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Documentary filmmaker Himeda

TOKYO, Japan - An April 1986 file photo shows Tadayoshi Himeda, a Japanese documentary filmmaker considered a pioneer in recording disappearing cultures. Himeda died on July 29, 2013, of chronic lung illness at a hospital in Yokohama city near Tokyo. He was 84 years old.

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Monument for eternal memory of tsunami

OTSUCHI, Japan - Yusaku Yoshida (L), a 16-year-old high school student in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, and Tadayoshi Oguni, deputy chief of the Ando district neighborhood association, stand in front of a wooden monument Yoshida erected on a hill there on March 11, 2013 to indefinitely remember the devastating tsunami that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku exactly two years earlier.

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Last family moves out of temporary quake evacuee houses

NAGAOKA, Japan - Tadayoshi Nagashima, a member of the House of Representatives, takes his family's belongings from one of the temporary housing units set up in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, for thousands of evacuees from a nearby village after the massive earthquake in 2004. The temporary housing units were closed the same day after the family of Nagashima, who was mayor of the village at the time of the quake, moved out.

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Opposition leaders urge Abe to sack defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Communist Party Secretary General Tadayoshi Ichida, Democratic Party of Japan Acting President Hayato Kan and Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima (L to R) attend a rally at the No. 2 House of Representatives Members Hall in Tokyo and demand that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sack Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma over remarks he made over the weekend that appear to justify the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II.

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Panel proposes record wage cuts for gov't employees

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayoshi Nakajima (L), president of the National Personnel Authority (NPA), hands NPA recommendations to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's office on Aug. 8. The authority proposed record wage cuts for central government employees to make the levels commensurate with sagging private-sector wages.

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(2)JCP policy chief Fudesaka quits over sexual harassment

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayoshi Ichida, head of the Japanese Communist Party Secretariat, speaks to reporters in the Diet in Tokyo on June 24 about the resignation of JCP policy chief Hideyo Fudesaka. Fudesaka resigned from the House of Councillors to take responsibility for a sexual harassment scandal.

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Japan wins in equestrian team jumping

PUSAN, South Korea - Japan wins in the equestrian team jumping in the Asian Games in Pusan on Oct. 12. (From L to R) Kenji Morimoto, Osamu Komiyama, Tadayoshi Hayashi and Eiji Okazaki. (Asian Games)

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State employees to see 1st pay cut

TOKYO, Japan - National Personnel Authority chief Tadayoshi Nakajima (L) hands to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Aug. 8 a paper recommending a 2.03% wage cut in monthly pay for central government employees for the current fiscal year. It is the first time for the authority to recommend a wage cut since the current recommendation system started in 1948.

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Labor union chief Sasamori meets the media

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Sasamori (C), new president of Japan's largest labor organization, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 5, flanked by acting President Yoshiyuki Ohara (L) and General Secretary Tadayoshi Kusano (R). Rengo provides a major support base for the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

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Opposition leaders urge Abe to sack defense minister

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Communist Party Secretary General Tadayoshi Ichida, Democratic Party of Japan Acting President Hayato Kan and Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima (L to R) attend a rally at the No. 2 House of Representatives Members Hall in Tokyo and demand that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sack Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma over remarks he made over the weekend that appear to justify the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan in World War II. (Kyodo)

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Labor union chief Sasamori meets the media

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoshi Sasamori (C), new president of Japan's largest labor organization, the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo), speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 5, flanked by acting President Yoshiyuki Ohara (L) and General Secretary Tadayoshi Kusano (R). Rengo provides a major support base for the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan.

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State employees to see 1st pay cut

TOKYO, Japan - National Personnel Authority chief Tadayoshi Nakajima (L) hands to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Aug. 8 a paper recommending a 2.03% wage cut in monthly pay for central government employees for the current fiscal year. It is the first time for the authority to recommend a wage cut since the current recommendation system started in 1948. (Kyodo)

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Counting compensation money for murder of Mr Richardson

Sketches in Japan: Counting the compensation money for the murder of Mr Richardson. Charles Lennox Richardson was a Yokohama based merchant who was killed by a large armed retinue of Shimazu Hisamitsu, the regent and father of Shimazu Tadayoshi, the daimyo of Satsuma. The Namamugi Incident, (also known sometimes as the Kanagawa Incident, and as the Richardson Affair) was a samurai assault on foreign nationals in Japan on September 14, 1862, which resulted in the August 1863 bombardment of Kagoshima, during the Late Tokugawa shogunate. In Japanese the bombardment is described as a war between the United Kingdom and Satsuma domain, the Anglo-Satsuma War. The picture shows the Japanese paying out compensation in the aftermath of the war. Date: 1863

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Last family moves out of temporary quake evacuee houses

NAGAOKA, Japan - Tadayoshi Nagashima, a member of the House of Representatives, takes his family's belongings from one of the temporary housing units set up in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, for thousands of evacuees from a nearby village after the massive earthquake in 2004. The temporary housing units were closed the same day after the family of Nagashima, who was mayor of the village at the time of the quake, moved out. (Kyodo)

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Former vice reconstruction minister Nagashima dies at 66

Japanese lawmaker Tadayoshi Nagashima, seen in this photo taken in November 2014, died of multiple organ failure in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, on Aug. 18, 2017, at age 66. Nagashima became a senior vice reconstruction minister after working on the restoration of a village hit by a major earthquake in Niigata. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Panel proposes record wage cuts for gov't employees

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayoshi Nakajima (L), president of the National Personnel Authority (NPA), hands NPA recommendations to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi at the prime minister's office on Aug. 8. The authority proposed record wage cuts for central government employees to make the levels commensurate with sagging private-sector wages. (Kyodo)

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(2)JCP policy chief Fudesaka quits over sexual harassment

TOKYO, Japan - Tadayoshi Ichida, head of the Japanese Communist Party Secretariat, speaks to reporters in the Diet in Tokyo on June 24 about the resignation of JCP policy chief Hideyo Fudesaka. Fudesaka resigned from the House of Councillors to take responsibility for a sexual harassment scandal.

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JCP reorganizes leadership

ATAMI, Japan - Tetsuzo Fuwa (C), who became chairman of the Japanese Communist Party's (JCP's) Central Committee at a party convention that closed Nov. 24 in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, meets the press, along with Kazuo Shii (L), who replaced Fuwa as Presidium chairman, and Tadayoshi Ichida, who succeeded Shii as head of the Secretariat.