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Welcome ceremony of Univ. of Tokyo

University of Tokyo President Teruo Fujii makes a speech during a welcome ceremony for new students at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on April 11, 2025.

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University of Tokyo's new academic program

University of Tokyo President Teruo Fujii (L) holds a press conference on April 4, 2025, at the university to announce the establishment of a new academic program, UTokyo College of Design, in September 2027, marking the first time in about 70 years that Japan's top academic institution will have launched a new faculty. The five-year bachelor's and master's program, led by Prof. Miles Pennington (R), prospective dean, will be conducted only in English, with half of enrollment quota of 100 allocated to foreign students.

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: (L-R) Vice President of the University of Tokyo Ms. HAYASHI Kaori, President of the Comprehensive Research Institute of Natural Sciences in Japan, RIKEN Mr. GONOKAMI Makoto, Minister of State for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Mr. IMAEDA Soichiro, Former President of Chile Eduardo Frei, Ambassador of Japan in Chile Mrs. ITO Takako, Rector of the University of Chile Mrs. Rosa Devés, Rector of the University of Tokyo Prof. FUJII Teruo, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Mr. Ignacio Sánchez, Senator of the Republic of Chile Francisco Chahuán and the President, Chile-Japan Parliamentary Friendship League Mr. SHIONOYA Ryu, participate in the Kagami-Biraki for the good fortune and unity of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory – TAO project University of Tokyoon April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: (L-R) Vice President of the University of Tokyo Ms. HAYASHI Kaori, President of the Comprehensive Research Institute of Natural Sciences in Japan, RIKEN Mr. GONOKAMI Makoto, Minister of State for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Mr. IMAEDA Soichiro, Former President of Chile Eduardo Frei, Ambassador of Japan in Chile Mrs. ITO Takako, Rector of the University of Chile Mrs. Rosa Devés, Rector of the University of Tokyo Prof. FUJII Teruo, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Mr. Ignacio Sánchez, Senator of the Republic of Chile Francisco Chahuán and the President, Chile-Japan Parliamentary Friendship League Mr. SHIONOYA Ryu, participate in the Kagami-Biraki for the good fortune and unity of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory – TAO project University of Tokyoon April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: (L-R) Vice President of the University of Tokyo Ms. HAYASHI Kaori, President of the Comprehensive Research Institute of Natural Sciences in Japan, RIKEN Mr. GONOKAMI Makoto, Minister of State for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Mr. IMAEDA Soichiro, Former President of Chile Eduardo Frei, Ambassador of Japan in Chile Mrs. ITO Takako, Rector of the University of Chile Mrs. Rosa Devés, Rector of the University of Tokyo Prof. FUJII Teruo, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Mr. Ignacio Sánchez, Senator of the Republic of Chile Francisco Chahuán and the President, Chile-Japan Parliamentary Friendship League Mr. SHIONOYA Ryu, participate in the Kagami-Biraki for the good fortune and unity of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory – TAO project University of Tokyoon April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: President of the University of Tokyo, Prof. FUJII Teruo speaks during the opening ceremony of the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory project - TAO on April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: (L-R) Vice President of the University of Tokyo Ms. HAYASHI Kaori, President of the Comprehensive Research Institute of Natural Sciences in Japan, RIKEN Mr. GONOKAMI Makoto, Minister of State for Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Mr. IMAEDA Soichiro, Former President of Chile Eduardo Frei, Ambassador of Japan in Chile Mrs. ITO Takako, Rector of the University of Chile Mrs. Rosa Devés, Rector of the University of Tokyo Prof. FUJII Teruo, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Mr. Ignacio Sánchez, Senator of the Republic of Chile Francisco Chahuán and the President, Chile-Japan Parliamentary Friendship League Mr. SHIONOYA Ryu, participate in the Kagami-Biraki for the good fortune and unity of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory – TAO project University of Tokyoon April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: President of the University of Tokyo, Prof. FUJII Teruo speaks during the opening ceremony of the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory project - TAO on April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: President of the University of Tokyo, Prof. FUJII Teruo speaks during the opening ceremony of the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory project - TAO on April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: (L-R) Ambassador of Japan in Chile Mrs. ITO Takako, Rector of Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Mr. Ignacio Sánchez, President, Parliamentary League of Friendship Chile - Japan Mr. SHIONOYA Ryu, Minister of State of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Mr. IMAEDA Soichiro, Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile Aisén Etcheverry, President of the Comprehensive Research Institute of Natural Sciences in Japan, RIKEN Mr. GONOKAMI Makoto, Rector of the University of Tokyo Prof. FUJII Teruo, Former President of Chile Eduardo Frei, Vice President of the University of Tokyo Mrs. HAYASHI Kaori, Rector of the University of Chile Mrs. Rosa Devés, and Prof. Emeritus YOSHII Yuzuru, pose for the official photograph at the end of the ceremony inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory project - TAO of the University of Tokyo on April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Inauguration of the Tokyo Atacama Observatory - TAO

SANTIAGO, CHILE – APRIL 30: President of the University of Tokyo, Prof. FUJII Teruo speaks during the opening ceremony of the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory project - TAO on April 30, 2024 in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro)

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Welcome ceremony of Univ. of Tokyo

University of Tokyo President Teruo Fujii makes a speech during a welcome ceremony for new students at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on April 12, 2024.

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Signing Ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Canon, and Canon Medical Systems Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement

Signing Ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Canon, and Canon Medical Systems Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement. From left to right: Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo; Fujio Mitarai, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Canon Inc. and Toshio Takiguchi, President and CEO of Canon Medical Systems Inc=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Signing Ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Canon, and Canon Medical Systems Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement

Signing Ceremony for the University of Tokyo, Canon, and Canon Medical Systems Industry-Academia Collaboration Agreement. From left to right: Teruo Fujii, President of the University of Tokyo; Fujio Mitarai, Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Canon Inc. and Toshio Takiguchi, President and CEO of Canon Medical Systems Inc=Date:November 7, 2023, Place:Tokyo

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Welcome ceremony at University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo President Teruo Fujii (C) makes a speech during a welcome ceremony for new students at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on April 12, 2023.

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Japanese golfer Sugihara dies at 74

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese golfer Teruo Sugihara speaks in an interview in June 2010. Sugihara, with a professional career lasting more than 50 years, died of prostate cancer on Dec. 28, 2011, at the age of 74.

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Japan pro golf Hall of Fame picks Sugihara, Okamoto

TOKYO, Japan - The late Teruo Sugihara (L) and Ayako Okamoto, shown in these undated file photos, are among the four players chosen to be inducted into the Japan Professional Golf Hall of Fame at a ceremony set for February 2015. Sugihara won 63 times worldwide in a career spanning more than 50 years. Okamoto, who won 17 times on the U.S. LPGA tour, was voted into the World Hall of Fame in 2005.

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70th anniv. of Cowra Breakout in Australia

COWRA, Australia - Teruo Murakami, a 93-year-old former Japanese soldier who took part in a massive breakout from a prisoner of war camp in Cowra, Australia, in 1944 during World War II, meets students at Cowra High School during an event marking the incident's 70th anniversary.

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Panel urges research center to disband after STAP controversy

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a panel tasked with reforming operations of the Riken research institute attend a press conference on June 12, 2014, in Tokyo, urging it to disband the research center employing Haruko Obokata following misconduct over a study into so-called STAP cells. They include the panel chief Teruo Kishi (2nd from L).

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Ex-POW, Aussie mayor meet on 70th anniv. of prison break

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Mayor Bill West of Cowra (R), Australia, and former Japanese prisoner of war Teruo Murakami (L) meet reporters in Hiroshima, western Japan, on April 17, 2014, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of a prison break. A large number of Japanese POWs attempted to escape from their camp in Cowra in August 1944, which resulted in the deaths of more than 230 people.

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Man makes gigantic torch in Nara

NARA, Japan - Teruo Nomura (L), 70, makes a gigantic "Kago taimatsu" torch, to be used in the "Omizutori" water drawing ceremony at Todaiji, a Buddhist temple in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara, on March 8, 2014.

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New Marubeni president

TOKYO, Japan - Marubeni Corp. President Teruo Asada (L) and Senior Executive Vice President Fumiya Kokubu shake hands in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2013, as the major Japanese trading house said that it will promote Kokubu to president on April 1, 2013.

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"Black glacier" in Greenland

QAANAAQ, Greenland - Teruo Aoki, laboratory head at the Meteorological Research Institute of the Japan Meteorological Agency, a member of a Japanese expedition team to the North Pole, examines a glacier which looks black in Qaanaaq, Greenland, on July 20, 2012.

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Lt. Col. Teruo Sakama, who leads an engineering unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (front L), is welcomed by a South Sudan government official as members of the unit arrive at Juba airport on Feb. 20, 2012. The unit is in South Sudan to support infrastructure building under a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

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Sanyo Electric to sell semiconductor unit to ON Semiconductor

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Sanyo Electric Co. Vice President Susumu Koike, ON Semiconductor Corp. President Keith Jackson and Sanyo Semiconductor Co. President Teruo Tabata shake hands in Tokyo on July 15, 2010, after Sanyo Electric agreed to sell its semiconductor unit to a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. chipmaker for 33 billion yen.

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Sugihara honored for playing Chunichi Crowns for 50 straight yrs

NAGOYA, Japan - Veteran golfer Teruo Sugihara shows off a watch he was presented with to celebrate his playing in the Chunichi Crowns for 50 years in a row at Nagoya Golf Club, Wago Course in Aichi Prefecture on April 30. The 71-year-old golfer placed in the cellar, at 114th, posting a 14-over 84 in the first round of the tournament which began the same day.

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Marubeni to promote Asada to president

TOKYO, Japan - Teruo Asada (L), executive vice president of major trading house Marubeni Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 20 with President Nobuo Katsumata sitting by him. Asada will succeed Katsumata on April 1 while Katsumata will become chairman to replace Toru Tsuji.

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(1)Japanese men go on trial in China for alleged drug smuggling

DALIAN, China - Photo shows the People's Intermediate Court in Dalian, northeastern China, where two Japanese men -- Teruo Takeda, 61, from Nagoya and a 38-year-old man from Osaka -- went on trial Nov. 30 on charges of smuggling drugs from China to Japan.

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(1)Australian town marks 60th anniversary of Japanese POW breakout

COWRA, Australia - (From L to R) Marekuni Takahara, Masami Yamada and Teruo Murakami, Japanese World War II prisoners of war now in their 80s, pose for photos during the 60th anniversary celebrations marking the POW breakout in the New South Wales town of Cowra on Aug. 4.

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Arson-murder suspected in death of 2 in Tokyo fire

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers check the entrance of Toranomon Building in Tokyo's Akasaka district Aug. 19, in which the charred bodies of two men were found. The two are believed to be Yasufumi Yamamoto, 41, managing director of Ace International Inc., a financial futures dealer, and Teruo Kondo, 49, its administration manager. Police are investigating the case as one of arson-murder.

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Entrance ceremony for University of Tokyo

University of Tokyo President Teruo Fujii (C) makes a speech during a ceremony for new students at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on April 12, 2022.

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Marubeni to promote Asada to president

TOKYO, Japan - Teruo Asada (L), executive vice president of major trading house Marubeni Corp., speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 20 with President Nobuo Katsumata sitting by him. Asada will succeed Katsumata on April 1 while Katsumata will become chairman to replace Toru Tsuji. (Kyodo)

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Sugihara honored for playing Chunichi Crowns for 50 straight yrs

NAGOYA, Japan - Veteran golfer Teruo Sugihara shows off a watch he was presented with to celebrate his playing in the Chunichi Crowns for 50 years in a row at Nagoya Golf Club, Wago Course in Aichi Prefecture on April 30. The 71-year-old golfer placed in the cellar, at 114th, posting a 14-over 84 in the first round of the tournament which began the same day. (Kyodo)

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Teruo Sugihara, Japanese professional golfer.

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Teruo Sugihara, Japanese professional golfer holding the Nippon Series trophy.

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Business community's energy chief speaks about Japan's nuke power reliance

Teruo Asada, chairman of Marubeni Corp. and head of the business community's energy panel, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on March 24, 2015. In a report released the same day, the Committee for Environment and Energy of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) said Japan should set a lower limit to its reliance on nuclear power generation at around 20 percent of the country's electricity needs for 2030. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(2)Japanese men go on trial in China for alleged drug smuggling

DALIAN, China - Teruo Takeda (file photo) from Nagoya and a 38-year-old man from Osaka went on trial Nov. 30 at the People's Intermediate Court in Dalian, northeastern China, on charges of smuggling drugs from China to Japan. (Kyodo)

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(1)Japanese men go on trial in China for alleged drug smuggling

DALIAN, China - Photo shows the People's Intermediate Court in Dalian, northeastern China, where two Japanese men -- Teruo Takeda, 61, from Nagoya and a 38-year-old man from Osaka -- went on trial Nov. 30 on charges of smuggling drugs from China to Japan. (Kyodo)

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Welcoming ceremony for University of Tokyo students

University of Tokyo President Teruo Fujii gives an address during a welcoming ceremony held at the Hongo campus in Tokyo on June 26, 2021, for students who entered the state-run university in April 2020 as their entrance ceremony was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Pool photo)

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Sanyo Electric to sell semiconductor unit to ON Semiconductor

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Sanyo Electric Co. Vice President Susumu Koike, ON Semiconductor Corp. President Keith Jackson and Sanyo Semiconductor Co. President Teruo Tabata shake hands in Tokyo on July 15, 2010, after Sanyo Electric agreed to sell its semiconductor unit to a wholly owned subsidiary of the U.S. chipmaker for 33 billion yen. (Kyodo)

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Japan support in S. Sudan

JUBA, South Sudan - Lt. Col. Teruo Sakama, who leads an engineering unit of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (front L), is welcomed by a South Sudan government official as members of the unit arrive at Juba airport on Feb. 20, 2012. The unit is in South Sudan to support infrastructure building under a U.N. peacekeeping mission. (Kyodo)

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Japan pro golf Hall of Fame picks Sugihara, Okamoto

TOKYO, Japan - The late Teruo Sugihara (L) and Ayako Okamoto, shown in these undated file photos, are among the four players chosen to be inducted into the Japan Professional Golf Hall of Fame at a ceremony set for February 2015. Sugihara won 63 times worldwide in a career spanning more than 50 years. Okamoto, who won 17 times on the U.S. LPGA tour, was voted into the World Hall of Fame in 2005. (Kyodo)

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Panel urges research center to disband after STAP controversy

TOKYO, Japan - Members of a panel tasked with reforming operations of the Riken research institute attend a press conference on June 12, 2014, in Tokyo, urging it to disband the research center employing Haruko Obokata following misconduct over a study into so-called STAP cells. They include the panel chief Teruo Kishi (2nd from L). (Kyodo)

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Japanese golfer Sugihara dies at 74

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese golfer Teruo Sugihara speaks in an interview in June 2010. Sugihara, with a professional career lasting more than 50 years, died of prostate cancer on Dec. 28, 2011, at the age of 74. (Kyodo)

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Japanese golfer Sugihara dies at 74

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese golfer Teruo Sugihara tees off in a round at Chiba Country Club in Chiba Prefecture in September 1962 on his way to capture his first career title at the Japan Open. Sugihara, with a professional career lasting more than 50 years, died of prostate cancer on Dec. 28, 2011, at the age of 74. (Kyodo)

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Osaka court orders retrial of ex-nurse's aide convicted of murder

(From L) Mika Nishiyama, a former nurse's aide who was convicted of murdering a male patient in 2003 by removing his respirator at a hospital in Shiga Prefecture in western Japan, and her parents Teruo and Reiko attend a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 20, 2017. The Osaka High Court ordered a retrial for Nishiyama, based on a medical expert's opinion that the patient may have died of heart arrhythmia. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Piano damaged in 2011 tsunami to be donated to disaster-hit hospital

Teruo Inoue (R), the 87-year-old owner of Sarukoya musical instrument store, examines a grand piano on July 23, 2016, that was damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi. The piano will be donated to a hospital that is being rebuilt in the city after its destruction by devastating tsunami waves. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Piano damaged in 2011 tsunami to be donated to disaster-hit hospital

Teruo Inoue (R), the 87-year-old owner of Sarukoya musical instrument store, examines a grand piano on July 23, 2016, that was damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Ishinomaki in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Miyagi. The piano will be donated to a hospital that is being rebuilt in the city after its destruction by devastating tsunami waves. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(1)Australian town marks 60th anniversary of Japanese POW breako

COWRA, Australia - (From L to R) Marekuni Takahara, Masami Yamada and Teruo Murakami, Japanese World War II prisoners of war now in their 80s, pose for photos during the 60th anniversary celebrations marking the POW breakout in the New South Wales town of Cowra on Aug. 4. (Kyodo)

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Arson-murder suspected in death of 2 in Tokyo fire

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers check the entrance of Toranomon Building in Tokyo's Akasaka district Aug. 19, in which the charred bodies of two men were found. The two are believed to be Yasufumi Yamamoto, 41, managing director of Ace International Inc., a financial futures dealer, and Teruo Kondo, 49, its administration manager. Police are investigating the case as one of arson-murder. (Kyodo)