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Research to start on blood tests to detect 13 cancer types

TOKYO, Japan - Researchers announce the commencement of a project to develop ways of detecting 13 types of cancer from a single blood sample at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 18, 2014. Making the announcement were Kenji Kurata (L), president of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Tomomitsu Hotta (C), president of the National Cancer Center, and Tetsu Yonehara, head of Toray Industries Inc.'s New Frontiers Research Laboratories.

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Monk attracts younger generations to Buddhism

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 8, 2014 shows Gashin Tomomitsu, a Buddhist monk who has organized unique spiritual and cultural events over the past four years, attracting young people who have little contact with religion in their daily lives.

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Kirin's beer-flavored drink logs 10 bil.-unit sales

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and comedian Tomomitsu Yamaguchi (R) attend an event in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2011 to commemorate cumulative sales of Kirin's Nodogoshi Nama brand of beer-flavored drink surpassing 10 billion units in terms of 350-milliliter cans since its launch in April 2005. Yamaguchi appears in the product's TV commercials.

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15 years in prison given in lay judge trial involving rape cases

AOMORI, Japan - Tomomitsu Shibuya, one of six citizen judges, speaks at a news conference in Aomori on Sept. 4 after a panel of three professional and citizen judges gave a sentence of 15 years in prison as sought by prosecutors to a 22-year-old man in Japan's first lay judge trial involving rape cases. Shibuya is the only citizen judge who agreed to unveil his name and be photographed.

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30 yrs after Plaza Accord, currency intervention goals evolve

Tomomitsu Oba, former Japanese vice finance minister for international affairs who attended a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of Five major economies at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1985, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on July 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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15 years in prison given in lay judge trial involving rape cases

AOMORI, Japan - Tomomitsu Shibuya, one of six citizen judges, speaks at a news conference in Aomori on Sept. 4 after a panel of three professional and citizen judges gave a sentence of 15 years in prison as sought by prosecutors to a 22-year-old man in Japan's first lay judge trial involving rape cases. Shibuya is the only citizen judge who agreed to unveil his name and be photographed. (Kyodo)

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Death sentence for ex-AUM member Niimi upheld

TOKYO, Japan - The Tokyo High Court on March 15 upholds the death sentence given to Tomomitsu Niimi (file photo), a former senior member of the cult formerly known as AUM Shinrikyo, by a lower court for a series of crimes including the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. (Kyodo)

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Osaka detention center

Photo taken July 6, 2018, shows the Osaka detention center in Osaka where senior AUM Shinrikyo cult members Yoshihiro Inoue and Tomomitsu Niimi were hanged the same day for their roles in the 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system. Niimi was also involved in other AUM-related murders. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Monk attracts younger generations to Buddhism

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 8, 2014 shows Gashin Tomomitsu, a Buddhist monk who has organized unique spiritual and cultural events over the past four years, attracting young people who have little contact with religion in their daily lives. (Kyodo)

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Kirin's beer-flavored drink logs 10 bil.-unit sales

TOKYO, Japan - Kirin Brewery Co. President Koichi Matsuzawa (L) and comedian Tomomitsu Yamaguchi (R) attend an event in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2011 to commemorate cumulative sales of Kirin's Nodogoshi Nama brand of beer-flavored drink surpassing 10 billion units in terms of 350-milliliter cans since its launch in April 2005. Yamaguchi appears in the product's TV commercials. (Kyodo)

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Niimi sentenced to death for sarin attacks, murders

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Tomomitsu Niimi, a senior member of the AUM Shinrikyo, who was sentenced to death at the Tokyo District Court on June 26 for his involvement in a series of murders committed by the cult, including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. Niimi, 38, was found guilty in a total of 11 criminal cases, including seven murder cases and two attempted murder cases that took place between February 1989 and April 1995.