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Japanese expert, Filipino farmer check buckwheat flowers

BUMBARAN, Philippines - Japanese agricultural expert Takeyoshi Sumikawa (L) and a Muslim farmer examine buckwheat flowers in Bumbaran on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on April 19, 2014. The Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group signed a final peace pact in March, ending about 45 years of conflict.

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Filipino farmers crop buckwheat in post-conflict Mindanao

BUMBARAN, Philippines - Japanese agricultural expert Takeyoshi Sumikawa (L) and Muslim farmers smile as they hold up newly harvested buckwheat in Bumbaran on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on April 19, 2014. The Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group signed a peace pact in March, ending almost 45 years of conflict in the island's south.

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'Floor Chandelier' eyed at new bullet train gate

TOYAMA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 15, 2013 shows Takeyoshi Mitsui making a glass block to be used for a "Floor Chandelier" at Toyama Glass Studio in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture. Toyama City plans to build the floor chandelier -- 800 glass blocks embedded in the floor that will reflect red and blue lights on the ceiling -- in front of the bullet train ticket gate of JR Toyama Station.

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Founder of religious group Jesus' Ark dies at 78

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takeyoshi Sengoku (file photo), founder of the religious group Jesus' Ark, which was involved in a dispute with families of live-in followers around 1980, died Dec. 11 at a Fukuoka hospital, religious sources said Dec. 14. He was 78. The cause of death was not known.

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Unit 731 survivors tell Chinese team about experiments

KOCHI, Japan - Takeyoshi Ohara (C), a former member of Unit 731, Japan's infamous wartime military section accused of developing biological weapons, tells members of a Chinese investigative team of his experiences during World War II in a Kochi hotel Oct. 31. Ohara testified to the Chinese team on how the unit carried out experiments for biological weapons.

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Mayors of Izu islands seek government aid on quake relief

TOKYO, Japan - Niijima village Mayor Takeyoshi Degawa (L) and Kozushima village Shigeru Yamashita (R) meet Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Aug. 30 to ask for support on emergency anti-earthquake measures and rebuilding funds.

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Founder of religious group Jesus' Ark dies at 78

FUKUOKA, Japan - Takeyoshi Sengoku (file photo), founder of the religious group Jesus' Ark, which was involved in a dispute with families of live-in followers around 1980, died Dec. 11 at a Fukuoka hospital, religious sources said Dec. 14. He was 78. The cause of death was not known.

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Northern Japan shipbuilder gets Nippon Foundation subsidy

Takeyoshi Kidoura (C), president of Mirai Shipbuilding Co., receives a subsidy of 7 billion yen ($57 million) from the Nippon Foundation in Tokyo on May 26, 2015, on behalf of 18 shipbuilding and related firms in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the 2011 tsunami, for their restart at a new industrial estate in the northeastern Japan city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma (R), 90, receives the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, from Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019. (Kyodo) (Pool photo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Six recipients of this year's Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, pose for a photo at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, after attending the award ceremony. The six (from L) are Akira Yoshino, 71, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, mathematical engineering scholar Shunichi Amari, 83, photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma, 90, Kyogen actor Nomura Man, 89, political scientist Takeshi Sasaki, 77, and immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, 68. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Six recipients of this year's Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, pose for a photo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, after attending the award ceremony. The six (from L) are Akira Yoshino, 71, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, mathematical engineering scholar Shunichi Amari, 83, photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma, 90, Kyogen actor Nomura Man, 89, political scientist Takeshi Sasaki, 77, and immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, 68. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma (L) speaks to Emperor Naruhito at a ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, on behalf of five other recipients of the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award. (Pool photo) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Imperial Palace ceremony for Order of Culture recipients

Photographer Takeyoshi Tanuma, 90, enters the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2019, to attend a ceremony to receive the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, together with five other recipients. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Unit 731 survivors tell Chinese team about experiments

KOCHI, Japan - Takeyoshi Ohara (C), a former member of Unit 731, Japan's infamous wartime military section accused of developing biological weapons, tells members of a Chinese investigative team of his experiences during World War II in a Kochi hotel Oct. 31. Ohara testified to the Chinese team on how the unit carried out experiments for biological weapons.

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Mayors of Izu islands seek government aid on quake relief

TOKYO, Japan - Niijima village Mayor Takeyoshi Degawa (L) and Kozushima village Shigeru Yamashita (R) meet Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori on Aug. 30 to ask for support on emergency anti-earthquake measures and rebuilding funds.