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Chiba Marine Stadium renamed

CHIBA, Japan - (From L to R) QVC Japan Inc. President Hayashi Sasaki, Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai and Lotte Marines baseball club president Ryuzo Setoyama hold up a signboard reading ''QVC Marine Field,'' the new name for Chiba Marine Stadium, on Dec. 27, 2010. The city said it had reached a 10-year sponsorship agreement with the local television shopping company, including the naming rights for the stadium, which will come into effect in March.

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Paraguay Ambassador Toyotoshi watches World Cup match

CHIBA, Japan - Paraguay Ambassador to Japan Naoyuki Toyotoshi (front row, 3rd from R) and Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai (front row, 2nd from R) react as they watch a World Cup second round match between Japan and Paraguay at a gathering in Chiba City on June 30, 2010.

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Paraguay Ambassador Toyotoshi watches World Cup match

CHIBA, Japan - Paraguay Ambassador to Japan Naoyuki Toyotoshi (front row, 3rd from R) and Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai (front row, 2nd from R) watch a World Cup second round match between Japan and Paraguay at a gathering in Chiba City on June 29, 2010.

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Opposition-backed Kumagai to win Chiba mayoral election

CHIBA, Japan - Opposition-backed Toshihito Kumagai and his supporters celebrate after ensuring a landslide victory over two contenders in the Chiba mayoral election at his campaign office in the city east of Tokyo on June 14. Kumagai, 31, becomes the country's youngest mayor.

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Opposition-backed Kumagai to win Chiba mayoral election

CHIBA, Japan - Opposition-backed Toshihito Kumagai and his supporters celebrate after ensuring a landslide victory over two contenders in the Chiba mayoral election at his campaign office in the city east of Tokyo on June 14. Kumagai, 31, becomes the country's youngest mayor.

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Opposition-backed Kumagai to win Chiba mayoral election

CHIBA, Japan - Opposition-backed Toshihito Kumagai and his supporters celebrate after ensuring a landslide victory over two contenders in the Chiba mayoral election at his campaign office in the city east of Tokyo on June 14. Kumagai, 31, becomes the country's youngest mayor. (Kyodo)

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Opposition-backed Kumagai to win Chiba mayoral election

CHIBA, Japan - Opposition-backed Toshihito Kumagai and his supporters celebrate after ensuring a landslide victory over two contenders in the Chiba mayoral election at his campaign office in the city east of Tokyo on June 14. Kumagai, 31, becomes the country's youngest mayor. (Kyodo)

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Chiba negative about building waste disposal facility

Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai (L) and Senior Vice Environment Minister Shinji Inoue discuss at the city office on Dec. 14, 2015, the issue of building a facility for radiation-tainted waste resulting from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Kumagai said the municipal government will not accept the state's field survey for the construction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Paraguay Ambassador Toyotoshi watches World Cup match

CHIBA, Japan - Paraguay Ambassador to Japan Naoyuki Toyotoshi (front row, 3rd from R) and Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai (front row, 2nd from R) react as they watch a World Cup second round match between Japan and Paraguay at a gathering in Chiba City on June 30, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Paraguay Ambassador Toyotoshi watches World Cup match

CHIBA, Japan - Paraguay Ambassador to Japan Naoyuki Toyotoshi (front row, 3rd from R) and Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai (front row, 2nd from R) watch a World Cup second round match between Japan and Paraguay at a gathering in Chiba City on June 29, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Chiba Marine Stadium renamed

CHIBA, Japan - (From L to R) QVC Japan Inc. President Hayashi Sasaki, Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai and Lotte Marines baseball club president Ryuzo Setoyama hold up a signboard reading ''QVC Marine Field,'' the new name for Chiba Marine Stadium, on Dec. 27, 2010. The city said it had reached a 10-year sponsorship agreement with the local television shopping company, including the naming rights for the stadium, which will come into effect in March. (Kyodo)

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Chiba governor on Olympic preferential treatment

Chiba Gov. Toshihito Kumagai speaks at the prefectural government headquarters in Chiba, eastern Japan, on May 13, 2021, about the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee's request to allocate hospital beds for athletes infected with the novel coronavirus.

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Talks on anti-COVID measures in Tokyo area

Photo taken April 28, 2021, at the metropolitan government headquarters in Tokyo shows a teleconference by (clockwise from top R) Chiba Gov. Toshihito Kumagai, Kanagawa Gov. Yuji Kuroiwa, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike and Saitama Gov. Motohiro Ono to discuss measures against the novel coronavirus ahead of the Golden Week holidays.

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Chiba city recognizes LGBT, common-law marriage couples

Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai (L) gets set to hand a partnership certificate to a sexual minority couple at the city hall on Jan. 29, 2019. The city started issuing certificates recognizing sexual minority and common-law couples the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese convenience store chain to stop selling pornographic magazines

Akihiro Fujimoto (L), president of Japanese convenience store chain Ministop Co., and Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai shake hands at a press conference in Chiba, near Tokyo, on Nov. 21, 2017. Ministop will stop selling pornographic magazines at all of its 43 outlets in the city from Dec. 1 and at about 2,200 stores across Japan from Jan. 1, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chiba mayor kick-starts 2020 Games prep campaign in London

Toshihito Kumagai (L), mayor of the city of Chiba, east of Tokyo, meets with Simon Cooper, head of sport at the Greater London Authority, in London on Oct. 14, 2016, as part of his preparations for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo