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UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 6:Brandon Moreno and Tasuro Taira meet in the octagon for a 3-round bout at UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2 at UFC Apex on December 6, 2025 in LAS VEGAS, NV (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages)

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UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 6:Brandon Moreno and Tasuro Taira meet in the octagon for a 3-round bout at UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2 at UFC Apex on December 6, 2025 in LAS VEGAS, NV (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages)

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UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 6:Brandon Moreno and Tasuro Taira meet in the octagon for a 3-round bout at UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2 at UFC Apex on December 6, 2025 in LAS VEGAS, NV (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages)

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UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 6:Brandon Moreno and Tasuro Taira meet in the octagon for a 3-round bout at UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2 at UFC Apex on December 6, 2025 in LAS VEGAS, NV (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages)

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UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 6:Brandon Moreno and Tasuro Taira meet in the octagon for a 3-round bout at UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2 at UFC Apex on December 6, 2025 in LAS VEGAS, NV (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages)

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UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 6:Brandon Moreno and Tasuro Taira meet in the octagon for a 3-round bout at UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2 at UFC Apex on December 6, 2025 in LAS VEGAS, NV (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages)

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UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 6:Brandon Moreno and Tasuro Taira meet in the octagon for a 3-round bout at UFC 323 - Dvalishvili vs Yan 2 at UFC Apex on December 6, 2025 in LAS VEGAS, NV (Photo by Louis Grasse/PxImages)

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Japan cybersecurity minister in Sydney

Masaaki Taira, Japanese minister in charge of cybersecurity, holds a press conference in Sydney on Aug. 26, 2025, following talks with Australian cybersecurity-related officials in Canberra.

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"Born From the Flame" exhibition in Kyiv

KYIV, UKRAINE - JANUARY 23, 2025 - A T-shirt of paramedic Yuliia Paievskyi ("Taira") is displayed at the "Born From the Flame" exhibition which celebrates Ukrainian military personnel, volunteers and medics at the Borys Paton State Polytechnic Museum of the National Technical University of Ukraine Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Kyiv, capital of Ukraine. (Photo by Volodymyr Tarasov/Ukrinform)

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Lineup of Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet

Masaaki Taira, who is set to become digital minister in the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, before his attestation in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.

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Rally in support of Ukrainian POWs in Vinnytsia

VINNYTSIA, UKRAINE - JULY 27, 2023 - Paramedic Yuliia Paievska (Taira) speaks at a rally in support of Ukrainian military personnel, missing persons, prisoners of war, medics and their families in Yevropeiska Square, Vinnytsia, west-central Ukraine.

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Rally in support of Ukrainian POWs in Vinnytsia

VINNYTSIA, UKRAINE - JULY 27, 2023 - Paramedic Yuliia Paievska (Taira) attends a rally in support of Ukrainian military personnel, missing persons, prisoners of war, medics and their families in Yevropeiska Square, Vinnytsia, west-central Ukraine.

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Rally in support of Ukrainian POWs in Vinnytsia

VINNYTSIA, UKRAINE - JULY 27, 2023 - Vinnytsia city head Serhii Morhunov, head of the Central Office of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War Yuliia Pryimak, paramedic Yuliia Paievska (Taira) and obstetrician-gynaecologist, reproductive specialist Serhii Baksheiev attend a rally in support of Ukrainian military personnel, missing persons, prisoners of war, medics and their families in Yevropeiska Square, Vinnytsia, west-central Ukraine.

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High school student reports on recovery event in Paris

TOKYO, Japan - Haruna Shiraiwa, a third-year student at Fukushima Prefectural Taira Commercial High School, reports in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2014, on "The Rebirth of Tohoku - WA," an event in Paris conducted by high school students from the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku to describe its recovery from the March 2011 disaster and promote the region's attractions.

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Citizens perform drama at shrine in western Japan

YAMAGUCHI, Japan - Citizens in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, perform an outdoor drama at Akama Shrine in the southwestern Japan city on Oct. 11, 2014. The stage play depicts well-known scenes related to the region from Japan's medieval war between the Taira and Genji clans.

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Masked men dance on Kagoshima Pref. island

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Men wearing paper masks perform a dance during the traditional Shodon Shibaya play on Kakeroma Island, Setouchi Town, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Oct. 2, 2014. It is said to have been taught by the Heike clan's Taira no Sukemori who built a house in Kakeroma's Shodon after losing the battle of "Gen-Pei."

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Sanada Yukimura museum to open in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - On May 20, 2014, in Osaka, Taira Sawada, an expert in Japanese guns, holds the ''Shukusha Zutsu'' matchlock believed to have used by Sanada Yukimura during the ''Osaka Natsu no Jin'' (The Summer Battle of Osaka) in 1615. Sawada announced the same day that a museum to exhibit items related to Yukimura will open in the western Japanese city on June 1.

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Seiko Matsuda to appear in NHK period drama

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2002 shows veteran Japanese singer Seiko Matsuda. Matsuda has been cast as Gion Nyogo in ''Taira no Kiyomori,'' NHK's period drama for 2012, which will be her first appearance in the yearlong drama series of the public broadcaster.

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Nagasaki high school students named peace ambassador

NAGASAKI, Japan - Haruka Saso (L) and Mikiko Taira were selected as two of the three student peace ambassadors for an atomic bomb exhibition in Turkey by a civic group in Nagasaki on Sept. 16, 2010. Saso and Taira will be dispatched to the event in October.

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Theater promotes rare Ryukyu dancing

NAHA, Japan - Noriko Taira (L) of the ''Ryukyu Dancing Theater Udoi'' in Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture, talks about dancing costumes on Aug. 16, 2009.

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All-Japan beetles sumo contest

SAGA, Japan - As one young participant watches with all the intensity of a bull fighter, two beetles lock horns in the All-Japan Beetles Sumo Contest held in Taira, Saga Prefecture on July 22. About 200 children from Saga and elsewhere took part in the tournament, bringing with them the prized beetles they breed. Under the rules of the contest, the beetle loses when it is roughed up by the opponent or when it gets scared and beats the retreat after the initial stare-off, a ritual common in sumo wrestling. The title this year went to a beetle bred by a 10-year-old boy, Atsushi Matsusaki from Kumamoto Prefecture, who said he won the contest in his third entry. ''I think I won because I always let my beetles fight against each other,'' he says proudly.

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Univ. of Tokyo fires professor, assistant for suspect research

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Hamada (L), executive vice president at the University of Tokyo, speaks about the dismissal of Professor Kazunari Taira and his assistant Hiroaki Kawasaki at a news conference at the university in Tokyo on Dec. 27. The two are suspected of having fabricated research papers on RNA.

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Suspicions over professor's results 1st surfaced years ago

TOKYO, Japan - Kazunari Taira (back L), professor at the University of Tokyo, and Hiroaki Kawasaki (back R), his assistant, respond to questions on Jan. 27 from reporters about allegations that their research team fabricated research on RNA.

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Panel concludes professor faked research papers

TOKYO, Japan - Kazunari Taira, a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering, speaks during a news conference at the university on Jan. 27. The university's investigative panel released a report the same day on the research, indicating the professor fabricated research papers, although the professor said the report was the product of a misunderstanding.

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3 adults, 2 children strangled in Gifu home

NAGOYA, Japan - Aerial photo of the house of municipal government employee Taira Hara in Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, where five family members were found strangled Feb. 27. Hara, believed in critical condition after being found with a knife in his neck, was quoted as telling police he was responsible.

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Emperor, empress visit Okinawa's Sakishima Islands

TAIRA, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko, now on a tour of Okinawa Prefecture, arrive at Miyako airport from Naha for their first visit to the Sakishima Islands.

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Tourists enjoy traditional horse race

HARA, Japan - About 30,000 tourists enjoy the celebrated ''Soma-noma-oi'' horse race at the Hibarigahara field in the town of Hara, Fukushima Prefecture, on July 24. The annual event dates from the days of medieval warrior Taira no Masakado (?-940), the ruler of the Kanto region in eastern Japan, who encouraged his men to chase wide horses for routine training.

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Okinawa asks Koizumi to help revitalize tourism industry

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (L) is in talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) at the latter's office Nov. 7, 2001 to ask for help to revitalize the tourism industry in the island prefecture following widespread travel cancellations in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Inamine was accompanied by Okinawa-born actress Tomi Taira (R).

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DKB, J.P. Morgan to set up trust venture

Taira Hosaka (3rd from L), senior managing director of Japan's Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (DKB), shakes hands with Keith M. Schappert, president of J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc.of the United States, in Tokyo on Oct. 1. DKB and J.P. Morgan and Co. agreed to set up a joint investment trust venture early next year as part of a broad capital tie-up between the two banks. DKB will be the first of Japan's nine major commercial banks to form a capital tie-up with a foreign financial institution.

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Okinawa asks Koizumi to help revitalize tourism industry

TOKYO, Japan - Okinawa Gov. Keiichi Inamine (L) is in talks with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (C) at the latter's office Nov. 7, 2001 to ask for help to revitalize the tourism industry in the island prefecture following widespread travel cancellations in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Inamine was accompanied by Okinawa-born actress Tomi Taira (R).

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3 adults, 2 children strangled in Gifu home

NAGOYA, Japan - Aerial photo of the house of municipal government employee Taira Hara in Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, where five family members were found strangled Feb. 27. Hara, believed in critical condition after being found with a knife in his neck, was quoted as telling police he was responsible. (Kyodo)

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Panel concludes professor faked research papers

TOKYO, Japan - Kazunari Taira, a professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering, speaks during a news conference at the university on Jan. 27. The university's investigative panel released a report the same day on the research, indicating the professor fabricated research papers, although the professor said the report was the product of a misunderstanding. (Kyodo)

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SF Giants bullpen catcher Uematsu at MLB All-Star event

The San Francisco Giants' bullpen catcher Taira Uematsu adjusts his gear in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 13, 2015, the eve of the MLB All-Star Game. It was his third All-Star event appearance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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From high school nightmare to living the dream

Veteran San Francisco Giants bullpen catcher Taira Uematsu speaks after practice with the Netherlands' national team at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 9, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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All-Japan beetles sumo contest

SAGA, Japan - As one young participant watches with all the intensity of a bull fighter, two beetles lock horns in the All-Japan Beetles Sumo Contest held in Taira, Saga Prefecture on July 22. About 200 children from Saga and elsewhere took part in the tournament, bringing with them the prized beetles they breed. Under the rules of the contest, the beetle loses when it is roughed up by the opponent or when it gets scared and beats the retreat after the initial stare-off, a ritual common in sumo wrestling. The title this year went to a beetle bred by a 10-year-old boy, Atsushi Matsusaki from Kumamoto Prefecture, who said he won the contest in his third entry. ''I think I won because I always let my beetles fight against each other,'' he says proudly. (Kyodo)

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Univ. of Tokyo fires professor, assistant for suspect research

TOKYO, Japan - Junichi Hamada (L), executive vice president at the University of Tokyo, speaks about the dismissal of Professor Kazunari Taira and his assistant Hiroaki Kawasaki at a news conference at the university in Tokyo on Dec. 27. The two are suspected of having fabricated research papers on RNA. (Kyodo)

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A five-story pagoda,Asakusa

The five-story pagoda viewed from Benten Pond. The original is said to have been built by Awanokami Taira-no-Kinmasa in 942. The pagoda in this photograph was rebuilt in 1648 and designated a National Treasure in 1911, but it burned to the ground during 1945 air raids (together with the sutra depository). The present day five-story pagoda was erected in 1973. This photograph was taken in the second decade of the Meiji Period (1877-1887), probably by Stillfried.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐25‐0]

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Miyajima Island,Aki

Itsukushima Shinto Shrine was completed by Taira-no-Kiyomori during the Heian Period, and its splendor is still intact today. The Gakubo and Kadomarodo shrines are viewed from the western side of the Hirabutai stage in the main shrine building. In the distance is Toyokuni Shrine (Senjokaku Hall) on Tonooka Hill with cherry trees in full bloom and the five-story pagoda (Important Cultural Asset) constructed in 1407. On the left is the grass-covered Mt. Kamei.==Date:unknown, Place:Miyajima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐41‐0]

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Daibutsu (the Great Buddha),Hyogo

The Great Buddha of Nofukuji Temple (present-day Hyogo Ward) taken in the latter half of the Meiji Period. This is an important Tendai Sect temple and is a place remembered in connection with Taira Kiyomori, who traded with Sung Dynasty China in the latter part of the Heian Period. After the opening of the port of Kobe, Christianity gained popularity. This statue of Vairocana Buddha was unveiled on March 15, 1891 as part of an effort to revive Buddhism. The statue attracted people to the faith and gained fame among foreigners as well.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number56‐18‐0]

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A shrine

Kanda Myojin Shrine prospered under the protection of the Tokugawa Shogunate as a guardian deity of Edo. Taira Masakado is enshrined here as the Oanamuchi-no-mikoto deity. The shrine moved to its current location (present-day Sotokanda 2-chome) from Surugadai in 1616. It was renamed Kanda Shinto Shrine in 1872. The Kanda Festival, one of the three major festivals in Tokyo, is held here every other year, formerly on September 15, now in May. This is a photograph of a sketch (probably stone print) made by a member of a Prussian expedition.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number55‐27‐2]

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ITSUKUSHIMA shrine

Itsukushima Shinto Shrine at Miyajima was built in 592, when Emperor Suiko succeeded to the throne. It served as a place of worship for the imperial family as well as for the daimyo (feudal lords) during the Warring State Period. At the end of the Heian Period, Taira-no-Kiyomori completed the shrine buildings that are still standing today.==Date:unknown, Place:Miyajima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number37‐15‐0]

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Miyajima Island,Aki

Itsukushima Shinto Shrine was completed by Taira-no-Kiyomori during the Heian Period, and its splendor is still intact today. The Gakubo and Kadomarodo shrines are viewed from the western side of the Hirabutai stage in the main shrine building. In the distance is Toyokuni Shrine (Senjokaku Hall) on Tonooka Hill with cherry trees in full bloom and the five-story pagoda (Important Cultural Asset) constructed in 1407. On the left is the grass-covered Mt. Kamei.==Date:unknown, Place:Miyajima, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number10‐33‐0]

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Kiyomorizuka mound

Taira Kiyomori died in 1181. His body was cremated in Atago and buried in Tsunegashima, an artificial island made by Kiyomori in Owadahaku (presently Hyogotsu). The exact location is unknown, but Tsukushima Temple in the present Hyogo district is said to console the spirits of the workers who were sacrificed as hitobashira (people buried as offerings to the deities at difficult construction sites) during the construction of the artificial island.==Date:unknown, Place:Hyogo, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number9‐36‐0]

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Nagoya Castle

Taira Castle is located in Nakaku, Nagoya city. It was the residence of the Owari Tokugawa family. The castle tower can be seen from the outside of the moat. The castle tower was built by the Sakuji Bugyo (construction prefect) Kobori Enshu in 1612, and was destroyed by fire during the war in 1945. The present castle was restored in 1959. It is a five-story building from the outside, with one stone storage story, 5 stories above the stone walls, and a tower in the shoki soto (layered tower) style.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagoya, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐45‐0]

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The thousand Kannon images in Sanjusangendo Temple

The Sanjusangendo in Higashiyama-ku of Kyoto City. The temple enshrines the thousand Kannons offered by Taira Kiyomori at the request of the ex-Emperor Goshirakawa. The thousand Buddhas (wooden statues of thousand-handed Kannon, actually 1001 statues in all) are based on the anclent theory that if a ruler creates many Buddhas, the whole nation will be promised happiness. There are 500 statues in ten rows on both sides of the principal image of the seated thousand-handed Kannon, and one in the back. The inscription in the bottom reads 10000 .==Date:unknown, Place:Kyoto, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number1‐24‐0]

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Nagasaki high school students named peace ambassador

NAGASAKI, Japan - Haruka Saso (L) and Mikiko Taira were selected as two of the three student peace ambassadors for an atomic bomb exhibition in Turkey by a civic group in Nagasaki on Sept. 16, 2010. Saso and Taira will be dispatched to the event in October. (Kyodo)

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Seiko Matsuda to appear in NHK period drama

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2002 shows veteran Japanese singer Seiko Matsuda. Matsuda has been cast as Gion Nyogo in ''Taira no Kiyomori,'' NHK's period drama for 2012, which will be her first appearance in the yearlong drama series of the public broadcaster. (Kyodo)

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High school student reports on recovery event in Paris

TOKYO, Japan - Haruna Shiraiwa, a third-year student at Fukushima Prefectural Taira Commercial High School, reports in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2014, on "The Rebirth of Tohoku - WA," an event in Paris conducted by high school students from the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku to describe its recovery from the March 2011 disaster and promote the region's attractions. (Kyodo)

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Karate: Japan kata team at world championships

(From L) Mai Mugiyama, Sae Taira and Saori Ishibashi of Japan raise their trophy after winning the women's karate kata team competition at the world championships in Madrid on Nov. 11, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Karate: Japan kata team at world championships

(From L) Mai Mugiyama, Sae Taira and Saori Ishibashi of Japan raise their trophy after winning the women's karate kata team competition at the world championships in Madrid on Nov. 11, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo