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Survivor of 1994 AUM gas attack in Nagano dies in coma

NAGANO, Japan - In this file photo taken on March 4, Yoshiyuki Kono takes care of his wife Sumiko, who survived an AUM Shinrikyo cult sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, in 1994 but was left bedridden and comatose. Sumiko Kono died on Aug. 5 of respiratory failure. She was 60.

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Kanrin Maru crew descendants meet grandson of U.S. savior

WASHINGTON, United States - George Brooke (L) and Sumiko Gomi pose in Lexington, Virginia, on Oct. 7. Thirty-four Japanese, whose ancestors were aboard the Kanrin Maru, Japan's first modern warship to cross the Pacific Ocean, visited there to express their appreciation to Brooke, the grandson of Lt. John Brooke who had helped the crewmembers during their difficult voyage 145 years ago. Gomi, 82, is a great-granddaughter of Kanrin Maru's Captain Katsu Kaishu.

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Mayor visits victim of sarin attack ahead of 11th anniversary

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Sumiko Kono, who was one of the 144 people injured in the 1994 sarin gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult in the central Japan city of Matsumoto, lies unconscious in bed as Matsumoto Mayor Akira Sugenoya (C) and her husband Yoshiyuki Kono hold her in the arm at a welfare facility for the disabled in Matsumoto on June 26. The mayor visited her ahead of the attack's 11th anniversary on June 27.

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(11)Princess Sayako formally engaged to Kuroda in traditional rite

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Kuroda, who is to marry Princess Sayako, and his mother Sumiko wait for their car after their meeting with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the Imperial Residence on March 19. (Pool photo)

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(9)Princess Sayako formally engaged to Kuroda in traditional rite

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Kuroda, accompanied by his mother Sumiko, arrives at the Imperial Palace on March 19 for a meeting with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko following his formal engagement to Princess Sayako earlier in the day.

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(2)7 dead at 2 Hyogo Pref. homes, relative confesses to killing

KAKOGAWA, Japan - Police officers inspect the house of Toshihiko Fujishiro, 64, in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 2 after Toshihiko, his wife Sumiko, son Shinichi and daughter Midori were found stabbed to death there. Three other people were also found stabbed to death at a nearby house.

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(1)7 dead at 2 Hyogo Pref. homes, relative confesses to killing

OSAKA, Japan - Aerial photo shows the house of Toshiko Fujishiro (1) and that of Toshihiko Fujishiro (2) in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture. Toshiko and her sons Katsunori and Yoshihisa were found stabbed to death at Toshiko's house on Aug. 2, while Toshihiko, his wife Sumiko, son Shinichi, and daughter Midori were found stabbed to death at Toshihiko's house.

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Japan takes 2nd at women's 4x5-km relay

OWANI, Japan - Members of Japan's women's 4x5-km relay for the Winter Asian Games -- (from L to R) Chizuru Soneta, Sumiko Yokoyama, Nobuko Fukuda and Madoka Natsumi -- pose with their silver medals at the Aomori Ajara Cross-Country Course in Owani on Feb. 6.

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Former top economic planner Takahara dies

TOKYO, Japan - Sumiko Takahara (file photo), former head of the Economic Planning Agency and former president of Japanese baseball's Central League, died Aug. 19 from a lymphatic tumor at a Tokyo hospital. She was 68.

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Ex-construction vice minister takes over as CL president

TOKYO, Japan - Former Construction Vice Minister Hajime Toyokura is named the new president of Japanese professional baseball's Central League on Dec. 18. Toyokura replaces Sumiko Takahara, who decided earlier this month to resign because of an ongoing battle with cancer. Toyokura joined the Construction Ministry in 1953 and was name vice minister in 1985.

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Iwao addresses U.N. session on women

NEW YORK, United States - Sumiko Iwao, professor emeritus at Keio University and the chief Japanese delegate, addresses a special U.N. General Assembly session on women as one of key speakers at the opening session June 5.

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Rescuers search for those trapped in rubble of Taipei building

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Rescuers on Sept. 23 search for people trapped under the rubble of a building in Taipei's Songshan district that collapsed in a powerful earthquake. The quake of magnitude 7.7 rocked central Taiwan on Sept. 21. Among scores of people still missing is Sumiko Yamamoto, 30, from Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture. She was living on the seventh floor of the 12-story Tunghsing Building with her husband Shih Chao-yang.

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(11)Princess Sayako formally engaged to Kuroda in traditional ri

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Kuroda, who is to marry Princess Sayako, and his mother Sumiko wait for their car after their meeting with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko at the Imperial Residence on March 19. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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(9)Princess Sayako formally engaged to Kuroda in traditional rit

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshiki Kuroda, accompanied by his mother Sumiko, arrives at the Imperial Palace on March 19 for a meeting with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko following his formal engagement to Princess Sayako earlier in the day. (Kyodo)

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THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA aka NARAYAMA-BUSHI-KO

THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA aka NARAYAMA-BUSHI-KO KEN OGATA, SUMIKO SAKAMOTO Date: 1958

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THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA aka NARAYAMA-BUSHI-KO

THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA aka NARAYAMA-BUSHI-KO SUMIKO SAKAMOTO Date: 1958

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THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA aka NARAYAMA-BUSHI-KO

THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA aka NARAYAMA-BUSHI-KO KEN OGATA carrying SUMIKO SAKAMOTO Date: 1958

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Housewife to resume memorial service for sunken ships in Hokkaido

Sumiko Mikami, a housewife and survivor of the 1945 sinking of three Japanese refugee transport ships by Soviet submarines near Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido a week after the end of World War II, says at a cenotaph for some 1,700 victims in Obira, northeastern Hokkaido, on July 16, 2015, that she will resume a memorial service after a hiatus of five years. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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82-year-old DJ puts unique spin on Tokyo's club scene

Eighty-two-year-old DJ Sumiko Iwamuro cooks at a family-run dumpling restaurant on May 2, 2017. She works there in daytime before hitting the stage at night and says the multitasking of cooking and spinning turntables is similar. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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82-year-old DJ puts unique spin on Tokyo's club scene

Sumiko Iwamuro, 82, spins her beats and rocks a wild crowd at a club in Tokyo's Kabukicho red-light district on May 27, 2017. The octogenarian DJ is proof that age never matters and says there is much more awaiting in life ahead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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82-year-old DJ puts unique spin on Tokyo's club scene

Sumiko Iwamuro, 82, spins her beats and rocks a wild crowd at a club in Tokyo's Kabukicho red-light district on May 27, 2017. The octogenarian DJ is proof that age never matters and says there is much more awaiting in life ahead. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hokkaido pizza wins grand prix at pizza contest in Japan

Sumiko Hamahira (L), a dentist in Kagoshima hailing from Hokkaido, receives the winner's plaque from JC Comsa Corp. head Aiko Okawara in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2015, after her pizza won the grand prix in the Japan local-food-pizza championship. Hamaoka used lamb produced in Hokkaido and watercress for her prize-winning pizza in the contest organized by JC Comsa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Survivor of 1994 AUM gas attack in Nagano dies in coma

NAGANO, Japan - In this file photo taken on March 4, Yoshiyuki Kono takes care of his wife Sumiko, who survived an AUM Shinrikyo cult sarin gas attack in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, in 1994 but was left bedridden and comatose. Sumiko Kono died on Aug. 5 of respiratory failure. She was 60. (Kyodo)

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Mayor visits victim of sarin attack ahead of 11th anniversary

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Sumiko Kono, who was one of the 144 people injured in the 1994 sarin gas attack by the AUM Shinrikyo cult in the central Japan city of Matsumoto, lies unconscious in bed as Matsumoto Mayor Akira Sugenoya (C) and her husband Yoshiyuki Kono hold her in the arm at a welfare facility for the disabled in Matsumoto on June 26. The mayor visited her ahead of the attack's 11th anniversary on June 27. (Kyodo)

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Kanrin Maru crew descendants meet grandson of U.S. savior

WASHINGTON, United States - George Brooke (L) and Sumiko Gomi pose in Lexington, Virginia, on Oct. 7. Thirty-four Japanese, whose ancestors were aboard the Kanrin Maru, Japan's first modern warship to cross the Pacific Ocean, visited there to express their appreciation to Brooke, the grandson of Lt. John Brooke who had helped the crewmembers during their difficult voyage 145 years ago. Gomi, 82, is a great-granddaughter of Kanrin Maru's Captain Katsu Kaishu. (Kyodo)

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American man seeking info about photos of ex-Japanese soldier

SHIZUOKA, Japan - California lawyer Steve Lopardo is trying to obtain information about a pair of card-sized photos he has of former Japanese soldier Taizo Sakai and his family through an acquaintance of the American man in Japan, hoping to have them returned to Sakai's family. One of the photos (shown here) is of the former Imperial Japanese Army sergeant, his wife Sumiko and their child. (Kyodo)

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Rescue work resumed in Taipei

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Heavy construction machinery is used in Taipei's Sungshan district on the morning of Sept. 25 to rescue about 50 people, including a Japanese woman, Sumiko Yamamoto, still unaccounted for following the collapse of a high-rise building due to the Sept. 21 major earthquake that hit hard central Taiwan.

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Japan's Princess Kako at quilt show

Japanese Princess Kako (L) talks with Sumiko Nagami, winner of the grand prize at the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival, as she visits the event at Tokyo Dome on Jan. 23, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)7 dead at 2 Hyogo Pref. homes, relative confesses to killing

KAKOGAWA, Japan - Police officers inspect the house of Toshihiko Fujishiro, 64, in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture, on Aug. 2 after Toshihiko, his wife Sumiko, son Shinichi and daughter Midori were found stabbed to death there. Three other people were also found stabbed to death at a nearby house. (Kyodo)

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(1)7 dead at 2 Hyogo Pref. homes, relative confesses to killing

OSAKA, Japan - Aerial photo shows the house of Toshiko Fujishiro (1) and that of Toshihiko Fujishiro (2) in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture. Toshiko and her sons Katsunori and Yoshihisa were found stabbed to death at Toshiko's house on Aug. 2, while Toshihiko, his wife Sumiko, son Shinichi, and daughter Midori were found stabbed to death at Toshihiko's house. (Kyodo)

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Japan takes 3rd at women's 4x5-km relay

OWANI, Japan - Members of Japan's women's 4x5-km relay for the Winter Asian Games -- (from L to R) Chizuru Soneta, Sumiko Yokoyama, Nobuko Fukuda and Madoka Natsumi -- pose with their bronze medals at the Aomori Ajara Cross-Country Course in Owani on Feb. 6. (Kyodo)

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Former top economic planner Takahara dies

TOKYO, Japan - Sumiko Takahara (file photo), former head of the Economic Planning Agency and former president of Japanese baseball's Central League, died Aug. 19 from a lymphatic tumor at a Tokyo hospital. She was 68.

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Ex-construction vice minister takes over as CL president

TOKYO, Japan - Former Construction Vice Minister Hajime Toyokura is named the new president of Japanese professional baseball's Central League on Dec. 18. Toyokura replaces Sumiko Takahara, who decided earlier this month to resign because of an ongoing battle with cancer. Toyokura joined the Construction Ministry in 1953 and was name vice minister in 1985.

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Iwao addresses U.N. session on women

NEW YORK, United States - Sumiko Iwao, professor emeritus at Keio University and the chief Japanese delegate, addresses a special U.N. General Assembly session on women as one of key speakers at the opening session June 5.