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Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

YOKOHAMA, Japan, Aug. 26 Kyodo - Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata, deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

(from L) Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

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Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

(from L) Takashi Koike, head of the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office's public security bureau, Hiroshi Ichikawa, deputy chief prosecutor of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, and Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bow in apology to the bereaved family of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's lawyer. Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died next year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

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Police, prosecutors apologize at grave of wrongfully accused man

Tetsuro Kamata (C), deputy superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, and prosecutors apologize at the grave of Shizuo Aishima, a former adviser to machinery maker Ohkawara Kakohki Co., in Yokohama on Aug. 25, 2025, alongside Aishima's two sons (back). Aishima was wrongfully accused of the unauthorized export of sensitive equipment in 2020 and died the following year at age 72 without being granted bail. (Pool photo)

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Tokyo police punish 19 over wrongful arrests

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Yuji Sakoda, superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2025, after the Tokyo police made public disciplinary measures against 19 high-ranking members over the wrongful arrests and indictments of three men in 2020 in connection with a case involving the suspected unauthorized export of sensitive equipment. (Kyodo)

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Tokyo police punish 19 over wrongful arrests

Yuji Sakoda, superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, bows during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2025, after the Tokyo police made public disciplinary measures against 19 high-ranking members over the wrongful arrests and indictments of three men in 2020 in connection with a case involving the suspected unauthorized export of sensitive equipment.

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Tokyo police punish 19 over wrongful arrests

Yuji Sakoda, superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2025, after the Tokyo police made public disciplinary measures against 19 high-ranking members over the wrongful arrests and indictments of three men in 2020 in connection with a case involving the suspected unauthorized export of sensitive equipment.

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Tokyo police chief

Yuji Sakoda, superintendent general of Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, speaks at a commencement ceremony of the Metropolitan Police Academy in Fuchu in western Tokyo, on May 7, 2025.

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New Tokyo police chief

Yuji Sakoda, the new superintendent general of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, attends an inaugural press conference at the department's headquarters in the Japanese capital on Jan. 28, 2025.

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Chinese firm donates equipment to support Ghanaian hospital's efforts to treat diabetes

STORY: Chinese firm donates equipment to support Ghanaian hospital's efforts to treat diabetes SHOOTING TIME: March 14, 2024 DATELINE: March 16, 2024 LENGTH: 00:03:08 LOCATION: Accra CATEGORY: SOCIETY/HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the donating ceremony 2. various of the hospital 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): AKUA GYIMAH-ASANTE, Medical superintendent of the LEKMA Hospital in Accra 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): AKUA GYIMAH-ASANTE, Medical superintendent of the LEKMA Hospital in Accra 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): QU HONGYING, Director of the Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital STORYLINE: A Chinese medical company on Thursday donated an assortment of medical equipment to the LEKMA Hospital in Accra, the capital of Ghana, to support its efforts to treat complications caused by diabetes. Weigao Medical Ghana Limited donated ultra-modern equipment to enable the hospital to set up a center to treat diabetic foot and chronic wounds mainly caused by diabetes. Akua Gyimah-Asante, medical superintendent of the hospi

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Anti-terrorism efforts ahead of G-7 summit

Superintendent General Hiroshi Kojima, who heads the the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, speaks at a meeting held jointly with the Tokyo government to mull measures to prevent terrorism ahead of the upcoming Group of Seven summit in the western Japan city of Hiroshima, on April 19, 2023, in Tokyo.

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Tokyo police deputy chief at cyber security seminar

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Taneya, deputy superintendent-general of the Metropolitan Police Department, addresses a cybersecurity seminar in Tokyo on June 10, 2014.

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Kennedy visits Tokyo police

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) shakes hands with Yasuhiko Nishimura, superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, during her visit to its headquarters in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2014.

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Tokyo police award officers for soccer crowd control

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken from video footage shows a police officer who used humor in urging jubilant soccer fans to maintain order outside Tokyo's JR Shibuya Station on the evening of June 4, 2013, after Japan's national team qualified for their fifth World Cup finals. He was dubbed by Internet users as "DJ police." The Metropolitan Police Department awarded him and another officer on June 13 the Superintendent General Award for skillfully directing crowds of soccer fans.

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Tokyo police award officers for soccer crowd control

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows supporters walking at a diagonal crossing in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on June 4, 2013, after Japan's national team qualified for their fifth World Cup finals. The Metropolitan Police Department awarded two officers on June 13 the Superintendent General Award for skillfully directing crowds of soccer fans on June 4.

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Humorous policeman

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a riot police officer who used humor in urging masses of jubilant soccer fans to keep order outside Tokyo's JR Shibuya Station on the evening of June 4, 2013, after Japan's national team qualified for their fifth World Cup finals. After the officer was acclaimed among Internet users as "DJ police," the capital's police force said on June 10, 2013, that they may give him the Tokyo metropolitan police superintendent general's award.

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Tokyo, Seoul police join forces against int'l crime

TOKYO, Japan - Lee Mu Yong (L), head of the Seoul police department, and Kenji Maeda, superintendent general of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, shake hands after signing an agreement in Tokyo on Aug. 23 to cooperate in tackling international organized crime and the trafficking of weapons and drugs.

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Tokyo police hold New Year parade

Superintendent General Kiyotaka Takahashi, head of the Metropolitan Police Department, delivers a speech before some 2,800 personnel during the annual New Year parade by Tokyo police in the Japanese capital on Jan. 8, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Idol group Momoiro Clover Z at "dangerous drug" elimination event

Naoyoshi Takatsuna (L), superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, and Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe (R), pose with the members of Momoiro Clover Z, a Japanese five-girl idol group, during an event aimed at eliminating quasi-legal drugs, which have effects similar to illegal narcotics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo gov't, police, real estate body agree to fight drugs

Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe (2nd from R) and Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent General Naoyoshi Takatsuna (2nd from L) pose for photos in Tokyo on May 19, 2015, after they sealed a deal with Tokyo's real estate organization to help prevent the manufacture and sale of dangerous drugs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newly appointed MPD chief Takahashi speaks in interview

Kiyotaka Takahashi, appointed as the 92nd superintendent general of the Metropolitan Police Department, speaks in an interview at the National Police Agency on July 29, 2015. Takahashi will succeed Naoyoshi Takatsuna effective Aug. 4. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo police deputy chief at cyber security seminar

TOKYO, Japan - Ryoji Taneya, deputy superintendent-general of the Metropolitan Police Department, addresses a cybersecurity seminar in Tokyo on June 10, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Police dog awarded for locating gun that led to yakuza arrest

Police dog Moon Rocket is pictured during a ceremony in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2017, at which he received the Superintendent General's award from the Metropolitan Police Department for finding a hidden gun and bullets that led to the arrest of a crime syndicate member. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Police dog awarded for locating gun that led to yakuza arrest

Police dog Moon Rocket is pictured during a ceremony in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2017, at which he received the Superintendent General's award from the Metropolitan Police Department for finding a hidden gun and bullets that led to the arrest of a crime syndicate member. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tokyo, Seoul police join forces against int'l crime

TOKYO, Japan - Lee Mu Yong (L), head of the Seoul police department, and Kenji Maeda, superintendent general of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, shake hands after signing an agreement in Tokyo on Aug. 23 to cooperate in tackling international organized crime and the trafficking of weapons and drugs.