Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Shunya Udagawa crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2024, securing the university's seventh victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Tokyo-Hakone ekiden road relay

Aoyama Gakuin University anchor Shunya Udagawa crosses the finish line in Tokyo's Otemachi business district on Jan. 3, 2024, securing the university's seventh victory in the two-day Tokyo-Hakone collegiate ekiden road relay.

Forever 21 store exterior

Forever 21 store exterior

Forever 21's Shibuya store, which announced its withdrawal from the Japanese market at the end of October 2019, September 25, 2019, Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Forever 21 store exterior

Forever 21 store exterior

Forever 21's Shibuya store, which announced its withdrawal from the Japanese market at the end of October 2019, September 25, 2019, Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Forever 21 store exterior

Forever 21 store exterior

Forever 21's Shibuya store, which announced its withdrawal from the Japanese market at the end of October 2019, September 25, 2019, Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

Night museum program in Japan

Night museum program in Japan

Photo shows Kazuyoshi Udagawa, head of the Okuizumo Tane Museum of Natural History in Shimane Prefecture, Japan, on Sept. 15, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Court orders Japan Post to close wage gap for contract workers

Court orders Japan Post to close wage gap for contract workers

Asashi Udagawa (L) and Kiyoshi Asakawa (C), two of the three contract workers suing Japan Post Co. for paying them less than full-time employees doing the same work, attend a news conference at the labor ministry in Tokyo on Sept. 14, 2017, after the Tokyo District Court ruled in favor of their claims. The court awarded the workers some 920,000 yen ($8,300) in total, a small fraction of the roughly 15 million yen sought but a decision that could have major ramifications for the company, nearly half of whose 390,000-strong workforce consists of contractors. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo