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Japan police officer killed during U.N. mission in Cambodia

Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa prays on July 5, 2024, at the cenotaph in Phnom Penh for Haruyuki Takata, a Japanese police officer killed in Cambodia during a U.N. peacekeeping operation in 1993.

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Iwate Pref. city mascot visits quake-hit city in Hyogo Pref.

Takata-no-Yumechan, the official mascot of Rikuzentakata, a northeastern Japan city hit by the March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, prays at a memorial monument at a park in Awaji, a Hyogo Prefecture city devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, on Oct. 27, 2023.

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Iwate Pref. city mascot visits quake-hit city in Hyogo Pref.

Takata-no-Yumechan, the official mascot of Rikuzentakata, a northeastern Japan city hit by the March 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, offers flowers at a memorial monument at a park in Awaji, a Hyogo Prefecture city devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, on Oct. 27, 2023.

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Husband of victim in Malaysian airbag crash recalls ordeal

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Welhelmo Rodriguez Caido speaks in an interview on Jan. 8, 2015, about how his wife Law Suk Leh was killed after a metal fragment from a defective Takata Corp. airbag hit her in the neck in a car accident in Borneo, Malaysia, in July 2014. Law died of massive bleeding at a hospital, where their baby daughter was delivered alive but died two days later.

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Japanese high schooler teaches U.S. students calligraphy

CRESCENT CITY, United States - A male student from Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, teaches calligraphy to a student at Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, on Jan. 8, 2015. A group of Takata students visited the U.S. city to thank local people for sending back a school boat that was swept away by a tsunami caused by the devastating 2011 earthquake.

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Japanese high schooler teaches U.S. student calligraphy

CRESCENT CITY, United States - A female student from Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, teaches calligraphy to a student at Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, on Jan. 8, 2015. A group of Takata students visited the U.S. city to thank local people for sending back a school boat that was washed up there after the devastating 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

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Japan students thank Americans for return of boat lost in tsunami

CRESCENT CITY, United States - Students from Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, pose aboard a crab-fishing vessel with fishermen and other people in Crescent City, California, on Jan. 8, 2015. The Japanese students visited the U.S. city to thank local people for sending back a school boat that was washed up there after the devastating 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami.

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Japan high schoolers from tsunami-hit area meet U.S. students

CRESCENT CITY, United States - Students from Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, strike a pose with those of Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, on Jan. 8, 2015. The Japanese students visited the U.S. city to thank local people for sending back a school boat that was swept away by a tsunami caused by the devastating 2011 earthquake.

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Ex-U.S. transport secretary urges Japan makers to be more globalized

ANNAPOLIS, United States - Norman Mineta, former U.S. transport secretary and a special counsel at Japan's Takata Corp., speaks in a recent interview with Kyodo News in Annapolis, the United States. Mineta urged Japanese manufacturers to be more globalized so they can better address problems such as the recent recall campaign for Takata's defective automotive air bags.

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Car scrapping factory head shows Takata air bag parts

GIFU, Japan - Akihiro Wakayama, head of a factory for car scrapping company "hai-sya dot-com" in Seki, Gifu Prefecture, on Dec. 5, 2014, shows parts of an air bag made by Takata Corp. He said the air bag inflator exploded during the air bag-removal work of a Toyota car on Nov. 6, shattering the windshield.

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Auto parts maker Takata expects bigger loss

TOKYO, Japan - Yoichiro Nomura, chief financial officer of Japanese auto parts maker Takata Corp., briefs reporters on the prospects for the company's earnings results for the current fiscal year in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2014. Nomura said Takata projects a consolidated net loss of 25 billion yen for the fiscal year as it raised its provision for product warranties following expanding recalls of its defective air bags.

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Floats drawn at festival in tsunami-hit north Japan region

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Illuminated floats are drawn at a "moving star festival" in the Takata district of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 7, 2014, before the launch of land reclamation for housing construction after the March 2011 disaster that hit the northeastern Japan region.

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People draw floats at festival in tsunami-hit north Japan

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - People draw floats at a "moving star festival" in the Takata district of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on Aug. 7, 2014, before the launch of land reclamation for housing construction after the March 2011 disaster that hit the northeaster Japan region.

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Photo exhibit at U.N. on 2011 disaster recovery

NEW YORK, United States - Kiyoshi Murakami (L), representative of nonprofit organization Aid TAKATA which serves as a liaison council for supporting Iwate Prefecture's Rikuzentakata, Sendai Mayor Emiko Okuyama (C), and Fumihiko Imamura, director of Tohoku University's International Research Institute of Disaster Science, stand in front of photo panels on the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster displayed at the U.N. headquarters in New York on July 9, 2014.

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World Cup trophy comes to quake-hit city

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Visitors poses for photos with the World Cup trophy at the municipal Takata Elementary School in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 12, 2014, where the trophy arrived on its world tour. The trophy left Brazil last September on a tour to promote the World Cup soccer finals in that country. Students at Prefectural Takata High School, whose building was completely destroyed by the 2011 great quake and tsunami, asked the event promoter to send the trophy to the city.

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World Cup trophy comes to quake-hit city

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Students at Prefectural Takata High School pose with the World Cup trophy at the municipal Takata Elementary School in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on April 12, 2014. The trophy arrived there on its world tour to promote the World Cup soccer finals in that country. Students of Takata high, whose building was completely destroyed by the 2011 great quake and tsunami, asked the event promoter to send the trophy to the city.

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U.S. students visit tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - Students (center, R) from Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, and a student from Takata High School in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, jointly make "hittsumi," a soup dish representative of the local cuisine, at the Japanese school's temporary facility in Ofunato, Iwate, on Feb. 18, 2014. A group of high school students from northern California visited their peers in the tsunami-hit northeastern Japanese city after helping return to the Japanese high school a boat that was washed across the Pacific Ocean after the March 2011 earthquake.

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U.S. students visit tsunami-hit city

OFUNATO, Japan - A student (L) from Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California, and a student from Takata High School in Japan's Iwate Prefecture, eat "hittsumi," a soup dish representative of the local cuisine, that they made together at the Japanese school's temporary facility in Ofunato, Iwate, on Feb. 18, 2014. A group of high school students from northern California visited their peers in the tsunami-hit northeastern Japanese city after helping return to the Japanese high school a boat that was washed across the Pacific Ocean after the March 2011 earthquake.

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Students report on trip to Geneva

NAGASAKI, Japan - Saya Sasaki (front L), a second-year student at Takata High School in Iwate Prefecture, with Masahiro Kikuchi (front R), a third-year student at the school, reports on her impressions about a trip to Geneva during a meeting in the city of Nagasaki on Aug. 25, 2011. A group of 12 high school students, including Sasaki and Kikuchi from quake-hit Rikuzentakata, presented in Geneva to the secretariat of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament some 80,000 signatures calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

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Kenya donation for Japan

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki (R) hands a donation check to Japanese Ambassador to Kenya Toshihisa Takata during a ceremony in Nairobi on May 30, 2011. Kenya donated $1 million following the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March.

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Tsunami-hit high school in Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Photo taken May 9, 2011, shows tsunami-hit Takata High School, surrounded by debris from the March 11 disaster, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture. The high school held its entrance ceremony for new students at the gymnasium of another high school in the vicinity the following day, about a month later than its original schedule and the latest enrollment ceremony for high schools in the prefecture.

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Japanet Taketa resumes TV shopping programs

SASEBO, Japan - Akira Takata, president of direct marketing firm Japanet Takata Co., speaks to reporters in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on April 25 about resumption of his firm's TV shopping programs, about one month and a half after it voluntarily halted sales activities due to the leakage of client information.

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Direct sales firm Japanet possibly leaked data

SASEBO, Japan - Akira Takata, president of Japanet Takata Co., a direct sales company, speaks to reporters at the company's head office in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, on March 9 about the leakage of its customers' data.

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Hankyu President Takata reports on release of hostages

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuhiko Takata, president of Hankyu Express International Co., meets the press at the company's Tokyo office in Minato Ward on Nov. 5 after a group of Japanese tourists was freed unharmed on Nov. 4. Thirty-three Japanese were released after a nearly eight-hour hijacking ordeal in Greece.

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Football: WE League's new chairperson

Haruna Takata, appointed new head of Japan's WE League professional women's football league, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 29, 2022.

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Prix de Lausanne ballet competition

Sachiya Takata of Japan performs classical dance during the final of 50th Prix de Lausanne, an internationally renowned ballet competition for young dancers, in Montreux, Switzerland, on Feb. 5, 2022.

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Prix de Lausanne ballet competition

Sachiya Takata of Japan performs contemporary dance during the final of 50th Prix de Lausanne, an internationally renowned ballet competition for young dancers, in Montreux, Switzerland, on Feb. 5, 2022.

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Prix de Lausanne finalist

Sachiya Takata of Japan performs en route to advancing to the finals of the Prix de Lausanne, an international ballet competition for young dancers, in Montreux, Switzerland, on Feb. 4, 2022.

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Takata chief to quit after recovery path found from recall woes

Photo taken April 2013 shows Takata Corp. Chairman Shigehisa Takada. The Japanese auto parts maker said on June 28, 2016, the number of deaths believed to have been caused by its ruptured air bag inflators stood at 15, with the number of related injuries exceeding 150 worldwide. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata apologizes to shareholders over recall woes

Troubled air bag supplier Takata Corp. holds a shareholders' meeting in Tokyo on June 28, 2016. Takata's management apologized to shareholders and explained how it would deal with the recall crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda's FY 2015 profit drops 32% over Takata air bag debacle

Tetsuo Iwamura, executive vice president of Honda Motor Co., releases the company's earnings report for the business year ended in March 2016 at a press conference in Tokyo on May 13. Honda's net profit fell 32.4 percent as costs related to a recall of defective air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. offset solid sales in North America and Asia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata posts loss again amid global air bag recall

Yoichiro Nomura, chief financial officer of Takata Corp., attends a press conference in Tokyo on May 11, 2016, on its fiscal 2015 earnings results. The troubled air bag maker posted a group net loss of 13.08 billion yen ($120.5 million), its second straight year of red ink, but expects to return to profitability in the year to March 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata to recall up to 40 mil. more air bag inflators in U.S.

Mark Rosekind, administrator of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, announces in Washington on May 4, 2016, the safety regulator's order for Takata Corp. to recall up to 40 million more air bag inflators for fear of potentially deadly ruptures. The order brought the size of the Japanese auto parts supplier's global inflator recall to over 100 million units. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Graduation ceremony at disaster-hit high school

Graduates of Takata High School leave the school after receiving diplomas on March 1, 2016, in the March 2011 disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Rikuzentakata. Temporary housing for evacuees is seen in the schoolyard. It was the first graduation ceremony at the school, where 22 students and a teacher were killed by tsunami, since it was rebuilt on higher ground. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Graduation ceremony at disaster-hit high school

Graduates of Takata High School head home after receiving diplomas on March 1, 2016, in the March 2011 disaster-hit northeastern Japan city of Rikuzentakata. Reconstruction work continues near the school. It was the first graduation ceremony at the school, where 22 students and a teacher were killed by tsunami, since it was rebuilt on higher ground. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Graduation ceremony at high school hit by March 2011 disaster

A student of Takata High School in the northeastern Japan city of Rikuzentakata, which was severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, receives a diploma during a graduation ceremony at a newly-built school building on March 1, 2016. It was the first graduation ceremony of the school, at which 22 students and a teacher were killed by tsunami, since it was rebuilt on higher ground. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Graduation ceremony at high school hit by March 2011 disaster

Graduating students of Takata High School in the northeastern Japan city of Rikuzentakata, which was severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster, offer silent prayers to victims during a graduation ceremony at a newly-built school building on March 1, 2016. It was the first graduation ceremony of the school, at which 22 students and a teacher were killed by tsunami, since it was rebuilt on higher ground. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief to step down over global air bag recall

Undated file photo shows Shigehisa Takada, president of Japan's Takata Corp. Takata, 49, is set to quit his post to take responsibility for the global recall of vehicles fitted with the company's air bag inflators, sources close to the matter said on Jan. 28, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Honda chief dismisses support for troubled Takata amid air bag woes

Honda Motor Co. President Takahiro Hachigo has an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Dec. 2, 2015. Honda is not considering extending support to Takata Corp. hit by massive recalls of its faulty air bags, he said. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata trims net profit outlook for FY 2015 amid air bag fiasco

Takata Corp. executives attend a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 6, 2015, to announce earnings results for the six months ended Sept. 30. The company cut its group net profit outlook for fiscal 2015 after being hit by ballooning recall-related costs over its potentially faulty air bag inflators. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. agency fines Takata up to $200 million

Shigehisa Takada (C), president and CEO of Japanese parts supplier Takata Corp., and other company officials bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2015. U.S. auto safety regulators announced earlier that it will fine the company up to $200 million (24.2 billion yen), accelerate the recall process to replace the company's faulty air bag inflators and order it to stop using an unstable chemical linked to the defect. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. agency fines Takata up to $200 million

Shigehisa Takada, president and CEO of Japanese parts supplier Takata Corp., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2015, following the announcement by U.S. auto safety regulators that it will fine the company up to $200 million (24.2 billion yen), accelerate the recall process to replace the company's faulty air bag inflators and order it to stop using an unstable chemical linked to the defect. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.S. agency fines Takata up to $200 million

Shigehisa Takada, president and CEO of Japanese parts supplier Takata Corp., attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2015, following the announcement by U.S. auto safety regulators that it will fine the company up to $200 million (24.2 billion yen), accelerate the recall process to replace the company's faulty air bag inflators and order it to stop using an unstable chemical linked to the defect. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New Toyoda Gosei head says car airbag checkup system introduced

New President Naoki Miyazaki of Toyota Gosei Co. speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Nagoya on July 15, 2015. Miyazaki said the company has set up a checkup system to obviate the possible occurrence of faulty airbags in connection with a series of fatal accidents caused by exploding airbag inflators involving products of Japan's Takata Corp. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief apologizes in 1st appearance since massive recalls

Reporters raise their hands to question Shigehisa Takada (C), chairman and chief executive officer of Japan's troubled Takata Corp., during a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Takada offered an apology over the company's defective air bags, making his first appearance since the crisis arising from its potentially deadly products deepened in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief apologizes in 1st appearance since massive recalls

Shigehisa Takada (C), chairman and chief executive officer of Japan's troubled Takata Corp., bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Takada offered an apology over the company's defective air bags, making his first appearance since the crisis arising from its potentially deadly products deepened in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief apologizes in 1st appearance since massive recalls

Shigehisa Takada (C), chairman and chief executive officer of Japan's troubled Takata Corp., and the company's two other top officials attend a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Takada offered an apology over the company's defective air bags, making his first appearance since the crisis arising from its potentially deadly products deepened in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata chief apologizes in 1st appearance since massive recalls

Shigehisa Takada, chairman and chief executive officer of Japan's troubled Takata Corp., listens to questions from a reporter during a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015. Takada offered an apology over the company's defective air bags, making his first appearance since the crisis arising from its potentially deadly products deepened in 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata CEO attends press conference

Automotive parts maker Takata Corp. Chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada (R) attends a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015, at which he expressed his condolences over deaths linked to faulty air bags produced by the company. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Takata CEO attends press conference

Automotive parts maker Takata Corp. Chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada (C) bows in apology at a press conference in Tokyo on June 25, 2015, at which he expressed his condolences over deaths linked to faulty air bags produced by the company. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo