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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda, co-CEO of Heralbony Co., poses for a photo with artwork created by the disabled in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 24, 2023. Matsuda established the company to commercialize such works in 2018 with his twin brother Takaya, aiming to support artists with disabilities through business.

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Japanese startup for art by people with disabilities

Fumito Matsuda, co-CEO of Heralbony Co., poses for a photo with artwork created by the disabled in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Jan. 24, 2023. Matsuda established the company to commercialize such works in 2018 with his twin brother Takaya, aiming to support artists with disabilities through business.

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Company selling artworks created by disabled

Takaya Matsuda, president of Heralbony Co., poses for a photo in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Dec. 26, 2019. His company, based in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, sells artworks created by intellectually disabled people.

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Forum to discuss words related to "disabled"

Takaya Matsuda, president of Heralbony Co., an Iwate Prefecture-based company selling artworks created by intellectually disabled people, stands beside a bulletin board at the building housing the Japan Federation of Bar Associations in Tokyo on Feb. 25, 2020. A forum was held at the building the same day to discuss the appropriateness of words related to "disabled," with the bulletin board posting a message from the event's organizers, advocating for their usage to be reviewed.

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Daihatsu launches new version of Mira Gino minivan

TOKYO, Japan - Daihatsu Motor Co. President Takaya Yamada stands by the company's new Mira Gino minivan during a presentation at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 29.

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Daihatsu launches new minivehicle targeting women

TOKYO, Japan - Daihatsu Motor Co. President Takaya Yamada stands besides the Move Latte, a new minivehicle targeting female drivers which the company launched at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 23. The Move Latte, with an engine capacity of 660 cc, features glass windows that the manufacturer says will reduce the penetration of ultraviolet rays by more than 90 percent and a large, lighted vanity mirror.

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(2)Japanese preseason baseball games

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Takaya Kawauchi of Hiroshima Carp delivers in a preseason game against the Daiei Hawks at Hiroshima on March 14. He headed a trio of pitchers who combined on a one-hitter for the home team.

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Pak Se Ri defeated in World Ladies Match Play

NARITA, Japan - U.S. LPGA No. 2 Pak Se Ri (R) of South Korea looks chagrined after being defeated by Takaya Bando of Japan in the first round of the Cisco World Ladies Match Play Championship at Narita Golf Club on Oct. 31.

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4th case of mad cow disease found in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Takaya (L), chief of the Inspection and Safety Division at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on May 11 about the discovery of Japan's fourth case of mad cow disease. A slaughtered 6-year-old Holstein cow in Hokkaido was found to be infected.

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3rd cow in Japan infected with mad cow disease

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Takaya, head of the health ministry's inspection and safety division, holds a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 30 after a third case of mad cow disease in Japan was detected in a Holstein dairy cow slaughtered in Saitama Prefecture.

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Fujitsu falls into red for 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Fujitsu Ltd. Vice President Takashi Takaya meets the press Oct. 24 in Tokyo as the leading Japanese computer maker plunged into the red for the first half of fiscal 2001. The company said it will slash 4,600 more jobs by the March 31 end of fiscal 2001 as well as 16,400 jobs already slated to be cut.

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Japanese boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

NARITA, Japan - Takaya Yoshii (L), a 12-year-old boy suffering from heart disease, prepares to leave Narita airport June 20 for the United States for a heart transplant. Yoshii from Chiba, east of Tokyo, was headed for the University of California in Los Angeles, where he will wait for a donor. Takaya's mother, Kazuyo Mori, 33, accompanied the boy.

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Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Logo

Keywords: Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, OKB, finance, bank, sign, logo, logo mark = Ogaki Station Branch in Takaya-cho, Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, April 16, 2018; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Logo

Keywords: Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, OKB, finance, bank, sign, logo, logo mark = Ogaki Station Branch in Takaya-cho, Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, April 16, 2018; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Logo

Keywords: Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, OKB, finance, bank, sign, logo, logo mark = Ogaki Station Branch in Takaya-cho, Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, April 16, 2018; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Tokyo Paralympics

Masanori Takaya (L), spokesperson of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee, and Craig Spence, chief brand and communications officer of the International Paralympic Committee, meet the press in Tokyo on Aug. 24, 2021, before the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Paralympics is held later in the day.

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Olympics: Games organizers admit to wasting about 4,000 boxes of food

Tokyo Games organizers on Wednesday admitted to throwing away approximately 4,000 of the 10,000 pre-ordered bento boxes full of food that was to be fed to volunteers on the day of the opening ceremony. Masanori Takaya, a spokesman for the organizing committee, confirmed the report and apologized in a press conference at the main press center. On the day of the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium, the large number of staff on duty meant that all of the volumes were large, and a lot of the food was not consumed, Takaya said. He explained that due to the heavy workload for volunteers they did not have a chance to eat the food, which was set to be turned into animal feed and used for biomass power generation.

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3rd cow in Japan infected with mad cow disease

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Takaya, head of the health ministry's inspection and safety division, holds a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 30 after a third case of mad cow disease in Japan was detected in a Holstein dairy cow slaughtered in Saitama Prefecture.

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Daihatsu launches new minivehicle targeting women

TOKYO, Japan - Daihatsu Motor Co. President Takaya Yamada stands besides the Move Latte, a new minivehicle targeting female drivers which the company launched at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 23. The Move Latte, with an engine capacity of 660 cc, features glass windows that the manufacturer says will reduce the penetration of ultraviolet rays by more than 90 percent and a large, lighted vanity mirror. (Kyodo)

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Daihatsu launches new version of Mira Gino minivan

TOKYO, Japan - Daihatsu Motor Co. President Takaya Yamada stands by the company's new Mira Gino minivan during a presentation at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 29. (Kyodo)

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Daihatsu Vice President Minoura to become president

OSAKA, Japan - Daihatsu Motor Co. Executive Vice President Teruyuki Minoura (file photo) will replace Takaya Yamada as president after a general shareholders' meeting in June, company officials said Jan. 18. (Kyodo)

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Fujitsu falls into red for 1st half

TOKYO, Japan - Fujitsu Ltd. Vice President Takashi Takaya meets the press Oct. 24 in Tokyo as the leading Japanese computer maker plunged into the red for the first half of fiscal 2001. The company said it will slash 4,600 more jobs by the March 31 end of fiscal 2001 as well as 16,400 jobs already slated to be cut.

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Japanese boy leaves for U.S. for heart transplant

NARITA, Japan - Takaya Yoshii (L), a 12-year-old boy suffering from heart disease, prepares to leave Narita airport June 20 for the United States for a heart transplant. Yoshii from Chiba, east of Tokyo, was headed for the University of California in Los Angeles, where he will wait for a donor. Takaya's mother, Kazuyo Mori, 33, accompanied the boy.

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Scandal-hit lawmaker not to resign

House of Representatives lawmaker Takaya Muto attends a press conference on Aug. 26, 2015, at the Diet building in Tokyo. A report about his involvement in a dubious stock deal forced him to leave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but Muto said he will not give up his parliamentary seat as he has not been involved in any illegal acts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit lawmaker not to resign

House of Representatives lawmaker Takaya Muto attends a press conference on Aug. 26, 2015, at the Diet building in Tokyo. A report about his involvement in a dubious stock deal forced him to leave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but Muto said he will not give up his parliamentary seat as he has not been involved in any illegal acts. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-tainted lawmaker not to resign

Scandal-tainted lawmaker Takaya Muto attends a press conference on Aug. 26, 2015, at the Diet building in Tokyo. A report about his involvement in a dubious stock deal forced him to leave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but Muto said he will not give up his parliamentary seat. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-tainted lawmaker not to resign

Scandal-tainted lawmaker Takaya Muto attends a press conference on Aug. 26, 2015, at the Diet building in Tokyo. A report about his involvement in a dubious stock deal forced him to leave the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, but Muto said he will not give up his parliamentary seat. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lawmaker says he won't quit Diet despite shady stock deal report

Undated photo shows Takaya Muto, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of Japan's House of Representatives. Muto, who will quit the party following a weekly magazine report about his involvement in a dubious stock deal, said on Aug. 20, 2015 that he "cannot resign as a lawmaker." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP to look into reported shady stock deal by lawmaker

Undated photo shows Takaya Muto, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives. The party said Aug. 19, 2015, it will look into an allegation, reported by a weekly magazine, that Muto proposed a dubious stock transaction to an acquaintance. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Japanese preseason baseball games

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Takaya Kawauchi of Hiroshima Carp delivers in a preseason game against the Daiei Hawks at Hiroshima on March 14. He headed a trio of pitchers who combined on a one-hitter for the home team. (Kyodo)

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Tennis: Sugita

Yuichi Sugita of Japan returns the ball to Andreas Seppi of Italy during a Davis Cup World Group match at Morioka Takaya Arena in Iwate Prefecture on Feb. 2, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aoyama Gakuin wins Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Takaya Hashima (2nd from R, front row) is surrounded by his teammates after crossing the finish line in the annual Tokyo-Hakone collegiate men's ekiden road relay in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2018. The Tokyo private university won the most prominent university ekiden race in Japan for the fourth year in a row. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aoyama Gakuin wins Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Takaya Hashima crosses the finish line in the annual Tokyo-Hakone collegiate men's ekiden road relay in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2018. The Tokyo private university won the most prominent university ekiden race in Japan for the fourth year in a row. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aoyama Gakuin wins Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Takaya Hashima crosses the finish line in the annual Tokyo-Hakone collegiate men's ekiden road relay in Tokyo on Jan. 3, 2018. The Tokyo private university won the most prominent university ekiden race in Japan for the fourth year in a row. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Hawks one win from Japan Series title

Hiroaki Takaya of the SoftBank Hawks hits a two-run single in the fourth inning off Joe Wieland of the DeNA BayStars in Game 3 of the Japan Series at Yokohama Stadium on Oct. 31, 2017. The Hawks won 3-2 to lead the best-of-seven series three games to none. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Pak Se Ri defeated in World Ladies Match Play

NARITA, Japan - U.S. LPGA No. 2 Pak Se Ri (R) of South Korea looks chagrined after being defeated by Takaya Bando of Japan in the first round of the Cisco World Ladies Match Play Championship at Narita Golf Club on Oct. 31. (Kyodo)

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4th case of mad cow disease found in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Satoshi Takaya (L), chief of the Inspection and Safety Division at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on May 11 about the discovery of Japan's fourth case of mad cow disease. A slaughtered 6-year-old Holstein cow in Hokkaido was found to be infected.