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Japan imperial family at concert

(From bottom) Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and Princess Aiko enter the auditorium for a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Nippon Music Foundation in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family at concert

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (L) and Princess Aiko attend a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Nippon Music Foundation in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial family at concert

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako (L) and Princess Aiko attend a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Nippon Music Foundation in Tokyo on Sept. 3, 2024. (Pool photo)

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Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks on Oct. 30, 2023 during a reception for the 3rd Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo, co-hosted by the Japan Coast Guard and the Nippon Foundation. This time, the summit gathered top officers from the coast guards of around 100 countries.

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Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo

Japan's land minister Tetsuo Saito speaks on Oct. 30, 2023 during a reception for the 3rd Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo, co-hosted by the Japan Coast Guard and the Nippon Foundation. This time, the summit gathered top officers from the coast guards of around 100 countries.

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Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (front, C) poses for a photo session on Oct. 30, 2023 during a reception for the 3rd Coast Guard Global Summit in Tokyo, co-hosted by the Japan Coast Guard and the Nippon Foundation. This time, the summit gathered top officers from the coast guards of around 100 countries.

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Seminar on Hansen's disease in Vatican

Yohei Sasakawa (L), the goodwill ambassador for leprosy elimination for the World Health Organization and chairman of The Nippon Foundation, speaks at an international symposium on Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, in a Vatican auditorium on Jan. 23, 2023, where a message from Pope Francis was shared.

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Seminar on Hansen's disease in Vatican

Yohei Sasakawa, the goodwill ambassador for leprosy elimination for the World Health Organization and chairman of The Nippon Foundation, speaks at an international symposium on Hansen's disease, also known as leprosy, in a Vatican auditorium on Jan. 23, 2023, where a message from Pope Francis was shared.

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Japanese nonprofit group donates passenger ship to Palau

KOROR, Palau - Photo taken on Dec. 15, 2014, in the state of Koror, Palau, shows a passenger ship, the Nippon Maru II, which was donated by the Tokyo-based nonprofit organization Nippon Foundation to the Pacific island nation. It will connect Palau's most populous state of Koror and Peleliu Island, one of the fiercest battlefields in the Pacific during World War II.

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Japan foundation chief addresses int'l meet on leprosy

RABAT, Morocco - Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Japanese nonprofit philanthropic body Nippon Foundation, addresses an international symposium held in the Moroccan capital of Rabat on Oct. 28, 2014, to promote a 2010 U.N. resolution calling for the elimination of discrimination against people affected by Hansen's disease.

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Nippon Foundation head Sasakawa gets Rule of Law Award

OSAKA, Japan - Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Nippon Foundation, is granted the Rule of Law Award from the International Bar Association, the world's largest group of lawyers, on Oct. 23, 2014, for his arduous effort to eradicate Hansen's disease from the world.

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Expressway operator to seek early completion of new road

NAGOYA, Japan - Yoshihito Miyaike, president of Central Nippon Expressway Co., pledges redoubled efforts for early completion of work to connect the Hamamatsu Inasa and Toyoda Higashi junctions in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Toyoda, Aichi Prefecture, respectively, on the New Tomei Expressway during a ceremony in Nagoya, central Japan, on Oct. 1, 2014, to mark the ninth anniversary of the firm's foundation.

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'Bunraku' puppet theater to be performed across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Yohei Sasakawa (R), chairman of the Nippon Foundation, and noted puppeteer Kanjyuro Kiritake (2nd from R) strike a pose with others in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014. Sasakawa launched a "Japan Bunraku" project on the same day to promote the traditional Japanese puppet theater through performances across Japan on a ready-to-assemble temporary stage, funded by the foundation, starting with performances at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills next March.

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'Japan saves the world' by S. Leeper

HIROSHIMA, Japan - The book entitled "Nippon ga sekai wo sukuu - Kaku wo nakusu best scenario" (Japan saves the world - a best-case scenario for abolishing nuclear weapons) by American Steven Leeper, former chair of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, is shown in this undated photo.

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S. Leeper, ex-chairman of Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation

HIROSHIMA, Japan - American Steven Leeper, former chair of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, talks about his recent book entitled "Nippon ga sekai wo sukuu - Kaku wo nakusu best scenario" (Japan saves the world - a best-case scenario for abolishing nuclear weapons), in Hiroshima on March 26, 2014. Leeper served as the first foreign chairperson of the foundation.

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HR groups seek to end discrimination against leprosy

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Nippon Foundation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa (C) and other human rights advocacy group members call for the elimination of discrimination and stigma against Hansen's disease patients in an appeal announced in Jakarta, Indonesia on Jan. 27, 2014. Sasakawa is also the Japanese Government Goodwill Ambassador for the Human Rights of People Affected by Leprosy.

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Hat-like bicycle helmets

SAITAMA, Japan - Photo taken in Tokyo on May 14, 2013, shows hat-like helmets for cyclists designed by Nippon Parade, a company making orchestra uniforms, and the Tokyo Foundation for Employment Services, a job placement group for senior citizens. The helmets, originally developed to prevent accidents involving senior riders, have been generating interest from riders both old and young since their release in October 2012, according to the company.

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Japan representative for Myanmar ethnic issues

TOKYO, Japan - The chairman of the Nippon Foundation, Yohei Sasakawa, speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo on Feb. 19, 2013, after being named the Japanese government's representative to help bring peace among Myanmar's ethnic minorities.

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Japan foundation aid for Myanmar

MAWLAMYINE, Myanmar - Yohei Sasakawa (2nd from L), head of Japan's Nippon Foundation, and Aung Min (4th from L), Myanmar minister at the presidential office, hold aid supplies from the Japanese group in Mawlamyine in Myanmar's southeastern Mon State on Dec. 22, 2012. The Nippon Foundation donated $70,000 in assistance to internally displaced people living in an ethnic group-controlled cease-fire area in Mon State.

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Frankfurt customs confiscates violinist Janke's Stradivarius

TOKYO, Japan - Violinist Yuki Manuela Janke, a resident of Germany, poses with a Stradivarius violin in Tokyo in September 2012. The violin was confiscated by customs officers at the international airport in Frankfurt later in the month, the Nippon Music Foundation, a Japanese entity leasing the instrument, said Oct. 4, 2012. The German customs authority said it will keep the violin, one of the most coveted makes, unless Janke pays a duty of 120 million yen, on the grounds it is an item that needs to be declared for taxation.

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Nippon Foundation pledges help to Myanmar ethnic minorities

BANGKOK, Thailand - Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Nippon Foundation, a Japanese philanthropic organization, is seen during an interview with Kyodo News at a Bangkok hotel on July 31, 2012, following a visit to Myanmar. Sasakawa pledged to help improve the welfare of ethnic minorities in Myanmar, saying that would help bolster their trust on the Myanmar government's reform efforts.

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S. Korean actor Lee Seojin sets up fund for tree planting

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean actor Lee Seojin (L) shakes hands with Chairman Yohei Sasagawa of the Nippon Foundation at a news conference announcing that they have jointly set up a fund for protecting the environment in the East Asian region including tree planting and developing human resources in the field.

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Work on dictionaries for Asian-Pacific sign languages

HANOI, Vietnam - A group of hearing-impaired sign language experts from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong are working on dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages in a project funded by the Nippon Foundation under the direction of James Woodward, a linguistics expert based in Vietnam and Hong Kong. In this photo, taken in Phnom Penh on Feb. 22, a group of Vietnamese and Cambodian hearing-impaired sign language experts hold copies of their partly completed sign language dictionaries.

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(2)Carter meets Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) holds talks with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (2nd from L), at his office on Sept. 5. Carter and his wife Rosalynn (L) visited Japan on a four-day trip at the invitation of Nippon Foundation President Yohei Sasakawa.

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(1)Carter meets Koizumi

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (R) shakes hands with Rosalynn Carter, wife of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (C), at his office on Sept. 5. The Carters visited Japan on a four-day trip at the invitation of Nippon Foundation President Yohei Sasakawa.

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ANA holds ceremony to mark 1 bil. passengers

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways (ANA) President Yoji Ohashi (L) presents an ANA plane model to Shigeo Nagashima, former manager of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball club, at a ceremony held March 14 to commemorate serving 1 billion passengers on domestic and international flights since ANA's foundation in 1952. Nagashima has been selected to represent ANA's public image.

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Unmanned container ship being tested

Photo taken on Jan. 25, 2022, shows the interior of a container ship at a port in the Tottori Prefecture city of Sakaiminato, western Japan, that departed from a port in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, the previous day and traveled unmanned for about 270 kilometers on a trial basis. The Nippon Foundation, which is leading the project, aims to commercialize the operation of unmanned container ships in 2025.

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Unmanned container ship being tested

An unmanned container ship arrives at a port in the Tottori Prefecture city of Sakaiminato, western Japan, on Jan. 25, 2022, after travelling for about 270 kilometers on a trial basis following its departure from a port in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, the previous day. The Nippon Foundation, which is leading the project, aims to commercialize the operation of unmanned container ships in 2025.

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Japan's special envoy for national reconciliation in Myanmar

Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the philanthropic Nippon Foundation and Japan's special envoy for national reconciliation in Myanmar, gives an interview in Yangon on Nov. 18, 2021.

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Aung San Suu Kyi's Japanese sword

Tomonobu Yokoyama (C) explains to Yuji Mori (front R), executive director of the Nippon Foundation, how he repaired a Japanese sword owned by Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, in the Okayama Prefecture city of Setouchi, western Japan, on Nov. 6, 2021. Technicians such as Yokoyama spent about a year on repairing the sword upon Suu Kyi's request made in February 2020.

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Sign Language Phone for Telephone Relay Service

The service provides an immediate two-way connection between hearing-impaired people and hearing people over the phone by having an interpreter operator at the telephone relay service center interpret "sign language," "text," and "voice. = October 11, 2019, Haneda Airport Domestic Terminal 2, Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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ANA holds ceremony to mark 1 bil. passengers

TOKYO, Japan - All Nippon Airways (ANA) President Yoji Ohashi (L) presents an ANA plane model to Shigeo Nagashima, former manager of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball club, at a ceremony held March 14 to commemorate serving 1 billion passengers on domestic and international flights since ANA's foundation in 1952. Nagashima has been selected to represent ANA's public image. (Kyodo)

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"Nippon Bunraku" performance to be held in October

Kiritake Kanjuro (L), a Bunraku puppeteer, poses in Osaka, western Japan, on July 8, 2015, when the Nippon Foundation announced it will hold a performance in Osaka, western Japan, in October, as part of its "Nippon Bunraku" project promoting the traditional Japanese performing art. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan hopes to see rights of disabled included in U.N. goals

Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Motohide Yoshikawa (far L) and Nippon Foundation head Yohei Sasakawa (far R) attend a meeting related to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New York on June 9, 2015. Yoshikawa called for inclusion this year of the rights of disabled people as one of the world body's new development goals. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Groups discuss discrimination against leprosy sufferers at U.N.

Photo taken June 10, 2015, at the U.N. headquarters in New York shows the first panel discussion on people with leprosy and disabilities at the United Nations. Participants, including Nippon Foundation chairman Yohei Sasakawa (2nd from L), pressed for solidarity and greater social inclusion for people with leprosy to highlight the issues they faced. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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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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Children's hospice to open in Osaka in Dec. with retailer's aid

Tadashi Yanai (2nd from L, back), president and CEO of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of Uniqlo discount clothing stores, attends a press conference in Osaka on March 6, 2015, to announce the opening in December of TSURUMI Children's Hospice in the western Japanese city for children with life-threatening illnesses. The project will be funded by the company and Nippon Foundation initially but will depend on donations for its day-to-day operation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese, S. Korean Paralympic committees exchange views

Mitsunori Torihara, president of the Japanese Paralympic Committee, speaks during the Japan-South Korea paralympic seminar in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2015. The two sides exchanged opinions at the seminar hosted by the Nippon Foundation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese, S. Korean Paralympic committees exchange views

Kim Sung Il, president of the Korean Paralympic Committee, speaks during the Japan-South Korea paralympic seminar in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2015. The two sides exchanged opinions at the seminar hosted by the Nippon Foundation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aging Filipino-Japanese still hoping to secure Japanese citizenship

Filipino-Japanese siblings Roque Go, 80, Pacita Torres, 84, and Estodi Go, 77, from the southern Philippine province of Davao Occidental on Mindanao island, attend an interview on May 24, 2016, in Davao City conducted by the Philippine Nikkei-jin Legal Support Center, Nippon Foundation, and the Japanese Embassy in Manila in preparation for an appeal of an earlier decision by a Japanese court dismissing their petition to be recognized as Japanese nationals. The siblings were among five children of a Japanese national they identify from memory as "Mashimura Maramoto," who, they claim, arrived in Davao before World War II and got married to a local tribal woman but failed to register his family with the Japanese government. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tottori Pref. to get funding from Nippon Foundation for welfare improvement

Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai (R) and Nippon Foundation Chairman Yohei Sasakawa show an agreement on bilateral cooperation in the prefectural capital of Tottori, western Japan, on Nov. 18, 2015. Under the agreement, the foundation will provide Tottori Prefecture with 3 billion yen over five years to finance joint projects aimed at improving the welfare environment for elderly and handicapped people. The foundation selected Tottori as a recipient of its funds for the prefecture's efforts to improve welfare for the disadvantaged through a sign language promotion event for high school students and other programs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Joint office opens for 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

Photo taken in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2015, shows a joint office housing about 25 sports organizations for people with disabilities including the Japan Wheelchair Tennis Association. The office opened the same day at the Nippon Foundation building with the aim of enhancing administrative works toward the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yamawaki, head of Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Center

Yasushi Yamawaki, president of the Japanese Paralympic Committee, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on June 2, 2015, after he took the position of chairman of the newly established Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Center. The support center will present an all-Japan team for hosting a successful Paralympics in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Work on dictionaries for Asian-Pacific sign languages

HANOI, Vietnam - A group of hearing-impaired sign language experts from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Hong Kong are working on dictionaries of Asian-Pacific sign languages in a project funded by the Nippon Foundation under the direction of James Woodward, a linguistics expert based in Vietnam and Hong Kong. In this photo, taken in Phnom Penh on Feb. 22, a group of Vietnamese and Cambodian hearing-impaired sign language experts hold copies of their partly completed sign language dictionaries. (Kyodo)

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Japanese nonprofit group donates passenger ship to Palau

KOROR, Palau - Photo taken on Dec. 15, 2014, in the state of Koror, Palau, shows a passenger ship, the Nippon Maru II, which was donated by the Tokyo-based nonprofit organization Nippon Foundation to the Pacific island nation. It will connect Palau's most populous state of Koror and Peleliu Island, one of the fiercest battlefields in the Pacific during World War II. (Kyodo)

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Nippon Foundation head Sasakawa gets Rule of Law Award

OSAKA, Japan - Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Nippon Foundation, is granted the Rule of Law Award from the International Bar Association, the world's largest group of lawyers, on Oct. 23, 2014, for his arduous effort to eradicate Hansen's disease from the world. (Kyodo)

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Expressway operator to seek early completion of new road

NAGOYA, Japan - Yoshihito Miyaike, president of Central Nippon Expressway Co., pledges redoubled efforts for early completion of work to connect the Hamamatsu Inasa and Toyoda Higashi junctions in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, and Toyoda, Aichi Prefecture, respectively, on the New Tomei Expressway during a ceremony in Nagoya, central Japan, on Oct. 1, 2014, to mark the ninth anniversary of the firm's foundation. (Kyodo)

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'Bunraku' puppet theater to be performed across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Yohei Sasakawa (R), chairman of the Nippon Foundation, and noted puppeteer Kanjyuro Kiritake (2nd from R) strike a pose with others in Tokyo on Aug. 27, 2014. Sasakawa launched a "Japan Bunraku" project on the same day to promote the traditional Japanese puppet theater through performances across Japan on a ready-to-assemble temporary stage, funded by the foundation, starting with performances at Tokyo's Roppongi Hills next March. (Kyodo)

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S. Korean actor Lee Seojin sets up fund for tree planting

TOKYO, Japan - South Korean actor Lee Seojin (L) shakes hands with Chairman Yohei Sasagawa of the Nippon Foundation at a news conference announcing that they have jointly set up a fund for protecting the environment in the East Asian region including tree planting and developing human resources in the field. (Kyodo)

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Transparent public toilet

Photo taken at a park in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Sept. 3, 2020, shows a public toilet, created by architect Shigeru Ban, which is transparent when nobody is inside it. Ban designed the toilet under the Nippon Foundation-led Tokyo Toilet project, in which a total of 17 similar toilets designed by various designers and architects will be created in the ward.