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(SP)CROATIA-ZAGREB-WTT-CONTENDER

(240609) -- ZAGREB, June 9, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Lea Rakovac (R)/Mateja Jeger of Croatia compete aginst Yokoi Sakura/Odo Satsuki of Japan during the women's doubles semifinal match at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender in Zagreb, Croatia, on June 8, 2024. (Photo by Luka Batelic/PIXSELL via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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(SP)CROATIA-ZAGREB-WTT-CONTENDER

(240609) -- ZAGREB, June 9, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Lea Rakovac (R)/Mateja Jeger of Croatia compete aginst Yokoi Sakura/Odo Satsuki of Japan during the women's doubles semifinal match at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender in Zagreb, Croatia, on June 8, 2024. (Photo by Luka Batelic/PIXSELL via Xinhua)

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Nagoya mayor tenders resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) tenders a letter of his resignation to Nagoya municipal assembly chief Toshiaki Yokoi (front) at Nagoya city hall on Dec. 20, 2010, after his tax cut bill was voted down by the assembly. Kawamura plans to run in an upcoming mayoral election.

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Museum honoring ex-wartime straggler Shoichi Yokoi opens

NAGOYA, Japan - Mihoko Yokoi, widow of Shoichi Yokoi, a former Japanese soldier who spent over 26 years in the jungles of Guam without knowing World War II had ended, stands inside a recreated cave in a museum in Nagoya's Nakagawa Ward on June 24. Shoichi Yokoi, who returned to Japan in 1972, spent most of his time in such a cave.

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Shoichi YOKOI

Shown in the photo was Shoichi YOKOI, a former Japanese soldier who made a dramatic return to Japan on Jan. 24, 1972, after living in the jungles of Guam for more than 26 years without knowing World War II had ended. He died of a heart attack at a Nagoya hospital on Sept. 22, 1997. He was 82. He said upon arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport that he felt ''ashamed to come home'' alive, 31 years after he left Japan for fighting in the war.

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Yokoi Shoichi died

Shoichi YOKOI, a former Japanese soldier who made a dramatic return to Japan on Jan. 24, 1972, after living in the jungles of Guam for more than 26 years without knowing World War II had ended. He died of a heart attack at a Nagoya hospital on Sept. 22. He was 82.

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Shoichi YOKOI

Shown in the photo was Shoichi YOKOI, a former Japanese soldier who made a dramatic return to Japan on Jan. 24, 1972, after living in the jungles of Guam for more than 26 years without knowing World War II had ended. He died of a heart attack at a Nagoya hospital on Sept. 22, 1997. He was 82. He said upon arrival at Tokyo's Haneda airport that he felt ''ashamed to come home'' alive, 31 years after he left Japan for fighting in the war. (Photo was taken in January, 1972 when he was rescured in Guam.)

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Figure skating: Internationaux de France

Yuhana Yokoi of Japan performs in the women's free program at Internationaux de France, the fifth event of this season's Grand Prix figure skating series, on Nov. 20, 2021, in Grenoble, France.

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Figure skating: Internationaux de France

Yuhana Yokoi of Japan performs in the women's free program at Internationaux de France, the fifth event of this season's Grand Prix figure skating series, on Nov. 20, 2021, in Grenoble, France.

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Figure skating: Internationaux de France

Yuhana Yokoi of Japan performs in the women's free program at Internationaux de France, the fifth event of this season's Grand Prix figure skating series, on Nov. 20, 2021, in Grenoble, France.

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Figure skating: Internationaux de France

Yuhana Yokoi of Japan performs in the women's free program at Internationaux de France, the fifth event of this season's Grand Prix figure skating series, on Nov. 20, 2021, in Grenoble, France.

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New ambassador voices determination to improve Japan-China ties

Yutaka Yokoi, Japan's new ambassador to China, attends a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on May 16, 2016. Yokoi expressed his determination to step up the pace of improving bilateral relations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New ambassador voices determination to improve Japan-China ties

Yutaka Yokoi, Japan's new ambassador to China, attends a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing on May 16, 2016. Yokoi expressed his determination to step up the pace of improving bilateral relations. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan appoints "China-school" diplomat Yokoi as ambassador to Beijing

Yutaka Yokoi, seen in this undated photo, is appointed Japanese ambassador to China on March 25, 2016. The 61-year-old, a so-called "China-school" diplomat who underwent foreign language training in China, was ambassador to Turkey from August 2013. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Exhibition on Japan's WWII 'no surrender' soldier

A photograph of Shoichi Yokoi, a sergeant who held out in a remote part of the jungles of Guam for nearly three decades without knowing that World War II had ended, and the clothes he wore then are on display at Nagoya City Museum on Oct. 16, 2015. A total of 92 utensils he used during his 28 years of hiding will be exhibited until Nov. 29. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Museum honoring ex-wartime straggler Shoichi Yokoi opens

NAGOYA, Japan - Mihoko Yokoi, widow of Shoichi Yokoi, a former Japanese soldier who spent over 26 years in the jungles of Guam without knowing World War II had ended, stands inside a recreated cave in a museum in Nagoya's Nakagawa Ward on June 24. Shoichi Yokoi, who returned to Japan in 1972, spent most of his time in such a cave. (Kyodo)

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Nagoya mayor tenders resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura (L) tenders a letter of his resignation to Nagoya municipal assembly chief Toshiaki Yokoi (front) at Nagoya city hall on Dec. 20, 2010, after his tax cut bill was voted down by the assembly. Kawamura plans to run in an upcoming mayoral election. (Kyodo)

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Japan Film Week in Beijing

Japanese Ambassador to China Yutaka Yokoi (L) chats with Foreign Minister Taro Kono (C) and actress Komaki Kurihara ahead of a ceremony marking the start of Japan Film Week during the 9th Beijing International Film Festival on April 14, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Senior Chinese diplomat Yang in Japan

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi (front) gets in a car after holding talks with Shotaro Yachi (2nd from L), head of the secretariat of Japan's National Security Council, in Hakone, a hot-spring resort near Tokyo on May 30, 2017. At far right is Japanese Ambassador to China Yutaka Yokoi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo