Launch of "human washing machine"

Launch of "human washing machine"

Yasuaki Aoyama (R), chairman of Japanese showerhead maker Science Co., showcases a "human washing machine" in Osaka on Dec. 16, 2025, as the company announces its launch for the use at nursing care facilities for the elderly.

Launch of "human washing machine"

Launch of "human washing machine"

Yasuaki Aoyama, chairman of Japanese showerhead maker Science Co., showcases a "human washing machine" in Osaka on Dec. 16, 2025, as the company announces its launch for the use at nursing care facilities for the elderly.

Launch of "human washing machine"

Launch of "human washing machine"

Yasuaki Aoyama, chairman of Japanese showerhead maker Science Co., showcases a "human washing machine" in Osaka on Dec. 16, 2025, as the company announces its launch for the use at nursing care facilities for the elderly.

Ex-pro baseball player encourages leukemia patients

Ex-pro baseball player encourages leukemia patients

GIFU, Japan - Former Japanese professional baseball player Yasuaki Taiho, who is suffering from acute myelocytic leukemia but continues to manage a Chinese restaurant in Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, says in July 2014 that he wants to give hope to other patients fighting the disease.

Vladivostok, Tottori univs. agree on student exchanges

Vladivostok, Tottori univs. agree on student exchanges

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Valentin Shumatov (L), president of Pacific State Medical University in Vladivostok, the Russian Far East, and Yasuaki Kawai, vice dean of Tottori University's Faculty of Medicine in Tottori Prefecture, pose for photos after signing a memorandum of understanding on June 3, 2014, as they reached a basic accord on the start of student exchanges starting in April 2015.

Mathematicians expanding exchanges with industry

Mathematicians expanding exchanges with industry

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 18, 2014, shows Yasuaki Hiraoka, a Kyushu University associate professor, explaining his study on applied topology with mathematical formulas and graphics at the university's Institute of Mathematics for Industry in the city of Fukuoka. (Photo by Yu Nakajima)

Conference in Mexico on nuclear arms

Conference in Mexico on nuclear arms

NUEVO VALLARTA, Mexico - Yasuaki Yamashita, who was exposed to radiation at age 6 in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, speaks at an international conference in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico, on Feb. 13, 2014. At the conference, victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on the international community to increase efforts to abolish nuclear weapons.

Japan, Vietnam friendship train

Japan, Vietnam friendship train

HANOI, Vietnam - Japanese and Vietnamese officials, including Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Yasuaki Tanizaki (5th from L), participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of a Japan-Vietnam friendship train decorated with illustrations of cherry blossoms representing Japan and lotus flowers representing Vietnam at Hanoi station on May 8, 2013. The train service between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City began operating the same day to celebrate Japan-Vietnam friendship year, as 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Truman's grandson at A-bomb survivors' meeting

Truman's grandson at A-bomb survivors' meeting

NEW YORK, United States - Atomic bombing survivor Yasuaki Yamashita (R) speaks about his experiences in the aftermath of the 1945 U.S. bombing of Nagasaki at the Japan Society in New York on Oct. 17, 2012. Clifton Truman Daniel (C), the oldest grandson of Harry Truman, the U.S. president who ordered the two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan in World War II, and Setsuko Thurlow, also an atomic bombing survivor, sat beside Yamashita. Hundreds of high school students attended the event to listen to their experiences.

Donors press for int'l assessment of Myanmar cyclone damage

Donors press for int'l assessment of Myanmar cyclone damage

YANGON, Myanmar - Osamu Uno (L), Japan's vice minister of foreign affairs, and Yasuaki Nogawa, Japanese ambassador to Myanmar, attend an international aid conference in Yangon on Sunday. Officials from 57 countries and from international aid agencies attending the one-day conference called on Myanmar's junta to allow international assessment of the short- and long-term needs of an estimated 2.4 million people affected by Cyclone Nargis three weeks ago.

Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident.

Ono appointed envoy to Tunisia+

Ono appointed envoy to Tunisia+

TOKYO, Japan - The government appointed Yasuaki Ono (in file photo) as Japan's ambassador to Tunisia on April 25. Joining the Foreign Ministry in 1968, Ono, 60, had served as the envoy to Bahrain since October 2000.

Chunichi slugger Taiho retires

Chunichi slugger Taiho retires

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuaki Taiho, a Taiwanese-born slugger of the Chunichi Dragons, announces his retirement at a press conference at the team's office in Nagoya's Naka Ward on Oct. 16. Taiho, 38, came to Japan to play for a university team in Nagoya before joining Chunichi in 1989.

Moss Food Service's experiment to introduce "Slow Cash Register" using Orihime

Moss Food Service's experiment to introduce "Slow Cash Register" using Orihime

(From left) Kentaro Yoshifuji, President and CEO of ORI Institute, and Yasuaki Kaneda, Executive Officer, Chairman and General Manager of Moss Food Service, with OriHime, an alter ego robot from ORI Institute. (July 21, 2020, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

Murderer ordered to pay 160 mil. yen in compensation

SHIMONOSEKI, Japan - Akihisa Matsuo (L) and Noboru Nagafuji (C), two of nine plaintiffs, and their lawyer Shoji Tagawa (R) talk to reporters in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, on Nov. 1 after the Yamaguchi District Court's Shimonoseki branch ordered convicted murderer Yasuaki Uwabe to pay a total of around 160 million yen in compensation to the families of people he killed in a stabbing spree and others injured in the 1999 incident. (Kyodo)

Indonesia drops high-speed train project

Indonesia drops high-speed train project

Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yasuaki Tanizaki speaks to reporters in Jakarta on Sept. 4, 2015. Tanizaki expressed "regret" over Indonesia's scrapping of a high-speed rail link project but said that the Japanese government respects the decision. Japan and China were bidding to build the rail link. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

Yokohama DeNA Baystars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki takes the mound in Yokohama, southwest of Tokyo, on Aug. 20, 2015. He earned his 32nd save of the season that day in a game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows at Yokohama Stadium, setting a record of most saves for a rookie pitcher. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

Yokohama DeNA Baystars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki speaks at a news conference at Yokohama Stadium in the port city southwest of Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2015, after setting a Nippon Professional Baseball rookie record with his 32nd save of the season in a game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. DeNA edged Yakult 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

Yokohama DeNA Baystars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki acknowledges cheering spectators at Yokohama Stadium in the port city southwest of Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2015, after setting a Nippon Professional Baseball rookie record with his 32nd save of the season in a game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. DeNA edged Yakult 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

Yokohama DeNA Baystars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki reacts on the field as he earns his 32nd save of the season, a Nippon Professional Baseball rookie record, in a game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows at Yokohama Stadium in the port city southwest of Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2015. DeNA edged Yakult 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

DeNA closer Yamasaki sets NPB rookie record of most saves

Yokohama DeNA Baystars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki (L) with the winning ball is congratulated by manager Kiyoshi Nakahata at Yokohama Stadium in the port city southwest of Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2015, after setting a Nippon Professional Baseball rookie record with his 32nd save of the season in a game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. DeNA edged Yakult 2-1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Scholars urge Abe to express apology for Japan's wartime actions

Scholars urge Abe to express apology for Japan's wartime actions

Yasuaki Onuma (R), a specially appointed professor at Meiji University, and Taichiro Mitani, a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, attend a press conference in Tokyo on July 17, 2015. Seventy-four Japanese scholars, including Onuma and Mitani, urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the same day to express an apology for Japan's wartime actions in his upcoming statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Truman grandson calls for A-bomb survivors to be heard

Truman grandson calls for A-bomb survivors to be heard

Setsuko Thurlow (L) speaks about her experience as an atomic bomb survivor before some 200 high school students in New York on April 28, 2015, as Clifton Truman Daniel (C), grandson of U.S. President Harry Truman who authorized the 1945 atomic bombings of Japan, looks on. Yasuaki Yamashita (R), another atomic bomb survivor, also attended the event. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Man in news: CL rookie award winner Yamasaki eyes best closer

Man in news: CL rookie award winner Yamasaki eyes best closer

Photo shows DeNA BayStars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki, who was awarded the Central League's 2015 Rookie of the Year Award after setting Nippon Professional Baseball's rookie record with 37 saves. He said he wants to continue the role in the next 10 years to become one of Japan's best closers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

CORRECTED: Yamasaki, Arihara win NPB's top rookie prizes

CORRECTED: Yamasaki, Arihara win NPB's top rookie prizes

DeNA BayStars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki (L) and Nippon Ham Fighters starting pitcher Kohei Arihara shake hands after being named the Central League and Pacific League Rookie of the Year, respectively, at the annual Nippon Professional Baseball awards ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

DeNA's Yamasaki wins CL's rookie award for 2015

DeNA's Yamasaki wins CL's rookie award for 2015

DeNA BayStars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 25, 2015, after he was named the Central League's Rookie of the Year for the 2015 season with a rookie record 37 saves. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Volcano expert says Mt. Aso's large-scale eruption unlikely

Volcano expert says Mt. Aso's large-scale eruption unlikely

Yasuaki Sudo, academic adviser to the Aso Volcano Museum in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, says on Oct. 9, 2015, that a large-scale eruption on Mt. Aso seems unlikely. The volcano is seen spewing smoke in the background. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Japan singer commended for helping boost friendship with Indonesia

Japan singer commended for helping boost friendship with Indonesia

Singer/songwriter Mayumi Itsuwa (R) receives a citation from Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yasuaki Tanizaki in Jakarta on Sept. 11, 2015, for her contribution to the promotion of understanding and friendship between the two countries. One of her songs, "Kokoro no Tomo" (Friend in My Heart), became widely known in Indonesia in the 1980s after one of albums containing the song was brought to the country by a local broadcasting industry official and aired on radio. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Nagasaki A-bomb victim keeps recounting his ordeal in North America

Nagasaki A-bomb victim keeps recounting his ordeal in North America

Yasuaki Yamashita, 76, exposed to radiation following the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, talks about his activities in recounting the ordeal in North America during an interview in New York on April 28, 2015. He has lived in Mexico since 1968. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Donors press for int'l assessment of Myanmar cyclone damage

Donors press for int'l assessment of Myanmar cyclone damage

YANGON, Myanmar - Osamu Uno (L), Japan's vice minister of foreign affairs, and Yasuaki Nogawa, Japanese ambassador to Myanmar, attend an international aid conference in Yangon on Sunday. Officials from 57 countries and from international aid agencies attending the one-day conference called on Myanmar's junta to allow international assessment of the short- and long-term needs of an estimated 2.4 million people affected by Cyclone Nargis three weeks ago. (Kyodo)

Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon specie

Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon specie

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - Yasuaki Miura, 62, former chief of the Lake Saiko Fisheries Cooperative, stands in the town of Fujikawaguchi, Yamanashi Prefecture, on the shore of the lake. He caught Himemasu-like fish in March and April of 2010. Nine of the fish were later identified as Kunimasu by Kyoto University researchers. The photo was taken on Jan. 7, 2012. (Kyodo)

Japan hangs 3 death row inmates

Japan hangs 3 death row inmates

TOKYO, Japan - Undated file photo shows Yasuaki Uwabe, a death row inmate. Uwabe, 48, was executed on March 29, 2012, along with two other death row inmates, in the first executions in 20 months in Japan, one of the few advanced countries to retain the death penalty. (Kyodo)

Baseball: Japan's victory in Premier12

Baseball: Japan's victory in Premier12

Japan pitcher Yasuaki Yamasaki (top) and catcher Tsubasa Aizawa celebrate after their team beat South Korea 5-3 to win the Premier12 championship title at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 17, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Baseball: Japan's victory in Premier12

Baseball: Japan's victory in Premier12

Japan pitcher Yasuaki Yamasaki pumps his fist after his team beat South Korea 5-3 to win the Premier12 championship title at Tokyo Dome on Nov. 17, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Baseball: Japan-Mexico exhibition series

Baseball: Japan-Mexico exhibition series

Yasuaki Yamasaki closes out the ninth inning of Japan's 6-0 win over Mexico in Game 2 of their two-game baseball exhibition series at Kyocera Dome in Osaka on March 10, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Baseball: Japan-Mexico exhibition series

Baseball: Japan-Mexico exhibition series

Yasuaki Yamasaki closes out the ninth inning of Japan's 6-0 win over Mexico in Game 2 of their two-game baseball exhibition series at Kyocera Dome in Osaka on March 10, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Seven & i teams up with fellow retailer Izumi

Seven & i teams up with fellow retailer Izumi

Yasuaki Yamanishi, president of retail chain Izumi Co., meets the press in Hiroshima, western Japan, on April 5, 2018, to announce a plan to team up with Seven & i Holdings Co. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Baseball: BayStars settle for painful tie with Tigers

Baseball: BayStars settle for painful tie with Tigers

DeNA BayStars closer Yasuaki Yamasaki (R) reacts after allowing a game-tying single to Yoshio Itoi with one out in the ninth inning against the Hanshin Tigers at Yokohama Stadium on Sept. 27, 2017. The BayStars and the Tigers played to a 4-4, 12-inning tie. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ono appointed envoy to Tunisia+

Ono appointed envoy to Tunisia+

TOKYO, Japan - The government appointed Yasuaki Ono (in file photo) as Japan's ambassador to Tunisia on April 25. Joining the Foreign Ministry in 1968, Ono, 60, had served as the envoy to Bahrain since October 2000. (Kyodo)

Chunichi slugger Taiho retires

Chunichi slugger Taiho retires

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuaki Taiho, a Taiwanese-born slugger of the Chunichi Dragons, announces his retirement at a press conference at the team's office in Nagoya's Naka Ward on Oct. 16. Taiho, 38, came to Japan to play for a university team in Nagoya before joining Chunichi in 1989. (Kyodo)