2028 WorldSkills Competition Japan Organizing Committee Establishment Event

2028 WorldSkills Competition Japan Organizing Committee Establishment Event

Event marking the establishment of the Japan Organizing Committee for the 2028 WorldSkills Competition. The photo shows, from left in the front row, Aichi Prefecture Governor Hideaki Omura, Keidanren Chairman Yoshinobu Tsutsui, and Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Takamaro Fukuoka.=August 7,2025,Tokyo

Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2025.

Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2025.

Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister in parliament

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka (standing) speaks during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in Tokyo on Feb. 14, 2025.

Japanese health minister Fukuoka

Japanese health minister Fukuoka

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2024.

Japanese health minister Fukuoka

Japanese health minister Fukuoka

Japanese health minister Takamaro Fukuoka speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2024.

Lineup of Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet

Lineup of Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet

Takamaro Fukuoka, who is set to become health, labor and welfare 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.

Prince Takamado's wife, daughter visit Ise Grand Shrine

Prince Takamado's wife, daughter visit Ise Grand Shrine

ISE, Japan - Princess Hisako (L), wife of Emperor Akihito's late cousin Prince Takamado, and their second daughter Princess Noriko visit the Outer Shrine at Ise Grad Shrine in Ise, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on Sept. 3, 2014. Princess Noriko is due to marry senior priest Takamaro Senge of another shrine on Oct. 5.

Hijackers' daughters leave N. Korea for Japan

Hijackers' daughters leave N. Korea for Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Three daughters of former Red Army Faction cadres are seen in photo taken by a supporter in March in Pyongyang. Shown are Asaka Tamiya (L), 22, daughter of Takamaro Tamiya, deceased leader of the hijackers' group; Azumi Tanaka (C), 22, daughter of Yoshimi Tanaka; and Ritsuko Konishi, 23, daughter of Takahiro Konishi. The three daughters, whose fathers defected to North Korea after hijacking a Japan Airlines plane in 1970, left Pyongyang on May 15 for Japan via China.

Director makes film inspired by Hiroshima "paper crane" girl

Director makes film inspired by Hiroshima "paper crane" girl

Photo taken in June 2015 in Los Angeles shows one of the takes during the shooting of the short film "Orizuru 2015," with Takamaro (R), son of director Miyuki Sohara, playing the leading role. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Filmmaking scene of "Orizuru 2015"

Filmmaking scene of "Orizuru 2015"

Shooting of a short film entitled "Orizuru 2015," directed by Miyuki Sohara, is seen underway in Los Angeles in June 2015. Sohara's 11-year-old son Takamaro (R) plays the main character in the film that is based on the story of Sadako Sasaki, who was exposed to the atomic bombing in Hiroshima at age two. The Children's Peace Monument was erected in the Peace Memorial Park in the western Japanese city to remember her short life and all the children who died from the bombing. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo