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NTT AI Strategy Press Briefing

NTT AI Strategy Press Briefing. photo shows President and CEO Akira Shimada explaining tsu-zumi2.=October 20,2025,Tokyo

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NTT AI Strategy Press Briefing

NTT AI Strategy Press Briefing. photo shows President and CEO Akira Shimada explaining tsu-zumi2.=October 20,2025,Tokyo

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Japan imperial couple in Kobe for earthquake commemoration

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako visit Hyogo Prefectural Hyogo-no-Tsu Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, where they were briefed about events related to the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the disaster.

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Japan imperial couple in Kobe for earthquake commemoration

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako visit Hyogo Prefectural Hyogo-no-Tsu Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, where they were briefed about events related to the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the disaster.

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Japan imperial couple in Kobe for earthquake commemoration

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako visit Hyogo Prefectural Hyogo-no-Tsu Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, where they were briefed about events related to the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the disaster. (Pool photo)

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Japan imperial couple in Kobe for earthquake commemoration

Japanese Emperor Naruhito (C) and Empress Masako visit Hyogo Prefectural Hyogo-no-Tsu Museum in Kobe, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, where they were briefed about events related to the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the disaster.

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Football: Miura

Kazuyoshi Miura (R), a 57-year-old former Japan national football team forward, trains with Atletico Suzuka teammates in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on July 2, 2024. Miura, second in the country's all-time scoring list with 55 goals, rejoined the fourth-tier club in June.

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Football: Miura

Kazuyoshi Miura (C), a 57-year-old former Japan national football team forward, trains with Atletico Suzuka teammates in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on July 2, 2024. Miura, second in the country's all-time scoring list with 55 goals, rejoined the fourth-tier club in June.

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Football: Miura

Kazuyoshi Miura, a 57-year-old former Japan national football team forward, trains with Atletico Suzuka teammates in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on July 2, 2024. Miura, second in the country's all-time scoring list with 55 goals, rejoined the fourth-tier club in June.

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Japon Louvre Sculpture Museum

Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2023, shows the Japon Louvre Sculpture Museum in Tsu in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, which displays replicas of sculptures at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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Japon Louvre Sculpture Museum

Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2023, shows the Japon Louvre Sculpture Museum in Tsu in Mie Prefecture, central Japan, which displays replicas of sculptures at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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Japon Louvre Sculpture Museum

Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2023, shows a replica of the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the Japon Louvre Sculpture Museum in Tsu, Mie Prefecture. The Japanese museum displays replicas of sculptures at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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Japon Louvre Sculpture Museum

Photo taken on Nov. 11, 2023, shows a replica of the Venus de Milo at the Japon Louvre Sculpture Museum in Tsu, Mie Prefecture. The Japanese museum displays replicas of sculptures at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-ROLLER SKATING (CN)

(231002) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 2, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chao Tsu-Cheng (L) and Chen Yan-Cheng of Chinese Taipei compete during the Men's Speed Skating 3000m Relay Race Final of Roller Skating at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 2, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-ROLLER SKATING (CN)

(231001) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Chao Tsu-Cheng (L, front) of Chinese Taipei competes during the Men's Speed Skating 1000m Sprint Tournament Final of Roller Skating at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 1, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)

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(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-ROLLER SKATING (CN)

(231001) -- HANGZHOU, Oct. 1, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gold medalist Choi Gwangho (C) of South Korea, silver medalist Jung Cheolwon (L) of South Korea and bronze medalist Chao Tsu-Cheng of Chinese Taipei attend the awarding ceremony for the Men's Speed Skating 1000m Sprint Tournament Final of Roller Skating at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 1, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Yehua)

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Researchers find new mechanism for hardening of arteries

TSU, Japan - Yoshiji Yamada, a professor of molecular and genetic epidemiology at Mie University, explains in Tsu, central Japan, on Feb. 4, 2014 a mechanism for the hardening of arteries newly discovered by his research team.

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Huge whale found floating dead in Ise Bay

TSU, Japan - A gigantic whale was found floating dead in Ise Bay off the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 5, surprising local officials and leading coast guard officials to alert fishing and other boats around the area. It is believed to have gone astray while swimming around the Kii Peninsula.

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Toshiba completes new flash memory line at Yokkaichi plant

TSU, Japan - Toshiba Corp. holds a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its Yokkaichi plant in Mie on Sept. 4 to mark the completion of a new flash memory production line. The facility line is designed for Toshiba's joint operations with U.S. computer chip maker SanDisk Corp. to produce NAND flash memory chips that can quickly write and erase data, company officials said.

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Japan's first lady promotes tradition of female pro divers

TSU, Japan, Nov. 11 Kyodo - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife Akie (C) attends a gathering of "ama" female professional divers from across Japan and South Korea on Nov. 7, 2015, in Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan. She expressed hope to introduce their culture at next year's summit of the Group of Seven economic powers in the prefecture's Ise-Shima region, which is the home to about half of Japan's female pro divers.

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Mie Univ. to lecture on ninja in Europe

TSU, Japan - Yuji Yamada, a professor at Mie University, holds a ninja "shuriken" throwing weapon at the university in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Nov. 10, 2014. The university, in cooperation with the Japan Foundation, plans to hold lectures on ninja, including lectures by Yamada, in six European cities such as London, Rome and Barcelona from Nov. 17 through 28.

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Matsusaka mayor to file suit against Cabinet decision on security

TSU, Japan - Mitsushige Yamanaka, mayor of the city of Matsusaka in the central Japan prefecture of Mie, meets the press at the city hall on July 3, 2014. The 38-year-old mayor said he is going to file a lawsuit, arguing the Cabinet decision to allow Japan to exercise the right to collective self-defense is unconstitutional.

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Nautilus at aquarium keeps world's longest breeding record

TSU, Japan - A nautilus kept at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, as seen in this file phone taken in March, has kept rewriting the world's longevity record for a nautilus bred in captivity, now about four years and nine months, since its birth there in July 2009.

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New aquarium recruits start by cleaning fish tank from inside

TSU, Japan - Two male recruits, Asuka Imagawa (L), 20, and Ryosuke Okita, 23, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, clean the inside wall of a fish tank using sponges during an underwater initiation ceremony on March 31, 2014, as fish and turtles swim around.

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Museum of scales in Mie Pref. closes

TSU, Japan - Kenzo Kobayashi, the 73-year-old owner and curator of Hakarinoyakata, one of only two museums on scales, weights and measures in Japan, speaks of his collection of over 10,000 items in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, in central Japan, on March 30, 2014. The museum closed the same day, with Kobayashi's collection to be donated to a scale maker in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, for exhibition in a new museum to open there in October.

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Japanese man setting new yo-yo standards

TSU, Japan - Photo taken March 20, 2014 in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, shows Kengo Kido, who designs and sells yo-yos online under the brand name "yoyo recreation."

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Japanese man setting new yo-yo standards

TSU, Japan - Photo taken March 26, 2014 in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, shows Kengo Kido playing with one of the yo-yos he designed to sell online under the brand name "yoyo recreation."

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Olympic wrestling champ Yoshida speaks about father's death

TSU, Japan - Three-time Olympic wresting gold medalist Saori Yoshida (R) and Kazuhito Sakae, head coach of the Japanese women's national wrestling team, speak to reporters at a wake for Yoshida's father Eikatsu in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on March 13, 2014, two days after his death from an illness.

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Father of Olympic wrestling champion Yoshida dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in August 2012 shows Japan's Saori Yoshida (bottom) celebrating with her father and coach Eikatsu on her shoulders after winning her third consecutive gold medal in the women's wrestling 55-kilogram class at the London Olympics. Eikatsu Yoshida, 61, was found collapsed in his car in Tsu, Mie Prefecture and later confirmed dead at a hospital on March 11, 2014.

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Fossils of new elephant species found in Mie Pref.

TSU, Japan - The Mie prefectural government shows on Jan. 20, 2014, a fossilized tusk base (left) and tooth of what is believed to be a newly discovered species of elephant that has been found in Suzuka in the central Japan prefecture. Archeologists say the elephant existed about 2.4 million years ago.

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Man becomes scrivener to support foreigners

TSU, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 16, 2013 in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, shows Masafumi Inagaki, an administrative scrivener who provides free consultations to foreigners over procedures to apply for a visa or to marry Japanese among other issues. Inagaki became a scrivener in his 50s to support foreign residents who he believes are socially vulnerable yet will become important members of fast-aging Japanese society.

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Retrial for 1961 murder case rejected

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in June 1961 shows Masaru Okunishi (C), accused of poisoning 17 people, resulting in the deaths of five women, on March 28, 1961, at a local community meeting in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, during the first hearing on the case at the Tsu District Court in the prefecture. The Supreme Court said Oct. 17, 2013, it has turned down a petition by Okunishi, now an 87-year-old death-row inmate, for a retrial over the case.

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Search for missing people after typhoon

TSU, Japan - A search for a missing woman and her daughter is conducted in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 17, 2013, after Typhoon Man-yi hit Japan's mainland the previous day.

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Young woman helps elderly in depopulated town

TSU, Japan - Photo taken March 14, 2013 shows Mao Higashi's truck heading to the next destination of her mobile food sales in Kihoku, Mie Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Young woman helps elderly in depopulated town

TSU, Japan - Mao Higashi (R) sells food items set out at the side of her truck while visiting a village on March 14, 2013 in Kihoku, Mie Prefecture. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Giant isopod stays alive for 4 years despite not eating

TSU, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 6, 2013, at Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, shows a giant isopod, a creature often called a "scavenger of the deep." According to the aquarium, the crustacean, measuring 29 centimeters and weighing one kilogram, has remained healthy despite not eating anything for more than four years.

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Abe in stump speech

TSU, Japan - Shinzo Abe, chief of the main opposition Liberal Democratic Party, makes a stump speech in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Nov. 25, 2012, ahead of the Dec. 16 general election.

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Largest Othello set

TSU, Japan - Students of Takada High School in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Feb. 8, 2012, hold pieces from their set of the Othello board game, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest. The board is about 8.1 square meters big.

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'Last ninja' becomes university professor

TSU, Japan - Jinichi Kawakami, known as the ''last ninja,'' speaks during a press conference in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Jan. 31, 2012. Mie University said Kawakami has become a specially-appointed professor to study how to use information-gathering and other ninja techniques in the field of business. Koga is the 21st head of the Koga ninja clan.

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S. Korea's Lee wins Toshin tournament

TSU, Japan - South Korea's Lee Dong Hwan holds the winner's trophy as he won the Toshin Golf Tournament at Toshin Lake Wood Golf Club in Mie Prefecture on Sept. 11, 2011, claiming his second career JGTO Tour victory.

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BOJ policymaker Kamezaki

TSU, Japan - Hidetoshi Kamezaki, a Bank of Japan Policy Board member, speaks at a press conference in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, in western Japan on July 27, 2011. The Japanese central bank is not facing any immediate need for additional monetary easing, he said.

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Aquarium's initiation ceremony in water tank

TSU, Japan - New employees of Toba Aquarium in Toba, Mie Prefecture, participate in an entrance ceremony with fish and a sea turtle in an aqua tank on March 31, 2011.

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Participants in youth biodiversity conference

TSU, Japan - Participants in the International Youth Conference on Biodiversity in Aichi 2010 study plants in Mie Prefecture on Aug. 24, 2010. The conference is associated with the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the so-called CBD COP10, that will be held in Aichi Prefecture in October 2010.

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Ninja training theme park

TSU, Japan - Children undergo ninja training at the newly opened ''Ninja no Mori'' (ninja woods) theme park in Nabari, Mie Prefecture, on July 3, 2010.

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Ikeda wins inaugural Toshin title

TSU, Japan - Yuta Ikeda poses with the winner's trophy after winning the Toshin Golf Tournament at Toshin Lake Wood Golf Club in Mie Prefecture on July 4, 2010. Ikeda earned his first title of the season with a three-shot victory over rookie Shunsuke Sonoda.

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Anpanman theme park opens

TSU, Japan - Children's popular cartoon hero Anpanman is surrounded by children at the Nagoya Anpanman Children's Museum & Park in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, on April 23, 2010. The theme park opened within the Nagashima Resort entertainment complex.

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Female knuckleballer to join Mie if she plays in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - Female knuckleballer Eri Yoshida speaks at a news conference in Tsu on Dec. 28, 2009, after she agreed with the Mie Three Arrows of the new independent Japan-Future League to join the team should she decide to play in Japan after her stint in the Arizona Winter League.

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Female knuckleballer to join Mie if she plays in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - Female knuckleballer Eri Yoshida (R) and Keiichiro Kabeya, representative of the Mie Three Arrows of the new independent Japan-Future League, shake hands during a news conference in Tsu on Dec. 28, 2009. Yoshida agreed to join the club should she decide to play in Japan after her stint in the Arizona Winter League.

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Initiation ceremony in water at aquarium

TSU, Japan - Visitors watch an initiation ceremony for a new employee in an acrylic water tank at the Toba Aquarium in the city of Toba, Mie Prefecture, on April 1. Chiaki Sawayama, surrounded by about 300 fish and turtles of 100 kinds, received a letter of approval for her recruitment from a deputy chief of the aquarium during the ceremony. An estimated 820,000 new recruits marked their first day of work across Japan the same day.

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Train derails at dawn in Mie Prefecture

TSU, Japan - A two-car local train operated by Kintetsu Corp. derailed near Higashiaoyama Station at dawn Feb. 27 in the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture. None of the 11 people aboard was injured in the accident, which also caused damage to polls supporting overhead electrical lines. Police suspect the derailment occurred as the train hit a device that had been left on the track after being used for overnight maintenance work.