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Macron in Tokyo

French President Emmanuel Macron is pictured during his visit to Astroscale Holdings Inc., a Tokyo-based space company working on space debris removal in collaboration with French firms, in Tokyo on April 2, 2026, with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. The visit came after the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to broad cooperation in the space sector during their first in-person summit the previous day.

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Macron in Tokyo

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (C) and French President Emmanuel Macron (L) speak with Nobu Okada, president and CEO of Astroscale Holdings Inc., a Tokyo-based space company working on space debris removal in collaboration with French firms, in Tokyo on April 2, 2026. The visit came after the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to broad cooperation in the space sector during their first in-person summit the previous day.

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Macron in Tokyo

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (C) and French President Emmanuel Macron (L) speak with Nobu Okada, president and CEO of Astroscale Holdings Inc., a Tokyo-based space company working on space debris removal in collaboration with French firms, in Tokyo on April 2, 2026. The visit came after the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to broad cooperation in the space sector during their first in-person summit the previous day.

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Macron in Tokyo

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron visit Astroscale Holdings Inc., a Tokyo-based space company working on space debris removal in collaboration with French firms, in Tokyo on April 2, 2026. The visit came after the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to broad cooperation in the space sector during their first in-person summit the previous day.

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Macron in Tokyo

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron visit Astroscale Holdings Inc., a Tokyo-based space company working on space debris removal in collaboration with French firms, in Tokyo on April 2, 2026. The visit came after the leaders reaffirmed their commitment to broad cooperation in the space sector during their first in-person summit the previous day.

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup ispace

Photo taken at a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency facility in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2025, shows a prototype of the Series 3 lunar lander, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company said the same day the lander will be launched in 2028, changed from the initially planned 2027.

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup ispace

Photo taken at a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency facility in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Oct. 2, 2025, shows a prototype of the Series 3 lunar lander, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company said the same day the lander will be launched in 2028, changed from the initially planned 2027.

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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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Timee president

TOKYO, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Ryo Ogawa, president of Timee Inc., a Tokyo-based company providing a side job matching service, speaks during a press conference at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2024.(Kyodo)

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[Breaking News]Japan startup fails again to put lander on Moon

TOKYO, Japan, June 6 Kyodo - Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace Inc., suggests at a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, that the Japanese startup's lunar lander failed in its attempt to land on the Moon's surface, following its first unsuccessful try in 2023. The Tokyo-based company believes its lunar lander Resilience impacted the Moon's surface after failing to slow sufficiently during its descent, dashing ispace's hope of becoming the country's first private company to reach the lunar surface successfully. (Kyodo)

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Japan startup fails again to put lander on Moon

Photo taken in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, shows a mockup of a lunar lander developed by Tokyo-based startup ispace Inc. The lunar lander failed to land on the Moon's surface, following its first unsuccessful attempt in 2023, dashing ispace's hope of becoming the country's first private company to reach the lunar surface successfully.

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Japan startup fails again to put lander on Moon

Takeshi Hakamada, founder and CEO of ispace Inc., suggests at a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, that the Japanese startup's lunar lander failed in its attempt to land on the Moon's surface, following its first unsuccessful try in 2023. The Tokyo-based company believes its lunar lander Resilience impacted the Moon's surface after failing to slow sufficiently during its descent, dashing ispace's hope of becoming the country's first private company to reach the lunar surface successfully.

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Japan startup fails again to put lander on Moon

Takeshi Hakamada (C), founder and CEO of ispace Inc., suggests at a press conference in Tokyo on June 6, 2025, that the Japanese startup's lunar lander failed in its attempt to land on the Moon's surface, following its first unsuccessful try in 2023. The Tokyo-based company believes its lunar lander Resilience impacted the Moon's surface after failing to slow sufficiently during its descent, dashing ispace's hope of becoming the country's first private company to reach the lunar surface successfully.

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Pavilion featuring Taiwan opens at Osaka Expo

A tape-cutting ceremony is held to mark the opening of the Tech World pavilion featuring Taiwan's culture and technology at the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, western Japan, on April 22, 2025. A senior Chinese official earlier expressed displeasure over the pavilion, hosted by a Tokyo-based Japanese company that has received investment from a Taiwanese company, saying the pavilion's name, Tech World, could remind the public of the word "Taiwan."

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup

Photo taken at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2024, shows the lunar rover Tenacious mounted on the lunar lander Resilience, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company announced the same day a plan to launch the lander on a SpaceX rocket no earlier than December 2024.

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup

Photo taken at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2024, shows the lunar lander Resilience, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company announced the same day a plan to launch the lander on a SpaceX rocket no earlier than December 2024.

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup

Photo taken at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2024, shows the lunar lander Resilience, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company announced the same day a plan to launch the lander on a SpaceX rocket no earlier than December 2024.

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Lunar lander developed by Japanese startup

Photo taken at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tsukuba Space Center in the Ibaraki Prefecture city of Tsukuba, eastern Japan, on Sept. 12, 2024, shows the lunar lander Resilience, developed by Tokyo-based Japanese space startup ispace Inc. The company announced the same day a plan to launch the lander on a SpaceX rocket no earlier than December 2024.

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US: Shelly Fire In Siskiyou County, CA Burns More Than 3,000 Acres

The Shelly Fire, a brush fire that erupted in Siskiyou County Klamath National Forest on July 3, has now burned more than 3,000 acres as of Monday, July 8 with 0% containment. Hikers and residents near the towns of Etna and Fort Jones were evacuated.

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US: Shelly Fire In Siskiyou County, CA Burns More Than 3,000 Acres 3

The Shelly Fire, a brush fire that erupted in Siskiyou County Klamath National Forest on July 3, has now burned more than 3,000 acres as of Monday, July 8 with 0% containment. Hikers and residents near the towns of Etna and Fort Jones were evacuated.

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US: Shelly Fire In Siskiyou County, CA Burns More Than 3,000 Acres 2

The Shelly Fire, a brush fire that erupted in Siskiyou County Klamath National Forest on July 3, has now burned more than 3,000 acres as of Monday, July 8 with 0% containment. Hikers and residents near the towns of Etna and Fort Jones were evacuated.

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.(Kyodo)

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Photo taken on May 28, 2024 in Kyoto, western Japan, shows "LignoSat," the world's first wooden satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. The spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram, was created with the aim of harnessing the environmental friendliness and low cost of wood in space development.

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Photo taken on May 28, 2024 in Kyoto, western Japan, shows "LignoSat," the world's first wooden satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. The spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram, was created with the aim of harnessing the environmental friendliness and low cost of wood in space development.

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World's 1st wooden satellite

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on May 28, 2024. Scientists at Kyoto University and Tokyo-based wood products company Sumitomo Forestry Co. developed the spacecraft, a cube with 10-centimeter sides and weighing 1 kilogram.

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CES tech show

A booth set up by Tokyo-based company Rimo LLC. showcases an automated article creation tool utilizing ChatGPT at the CES tech show in Las Vegas on Jan. 10, 2024.

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Japan PM inspects factory in Ishikawa Pref.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (R) visits a plant of Tokyo-based major machinery maker Komatsu Ltd. on Feb. 4, 2023, in the Ishikawa Prefecture city of Komatsu, central Japan, where the company was founded in 1921.

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Japan PM inspects factory in Ishikawa Pref.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits a plant of Tokyo-based major machinery maker Komatsu Ltd. on Feb. 4, 2023, in the Ishikawa Prefecture city of Komatsu, central Japan, where the company was founded in 1921.

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Interior of shipping container house in quake-hit city

MORIOKA, Japan - Kinya Seki, president of Tokyo-based consultant company Big Apple Inc. operating living quarters made out of shipping containers, shows in June 2014 one of furnished rooms used as a dormitory in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, amid a severe housing shortage in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Biggest plant factory with LED lighting built in quake-hit city

TAGAJO, Japan - A worker tends to vegetables at the world's largest plant factory using light-emitting diode lighting in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 2, 2014. Mirai Co., a Tokyo-based company that runs vegetable growing facilities, has built the factory, which is expected to produce 10,000 heads of lettuce and other vegetables per day, in the northeastern Japan city devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Biggest plant factory with LED lighting built in quake-hit city

TAGAJO, Japan - A worker walks inside the world's largest plant factory using light-emitting diode lighting in Tagajo, Miyagi Prefecture, on July 2, 2014. Mirai Co., a Tokyo-based company that runs vegetable growing facilities, has built the factory, which is expected to produce 10,000 heads of lettuce and other vegetables per day, in the northeastern Japan city devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

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Midsize firm president shines as principal in film in 60s

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Aug. 29, 2013 in Tokyo shows Masahiro Yoshino, president of Tokyo-based Media Research Inc. who produced a film titled "Ningen" together with his employees and friends. Yoshino also played the principal character of an elderly man running a company in the film, which broke into the list of nominees for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival in September.

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Halal food delivery service in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - An Indonesian woman holds a halal meal from Tokyo-based Halal Deli, a company specializing in delivering halal food for Muslims, in Tokyo's Minato Ward on June 13, 2013. Amid growth in the number of visitors to Japan from Islamic countries, the company said demand has been stronger than expected and it hopes to expand service areas to outside of Tokyo.

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Halal food delivery service in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Indonesian women eat halal meals from Tokyo-based Halal Deli, a company specializing in delivering halal food for Muslims, in Tokyo's Minato Ward on June 13, 2013. Amid growth in the number of visitors to Japan from Islamic countries, the company said demand has been stronger than expected and it hopes to expand service areas to outside of Tokyo.

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Rakuten eyes market advances

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Inc. President Hiroshi Mikitani speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 14, 2012. Mikitani said the Tokyo-based company plans to expand its online shopping mall business to two or three more countries in 2012, in addition to the nine foreign nations in which it already operates.

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Resin spray over nuclear plant

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows resin which workers began test-spraying on April 1, 2011, at a nuclear power plant crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima Prefecture to prevent radioactive particles from being dispersed. Tokyo-based Kurita Water Industries Ltd. developed this water-soluble resin, which has coating effects. The company said the resin was originally developed for use in land reclamation and development work to prevent sand from being dispersed, so its efficiency in solidifying radioactive materials with soil is uncertain. The resin is painted green to make it easy for workers to see areas that have been already sprayed.

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Canon, Nikon hoping to stimulate camera market via rivalry

TOKYO, Japan - Nikon Corp. President Michio Kariya said in a recent interview that the Tokyo-based company has no intention of competing head-on with Canon Inc. in the world's fast-growing digital single-lens reflex camera market. Noting that the corporate size of Nikon is much smaller than Canon's, Kariya said his company thinks it is important to offer new types of cameras to consumers when its chief rival does not do so, instead of vying with similar price-range products around the same time.

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180,000 faulty fire-alarm devices being recalled

TOKYO, Japan - A faulty battery-operated fire-alarm device sold by Max Co. is being recalled as the battery system has a much shorter life than advertised, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Nov. 8. The agency said a total of 180,000 fire-alarm devices in four models sold by the Tokyo-based Max and the Fukuoka-based company Ochi Sangyo are being recalled. The four models affected are KK-DS40-10 (photo), KK-DS40-2, KK-DH40-10, KK-DH40-2 sold by Max, and OK-DS01-10 sold by Ochi Sangyo. For inquiries, call 0120-301-359. According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, the batteries in two of the faulty fire-alarms went dead in about two months, instead of 10 years and two years as advertised.

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Ricoh acquires IBM's business-oriented printer business

NEW YORK, United States - Masamitsu Sakurai (R), president and chief executive officer of Ricoh Co., announced Jan. 25 that the Tokyo-based company will acquire IBM's business-oriented printer operations for 87 billion yen. He was joined by top IBM executives at a news conference in New York, where he said the global market for business-oriented digital printers will expand to 3-4 trillion yen a year from 1 trillion yen now.

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Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

TOKYO, Japan - A customer looks at a notice put up at the entrance of the outlet of major Japanese confectioner Fujiya Co. in Tokyo's Ginza on Jan. 11. The Tokyo-based company has suspended the sale of all cakes and pastry products at its chain stores across Japan following a revelation that it has shipped cream puffs made with outdated milk.

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Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

TOKYO, Japan - Rintaro Fujii (R), president of major Japanese confectioner Fujiya Co., speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11 following a revelation that the Tokyo-based company has shipped cream puffs made with outdated milk.

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Fujiya halts sales of cakes, pastries over use of old milk

TOKYO, Japan - Rintaro Fujii (R), president of major Japanese confectioner Fujiya Co., bows by way of apology at a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 11. The Tokyo-based company said it has suspended the sale of all cakes and pastry products at its chain stores across Japan until quality control is reestablished following a revelation that it has shipped cream puffs made with outdated milk.

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Ohki Pharmaceutical to launch masks to guard against bird flu viruses

TOKYO, Japan - Ohki Pharmaceutical Co. said on Dec. 14 that it will launch a new mask to guard against bird influenza viruses in Japan on Jan. 20. The mask, which meets the European Union standard as recommended by the World Health Organization, will be useful if a bird flu epidemic hits Japan, the Tokyo-based company said. The mask consists of four fine nonwoven fabric layers to shut out or absorb bird flu viruses to prevent these viruses from entering into the mouth or nose.

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Privee Zurich becomes Hankyu Holdings' top shareholder

OSAKA, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 10 shows the head office building of Hankyu Holdings Inc. Privee Zurich Turnaround Group Co., a Tokyo-based investment company, has become Hankyu Holdings Inc.'s top shareholder by acquiring a 5.01 percent stake, according to a filing submitted the same day to the Finance Ministry.

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Independent league inks sponsor deal with Shikoku Coca-Cola

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Hiromichi Ishige (R), head of Tokyo-based company IBLJ, the operator of Japan's new independent baseball league, speaks at a press conference after signing a three-year sponsorship deal with Yotaro Endo (L), president of Shikoku Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

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Steady progress seen in 'Independent League' plans

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Hiromichi Ishige, former Orix BlueWave manager and now president of Tokyo-based company IBLJ, speaks of his plans to establish a new baseball league in the four prefectures on Shikoku at a press conference in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on Dec. 1. He said the plans are making steady progress as advisers and coaching staff have been shortlisted and more than 900 players have applied for tryouts.