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Singer Tokiko Kato sings in China

Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (3rd from L), 81, acknowledges the crowd after singing at a concert to promote Japan-China cultural interchanges on Aug. 23, 2025, in Harbin, a northeastern China city, where she was born in 1943, marking the 60th anniversary of her debut.

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Singer Tokiko Kato sings in China

Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (C), 81, sings during a concert to promote Japan-China cultural interchanges on Aug. 23, 2025, in Harbin, a northeastern China city, where she was born in 1943, marking the 60th anniversary of her debut.

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Singer Tokiko Kato sings in China

Japanese singer Tokiko Kato, 81, sings during a concert to promote Japan-China cultural interchanges on Aug. 23, 2025, in Harbin, a northeastern China city, where she was born in 1943, marking the 60th anniversary of her debut.

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Singer Tokiko Kato sings in China

Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (C), 81, sings during a concert to promote Japan-China cultural interchanges on Aug. 23, 2025, in Harbin, a northeastern China city, where she was born in 1943, marking the 60th anniversary of her debut.

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Singer Tokiko Kato sings in China

Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (C), 81, sings during a concert to promote Japan-China cultural interchanges on Aug. 23, 2025, in Harbin, a northeastern China city, where she was born in 1943, marking the 60th anniversary of her debut.

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Singer Tokiko Kato sings in China

Japanese singer Tokiko Kato, 81, sings during a concert to promote Japan-China cultural interchanges on Aug. 23, 2025, in Harbin, a northeastern China city, where she was born in 1943, marking the 60th anniversary of her debut.

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Singer Tokiko Kato sings in China

Japanese singer Tokiko Kato, 81, sings during a concert to promote Japan-China cultural interchanges on Aug. 23, 2025, in Harbin, a northeastern China city, where she was born in 1943, marking the 60th anniversary of her debut.

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Singer Kato to release song about Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (C) talks with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) at Hiroshima City Hall on June 24, 2014, a day before releasing her song CD of a poem by Keiji Nakazawa, late cartoon artist from Hiroshima who wrote manga series "Barefoot Gen." On the left is Katsuhiko Yamamoto, who composed the music.

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Quake charity concert in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (front C) and around 300 members of choirs from Japan and the United States hold a charity concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on April 9, 2012, to help rebuild northeastern Japan following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Singer Tokiko Kato performs at Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato performs at the World Exposition site in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on May 8.

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UNEP envoy Kato to perform during Johannesburg summit

TOKYO, Japan - Singer and U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) goodwill ambassador Tokiko Kato will hold concerts in the Johannesburg suburbs on Aug. 28 and 29 to promote conservation, organizers said Aug. 17. The city is the site of the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development from Aug. 26 to Sept. 4. Photo was taken when Kato staged concerts with South African musicians in Tokyo in June 2001.

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Singer Kato visits Seoul World Cup stadium

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato, who is a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), listens to a Korean official explain about environment policies during a visit to the Seoul World Cup Stadium on April 10.

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Japanese singer Kato named new U.N. goodwill envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on Oct. 30 after being officially appointed by Mori as new goodwill ambassador to the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP). Kato is the first Japanese to hold the post.

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Japanese singer Kato to be new U.N. goodwill envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Internationally known Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (file photo) is appointed Oct. 27 to be the new goodwill ambassador to the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP), the first Japanese to hold the post.

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UNEP envoy Kato to perform during Johannesburg summit

TOKYO, Japan - Singer and U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) goodwill ambassador Tokiko Kato will hold concerts in the Johannesburg suburbs on Aug. 28 and 29 to promote conservation, organizers said Aug. 17. The city is the site of the upcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development from Aug. 26 to Sept. 4. Photo was taken when Kato staged concerts with South African musicians in Tokyo in June 2001. (Kyodo)

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Singer Kato visits Seoul World Cup stadium

SEOUL, South Korea - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato, who is a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), listens to a Korean official explain about environment policies during a visit to the Seoul World Cup Stadium on April 10.

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Singer Tokiko Kato performs at Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato performs at the World Exposition site in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture, on May 8. (Kyodo)

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Farming life opens possibilities for both young and old

TOKYO, Japan - Tokiko Kato, a popular singer, talks in an interview with Kyodo on her late husband, Toshio Fujimoto. (Kyodo)

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Quake charity concert in N.Y.

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (front C) and around 300 members of choirs from Japan and the United States hold a charity concert in New York's Carnegie Hall on April 9, 2012, to help rebuild northeastern Japan following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. (Kyodo)

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Japanese singer Kato named new U.N. goodwill envoy

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori at the premier's official residence in Tokyo on Oct. 30 after being officially appointed by Mori as new goodwill ambassador to the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP). Kato is the first Japanese to hold the post.