Japan Mobility Show 2025 Kia Press Briefing

Japan Mobility Show 2025 Kia Press Briefing

Japan Mobility Show 2025, Kia Press Briefing (Photo taken at Japan Mobility Show 2025). photo shows from left: Masayoshi Fujimoto, Chairman of Sojitz Corporation; Yasunari Tajima, Representative Director and CEO of Kia PBV Japan; Kim Jande, Vice President of the PBV Business Division at Kia Corporation.=October 29,2025,Tokyo

Japan Mobility Show 2025 Kia Press Briefing

Japan Mobility Show 2025 Kia Press Briefing

Japan Mobility Show 2025, Kia Press Briefing (Photo taken at Japan Mobility Show 2025). photo shows Kia PBV Japan CEO Yasunari Tajima.=October 29,2025,Tokyo

Japan Mobility Show 2025 Kia Press Briefing

Japan Mobility Show 2025 Kia Press Briefing

Japan Mobility Show 2025, Kia Press Briefing (Photo taken at Japan Mobility Show 2025). photo shows, from left: Masayoshi Fujimoto, Chairman of Sojitz Corporation; Yasunari Tajima, Representative Director and CEO of Kia PBV Japan; Kim Jande, Vice President of the PBV Business Division at Kia Corporation.=October 29,2025,Tokyo

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao reacts after beating compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao reacts after beating compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao reacts after beating compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao (white) competes against compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao (white) competes against compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao (white) competes against compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao (white) competes against compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao (white) competes against compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Sanshiro Murao (white) competes against compatriot Goki Tajima in the men's 90-kilogram final at the world judo championships in Budapest on June 17, 2025.

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

South Korea’s golden medalist KIM Jonghoon, Georgia’s silver medalist MAISURADZE Luka, Japan’s bronze medalist TAJIMA Goki, and France’s bronze medalist MATHIEU Alexis look on during the 2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris finals at the Accor Arena in Paris on February 2, 2025. Photo by Firas Abdullah/ABACAPRESS.COM

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

South Korea’s golden medalist KIM Jonghoon, Georgia’s silver medalist MAISURADZE Luka, Japan’s bronze medalist TAJIMA Goki, and France’s bronze medalist MATHIEU Alexis look on during the 2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris finals at the Accor Arena in Paris on February 2, 2025. Photo by Firas Abdullah/ABACAPRESS.COM

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

Japan’s Goki Tajima completes against Estonia’s Klen Kristofer Kaljulaid during the 2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris finals at the Accor Arena in Paris on February 2, 2025. Photo by Firas Abdullah/ABACAPRESS.COM

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

Japan’s Goki Tajima completes against Estonia’s Klen Kristofer Kaljulaid during the 2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris finals at the Accor Arena in Paris on February 2, 2025. Photo by Firas Abdullah/ABACAPRESS.COM

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris - finals - FA

Japan’s Goki Tajima completes against Estonia’s Klen Kristofer Kaljulaid during the 2025 Judo Grand Slam Paris finals at the Accor Arena in Paris on February 2, 2025. Photo by Firas Abdullah/ABACAPRESS.COM

Space One rocket lifts off from private-sector launch pad

KUSHIMOTO, Japan, Dec. 18 Kyodo - The Kairos No. 2 rocket of Japanese startup Space One Co. soars after its liftoff from Space Port Kii, Japan's first private-sector launch pad, in Kushimoto in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 18, 2024. The company's attempt to become the first private firm in the country to put a satellite into orbit failed, however, following its unsuccessful bid in March. (Kyodo)

Japan startup Space One postpones rocket launch

KUSHIMOTO, Japan, Dec. 14 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 14, 2024, shows the 18-meter-long solid-fuel Kairos No. 2 rocket at the commercial spaceport in Kushimoto in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. Space One Co., which aims to become the first Japanese firm to put a satellite into orbit, said the same day it had postponed the launch of the rocket due to strong winds.

(SP)QATAR-DOHA-JUDO-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

(SP)QATAR-DOHA-JUDO-WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

(230515) -- DOHA, May 15, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Tajima Goki (L) of Japan competes against Maxime-Gael Ngayap Hambou of France during the men's -90 kg competition of the mixed team event's gold medal match at the World Judo Championships Doha 2023 in Doha, Qatar on May 14, 2023. (Photo by Nikku/Xinhua)

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

(From L) Goki Tajima, Maya Segawa, Tatsuru Saito, Haruka Funakubo, Soichi Hashimoto and Saki Niizoe pose for a photo after helping Japan defend their mixed team title at the world judo championships in Doha, Qatar, on May 14, 2023.

Judo: World championships

Judo: World championships

Japan's Goki Tajima (white) throws France's Maxime-Gael Ngayap Hambou with uchi-mata during the mixed team final, winning in golden score at the world judo championships year in Doha, Qatar, on May 14, 2023.

KDDI, Sumitomo ink deal with Myanmar telecom for mobile phone service

KDDI, Sumitomo ink deal with Myanmar telecom for mobile phone service

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar - Hidehiko Tajima (L), associate senior vice president of Japan's KDDI Corp., speaks at a news conference in the Myanmar administrative capital of Naypyidaw on July 16, 2014. Tajima said KDDI and Sumitomo Corp. signed an agreement with state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications to jointly operate a mobile phone service in Myanmar.

Tajima Yahei Kyutaku added to UNESCO list

Tajima Yahei Kyutaku added to UNESCO list

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014 shows the ceiling of the Tajima Yahei Kyutaku -- the old residence and farmhouse of Yahei Tajima -- in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, which is said to be the original modern sericulture farm. It was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

Tajima Yahei Kyutaku added to UNESCO list

Tajima Yahei Kyutaku added to UNESCO list

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken April 24, 2014 shows the inside of the Tajima Yahei Kyutaku -- the old residence and farmhouse of Yahei Tajima -- in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, which is said to be the original modern sericulture farm. It was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

Tajima Yahei Kyutaku added to UNESCO list

Tajima Yahei Kyutaku added to UNESCO list

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken April 25, 2014 shows the Tajima Yahei Kyutaku -- the old residence and farmhouse of Yahei Tajima -- in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, which is said to be the original modern sericulture farm. It was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list in June 2014, along with the Tomioka Silk Mill and other related sites in the prefecture.

Tajima Yahei sericulture farm house in Gunma Pref.

Tajima Yahei sericulture farm house in Gunma Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - The Tajima Yahei sericulture farm house in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, is photographed on April 26, 2014. A UNESCO advisory panel has recommended giving World Heritage status to the house together with the Tomikoka Silk Mill in the prefectural city of Tomioka and two other sites related to the sericulture industry in the prefecture.

Tajima Yahei sericulture farm house in Gunma Pref.

Tajima Yahei sericulture farm house in Gunma Pref.

MAEBASHI, Japan - The Tajima Yahei sericulture farm house in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, is photographed on April 24, 2014. An advisory panel to UNESCO recently recommended giving World Heritage status to Tomioka Silk Mill and two related sites.

SIM-HAL electric vehicle

SIM-HAL electric vehicle

TOKYO, Japan - Nobuhiro Tajima, president of SIM-Drive Corp., gets onto the SIM-HAL, its electric vehicle prototype, in Tokyo on March 31, 2014.

Light aircraft overruns runway

Light aircraft overruns runway

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter over Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on July 21, 2013, shows firefighters examining the site where a light aircraft crashed into a grove after overrunning the runway as it made an emergency landing at Tajima Airport in the city.

Light aircraft overruns runway

Light aircraft overruns runway

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo from a Kyodo News helicopter shows Tajima Airport in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, where a light aircraft overran the runway and fell into a forest (front) on July 21, 2013.

Floating tsunami shelter

Floating tsunami shelter

SHIZUOKA, Japan - Tajima Motor Corp., a maker of race cars, unveils in Shizuoka, central Japan, on April 4, 2013, to the press a prototype floating shelter made of fiber-reinforced plastic that can accommodate up to 20 people in the event of a tsunami.

ChubuSat-1 satellite developed by Japanese consortium

ChubuSat-1 satellite developed by Japanese consortium

NAGOYA, Japan - Hiroyasu Tajima, professor at the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory at Nagoya University, gives a briefing about a prototype of the ChubuSat-1 satellite in Nagoya on May 16, 2012. A consortium of universities and aerospace companies in the Chubu region of central Japan that jointly developed the satellite, with sides measuring 50 centimeters and weighing 50 kilograms, said the same day it will be launched into space on a Russian rocket in December.

'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Yukinobu Tajima (L), head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, and Makoto Imai, assistant professor of Shiga University of Medical Science, speak with reporters at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sept. 29, 2011 shortly before attending the award ceremony there for the 2011 Ig Nobel prizes. Seven Japanese researchers including Tajima and Imai were awarded the prize in chemistry for inventing a fire alarm device which informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell.

'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

'Wasabi fire alarm' wins Ig Nobel prize

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Yukinobu Tajima, head of the Fragrance Marketing Association, in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, in April 2009 holding a fire alarm device that informs people with hearing impediments of a fire by emitting a pungent ''wasabi'' horseradish smell. Tajima, together with six other Japanese researchers, were awarded the 2011 Ig Nobel prize in chemistry at the award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 29, 2011, for inventing the device.

Midsized, small firms take crack at electric vehicles

Midsized, small firms take crack at electric vehicles

IWATA, Japan - An employee of Tajima Motor Corp. in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, charges the battery of an electric vehicle converted from a gas-fed car on March 29, 2010.

Midsized, small firms take crack at electric vehicles

Midsized, small firms take crack at electric vehicles

IWATA, Japan - Tajima Motor Corp. in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, has developed this mini-sports EV shown March 29, 2010.

Women in bridal kimonos perform Shintoist ritual

Women in bridal kimonos perform Shintoist ritual

MINAMIAIZU, Japan - About 30 women in traditional Japanese bridal attire march in the Shintoist Gion festival of Tajima, Fukushima Prefecture, July 23. According to a legend of Japan's indigenous religion, women in pure kimonos can conjure up gods from a local shrine and convince them to keep epidemics at bay.

Tajima clings onto sole lead in Omaezaki

Tajima clings onto sole lead in Omaezaki

OMAEZAKI, Japan - Soshi Tajima reacts after sinking his birdie putt in the third round of the Golf Tournament in Omaezaki on July 29. Tajima remained in pole position but saw his overnight lead trimmed to one stroke after an even-par 71.

Katayama shares lead with Tajimaat Munsingwear Open

Katayama shares lead with Tajimaat Munsingwear Open

TAMANO, Japan - Three-time money title winner Shingo Katayama smiles as he holes out in the second round of the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup at Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club in Okayama Prefecture on May 19. Katayama shared the lead with Soshi Tajima after shooting 3-under-par 69s.

Katayama shares lead with Tajimaat Munsingwear Open

Katayama shares lead with Tajimaat Munsingwear Open

TAMANO, Japan - Three-time money title winner Shingo Katayama smiles as he holes out in the second round of the Munsingwear Open KSB Cup at Tojigaoka Marine Hills Golf Club in Okayama Prefecture on May 19. Katayama shared the lead with Soshi Tajima after shooting 3-under-par 69s.

Small plane crashes after takeoff, killing 2

Small plane crashes after takeoff, killing 2

TOYOOKA, Japan - Photo shows the scene at Tajima Airport in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, where a tandem plane crashed and burst into flames just after takeoff on May 3, killing both people on board.

Pilot dies after plane crashes during acrobatic flight practice

Pilot dies after plane crashes during acrobatic flight practice

KOBE, Japan - A light plane crashed in a field near Tajima airport in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 21, killing its pilot, police said. Takahiro Iwasaki is believed to have been conducting acrobatic flight training, they said.

(1)Revolving door accident prompts concerns about safety

(1)Revolving door accident prompts concerns about safety

TOKYO, Japan - Tokihiko Obata (R), executive director of Sanwa Shutter Corp., the parent company of revolving door manufacturer Sanwa Tajima Corp., briefs reporters in Tokyo on March 27 on a revolving door accident the previous day at the Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo that caused a fatal accident. A 6-year-old boy died after getting his head stuck in the door.

Tajima takes 1st-round lead at Georgia Tokai Classic

Tajima takes 1st-round lead at Georgia Tokai Classic

MIYOSHI, Japan - Soshi Tajima shot a 5-under-par 67 to stay one stroke clear of the field after the opening round of the Georgia Tokai Classic at Miyoshi Country Club in Aichi Prefecture on Oct. 9.

Tajima wins career 1st at Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta

Tajima wins career 1st at Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta

SHIMA, Japan - Soshi Tajima kisses his cup after winning his first victory on the tour at the Hisamitsu-KBC Augusta Golf Tournament at Keya Golf Club in Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 31.

JCG recovers 2 bodies in wreck of small plane

JCG recovers 2 bodies in wreck of small plane

KYOTO, Japan - The Japan Coast Guard (JCG) salvaged a small private plane that crashed in the sea May 4 off Amino, Kyoto Prefecture, recovering the bodies of two men May 10. The plane with the two on board crashed shortly after takeoff for acrobatic flight training from Tajima Airport in neighboring Hyogo Prefecture.

Lawmaker Tajima to run in Kanagawa gubernatorial race

Lawmaker Tajima to run in Kanagawa gubernatorial race

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors member Yoko Tajima announces her plans to run in the Kanagawa gubernatorial race on April 13 at a news conference in Tokyo on March 25. Tajima, 61, an outspoken feminist scholar and TV personality will automatically lose her lawmaker status upon entering the gubernatorial race.

(2)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

(2)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Haruo Yamashita, Kiyofumi Takano, Takashi Makishi, Kiyomitsu Tajima, (from L to R, bottom) Takashi Gima, Noriyuki Fuse, Kenji Yamada and Koichi Kawashima.

Lawmaker Tajima resigns from SDP

Lawmaker Tajima resigns from SDP

TOKYO, Japan - House of Councillors member Yoko Tajima speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7 about her departure from the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Tajima criticized the opposition party's management and stance on North Korean issues.