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New Japan envoys

TOKYO, Japan - Combined file photos show incoming Japanese Ambassador to China Masato Kitera (C) and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Jiro Kodera (R), both of whom will take up the posts on Nov. 26, 2012. At left is Kazuyoshi Umemoto, who became Japan's assistant chief Cabinet secretary on Nov. 22, 2012.

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Peace stone from Hiroshima presented to Tunisian president

TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali (L) is presented with a streetcar track-paving stone hit by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city, engraved with an image of a Buddhist goddess praying for peace, by Michio Umemoto, head of the Stone for Peace Association of Hiroshima, in Tunis on Nov. 7. ''From today, the stone will be a part of this beautiful Tunisia, sharing our desire for world peace and strong hope that our children will live in a world free from the terror of war, murder and hatred,'' Umemoto said at a ceremony.

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1 current, 1 former Osaka police officer arrested over gang rape

A car carrying Daisuke Umemoto (C in back seat), a 36-year-old sergeant in the criminal investigation division at Mino Police Station, leaves the Osaka prefectural police headquarters on Sept. 8, 2015. The police said the same day that Umemoto and Yu Mizobata, a 32-year-old former police officer living in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, were arrested on suspicion of gang-raping and confining a woman in her 20s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aeon, 4 J-League clubs collaborate to boost local economy

Aeon Retail Co. chairman Kazunori Umemoto (far R) and the presidents of operating companies of J-League clubs (from L) Consadole Sapporo, Vegalta Sendai, Montedio Yamagata and Shonan Bellmare attend a press conference in Tokyo on May 18, 2015. Aeon Co. has announced the issuance of its Waon electronic money cards targeting fans of the four J-League clubs to help vitalize regional economies around these clubs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Memorial service held in Rome to mourn Japanese tsunami victims

(From L) Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino, Japanese Ambassador to Italy Kazuyoshi Umemoto, and Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada offer flowers during a ceremony in Rome's Campidoglio square on March 11, 2015, to mourn the lives lost in the killer earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan four years earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visiting Lesotho king receives peace stone from Hiroshima

Visiting Lesotho King Letsie III (L) shakes hands with Michio Umemoto, principal of the Stone for Peace Association of Hiroshima, as he receives a peace stone that survived the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, engraved with an image of the Buddhist goddess of mercy. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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5-yr-old girl becomes youngest "Doctor of Yokai Monster"

Photo taken Dec. 2, 2015 in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, shows Mana Umemoto, who became the youngest "Doctor of Yokai Monster" at age 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Peace stone from Hiroshima presented to Tunisian president

TUNIS, Tunisia - Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali (L) is presented with a streetcar track-paving stone hit by the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese city, engraved with an image of a Buddhist goddess praying for peace, by Michio Umemoto, head of the Stone for Peace Association of Hiroshima, in Tunis on Nov. 7. ''From today, the stone will be a part of this beautiful Tunisia, sharing our desire for world peace and strong hope that our children will live in a world free from the terror of war, murder and hatred,'' Umemoto said at a ceremony. (Kyodo)

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Japan's TPP chief delegate Umemoto

Japan's chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Kazuyoshi Umemoto speaks at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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TPP Japan negotiator

Kazuyoshi Umemoto, the chief Japanese negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, speaks to reporters in Urayasu, near Tokyo, on Nov. 1, 2017, after three-day talks among negotiators of the 11 remaining signatories ended. Umemoto said the group made progress toward an agreement on the pact's implementation without the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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TPP members make progress toward new accord in November

Kazuyoshi Umemoto (L), a Japanese representative at negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, speaks with reporters after chief negotiators from the 11 remaining TPP members end their two-day meeting in Tokyo on Sept. 22, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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TPP negotiators meet to discuss freezes to text after U.S. pullout

Kazuyoshi Umemoto (C), Japan's chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact, speaks in a meeting of the 11 remaining countries working on the pact in Tokyo on Sept. 21, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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TPP negotiators meet in Sydney to advance trade pact after U.S. exit

Japanese chief Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiator Kazuyoshi Umemoto (far L) speaks in Sydney on Aug. 28, 2017, as the 11 remaining TPP countries begin three days of talks in the Australian city to advance the implementation of the regional free trade pact following the withdrawal of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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11 TPP states eye new framework to implement pact without U.S.

Japan's chief negotiator Kazuyoshi Umemoto speaks to reporters after chairing the two-day trade meeting at the hot-spring resort of Hakone, southwest of Tokyo, on July 13, 2017. The chief negotiators of the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries agreed on the same day to aim to put the regional free trade deal into force under a new framework, following the withdrawal of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan appoints veteran diplomat as new chief negotiator for TPP

Undated file photo shows Kazuyoshi Umemoto, Japan's ambassador to Italy who was previously a deputy permanent representative to the United Nations. The Japanese government appointed Umemoto on July 7, 2017 as its chief negotiator for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement as it bids to rescue the pact following the withdrawal of the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo