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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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CHINA-SICHUAN-CHENGDU-GIANT PANDA-ARRIVAL (CN)

(230221) -- CHENGDU, Feb. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Customs officers supervise the unloading of the Japan-born giant panda Xiang Xiang at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 21, 2022. Female giant panda Xiang Xiang on Tuesday morning left Ueno Zoo in Tokyo of Japan to fly back to China, her home country. Xiang Xiang was born at Ueno Zoo in June 2017 to Shin Shin (female) and Ri Ri (male), two giant pandas on loan from China, where the ownership over the cubs they give birth to belongs. Now five years and eight months old, the panda has reached her breeding maturity. "Considering the future of Xiang Xiang and the giant pandas as a species, it would be amazing if it found a good mate and breed in China," Yutaka Fukuda, director of Ueno Zoo, told Xinhua. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)

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Lobster imports peak ahead of Christmas

NARITA, Japan - A Tokyo Customs officer inspects lobsters imported from Canada at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 17, 2014, at the peak of their importation ahead of Christmas.

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Buddhist denomination's cemetery in Chiba Pref.

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Buddhist denomination Shinnyo-en's a cemetery with the same shape of tombstone in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, near Tokyo, is seen in this undated photo. Funeral customs and traditions have been changing in Japan.

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Japanese religious group's hall to keep people's mementos

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese religious group GLA's hall to keep mementos and remains of the deceased in Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture, is seen in this undated photo. Funeral customs and traditions have been changing in Japan.

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Japanese religious group's hall to keep people's mementos

TOKYO, Japan - A man shows a burial vault of Japanese religious group GLA's hall to keep mementos and remains of the deceased in Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture. Funeral customs and traditions have been changing in Japan.

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Old bank notes deposited by WWII returnees given airing

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Customs officials expose to the air excess bank notes deposited by post-World War II returnees, mainly from China and the Korean Peninsula, at the customs house in Yokohama west of Tokyo on Aug. 6, 2014. Some 60% of the total deposits exceeding upper limits imposed by the Allied Occupation forces to fend off inflation remain to be returned at Japan's eight customs houses.

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Imported eels checked at Narita airport customs

NARITA, Japan - Customs officers at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, check imported eels kept in a facility of a trading company on July 23, 2014. Imports of the fish are peaking ahead of the upcoming customary day to eat broiled eels as a "beat summer heat" tradition.

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Imported eels checked at Narita airport customs

NARITA, Japan - Imported eels are poured into a bucket at a facility of a trading company at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on July 23, 2014, ahead of customs clearance. Imports of the fish are peaking ahead of the upcoming customary day to eat broiled eels as a "beat summer heat" tradition.

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Man trains drug detection dogs at customs training center

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 12, 2013 in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, shows Manato Kimura, an instructor belonging to the Tokyo Customs K-9 Training Center who trains sniffer dogs that can recognize the smell of illegal drugs and detect them hidden inside luggage at airports and seaports.

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Beaujolais Nouveau wine in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Customs officers examine the year's first shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau wine to arrive at Tokyo's Haneda airport from Paris on Nov. 5, 2013, ahead of its release on Nov. 21.

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Erroneous gate operation at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - Many passengers queue in the departure lobby of Terminal 2 at Narita airport near Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2012. An erroneous gate operation at the airport left arriving passengers free to enter a departure area without immigration and customs clearance for about half an hour that morning, causing a temporary halt in security checks in the departure lobby.

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Erroneous gate operation at Narita airport

NARITA, Japan - Many passengers queue in the departure lobby of Terminal 2 at Narita airport near Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2012. An erroneous gate operation at the airport left arriving passengers free to enter a departure area without immigration and customs clearance for about half an hour that morning, causing a temporary halt in security checks in the departure lobby.

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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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4 die, 2 injured in pileup on Tokyo metropolitan expressway

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows emergency rescue team members rescuing people from a wrecked minivan (C) between a large trailer and a car-transporter truck on the Tokyo metropolitan expressway in Tokyo's Koto Ward on July 11, 2012. Four officials of the Tokyo Customs Office died when their minivan was involved in a crash there that left two other officials seriously injured, police said.

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4 die, 2 injured in pileup on Tokyo metropolitan expressway

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows emergency rescue team members rescuing people from a wrecked minivan (C) between a large trailer and a car-transporter truck on the Tokyo metropolitan expressway in Tokyo's Koto Ward on July 11, 2012. Four officials of the Tokyo Customs Office died when their minivan was involved in a crash there that left two other officials seriously injured, police said.

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Haneda airport customs opens

TOKYO, Japan - A sniffer dog demonstrates detecting drugs contained in luggage during the opening of customs at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 28, 2010, ahead of the airport's full internationalization.

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Japan holds security training held to prepare for APEC

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Coast Guard patrol boats subdue a small boat carrying mock protesters during a maritime security training session in Tokyo Bay on July 7, 2010. Around 250 people from police, customs authorities and the Coast Guard took part in the training session as part of preparations for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum meetings in November.

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Japan, Russia agree to take action against customs offenses

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) and visiting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin shake hands before their talks at Aso's office in Tokyo on May 12. The two countries agreed to provide each other with more customs information to crack down on smuggling of drugs, guns and goods infringing intellectual property rights.

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Japan, N.Z. sign customs arrangement for safe, smooth trade

TOKYO, Japan - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark (L) and Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) observe the signing of an arrangement between the two countries' customs authorities to ensure safe, smooth trade, at the Japanese Finance Ministry in Tokyo on May 14.

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40 tons of illegally traded ivory seized in 2 yrs

TOKYO, Japan - File photo of illegally traded ivory seized in Osaka and displayed at the Osaka Customs Container Inspection Center on March 1. Some 40 tons of illegally traded ivory was seized around the world in 2005 and 2006, including 3 tons confiscated at Osaka Minami port last year, research by the governments of Kenya and Mali showed April 28.

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Japan finds record 13,467 attempted counterfeit import cases in 2005

TOKYO, Japan - Photographed at the Finance Ministry on April 4 is a counterfeit bag confiscated at a customs house. Japan's nine customs houses found 13,467 cases of attempted counterfeit imports in 2005, up 47.3% from the previous year and hitting a record high, the ministry said.

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Year's 1st shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - A customs official checks a bottle from the first shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 11.

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177kg of cannabis seized at home of Nepalese man

NARITA, Japan - The police and the customs authorities at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture said Dec. 26 they arrested Gurung Nir Bahadur, a restaurant owner in Tokyo's Nerima Ward, on suspicion of possessing 5.5 kg of cannabis resin in Saitama Prefecture. They seized 177 kg of the drug at his home.

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(2)Machinery maker suspected of illegal export to Iran

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a Jet Mill, used for grinding abrasive powder, which police and customs officials suspect Seishin Enterprise Co. exported to Iran in violation of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law. They said the machine can be used to produce solid fuels for missiles. The photo was taken from the company's brochure.

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(1)Machinery maker suspected of illegal export to Iran

TOKYO, Dec. 12 Kyodo - Photo taken Dec. 12 shows the building in Shibuya, Tokyo where Seishin Enterprise Co., a machinery maker, has its office. Police and customs officials raided the company's offices in Tokyo and other locations on suspicion illegally exporting to Iran crushers used to produce solid fuels for missiles.

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Balls for World Cup finals arrive in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Customs officials at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture on May 17 check ''Fevernova'' official match balls for the World Cup finals. Some 620 balls, made by World Cup sponsor Adidas of Germany, arrived at the airport on May 16 via South Korea. The balls will be delivered to 10 stadiums in Japan in late May.

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3 Chinese held over fake beer coupons from China

TOKYO, Japn - Put on display for the media at the Tokyo Customs Office on May 7 are some 13,000 fake beer coupons of Kirin Brewery Co. which police and customs officials say were imported from China by three Chinese students at vocational schools in the Tokyo area. They suspect the counterfeit coupons were produced in China and some of them have already been circulated in Japan.

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Customs raids Kanematsu in octopus tax-evasion case

TOKYO, Japan - Kanematsu Corp. President Tadashi Kurachi apologizes during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6 after the Tokyo Customs raided the trading house on suspicion of evading customs duties by falsely declaring the country of origin of imported octopuses from Africa.

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Marubeni searched on suspicion of evading octopus duties

TOKYO, Japan - Customs officials walk into the Tokyo headquarters of Marubeni Corp. on June 7, suspecting the major trading house of evading duties on octopus imported from Africa.

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Ivory imports checked at Tokyo customs

TOKYO, Japan - A customs official in Tokyo on July 16 examines ivory imported from Namibia. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) decided in February to approve a one-time sale of ivory to Japan from Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. Ivory sales had been banned for 10 years.

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Japanese crown prince, crown princess

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito and Crown Princess Kiko attend a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the customs office at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 28, 2022. (Pool photo)

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Japanese crown prince

Japanese Crown Prince Fumihito speaks at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the customs office at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 28, 2022. (Pool photo)

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Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in Japan

Customs officers check the year's first shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau upon its arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 19, 2022. The French wine will be released on Nov. 17.

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Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in Japan

Customs officers check the year's first shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau upon its arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Oct. 19, 2022. The French wine will be released on Nov. 17.

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Norwegian mackerel

A customs official inspects a mackerel at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Sept. 24, 2021, as wild mackerel with a fat content of about 30 percent or more and each fish weighing 500 grams or more arrive from Norway. The fish, with the brand name "Saba Nouveau," were transported to Japan on a Japan Airlines flight within 60 hours after being landed at a fishing port, and were not frozen.

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Year's 1st shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - A customs official checks a bottle from the first shipment of Beaujolais Nouveau at Narita airport, northeast of Tokyo, on Nov. 11. (Kyodo)

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Japan, N.Z. sign customs arrangement for safe, smooth trade

TOKYO, Japan - New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark (L) and Japanese Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga (R) observe the signing of an arrangement between the two countries' customs authorities to ensure safe, smooth trade, at the Japanese Finance Ministry in Tokyo on May 14. (Kyodo)

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Japan, Russia agree to take action against customs offenses

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso (R) and visiting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin shake hands before their talks at Aso's office in Tokyo on May 12. The two countries agreed to provide each other with more customs information to crack down on smuggling of drugs, guns and goods infringing intellectual property rights. (Kyodo)

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Customs raids Kanematsu in octopus tax-evasion case

TOKYO, Japan - Kanematsu Corp. President Tadashi Kurachi apologizes during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 6 after the Tokyo Customs raided the trading house on suspicion of evading customs duties by falsely declaring the country of origin of imported octopuses from Africa.

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177kg of cannabis seized at home of Nepalese man

NARITA, Japan - The police and the customs authorities at Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture said Dec. 26 they arrested Gurung Nir Bahadur, a restaurant owner in Tokyo's Nerima Ward, on suspicion of possessing 5.5 kg of cannabis resin in Saitama Prefecture. They seized 177 kg of the drug at his home. (Kyodo)

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(2)Machinery maker suspected of illegal export to Iran

TOKYO, Dec. 12 Kyodo - Photo taken Dec. 12 shows the building in Shibuya, Tokyo where Seishin Enterprise Co., a machinery maker, has its office. Police and customs officials raided the company's offices in Tokyo and other locations on suspicion illegally exporting to Iran crushers used to produce solid fuels for missiles.

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Import of eels enters peak

Customs officers at Narita airport, near Tokyo, handle the clearance of eels on July 19, 2016. The importation of eels into Japan has entered a peak period as demand for them grows at this time of the year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fake brand imports blocked by Japan down 8.7% in 2015

Photo taken March 4, 2016, in Tokyo shows some of the fake brand products and other items violating intellectual property rights, whose import into Japan was blocked by customs authorities in 2015. The authorities blocked such imports in 29,274 cases, down 8.7 percent from the previous year, the Finance Ministry said the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Eel imports to Japan hit peak season at Narita airport

Officials check on barrels of live eels imported from China at a customs facility outside Narita airport in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo on July 22, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Long lines at Narita airport customs amid rise in foreign visitors

Foreign visitors arriving at Narita International Airport Terminal 2 form a long line at the immigration counter for passport checks on Feb. 26, 2015, in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. Despite the recent increase in foreign visitors, government authorities involved in customs, immigration and quarantine procedures have been slow to act to remedy the situation, caused partly by their decision to combine the terminal's two arrival checkpoints into one after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster that had led to reduced foreign visitors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FEATURE: Japan's 'sharing economy' all the rage in 2016

Three families enjoy a meal featuring vegetables grown with no agrochemicals together on a hill surrounded by fields, bamboo and cedar forests, served by Ruri Aoki (L), a 46-year-old farmer, at an event to share farming experience provided by sharing economy service provider TABICA, which introduces people to the daily lives and customs of locals through guides and workshops, in Tokyo's suburban city of Machida on Dec. 11, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo