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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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Japan: Heavy Snowfall Hits Sea Of Japan Coast 4

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video shows blizzard conditions in the city Otaru, Hokkaido.

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US: Level 2 Evacuations Issued As Upper Cemetery Fire Sparks In Spokane

The Upper Cemetery Fire, previously called the Hills Fire, sparked near Greenwood Memorial Terrace in the Spokane Palisades Park area on Friday, July 26. The fire burned 90 acres, threatening more than 500 structures within hours, and level 2 evacuations were in place.

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Ex-Tokyo Olympic exec Takahashi granted bail

Former Tokyo Olympic executive Haruyuki Takahashi leaves the Tokyo Detention House in a wheelchair on Dec. 26, 2022, after the Tokyo District Court granted him bail in connection with a bribery scandal. Takahashi, 78, has been indicted four times on charges of receiving bribes in return for helping companies be selected as a sponsor or a marketing agent of the global event.

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Ex-Tokyo Olympic exec Takahashi granted bail

Former Tokyo Olympic executive Haruyuki Takahashi leaves the Tokyo Detention House in a wheelchair on Dec. 26, 2022, after the Tokyo District Court granted him bail in connection with a bribery scandal. Takahashi, 78, has been indicted four times on charges of receiving bribes in return for helping companies be selected as a sponsor or a marketing agent of the global event.

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Ex-Tokyo Olympic exec Takahashi granted bail

Former Tokyo Olympic executive Haruyuki Takahashi leaves the Tokyo Detention House in a wheelchair on Dec. 26, 2022, after the Tokyo District Court granted him bail in connection with a bribery scandal. Takahashi, 78, has been indicted four times on charges of receiving bribes in return for helping companies be selected as a sponsor or a marketing agent of the global event.

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Ex-inmate sets up NPO to help other convicts

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Igarashi (C), a former inmate who launched the nonprofit organization "Mother House" to assist convicts and those released from prisons, shares a light hearted moment with priest Hideo Kato (L) and friar Hernandez, both of whom he was greatly influenced by, at a church in Tokyo. Igarashi set up the NPO in 2012 after he was released from a prison in late 2011 after a total of some 20 years of detention. (Photo by Toshihiro Ariyoshi)

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Japan hangs man

TOKYO, Japan - Justice Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki tells a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on June 26, 2014, that he ordered the execution earlier that day of a male death-row inmate, Masanori Kawasaki, at the Osaka Detention House.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Iwao Hakamada, 78, leaves the Tokyo Detention House (back) on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada, 78, gets into a car after being released from the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (L), 78, accompanied by his sister Hideko (R), 81, leaves the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (L), 78, accompanied by his sister Hideko (R), 81, leaves the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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Death-row inmate freed after 48 years of detention

TOKYO, Japan - Iwao Hakamada (L), 78, accompanied by his sister Hideko (R), 81, leaves the Tokyo Detention House on March 27, 2014, after the Shizuoka District Court decided earlier in the day to reopen a 1966 murder case, suspend his death sentence and permit his release. The court said there is a possibility that investigative authorities fabricated incriminating evidence.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, with a police vehicle leading the convoy, leaving the Tokyo Detention House for the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014. Heavy security was provided to transport Tomomasa Nakagawa, a death-row inmate, and Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run. Nakagawa attended the trial of Hirata, charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary public, as a witness.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, enter the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014. Heavy security was provided to transport Tomomasa Nakagawa, a death-row inmate, and Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run, with riot police on standby along the streets and traffic lights changed to green to ensure a smooth procession during the convoy's nearly hour-long journey from the Tokyo Detention House. Nakagawa attended the trial of Hirata, charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary public, as a witness.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - Two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, enter the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014. Heavy security was provided to transport Tomomasa Nakagawa, a death-row inmate, and Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run, with riot police on standby along the streets and traffic lights changed to green to ensure a smooth procession during the convoy's nearly hour-long journey from the Tokyo Detention House. Nakagawa attended the trial of Hirata, charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary public, as a witness.

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AUM trial

TOKYO, Japan - A police vehicle leads two buses, each believed to be carrying a former senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo doomsday cult, as the convoy heads for the Tokyo District Court on Jan. 21, 2014. Heavy security was provided to transport Tomomasa Nakagawa, a death-row inmate, and Makoto Hirata, who turned himself in to police after nearly 17 years on the run, with riot police on standby along the streets and traffic lights changed to green to ensure a smooth procession during the convoy's nearly hour-long journey from the Tokyo Detention House. Nakagawa attended the trial of Hirata, charged with involvement in the abduction and confinement of a Tokyo notary public, as a witness.

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Victim wants father to live to atone for killing mother

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroto Oyama shows letters from his father, a condemned prisoner at the Hiroshima Detention House who was convicted of killing his mother, at his home in Nagoya on Nov. 26, 2012. Oyama wants his father to live and atone for his crimes.

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Japan hangs 3 death row inmates

HIROSHIMA, Japan - File photo taken in February 2011 shows the detention house in Hiroshima, western Japan. Three death row inmates at detention houses in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Fukuoka were hanged on March 29, 2012, in the first executions in 20 months in Japan, one of the few advanced countries to retain the death penalty.

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Japan hangs 3 death row inmates

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken March 29, 2012, shows the detention house in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. Three death row inmates at detention houses in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Fukuoka were hanged the same day in the first executions in 20 months in Japan, one of the few advanced countries to retain the death penalty.

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Tokyo Detention House

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the Tokyo Detention House in the capital's Kosuge district on Dec. 7, 2011.

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Ex-Daio Paper Chairman Ikawa arrested

TOKYO, Japan - A vehicle carrying former Daio Paper Corp. Chairman Mototaka Ikawa enters the Tokyo Detention House on Nov. 22, 2011. Prosecutors arrested Ikawa earlier the same day in connection with taking out massive loans from Daio Paper group companies.

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2 men acquitted of murder 43 years after arrests

MITO, Japan - This file photo shows postcards that Shoji Sakurai and Takao Sugiyama, both 64, sent to each other while they were detained in isolation cells at the Tokyo Detention House. On May 24, 2011, the Tsuchiura branch of the Mito District Court acquitted them of murder in a retrial, clearing their names more than 43 years after their arrests. The two men had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1970 for the August 1967 robbery and murder of Shoten Tamamura, a 62-year-old carpenter, and were freed on parole in 1996.

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Fallen lawmaker Suzuki enters jail

TOKYO, Japan - Muneo Suzuki, an outspoken politician convicted of crimes including bribery, waves to supporters as he arrives at the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors Office on Dec. 6, 2010. The former House of Representatives member, who has protested his innocence since being charged in 2002, was incarcerated in the Tokyo Detention House the same day.

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DPJ lawmaker, 2 others released on bail day after indictment

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa leaves the Tokyo Detention House in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 5, 2010, after Ishikawa was released on bail of 12 million yen. Ishikawa, who became a House of Representatives member after serving as Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's secretary, was indicted the previous day for alleged false reporting of Ozawa's political funds.

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Ozawa's secretary Okubo arrested as fund scandal spreads

TOKYO, Japan - A vehicle carrying Takanori Okubo, a state-funded secretary to Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa, arrives at the Tokyo detention house on Jan. 16, 2010. Earlier in the day, Okubo was arrested by prosecutors in connection with a scandal over political-fund reports linked to a land purchase by Ozawa's fund management body.

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Former Ozawa aide arrested over funds scandal

TOKYO, Japan - A vehicle carrying arrested lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa leaves the Justice Ministry for the Tokyo detention house Jan. 15, 2010. Prosecutors arrested the former aide to ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa the same day over a funds scandal.

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Former Ozawa aide arrested over funds scandal

TOKYO, Japan - A vehicle carrying arrested lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa arrives at the Tokyo detention house Jan. 15, 2010. Prosecutors arrested the former aide to ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa the same day over a funds scandal.

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Former Ozawa aide arrested over funds scandal

TOKYO, Japan - A vehicle carrying arrested lawmaker Tomohiro Ishikawa arrives at the Tokyo detention house Jan. 15, 2010. Prosecutors arrested the former aide to ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa the same day over a funds scandal.

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Ex-judge not allowed to see death row inmate

TOKYO, Japan - Norimichi Kumamoto, a former judge at the Shizuoka District Court, looks dejected outside the Tokyo Detention House on July 2 after he was denied permission to visit a man he had sentenced to death for the 1966 murder of a family of four even though he believes the man was innocent. Kumamoto, 69, who presided over the trial of Iwao Hakamada, 71, went public in March and said he convicted the man as he was unable to persuade the two other judges in the trial of the defendant's innocence.

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Financier Murakami released on bail of 500 million yen

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Yoshiaki Murakami, the founder of Japan's best-known investment fund, who has been indicted on insider-trading charges, leaves the Tokyo Detention House on June 26. Murakami was released on a bail of 500 million yen.

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Fund mogul Murakami arrested over suspected insider trading

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Yoshiaki Murakami, Japan's most famous investment fund manager, arrives at the Tokyo Detention House June 5 after he was arrested early in the day on suspicion of insider stock trading in connection with his investment fund's purchases of Nippon Broadcasting System Inc. shares from late 2004 to early 2005.

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Senior defense official arrested over suspected bid rigging

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Takayoshi Kawano, technical councilor at the Defense Facilities Administration Agency, enters the Tokyo Detention House on Jan. 30. Kawano and two others were arrested on suspicion of leading bid rigging for projects ordered by the agency.

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30 heads of dogs found in moat outside Tokyo Detention House

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a moat near the Tokyo Detention House, where about 30 heads of animals, believed to be dogs, were found on Dec. 16. Police began investigating the case on suspicion of property destruction and violation of law on the protection of animals.

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Ex-Japan Highway exec arrested over bid-rigging scandal

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Sozo Kanda, a former Japan Highway Public Corp. official arrives at the Tokyo Detention House on July 12. Kanda was arrested earlier in the day along with four officials of major bridge builders in Japan for alleged collusion to rig bids on bridge construction projects ordered by the government-affiliated body.

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(4)Business tycoon Tsutsumi arrested in Seibu share scam

TOKYO, Japan - A vehicle carrying former Kokudo Corp. Chairman Yoshiaki Tsutsumi enters the Tokyo Detention House on March 3. Tsutsumi, once listed by Forbes magazine as the world's richest man, was arrested for his alleged involvement in falsifying financial statements on shareholdings in Seibu Railway Co. and insider trading.

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AUM's Nakagawa apologizes to son of murder victim

TOKYO, Japan - Minoru Kariya, whose father died after being abducted by the AUM Shinrikyo cult in 1995, briefs reporters Sept. 13 on his meeting with former senior AUM member Tomomasa Nakagawa at the Tokyo Detention House. Nakagawa is appealing the death sentence for his role in 11 cases including that of Kariya's father Kiyoshi.

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(4)Asahara found guilty on all charges, sentenced to death

TOKYO, Japan - A bus carrying Shoko Asahara, the founder of the AUM Shinrikyo cult, arrives at Tokyo Detention House after he was sentenced to death at the Tokyo District Court on Feb. 27. The court found him guilty on all 13 charges against him, including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system.

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Ex-construction minister Nakamura enters detention house

TOKYO, Japan - Former Construction Minister Kishiro Nakamura (file photo) was sent to the Tokyo Detention House on Feb. 13 following the Supreme Court's dismissal of his last challenge against a conviction for taking bribes. The Supreme Court's decision finalized Nakamura's conviction and stripped him of his Diet seat.

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Prosecutors arrest Suzuki on bribery charge

TOKYO, Japan - A car believed to be carrying House of Representative member Muneo Suzuki, arrested on suspicion of accepting 5 million yen in bribes from Yamarin, a timber company in Hokkaido, enters the Tokyo Detention House on June 19.

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Lawmaker Yamamoto detained

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a vehicle House of Representatives member Joji Yamamoto is believed to be in entering a detention house in Tokyo's Kosuge on the evening of Sept. 4. Yamamoto, 37, of the largest opposition Democratic Party of Japan, was arrested earlier in the day on suspicion of fraud in connection with his alleged misuse of a total of 20 million yen of his former secretary's state-paid salary.

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Ghosn's lawyer Hironaka

TOKYO, Japan, March 12 Kyodo - Junichiro Hironaka, a lawyer for former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, tells reporters in Tokyo on March 12, 2019, there is no plan for Ghosn to hold a press conference that week. Ghosn was released on bail on March 6 from the Tokyo Detention House, where he was held for 108 days over financial misconduct allegations.

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Tokyo Detention House

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 25 Kyodo - Video taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on Dec. 21, 2018, shows the Tokyo Detention House.

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Carlos Ghosn's release on bail

TOKYO, Japan, March 6 Kyodo - Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn (in back seat) is released on March 6, 2019, from the Tokyo Detention House, where he was held for 108 days over financial misconduct allegations.

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Court approval of Ghosn's bail request

TOKYO, Japan, March 5 Kyodo - Journalists wait around the Tokyo Detention House on March 5, 2019, after the Tokyo District Court approved a bail request for former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who has been kept in detention since his arrest in November 2018 for alleged financial misconduct.

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Former Tokushima Gov. Endo released on bail

TOKYO, April 5 Kyodo - Former Tokushima Gov. Toshio Endo bows in a gesture of apology on being released on bail from the Tokyo Detention House on April 5. He was indicted on charges of accepting 8 million yen in bribes and conspiring to receive 10 million yen.

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AUM's Nakagawa apologizes to son of murder victim

TOKYO, Japan - Minoru Kariya, whose father died after being abducted by the AUM Shinrikyo cult in 1995, briefs reporters Sept. 13 on his meeting with former senior AUM member Tomomasa Nakagawa at the Tokyo Detention House. Nakagawa is appealing the death sentence for his role in 11 cases including that of Kariya's father Kiyoshi. (Kyodo)