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Japan crown prince at biology award ceremony

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 5 Kyodo - Japanese Crown Prince Akihito (far L) chats with University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus Edred John Henry Corner, the winner of the 1985 International Prize for Biology, while Japanese Crown Princess Michiko (2nd from R) chats with the professor's wife after the award ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 1985. (Kyodo)

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Japan crown prince at biology award ceremony

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 5 Kyodo - University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus Edred John Henry Corner (L, front) receives the 1985 International Prize for Biology in Tokyo on Nov. 15, 1985, with Japanese Crown Prince Akihito (top, L) and Crown Princess Michiko attending the award ceremony.(Kyodo)

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Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi Triggers Severe Flooding, Displacing Thousands 2

Severe flooding has submerged towns and displaced hundreds of thousands as Typhoon Kalmaegi battered the central Philippines. Rivers overflowed in Cebu and nearby islands, forcing residents onto rooftops while cars and containers were swept through the streets. Local officials said some evacuation centers were inundated, and many survivors of a recent earthquake had to be evacuated again. More than 380,000 people fled their homes across the Visayas, southern Luzon, and northern Mindanao. Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, made landfall late Monday, November 3 with winds of up to 130 kph before moving toward the South China Sea on Tuesday, November 4.

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Order of Culture Award

Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry (R) receives the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, from Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Order of Culture Award

Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2025, after receiving the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, at an Imperial Palace ceremony.

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Order of Culture Award

Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa, a co-winner of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2025, after receiving the Order of Culture, Japan's top cultural award, at an Imperial Palace ceremony.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry co-winner Kitagawa

Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa, a co-winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry, delivers a speech in Tokyo on Oct. 22, 2025.

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China: Tourists and Locals Rescue Yaks from Mud Pit in Qinghai

In Qinghai, China, tourists and locals joined forces with an excavator operator to rescue four yaks stuck in deep mud on September 30, 2025. After spotting the trapped animals, the tourists alerted a herdsman and enlisted help from a nearby construction site. Working for nearly an hour, they freed all four yaks safely. The herdsman said the rescue prevented losses of over RMB 40,000.

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Novel laureate Kitagawa

Photo taken at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2025, shows Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (R) holding online talks with Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa (L) a day after he was named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025.

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Novel laureate Kitagawa

Photo taken at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2025, shows Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba holding online talks with Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa a day after he was named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025.

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Novel laureate Kitagawa

Photo taken at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 9, 2025, shows Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa holding online talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba a day after he was named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2025.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Kitagawa

Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa (L), in the western Japan city, talks over the phone with Asahi Kasei Corp. honorary fellow and 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Akira Yoshino, in Tokyo, on Oct. 8, 2025, after Kitagawa was named one of the three winners of the prize earlier in the day for developing porous materials that can store and release gases such as natural gas.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry winner Kitagawa

Kyoto University distinguished professor Susumu Kitagawa (L), in the western Japan city, talks over the phone with Asahi Kasei Corp. honorary fellow and 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Akira Yoshino, in Tokyo, on Oct. 8, 2025, after Kitagawa was named one of the three winners of the prize earlier in the day for developing porous materials that can store and release gases such as natural gas.

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Nobel Prize in medicine winner Sakaguchi

Combined photo shows Shimon Sakaguchi (L), a distinguished professor at Osaka University, in Osaka in western Japan, and Yoshinori Ohsumi, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 2016, in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, speaking on the phone after Sakaguchi was named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with two American scientists the previous night for their "groundbreaking" discoveries on how the immune system is kept in check, on Oct. 6, 2025.

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Japan emperor at U.N. University ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito speaks at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of United Nations University in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan emperor at U.N. University ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako chat with graduate school students during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of United Nations University in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan emperor at U.N. University ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako chat with graduate school students during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of United Nations University in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japan emperor at U.N. University ceremony

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of United Nations University in Tokyo on Sept. 18, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Holdout of students inside University of Tokyo auditorium

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Riot police fire a water cannon toward the University of Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium in Tokyo on Jan. 18, 1969, after hardline leftist students barricaded themselves inside the building during a siege by the police. (Kyodo)

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Confrontation among leftist Japanese students in 1960s

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Leftist students aligned with the Japanese Communist Party (R) clash with students critical of the party (L) at a University of Tokyo campus in Tokyo on Jan. 9, 1969. (Kyodo)

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Diet summons key figure in HIV scandal

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 24 Kyodo - Takeshi Abe, former head of the Health and Welfare Ministry's AIDS study team and former vice president of Teikyo University, raises his hand to testify as unsworn witness at a House of Representatives committee session in Tokyo in April 1996 over his connection with HIV infections through tainted blood products in the early 1980s. An expert on hemophilia treatment, Abe is regarded as the key figure who influenced a ministry decision to continue the use of unheated blood products in 1984.(Kyodo)

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Space suit made using "Nishijin-ori" weaving

Photo taken in Kyoto on Aug. 7, 2025, shows a prototype of a space suit that was made using Kyoto's traditional "Nishijin-ori" weaving. The suit, developed under a space project involving Kyoto University, a Tokyo space venture company and other entities, will be displayed at the World Exposition in Osaka from Aug. 10.

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Saori Minami

Saori Minami=Date: November 2, 1971, Place: Japan

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Ken Takakura

Ken Takakura on the set of the movie “Abashiri Prison”=Date : December 10, 1971, Place : Sounkyo, Hokkaido

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Left-wing students during 1960s

Left-wing students regarded as confronting the Japanese Communist Party guard the road leading to the University of Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium (background) while warming by a bonfire at the university's Hongo campus in Tokyo on Jan. 12, 1969.

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Left-wing students during 1960s

Left-wing students regarded as confronting the Japanese Communist Party guard the road leading to the University of Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium (background) while warming by a bonfire at the university's Hongo campus in Tokyo on Jan. 12, 1969.

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Tomisaburo Wakayama

Tomisaburo Wakayama=Place: Akasaka, Japan

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Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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Nobel committee chair in Japan

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, speaks during a disarmament event at Sophia University in Tokyo on July 27, 2025.

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Nobel committee chair in Japan

Jorgen Watne Frydnes (R), chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, shakes hands with Terumi Tanaka, co-chair of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors, following a press conference at Sophia University in Tokyo on July 27, 2025.

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Nobel Peace Prize Committee chair in Japan

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, speaks during a disarmament event at Sophia University in Tokyo on July 27, 2025.

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Nobel committee chair in Japan

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, speaks during a press conference at Sophia University in Tokyo on July 27, 2025.

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Nobel committee chair in Japan

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, speaks during a press conference at Sophia University in Tokyo on July 27, 2025.

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Japan's ex-emperor discharged from hospital

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (L), alongside former Empress Michiko, leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on July 18, 2025, after undergoing treatment with a new drug for right heart failure and asymptomatic myocardial ischemia.

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Japan's ex-emperor discharged from hospital

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (L), alongside former Empress Michiko, leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on July 18, 2025, after undergoing treatment with a new drug for right heart failure and asymptomatic myocardial ischemia.

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Japan's ex-emperor discharged from hospital

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (L), alongside former Empress Michiko, leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on July 18, 2025, after undergoing treatment with a new drug for right heart failure and asymptomatic myocardial ischemia.

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Japan's ex-emperor hospitalized for heart failure treatment

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (R) heads to the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on July 14, 2025, where he will undergo treatment with a new drug for right heart failure and asymptomatic myocardial ischemia.

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Japan's ex-emperor hospitalized for heart failure treatment

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (C) heads to the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on July 14, 2025, where he will undergo treatment with a new drug for right heart failure and asymptomatic myocardial ischemia.

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Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory

The University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research unveils to the media on June 28, 2025, a huge cavity excavated in the mountains of Hida in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, for the installation of the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory.

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Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory

The University of Tokyo's Institute for Cosmic Ray Research unveils to the media on June 28, 2025, a huge cavity excavated in the mountains of Hida in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, for the installation of the Hyper-Kamiokande neutrino observatory.

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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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China: Typhoon Wutip Darkens Hainan Skies Ahead of Landfall in Hainan

This is the terrifying moment a massive wall of dark clouds engulfed the skies over Hainan as Typhoon Wutip approached southern China. On June 11, 2025, in Hainan, China, video captured thick, menacing clouds rolling in ahead of Typhoon Wutip's landfall. The sky turned eerily dark as the season’s first typhoon neared, creating a heavy, ominous atmosphere. The storm made landfall around 11 p.m. on June 13 along the coast of Dongfang, a city in Hainan, with winds reaching up to 30 meters per second and a central pressure of 980 hPa. Heavy rain swept through southern parts of the island, with some areas experiencing torrential downpours and localized extreme rainfall. According to China National Radio, by June 15, Typhoon Wutip had weakened into a tropical depression after moving inland into Jiangxi Province, and continued to lose strength. The video ends with the storm clouds blanketing the landscape as residents brace for the typhoon’s impact.

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Japanese emperor and Swedish king

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (R) greets Japan's Emperor Naruhito on his arrival at United Nations University for an environmental seminar in Tokyo on May 16, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japanese emperor and Swedish king

Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (R) greets Japan's Emperor Naruhito on his arrival at United Nations University for an environmental seminar in Tokyo on May 16, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Japanese emperor and Swedish king

Japan's Emperor Naruhito (L) and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden attend an environmental seminar at United Nations University in Tokyo on May 16, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Former emperor discharged from hospital

Japan's former Emperor Akihito (back, L), alongside former Empress Michiko, leaves the University of Tokyo Hospital in Tokyo on May 10, 2025, after undergoing medical tests for a heart condition.

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Japan's ex-emperor hospitalized for heart checkup

A vehicle carrying Japan's former Emperor Akihito heads to the University of Tokyo Hospital in the capital on May 6, 2025, as he is to be hospitalized for a medical examination following signs of myocardial ischemia.

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Japan PM meets Japan Prize laureates

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (C) poses for a photo at his office in Tokyo on April 17, 2025, with Japan Prize laureates -- Russell Dupuis (R), professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, and Carlos Duarte, Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

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Japan Prize award ceremony

Carlos Duarte, Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor at Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, poses for photos during an award ceremony in Tokyo on April 16, 2025, after winning the Japan Prize for advancing knowledge of marine ecosystems, especially through his pioneering research on blue carbon.

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Ex-U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Armitage dies

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage makes a speech at Keio University in Tokyo on June 8, 2018. A longtime Asia hand who had close connections with Japan, Armitage died on April 13, 2025, at the age of 79.