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Venue of 1983 'Ron-Yasu' summit opens as memorial hall

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on Nov. 10 walks by the tea room of his private mountain cottage in western Tokyo, where he held summit talks with then U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1983. The cottage was opened as a memorial hall in a ceremony attended by about 150 guests later on the day.

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Venue of 1983 'Ron-Yasu' summit opens as memorial hall

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone makes a speech on Nov. 10 during a ceremony celebrating the opening as a memorial hall of his private mountain cottage in western Tokyo known as a place where he held summit talks with then U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Nakasone, 89, said, ''I used to come to this place secretly whenever I wanted to be freed from heavy pressures of prime minister.''

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Naoki Yasu 1st Japanese in European pro wheelchair basketball

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Yasu will become the first Japanese person to play professional wheelchair basketball in Europe. Yasu, who turned 30 on Oct. 6, signed a contract with second-division Italian team Treviso in September and plans to join the team in time for the start of the basketball season in November. Born in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Yasu became wheelchair-bound when he was a second-year junior high school student and began basketball training in senior high school.

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5 found dead in car, suicide suspected

YASU, Japan - Police investigators check a vehicle in Yasu, Shiga Prefecture, in which three men and two women were found dead in an apparent group suicide on April 16.

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(3)Nakasone mourns Reagan as great leader

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (fore) treats U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in a traditional tea ceremony in this photo taken at his cottage on a western Tokyo suburb in November 1983. The two leaders maintained close relationships through the years, calling each other by their shortened first names ''Ron'' and ''Yasu.''

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Japan names 8 senior vice ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows eight new senior vice ministers whom the Japanese government replaced on Jan. 8. From left to right on the top are Akihiko Kumashiro of the Cabinet Office, Genichiro Sata and Kaneshige Wakamatsu of the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, and Takayoshi Taniguchi of the Finance Ministry. From left to right on the bottom are Kazuaki Miyaji and Yasu Kano of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Shigeaki Tsukihara of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Eiichi Yamashita of the Ministry of Environment.

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U.S. military plane crashes off Kochi

A Japanese Maritime Safety Agency patrol boat speeds to pick up one of debris (front) from a U.S. jet fighter that crashed in waters off Yasu, Kochi Prefecture, on Jan. 20. The pilot, Kevin Pactzold, was rescued uninjured by a helicopter sent by Kochi prefecture.

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Biggest ancient 'dotaku' bell restored

What is claimed to be the biggest ancient 'dotaku' bronze bell in Japan is put on display at a museum in Yasu, Shiga Prefecture, neighboring Nara and Kyoto on Thursday Oct. 1. The bell, weighing 55 kilograms, with 135 centimeters in height, has been restored based on original bronze pieces unearthed in 1881. Dotaku, made in the Yayoi Period (300 BC- AD 300), are believed to be musical instruments or ceremonial implements. So far, more than 400 of these bells have been discovered in Japan. They usually range from 10 to 130 centimeters in height.

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Large-scale equipment developed by Rinashimetari

Rinashimetari (Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City) has developed a large-scale device that uses metal processing heat treatment technology. It can handle bars up to 70 mm in diameter, and heats and shears the metal to increase its strength. The company aims to use the equipment for processing parts for aircraft and railroads, as well as frames for small electric vehicles (EVs). The technology used in the equipment is called "RMA-CREO," which heats metal bars at high frequency, rapidly cools both ends, and then applies torsion and shearing to refine the crystal grains. The equipment will be installed by Mimatsu (Chikushino City, Fukuoka Prefecture) at its Yosu Plant (Chikuzen Town, Fukuoka Prefecture), and Mimatsu will undertake the production. (Mimatsu's Yasu Plant in Chikuzen-cho, Fukuoka Prefecture, November 11, 2019; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Murata Manufacturing's all-individual battery that has started shipping samples

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. will startmass production of all solid-state batteries using ceramics technology within fiscal 2019. The company will build a new mass production line in the battery-related production building at Yasu Plant (Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture). The production capacity is planned to be 100,000 units per month for the time being. The capacity of the prototype is more than 10 milliampere hours, 100 times higher than that of other companies' products, the highest level in the industry, and the company will accelerate its expansion into energy-related markets, including the lithium-ion rechargeable battery business acquired from Sony in 2005. The company will mass-produce surface-mounted "ceramic all-solid-state batteries" that use ceramic materials as the electrolyte. In addition to converting its manufacturing facilities for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)(Photo taken on June 13, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Japan names 8 senior vice ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows eight new senior vice ministers whom the Japanese government replaced on Jan. 8. From left to right on the top are Akihiko Kumashiro of the Cabinet Office, Genichiro Sata and Kaneshige Wakamatsu of the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, and Takayoshi Taniguchi of the Finance Ministry. From left to right on the bottom are Kazuaki Miyaji and Yasu Kano of the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Shigeaki Tsukihara of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Eiichi Yamashita of the Ministry of Environment.

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Naoki Yasu 1st Japanese in European pro wheelchair basketball

TOKYO, Japan - Naoki Yasu will become the first Japanese person to play professional wheelchair basketball in Europe. Yasu, who turned 30 on Oct. 6, signed a contract with second-division Italian team Treviso in September and plans to join the team in time for the start of the basketball season in November. Born in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Yasu became wheelchair-bound when he was a second-year junior high school student and began basketball training in senior high school.

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Venue of 1983 'Ron-Yasu' summit opens as memorial hall

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone makes a speech on Nov. 10 during a ceremony celebrating the opening as a memorial hall of his private mountain cottage in western Tokyo known as a place where he held summit talks with then U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Nakasone, 89, said, ''I used to come to this place secretly whenever I wanted to be freed from heavy pressures of prime minister.'' (Kyodo)

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Venue of 1983 'Ron-Yasu' summit opens as memorial hall

TOKYO, Japan - Former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone on Nov. 10 walks by the tea room of his private mountain cottage in western Tokyo, where he held summit talks with then U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1983. The cottage was opened as a memorial hall in a ceremony attended by about 150 guests later on the day. (Kyodo)

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Biggest ancient 'dotaku' bell restored

What is claimed to be the biggest ancient 'dotaku' bronze bell in Japan is put on display at a museum in Yasu, Shiga Prefecture, neighboring Nara and Kyoto on Thursday Oct. 1. The bell, weighing 55 kilograms, with 135 centimeters in height, has been restored based on original bronze pieces unearthed in 1881. Dotaku, made in the Yayoi Period (300 BC- AD 300), are believed to be musical instruments or ceremonial implements. So far, more than 400 of these bells have been discovered in Japan. They usually range from 10 to 130 centimeters in height.

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(1) Reagan dies at age 93

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (fore) treats U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in a traditional tea ceremony in this photo taken at his cottage on a western Tokyo suburb in November 1983. The two leaders maintained close relationships through the years, calling each other by their shortened first names ''Ron'' and ''Yasu.'' (Kyodo)

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5 found dead in car, suicide suspected

YASU, Japan - Police investigators check a vehicle in Yasu, Shiga Prefecture, in which three men and two women were found dead in an apparent group suicide on April 16. (Kyodo)

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Athletics: Junior high school road relay

Yuya Sasaki, anchor of Kyoto's Katsura Junior High School relay team, crosses the finish line to win the men's national junior high school ekiden road relay in Yasu, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Athletics: Junior high school road relay

Momoka Sano (L), anchor of Kyoto's Katsura Junior High School relay team, crosses the finish line to win the women's national junior high school ekiden road relay in Yasu, Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, on Dec. 16, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(3)Nakasone mourns Reagan as great leader

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (fore) treats U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy in a traditional tea ceremony in this photo taken at his cottage on a western Tokyo suburb in November 1983. The two leaders maintained close relationships through the years, calling each other by their shortened first names ''Ron'' and ''Yasu.'' (Kyodo)

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U.S. military plane crashes off Kochi

A Japanese Maritime Safety Agency patrol boat speeds to pick up one of debris (front) from a U.S. jet fighter that crashed in waters off Yasu, Kochi Prefecture, on Jan. 20. The pilot, Kevin Pactzold, was rescued uninjured by a helicopter sent by Kochi prefecture. ==Kyodo