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Theater company Takarazuka apologizes to family over actress death

Yasuo Shimada (L), president of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., the parent company of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, is pictured after attending a press conference in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on March 28, 2024. Earlier in the day, the railway operator apologized to the family of an actress who died in September 2023 after being harassed by senior actresses and revue officials.

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Theater company Takarazuka apologizes to family over actress death

Yasuo Shimada, president of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc., the parent company of Japan's all-female musical theater company Takarazuka Revue, attends a press conference in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on March 28, 2024, after the railway operator apologized to the family of an actress who died in September 2023 after being harassed by senior actresses and revue officials.

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Fossil of Machikane croc displayed in Osaka Pref.

OSAKA, Japan - A fossil of Machikane Crocodylidae is on display at the Museum of Osaka University in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on June 20, 2014. The fossil is expected to become a registered monument of Japan.

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Osaka University's large capacitor bank system

OSAKA, Japan - The Center for Advanced High Magnetic Field Science at Osaka University's Graduate School of Science displays its large capacitor bank system with maximum charged energy of 10 megajoules, the largest in Japan, on May 20, 2014, in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture.

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Students warned of cult activities

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiyuki Tachikake (back), an associate professor at Osaka University, speaks in a class of freshmen students about the problem of cults at the university in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on May 12, 2012.

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Solar eclipse

OSAKA, Japan - A boy takes a photo of patches of sunshine on the ground beneath the leaves of a tree in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on May 21, 2012. The shape of the sunshine patches was distorted due to a solar eclipse. An annular solar eclipse was observed in many areas of Japan.

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Women's boxing

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Etsuko Tada is pictured after successfully defending her WBA minimumweight title for the seventh time with a unanimous decision over seventh-ranked Mexican Maria Salinas in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 19, 2012.

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Women's boxing

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Etsuko Tada (L) punches Mexican Maria Salinas during the fifth round of a WBA minimumweight title match in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 19, 2012. Tada successfully defended her title for the seventh time with a unanimous decision over seventh-ranked Salinas.

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Women's boxing

OSAKA, Japan - Japan's Mari Ando (R) and Mexican Maria Jimenez are pictured during the fourth round of a WBA light minimumweight title match in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Feb. 19, 2012. Ando defeated fourth-ranked Jimenez by unanimous decision in the first defense of her title.

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Regional elections across Japan

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto casts his ballot in the election on April 10, 2011, to choose members of the Osaka prefectural assembly at a polling station in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture. The first of two unified rounds of regional polls slated for April were held the same day to pick governors of 12 of Japan's 47 prefectures, mayors of four cities and assembly members of 41 prefectures and 15 of the country's major cities. (Pool photo)

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Japan's Tada defends WBA women's minimumweight title

OSAKA, Japan - WBA women's minimumweight champion Etsuko Tada of Japan poses with her trophies after beating challenger Yani Kokietgym of Thailand in their title match in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 23. Tada won a unanimous decision over Yanai in the first defense of her title.

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Japan's Tada defends WBA women's minimumweight title

OSAKA, Japan - WBA women's minimumweight champion Etsuko Tada of Japan (L) delivers a punch to Thailand's Yani Kokietgym in the seventh round of their bout in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 23. Tada won a unanimous decision over Yanai in the first defense of her title.

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Bush leaves Japan for South Korea, 2nd leg of Asia tour

OSAKA, Japan - U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura wave at Osaka International Airport in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 16 as they leave there for South Korea to hold talks with South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and take part in the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

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Bush leaves Japan for South Korea, 2nd leg of Asia tour

OSAKA, Japan - U.S. President George W. Bush and his wife Laura arrive at Osaka International Airport in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, from Kyoto by helicopter to head for South Korea to hold talks with South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and take part in the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

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Bush in Japan on 1st leg of 4-nation Asia tour

OSAKA, Japan - U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with Sadaharu Oh, manager of Japan's Softbank Hawks baseball team, after arriving at Osaka International Airport in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 15, with Bobby Valentine (C), manager of Japan's Chiba Lotte Marines baseball club and previously manager of the New York Mets, standing by them.

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Bush in Japan on 1st leg of 4-nation Asia tour

OSAKA, Japan - U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with Bobby Valentine, manager of Japan's Chiba Lotte Marines baseball club and previously manager of the New York Mets, after arriving at Osaka International Airport in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on Nov. 15.

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(2)Memorial ceremony held for victims of school killings

TOYONAKA, Japan - The photos of the seven girls and one boy who were killed by a man in June 2001 at an Osaka elementary school are dispalyed on the drapes at the stage for a ceremony held to mark the second anniversary of the incident at the city hall in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture on June 8.