Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Takeshi Abe, former head of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study team and former vice president of Teikyo University, raises his hand to testify as unsworn witness at a House of Representatives committee session in Tokyo in April 1996 over his connection with HIV infections through tainted blood products in the early 1980s. An expert on hemophilia treatment, Abe is regarded as the key figure who influenced a ministry decision to continue the use of unheated blood products in 1984.(Kyodo)

Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 25 Kyodo - Undated file photo shows Yasufumi Miyake, a Teikyo University emergency medicine professor. He is a member of a panel set up within the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee to study measures that can be taken to combat the anticipated high temperatures that athletes and spectators will have to endure during the games.

Ig Nobel award

Ig Nobel award

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Teikyo University School of Medicine Associate Professor Masanori Niimi (C) poses for photos with co-awardees during an award ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sept. 12, 2013. Their group won the spoof Ig Nobel medicine prize for studying how opera music affects mice heart transplants.

Ogaki Nichidai reaches Koshien final

Ogaki Nichidai reaches Koshien final

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Members of tournament debutant Ogaki Nichidai from Gifu Prefecture run to celebrate after their team held off a late rally by Tokyo's Teikyo to claim a 5-4 victory in the semifinals of the national high school invitational tournament at Koshien Stadium on April 2. Ogaki Nichidai advanced to the final to face Tokoha Gakuen Kikugawa of Shizuoka Prefecture which beat Kumamoto Kogyo 6-4.

Teikyo reaches high school invitational semis

Teikyo reaches high school invitational semis

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Teikyo players race to the stand of their supporters after the Tokyo school beat Koryo of Hiroshima Prefecture 7-1 to reach the semifinals of the national high school invitational tournament on April 1.

Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

TOKYO, Japan - Journalist Yoshiko Sakurai speaks with a smile during a news conference in Tokyo on June 16 after the Supreme Court ruled that stories written by her about HIV caused by tainted blood products used to treat hemophilia were not defamatory of the late hemophilia expert Takeshi Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University.

Vice minister Miyaji quits post over influence scandal

Vice minister Miyaji quits post over influence scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuaki Miyaji (C), senior vice minister at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, is surrounded by reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on July 15 after informing Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi of his intention to step down. Miyaji allegedly used his authority to help a supporter's grandson get into Teikyo University School of Medicine.

Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs filing HIV suits meet the press in Tokyo on March 28 after the Tokyo District Court acquitted Takeshi Abe, once Japan's top hemophilia expert, of professional negligence resulting in the death of one of his patients from AIDS in 1991. The court said there was little possibility Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University, could have foreseen the scale of the tragedy.

Former sumo wrestler Mainoumi steps up to lectern

Former sumo wrestler Mainoumi steps up to lectern

HACHIOJI, Japan - Former sumo wrestler Mainoumi, who now goes by his real name Shuhei Nagao, steps up to the lectern at Teikyo University on April 19, and was greeted with applause by his students as he readied for his lecture at the Tokyo school. Nagao will deliver a weekly lecture on ''sociology from the viewpoint of sumo'' as a part-time lecturer.

Hospital head meets press after tuberculosis reports

Hospital head meets press after tuberculosis reports

The photo shows Kenji Mano (2nd from L), head of Teikyo University Hospital, meeting the press on June 27 after news reports that 37 medical workers at the Tokyo hospital may have contracted tuberculosis from a surgeon in his 30s.

Teikyo reaches high school invitational semis

Teikyo reaches high school invitational semis

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Teikyo players race to the stand of their supporters after the Tokyo school beat Koryo of Hiroshima Prefecture 7-1 to reach the semifinals of the national high school invitational tournament on April 1. (Kyodo)

Ogaki Nichidai reaches Koshien final

Ogaki Nichidai reaches Koshien final

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Members of tournament debutant Ogaki Nichidai from Gifu Prefecture run to celebrate after their team held off a late rally by Tokyo's Teikyo to claim a 5-4 victory in the semifinals of the national high school invitational tournament at Koshien Stadium on April 2. Ogaki Nichidai advanced to the final to face Tokoha Gakuen Kikugawa of Shizuoka Prefecture which beat Kumamoto Kogyo 6-4. (Kyodo)

Vice minister Miyaji quits post over influence scandal

Vice minister Miyaji quits post over influence scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuaki Miyaji (C), senior vice minister at the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry, is surrounded by reporters at the ministry in Tokyo on July 15 after informing Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi of his intention to step down. Miyaji allegedly used his authority to help a supporter's grandson get into Teikyo University School of Medicine.

Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

Top court rules stories on Abe's HIV role not defamatory

TOKYO, Japan - Journalist Yoshiko Sakurai speaks with a smile during a news conference in Tokyo on June 16 after the Supreme Court ruled that stories written by her about HIV caused by tainted blood products used to treat hemophilia were not defamatory of the late hemophilia expert Takeshi Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University. (Kyodo)

Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic Wild Knights' Kentaro Kodama breaks through to score a try during the first half of the 53rd All-Japan Championship match against Teikyo University at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2016. The Wild Knights, who won their fourth Top League title last week, beat the top university 49-15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic top Teikyo Univ. to complete league/cup double

Panasonic Wild Knights' players celebrate on the podium after beating Teikyo University 49-15 at the 53rd All-Japan Championship match at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 31, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Karate athletes of Teikyo University practice in Hachioji, Tokyo, on Nov. 17, 2015. Karate is among the sports Tokyo 2020 organizers have proposed to the International Olympic Committee for addition for the Olympics in the Japanese capital in five years' time. The IOC will announce the additional sports for the Tokyo Games in August 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Expectations high for new Olympic sports to be added for Tokyo Games

Karate athletes of Teikyo University practice in Hachioji, Tokyo, on Nov. 17, 2015. Karate is among the sports Tokyo 2020 organizers have proposed to the International Olympic Committee for addition for the Olympics in the Japanese capital in five years' time. The IOC will announce the additional sports for the Tokyo Games in August 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japanese female pro storyteller recites historic battle episode

Japanese female pro storyteller recites historic battle episode

Female professional storyteller Ichiryusai Teikyo recounts an episode from the 1615 Summer Battle of Osaka in the western Japan city on Feb, 26, 2015. The performance was organized by K.K. Kyodo News to mark the 400th anniversary of the landmark military campaign that enabled the Tokugawa clan to destroy the archrival Toyotomi clan and cement its administration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Teikyo University upset NEC in All-Japan Championship

Teikyo University upset NEC in All-Japan Championship

Teikyo University players express joy after winning a penalty in extra time during an All-Japan Championship match against NEC Green Rockets on Feb. 8, 2015, in Tokyo. Teikyo beat NEC 31-25, becoming just the second collegiate side to beat a Top League team in the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

Undated file photo shows Yasufumi Miyake, a Teikyo University emergency medicine professor. He is a member of a panel set up within the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee to study measures that can be taken to combat the anticipated high temperatures that athletes and spectators will have to endure during the games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rugby: Panasonic flyer Kodama to play Super Rugby for Rebels

Rugby: Panasonic flyer Kodama to play Super Rugby for Rebels

Photo taken in January 2016 shows then Panasonic Wild Knights wing Kentaro Kodama scoring a try in the first half of his team's 49-15 win over Teikyo University in the final of the national championship in Tokyo. Kodama has signed a one-year contract with the Melbourne Rebels, the Australian Super Rugby franchise said on Jan. 26, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Hypothermia deaths in Japan 1.5 times heatstroke fatalities

Hypothermia deaths in Japan 1.5 times heatstroke fatalities

Teikyo University Hospital professor Yasufumi Miyake speaks in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2018. According to medical and weather experts, hypothermia kills around 1,000 people almost every winter in Japan, 1.5 times the number of deaths caused by heatstroke. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Collegiate rugby championship

Collegiate rugby championship

Teikyo University's Koki Takeyama kicks a conversion in the second half of a 21-20 win over Meiji University in the collegiate rugby championship final at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Collegiate rugby championship

Collegiate rugby championship

Teikyo University's Yuki Okada scores a try in the second half of a 21-20 win over Meiji University in the collegiate rugby championship final at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Collegiate rugby championship

Collegiate rugby championship

Teikyo University players celebrate their ninth straight collegiate rugby championship after beating Meiji University 21-20 at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Collegiate rugby championship

Collegiate rugby championship

Teikyo University players celebrate their ninth straight collegiate rugby championship after beating Meiji University 21-20 at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 7, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rugby: Smith, Pocock to go head-to-head in All-Japan C'ship final

Rugby: Smith, Pocock to go head-to-head in All-Japan C'ship final

Naoki Ozawa scores a try in the first half of Suntory Sungoliath's 54-29 win over Teikyo University in a semifinal of the All Japan Championship at Hanazono Rugby Ground in Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Jan. 21, 2017. The Jan. 29 final will feature a match-up between two of rugby's greatest-ever back-row forwards, Suntory's George Smith and David Pocock of Panasonic Wild Knights. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rugby: Teikyo win unprecedented 8th straight university title

Rugby: Teikyo win unprecedented 8th straight university title

Teikyo University rugby team members run in jubilation after defeating Tokai University 33-26 to win an unprecedented eighth straight collegiate title at Tokyo's Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground on Jan. 9, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rugby: Teikyo win unprecedented 8th straight university title

Rugby: Teikyo win unprecedented 8th straight university title

Koki Takeyama (R) of Teikyo University scores a try against Tokai University in the second half of the national university championship final at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 9, 2017. Teikyo beat Tokai 33-26, winning an unprecedented eighth straight collegiate title. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rugby: Tokai, Teikyo set up final of collegiate c'ship

Rugby: Tokai, Teikyo set up final of collegiate c'ship

Tevita Tatafu runs with the ball on his way to scoring a try in the second half of Tokai University's 74-12 win over Doshisha University in a semifinal of the collegiate rugby championship at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 2017. Tokai will take on Teikyo University in the Jan. 9 final. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Rugby: Teikyo, Tokai set up final of collegiate c'ship

Rugby: Teikyo, Tokai set up final of collegiate c'ship

Josua Kerevi (C) scores a try in the second half of Tenri University's 42-24 loss to Teikyo University in a semifinal of the collegiate rugby championship at Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo on Jan. 2, 2017. Teikyo will take on Tokai University in the Jan. 9 final. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Prosecutors want expert's acquittal in AIDS death overturned

Prosecutors want expert's acquittal in AIDS death overturned

TOKYO, Japan - Prosecutors on Nov. 29 demanded the Tokyo High Court overturn a lower court ruling in 2001 that acquitted Takeshi Abe (file photo), a former vice president of Teikyo University, of causing the death from AIDS of a male hemophiliac patient in 1991. (Kyodo)

Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

Hemophilia expert Abe found innocent in HIV trial

TOKYO, Japan - Plaintiffs filing HIV suits meet the press in Tokyo on March 28 after the Tokyo District Court acquitted Takeshi Abe, once Japan's top hemophilia expert, of professional negligence resulting in the death of one of his patients from AIDS in 1991. The court said there was little possibility Abe, former vice president of Teikyo University, could have foreseen the scale of the tragedy.

Abe found not guilty in HIV scandal

Abe found not guilty in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Takeshi Abe, once Japan's top hemophilia expert, who was acquitted March 28 of professional negligence resulting in the death of one of his patients from AIDS in 1991. Abe, 84, former vice president of Teikyo University, was accused of allowing the use of unheated blood-clotting agents tainted with HIV, despite being aware of the danger the agents posed.

Remains of Japanese POW in Siberia handed over to family

Remains of Japanese POW in Siberia handed over to family

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Keiko Fujita, 69, receives the remains of her father, Kenichi Mimura, a former Japanese serviceman who died in a Siberian labor camp a year after the end of World War II, from a Health and Welfare Ministry official at her home in Utsunomiya on Nov. 29. The remains were identified in late October by doctors at Tokyo's Teikyo University through a DNA test.

Hospital head meets press after tuberculosis reports

Hospital head meets press after tuberculosis reports

The photo shows Kenji Mano (2nd from L), head of Teikyo University Hospital, meeting the press on June 27 after news reports that 37 medical workers at the Tokyo hospital may have contracted tuberculosis from a surgeon in his 30s.