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Japan advances to 2nd round of Davis Cup regional group

KADOMA, Japan - Takao Suzuki (L) and Toshihide Matsui of Japan at a doubles match against Treat Huey and Cecil Mamiit of the Philippines in Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group 1 at Namihaya Dome innKadoma, Osaka Prefecture on March 6, 2010. Japan completed a 3-0 victory and advanced to the second round of the tourney.

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Emperor, empress host spring garden party

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) talks with Makoto Kobayashi (2nd from R) and Toshihide Masukawa (4th from R), winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, during a spring garden party at Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on April 16, with Empress Michiko standing by him.

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Nobel laureate Masukawa returns from Sweden

OSAKA, Japan - This year's Physics Nobel prize laureate Toshihide Masukawa smiles during a press conference at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Dec. 15 after returning from Stockholm to attend an awards ceremony.

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Nobel award ceremony takes place, 3 Japanese scientists honored

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From left) Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Toshihide Masukawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Osamu Shimomura, professor emeritus at Boston University, show their Nobel Prize medals after receiving them from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10. (Pool photo by Kyodo)

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3 Japanese scientists given Nobel prizes in ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, delivers a speech at a banquet held at Stockholm City Hall on Dec. 10 after receiving the Nobel Prize in physics in a ceremony. Kobayashi won the award along with Toshihide Masukawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, who was unable to attend the ceremony. (Pool photo)

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Nobel Prize winners who received the 2008 prize for physics stand after giving lectures at Stockholm University on Dec. 8. (From R to L) are Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, professor at the University of Rome, who gave a lecture on behalf of Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago who is not attending the award ceremony.

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winner Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, gives a lecture titled ''What Did CP Violation Tell Us?'' at Stockholm University prior to an award ceremony. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics along with Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winner Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, delivers a lecture titled ''CP Violation and Flavor Mixing'' at Stockholm University on Dec. 8 prior to an award ceremony. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics along with Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winner Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, delivers a lecture titled ''CP Violation and Flavor Mixing'' at Stockholm University on Dec. 8 prior to an award ceremony. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics along with Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winner Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, gives a lecture titled ''What Did CP Violation Tell Us?'' at Stockholm University prior to an award ceremony. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics along with Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago.

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Japanese Nobel Prize winners meet press in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winners -- (from L to R) Osamu Shimomura, who won the prize for chemistry, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa, who won the prize for physics -- attend a news conference in Stockholm on Dec. 7.

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Nobel prize winner Masukawa leave for Stockholm

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize winner Toshihide Masukawa (C) prepares to leave Kansai airport in Osaka on Dec. 5 for Stockholm to attend an award ceremony. Masukawa, professor at Kyoto Sangyo University, has won the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008 together with Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture-based High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu.

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Nobel prize winner Kobayashi leaves for Stockholm

NARITA, Japan - Nobel Prize winner Makoto Kobayashi smiles during a news conference at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 5 before leaving Japan for Stockholm to attend an award ceremony. Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture-based High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, won the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008 together with Toshihide Masukawa, professor at Kyoto Sangyo University, and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu.

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2 Nobel winners, 4 others receive top cultural awards

TOKYO, Japan - (From left to right) Makoto Kobayashi, a winner of the Nobel physics prize, maestro Seiji Ozawa, novelist Seiko Tanabe, Hironoshin Furuhashi, chairman emeritus of the Japan Swimming Federation, Toshihide Masukawa, a winner of the Nobel physics prize, and Donald Keene, a U.S. scholar in Japanese literature, pose for a photo after receiving the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito during a Culture Day ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3.

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Nobel Prize winner Masukawa gives lecture at Kyoto Univ.

KYOTO, Japan - Toshihide Masukawa, a recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in physics, gives a lecture at Kyoto University on Oct. 8.

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Nobel Prize winner Masukawa gives lecture at Kyoto Univ.

KYOTO, Japan - Toshihide Masukawa (C), a recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in physics, is welcomed by students at Kyoto University on Oct. 8 before giving a lecture.

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Nobel Prize winner Masukawa meets press

KYOTO, Japan - Toshihide Masukawa, professor at Kyoto Sangyo University and professor emeritus at Kyoto University, shows off a booklet carrying a thesis which became a subject for this year's Nobel Prize in physics given to him during a news conference at Kyoto University on Oct. 8.

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Nobel laureate Kobayashi speaks in smile

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, smiles as he speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 8 one day after he, U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu and Toshihide Masukawa were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008.

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Nobel Prize winner Masukawa meets press

KYOTO, Japan - Nobel Prize winner Toshihide Masukawa, professor at Kyoto Sangyo University and professor emeritus at Kyoto University, is presented with flowers from a student on Oct. 8 after a news conference at Kyoto University. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the previous day that Masukawa, together with Yoichiro Nambu, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, and Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, will be given this year's Nobel Prize in physics.

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2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Kobayashi, emeritus professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, talks with Prime Minister Aso Taro by phone during a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7. after being awarded the Nobel prize in physics for 2008 along with Toshihide Masukawa and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu. Kobayashi won the prize ''for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.''

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2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Kobayashi, emeritus professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7. after being awarded the Nobel prize in physics for 2008 along with Toshihide Masukawa and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu. Kobayashi won the prize ''for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.''

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Masukawa smiles in connection with Nobel Prize

KYOTO, Japan - Nobel laureate Toshihide Masukawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, smiles at a press conference in Kyoto Oct. 8, one day after he, U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu and Makoto Kobayashi were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008.

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2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

KYOTO, Japan - Toshihide Masukawa, emeritus professor at Kyoto University, speaks at a press conference in Kyoto on Oct. 7 after he, along with Makoto Kobayashi and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008. Masukawa won ''for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.''

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2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Kobayashi, emeritus professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7 after being awarded the Nobel prize in physics for 2008 along with Toshihide Masukawa and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu. Kobayashi won the prize ''for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.''

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2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

KYOTO, Japan - Toshihide Masukawa, emeritus professor at Kyoto University, speaks at a press conference in Kyoto on Oct. 7 after he, along with Makoto Kobayashi and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008. Masukawa won ''for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.''

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2 Japanese and 1 American share Nobel Prize in physics

TOKYO, Japan - Makoto Kobayashi, emeritus professor at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, smiles at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 7 after being awarded the Nobel prize in physics for 2008 along with Toshihide Masukawa and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu. Kobayashi won the prize ''for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.''

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(2)UFJ group to halve executive pay after FSA orders improvements

TOKYO, Japan - UFJ Bank Chairman Ryosuke Tamakoshi (L), President Takamune Okihara (C) and Managing Director Toshihide Mizuno (R) bow in a gesture of apology at a press conference in Tokyo on June 18 after the bank was ordered to improve its business by by the Financial Services Agency.

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UFJ cuts earnings forecast, seeing net loss of 650 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Toshihide Mizuno, a UFJ Holdings Inc. director, speaks to reporters about the UFJ group's earnings forecast for the business year ending March 31, at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on March 27.

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Comedian Saburo Boya dies at 92

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran comedian Saburo Boya is shown in this file photo taken in November 1979. Boya, whose real name was Toshihide Shibata, died of hear failure on May 25 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 92.

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Daiwa Bank execs ordered to redress losses at N.Y. branch

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows the head office of Daiwa Bank in Osaka on Sept. 20. The Osaka District Court the same day ordered Daiwa Bank's executives to pay the bank $775 million in compensation for losses incurred by the bank from unauthorized bond deals at its New York branch. Plaintiffs accused the bank's management of failing to take appropriate actions to prevent former New York branch trader Toshihide Iguchi from engaging in unauthorized U.S. Treasury bond trading over 11 years from 1984. Iguchi was convicted in the United States in 1996 and jailed.

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winner Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, gives a lecture titled ''What Did CP Violation Tell Us?'' at Stockholm University prior to an award ceremony. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics along with Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winner Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, delivers a lecture titled ''CP Violation and Flavor Mixing'' at Stockholm University on Dec. 8 prior to an award ceremony. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics along with Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winner Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, delivers a lecture titled ''CP Violation and Flavor Mixing'' at Stockholm University on Dec. 8 prior to an award ceremony. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics along with Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Nobel Prize winners who received the 2008 prize for physics stand after giving lectures at Stockholm University on Dec. 8. (From R to L) are Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, professor at the University of Rome, who gave a lecture on behalf of Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago who is not attending the award ceremony. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Nobel laureates give lectures before award ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winner Toshihide Masukawa, a professor emeritus at Kyoto University, gives a lecture titled ''What Did CP Violation Tell Us?'' at Stockholm University prior to an award ceremony. He won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics along with Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization based in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. (Kyodo)

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Nobel award ceremony takes place, 3 Japanese scientists honored

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - (From left) Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Toshihide Masukawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Osamu Shimomura, professor emeritus at Boston University, show their Nobel Prize medals after receiving them from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10. (Pool photo by Kyodo) (Kyodo)

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Nobel award ceremony takes place, 3 Japanese scientists honored

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, receives his medal and diploma from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10. Kobayashi won the Nobel Prize in physics along with Toshihide Masukawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. (Pool photo by Kyodo) (Kyodo)

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Nobel award ceremony takes place, 3 Japanese scientists honored

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Toshihide Masukawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, receives his medal and diploma from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10. Masukawa won the Nobel Prize in physics along with Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. (Pool photo by Kyodo) (Kyodo)

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3 Japanese scientists given Nobel prizes in ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, delivers a speech at a banquet held at Stockholm City Hall on Dec. 10 after receiving the Nobel Prize in physics in a ceremony. Kobayashi won the award along with Toshihide Masukawa, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, and Yoichiro Nambu, a Tokyo-born U.S. scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, who was unable to attend the ceremony. (Pool photo) (Kyodo)

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Comedian Saburo Boya dies at 92

TOKYO, Japan - Veteran comedian Saburo Boya is shown in this file photo taken in November 1979. Boya, whose real name was Toshihide Shibata, died of hear failure on May 25 at a Tokyo hospital. He was 92.

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UFJ cuts earnings forecast, seeing net loss of 650 bil. yen

TOKYO, Japan - Toshihide Mizuno, a UFJ Holdings Inc. director, speaks to reporters about the UFJ group's earnings forecast for the business year ending March 31, at the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo on March 27. (Kyodo)

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Scholars rally against security bills in Tokyo

Toshihide Masukawa (4th from L, front), a 2008 Nobel laureate in physics, and other scholars rally against the national security bills in Tokyo on July 20, 2015, calling for the scrapping of the bills. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Nobel physics laureate Masukawa opposes security bills

Toshihide Masukawa, the 2008 Nobel laureate in physics, speaks to Kyodo News in his office at Kyoto Sangyo University in Kyodo, western Japan, on June 22, 2015. Masukawa expressed his opposition to the government's package of national security bills giving the Self-Defense Forces a greater role in international activities. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Nobel physics laureate Masukawa stresses antiwar resolve

Toshihide Masukawa, the 2008 Nobel laureate in physics, stresses his antiwar resolve during an interview with Kyodo News in Kyoto, western Japan, on June 22, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese Nobel laureates Masukawa, Shimomura attend Pugwash confab

Osamu Shimomura (L), winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Toshihide Masukawa, awardee of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics, attend a session of the Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 3, 2015. The Pugwash Conference is the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize winner. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Emperor, empress host spring garden party

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (C) talks with Makoto Kobayashi (2nd from R) and Toshihide Masukawa (4th from R), winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics, during a spring garden party at Akasaka Imperial Garden in Tokyo on April 16, with Empress Michiko standing by him. (Kyodo)

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Japanese Nobel Prize winners meet press in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel Prize winners -- (from L to R) Osamu Shimomura, who won the prize for chemistry, and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Masukawa, who won the prize for physics -- attend a news conference in Stockholm on Dec. 7. (Kyodo)

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Nobel prize winner Kobayashi leaves for Stockholm

NARITA, Japan - Nobel Prize winner Makoto Kobayashi smiles during a news conference at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on Dec. 5 before leaving Japan for Stockholm to attend an award ceremony. Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture-based High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, won the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008 together with Toshihide Masukawa, professor at Kyoto Sangyo University, and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu. (Kyodo)

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Nobel prize winner Masukawa leave for Stockholm

OSAKA, Japan - Nobel Prize winner Toshihide Masukawa (C) prepares to leave Kansai airport in Osaka on Dec. 5 for Stockholm to attend an award ceremony. Masukawa, professor at Kyoto Sangyo University, has won the Nobel Prize in physics for 2008 together with Makoto Kobayashi, professor emeritus at the Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture-based High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, and U.S. scientist Yoichiro Nambu. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Masukawa returns from Sweden

OSAKA, Japan - This year's Physics Nobel prize laureate Toshihide Masukawa smiles during a press conference at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Dec. 15 after returning from Stockholm to attend an awards ceremony. (Kyodo)