-year countdown to Vancouver Games begins in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Vancouver Winter Olympics mascots -- (from L to R) Quatchi, Miga and Sumi -- take part in a one-year-countdown event for the Olympics at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo on Feb. 12. (Kyodo)

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Nara craftspeople struggle to boost 'sumi' ink industry

NARA, Japan - This photo shows a half-solidified ball of Japanese ''sumi'' black ink put in a wooden mould to cast square blocks of sumi for sale. (Kyodo)

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Nara craftspeople struggle to boost 'sumi' ink industry

NARA, Japan - Eiji Matsuda, a Japanese ''sumi'' black ink craftsman, sits near a box containing blocks of solidified sumi ink for sale at the workplace of Boku-undo Co. in the city of Nara on March 17. (Kyodo)