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Boxing: Takami vs. Santiago

WBO light flyweight champion Rene Santiago (R) of Puerto Rico lands a punch on WBA champion Kyosuke Takami of Japan in a title unification bout at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Dec. 17, 2025.

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Boxing: Takami vs. Santiago

WBA light flyweight champion Kyosuke Takami (R) of Japan lands a punch on WBO champion Rene Santiago of Puerto Rico in a title unification bout at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Dec. 17, 2025.

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Boxing: Takami vs. Santiago

WBA light flyweight champion Kyosuke Takami (L) of Japan lands a punch on WBO champion Rene Santiago of Puerto Rico in a title unification bout at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Dec. 17, 2025.

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Boxing: Takami vs. Santiago

WBO light flyweight champion Rene Santiago (front) of Puerto Rico reacts after winning a title unification bout against WBA champion Kyosuke Takami of Japan at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Dec. 17, 2025.

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Boxing: Takami vs. Santiago

WBO light flyweight champion Rene Santiago (front) of Puerto Rico reacts after winning a title unification bout against WBA champion Kyosuke Takami of Japan at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Dec. 17, 2025.

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Boxing: Takami vs. Santiago

WBO light flyweight champion Rene Santiago (R) of Puerto Rico lands a punch on WBA champion Kyosuke Takami of Japan in a title unification bout at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan on Dec. 17, 2025.

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Boxing: Weigh-in for Takami-Santiago bout

WBA light flyweight champ Kyosuke Takami (L) of Japan and WBO belt holder Rene Santiago of Puerto Rico pose after weighing in on Dec. 16, 2025, in Tokyo for their boxing title unification match the next day.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami celebrates after defeating Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami (R) throws a punch at Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in the tenth round of their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami (L) throws a punch at Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in the tenth round of their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami (L) throws a punch at Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in the third round of their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami (L) fights against Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in the first round of their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami celebrates after defeating Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami celebrates after defeating Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami celebrates after defeating Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: WBA light flyweight title match

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami (C) celebrates after defeating Eric Rosa of the Dominican Republic in their WBA light flyweight world title match at Yokohama Buntai in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 30, 2025.

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Boxing: Takami claims WBA light flyweight world championship

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami smiles at a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, a day after claiming the WBA light flyweight world championship.

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Boxing: Takami claims WBA light flyweight world championship

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami takes a pose at a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, a day after claiming the WBA light flyweight world championship.

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Boxing: Takami claims WBA light flyweight world championship

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami takes a pose at a press conference in Tokyo on July 31, 2025, a day after claiming the WBA light flyweight world championship.

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) shakes hands with Mitsuaki Takami, archbishop of the Urakami Cathedral, upon her arrival there in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. (Pool photo)

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (2nd from R) is briefed by Mitsuaki Takami (far R), archbishop of the Urakami Cathedral, on statues that survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during her visit to the cathedral in the southwestern Japanese city on Dec. 10, 2013. (Pool photo)

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U.S. envoy Kennedy visits Nagasaki

NAGASAKI, Japan - U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (R) is welcomed by Mitsuaki Takami (C), archbishop of the Urakami Cathedral, upon her arrival there in Nagasaki, Nagasaki Prefecture on Dec. 10, 2013. (Pool photo)

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Mass commemorates 400th anniv. of Korean church building

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami (C), archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, conducts a mass at Nakamachi Catholic Church in Nagasaki on August 10, 2010, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the construction of San Lorenzo Church in the western Japan city by Koreans brought to Japan as captives. San Lorenzo Church was later torn down.

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Japanese A-bomb survivors, mayors march for nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - The ''bombed Mary,'' a statue found around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, is placed on the altar during a mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York on May 2, 2010, a day before the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. The statue was brought to New York by Mitsuaki Takami, archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki.

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Nagasaki archbishop to meet U.N. chief in May

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami, the archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, looks at the ''bombed Mary,'' a scorched wooden head of a Virgin Mary statue, during a press conference in Nagasaki on April 13, 2010. Takami said he will take the head, which was found among ruins around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during his trip to the United States, where he will meet U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and attend a U.N. nuclear disarmament conference.

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Toyo wins 2nd straight Tokyo-Hakone ekiden title

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Takami, the final runner of the Toyo University ekiden team, is tossed in the air in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2010, after the team won the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate road relay. (Pool photo)

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Toyo wins 2nd straight Tokyo-Hakone ekiden title

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Takami of Toyo University breaks the tape in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2010, to bring the university a victory in the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay for the second consecutive year. Toyo completed the 217.9-kilometer round-trip race between Otemachi and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture in 11 hours, 10 minutes, 13 seconds, 3:46.

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Toyo wins 2nd straight Tokyo-Hakone ekiden title

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Takami of Toyo University breaks the tape in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2010, to bring the university a victory in the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay for the second consecutive year. Toyo completed the 217.9-kilometer round-trip race between Otemachi and the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture in 11 hours, 10 minutes, 13 seconds, 3:46.

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Japan's Takami wins women's individual at kendo worlds

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Japan's Yukiko Takami speaks to reporters after victory in the women's individual event in the World Kendo Championships in Sao Paulo Aug. 29, 2009.

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Japan's Takami wins women's individual at kendo worlds

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Japan's Yukiko Takami (L) attacks Sachie Shoji of Japan to win the women's individual event in the World Kendo Championships in Sao Paulo on Aug. 29, 2009.

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Toyo Univ. holds on to win Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Takami of Toyo University celebrates in Tokyo's Otematchi district Jan. 3 after breaking the tape to bring the university its first overall title at the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay. Toyo claimed its first ever first-stage title in the relay from Tokyo to the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture the previous day with Ryuji Kashiwabara's stirring final-leg run.

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Toyo Univ. holds on to win Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Takami of Toyo University breaks the tape in Tokyo's Otematchi district to bring the university its first overall title in the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay on Jan. 3. Toyo claimed its first ever first-stage title in the relay from Tokyo to the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture the previous day with Ryuji Kashiwabara's stirring final-leg run.

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Ito wins Akutagawa literary prize following wife's Naoki prize

TOKYO, Japan - Takami Ito (L) wins the 135th Akutagawa Prize on July 13 for promising new writers of serious fiction, a year after his wife Mitsuyo Kakuta received the Naoki Prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction last year. The Naoki Prize this year was given to Shion Miura (C) and Eto Mori (R).

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(2)Ominami wins Nagoya int'l women's marathon

NAGOYA, Japan - Pre-race favorite Takami Ominami of Japan responds to the audiences after winning the Nagoya International Women's Marathon on March 9.

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(1)Ominami wins Nagoya int'l women's marathon

NAGOYA, Japan - Pre-race favorite Takami Ominami of Japan, breaking away at the 25-kilometer mark, arrives home unchallenged to win the Nagoya International Women's Marathon on March 9. Ominami, winner of the Rotterdam marathon last April, covered the 42.195-km distance in 2 hours, 25 minutes, 3 seconds and was assured of a berth in this summer's World Track and Field Championships in Paris as the race served as Japan's final qualifier for the biennial event.

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LDP policy chief Kamei to enter LDP presidential race

TOKYO, Japan - Shizuka Kamei, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Policy Research Council, enters a building in Tokyo to attend a meeting of the LDP's third largest faction, which he heads with former Management and Coordination Agency chief Takami Eto. In the meeting, Kamei said he intends to run in the party's April 24 presidential election.

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Former lower house Speaker Hara to quit politics at 93

TOKYO, Japan - Former House of Representatives Speaker Kenzaburo Hara, at 93 the oldest person in the Japanese political world, plans to retire at the end of his current term in the lower house, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) sources said May 8. Hara, elected via proportional representation from western Japan's Kinki regional bloc centering on Osaka, conveyed his intention to quit politics to Takami Eto, joint head of an LDP faction to which Hara belongs, the sources said.

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Toyo Univ. holds on to win Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Takami of Toyo University breaks the tape in Tokyo's Otematchi district to bring the university its first overall title in the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay on Jan. 3. Toyo claimed its first ever first-stage title in the relay from Tokyo to the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture the previous day with Ryuji Kashiwabara's stirring final-leg run. (Kyodo)

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Toyo Univ. holds on to win Tokyo-Hakone ekiden

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Takami of Toyo University celebrates in Tokyo's Otematchi district Jan. 3 after breaking the tape to bring the university its first overall title at the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay. Toyo claimed its first ever first-stage title in the relay from Tokyo to the spa resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture the previous day with Ryuji Kashiwabara's stirring final-leg run. (Kyodo)

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(2)Ominami wins Nagoya int'l women's marathon

NAGOYA, Japan - Pre-race favorite Takami Ominami of Japan responds to the audiences after winning the Nagoya International Women's Marathon on March 9. (Kyodo)

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Toyota to build new plant in Malaysia

Toyota Motor Corp. Managing Officer Tatsuro Takami (C) attends a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on May 25, 2016, announcing that the automaker will build a new plant in Malaysia as demand is expected to increase in line with the country's economic growth. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Replica of damaged Maria statue in Guernica given to Nagasaki

A replica of the statue of Maria in Guernica, Spain, whose body was broken in the country's civil war in the 1930s, is presented to the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki at Urakami Cathedral in the southwestern Japan city on Aug. 9, 2015, as Nagasaki Catholic Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami (R) looks on. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ito wins Akutagawa literary prize following wife's Naoki prize

TOKYO, Japan - Takami Ito (L) wins the 135th Akutagawa Prize on July 13 for promising new writers of serious fiction, a year after his wife Mitsuyo Kakuta received the Naoki Prize for seasoned writers of popular fiction last year. The Naoki Prize this year was given to Shion Miura (C) and Eto Mori (R). (Kyodo)

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Mass commemorates 400th anniv. of Korean church building

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami (C), archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, conducts a mass at Nakamachi Catholic Church in Nagasaki on August 10, 2010, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the construction of San Lorenzo Church in the western Japan city by Koreans brought to Japan as captives. San Lorenzo Church was later torn down. (Kyodo)

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Japanese A-bomb survivors, mayors march for nuke-free world

NEW YORK, United States - The ''bombed Mary,'' a statue found around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, is placed on the altar during a mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York on May 2, 2010, a day before the U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. The statue was brought to New York by Mitsuaki Takami, archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki. (Kyodo)

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Nagasaki archbishop to meet U.N. chief in May

NAGASAKI, Japan - Mitsuaki Takami, the archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, looks at the ''bombed Mary,'' a scorched wooden head of a Virgin Mary statue, during a press conference in Nagasaki on April 13, 2010. Takami said he will take the head, which was found among ruins around 500 meters from ground zero after the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki, during his trip to the United States, where he will meet U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and attend a U.N. nuclear disarmament conference. (Kyodo)

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Toyo wins 2nd straight Tokyo-Hakone ekiden title

TOKYO, Japan - Ryo Takami, the final runner of the Toyo University ekiden team, is tossed in the air in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2010, after the team won the Tokyo-Hakone collegiate road relay. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Table tennis: Men's doubles final at Japanese c'ships

Tomokazu Harimoto (R) and Yuto Kizukuri celebrate after defeating Yuki Matsuyama and Masaki Takami 3-2 in the men's doubles final at the Japanese national table tennis championships in Osaka on Jan. 19, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Table tennis: Men's doubles final at Japanese c'ships

Tomokazu Harimoto (R) and Yuto Kizukuri celebrate after defeating Yuki Matsuyama and Masaki Takami 3-2 in the men's doubles final at the Japanese national table tennis championships in Osaka on Jan. 19, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Table tennis: Men's doubles final at Japanese c'ships

Tomokazu Harimoto (R) and Yuto Kizukuri play in the men's doubles final at the Japanese national table tennis championships in Osaka on Jan. 19, 2019. Harimoto and Kizukuri defeated Yuki Matsuyama and Masaki Takami 3-2. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo