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Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 25 Kyodo - Undated file photo shows Yasufumi Miyake, a Teikyo University emergency medicine professor. He is a member of a panel set up within the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee to study measures that can be taken to combat the anticipated high temperatures that athletes and spectators will have to endure during the games.

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Yamazaki Baking to turn Fujiya into subsidiary by boosting stake

TOKYO, Japan - Yamazaki Baking Co. President Nobuhiro Iijima (R) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 7. Iijima said his company will raise its stake in Fujiya Co. from 35 percent to 51 percent to turn the struggling confectioner into a subsidiary in a fresh bid to help reconstruct Fujiya's scandal-battered business. At left is Fujiya President Yasufumi Sakurai.

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LDP's Tanahashi, Ishiba and Yamamoto willing to run in election

TOKYO, Japan - Three Liberal Democratic Party members in this file photos -- (from L to R) Yasufumi Tanahashi, a former state minister for science and technology, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ichita Yamamoto -- have expressed their willingness to run in the party's presidential election on Sept. 22 in a bid to succeed Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. But the prospects of meeting the requirement for candidacy have not yet emerged.

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Fujiya incurs record group operating loss on scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai, president of confectionary maker Fujiya Co., listens to a question from a reporter during a press conference in Tokyo on May 24. Sakurai said the company incurred a record group operating loss of 6.66 billion yen in fiscal 2006 due to a scandal involving its use of expired ingredients in cake products.

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Yamazaki Baking to acquire 35% stake in Fujiya

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai (L) and Yamazaki Baking Co.President Nobuhiro Iijima pose for a photo at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on March 26. The two firms signed a business and capital tie-up agreement that will make Yamazaki the biggest shareholder in scandal-tainted Fujiya with a stake of 35 percent.

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Fujiya resumes cake sales at outlets

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai (R) bows to a shopper at Fujiya's outlet in Tokyo's Ginza district on March 22 as the company resumes sales of its cakes at its direct and franchise outlets. At left stands the company's ''Peco-Chan'' smiling girl mascot.

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Fujiya resumes confectionery production

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 1, saying that the company resumed making chocolates and other confectioneries earlier in the day. Production was suspended in mid-January due to serious flaws in quality control.

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Fujiya to receive food-safety support from Yamazaki Baking

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 5 after signing a memorandum of understanding with Yamazaki Baking Co. to receive food-safety support from Yamazaki. Fujiya, a major Japanese confectioner, has been under fire for using old ingredients in its products.

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Fujiya picks director Yasufumi Sakurai as new president

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai, who was picked as new president of Fujiya Co., speaks at the inaugural meeting of eight outside experts at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 22. The panel was set up to reform the management of Fujiya, one of Japan's longest-standing confectioners, which is reeling from a scandal involving the use of out-of-date ingredients for its cakes.

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Scandal-hit Fujiya picks new chief outside of founder clan

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai (R), new president of Fujiya Co., and former president Rintaro Fujii (L) hold a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 22. Fujiya, one of Japan's oldest established confectioners known for introducing Japan to Western-style cakes, faces a scandal involving the use of out-of-date ingredients in some of its products. Sakurai is the first president of Fujiya not related to the founding family.

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Scandal-hit Fujiya picks new chief outside of founder clan

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai, new president of Fujiya Co., speaks during a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 22. The confectionery maker faces a scandal involving the use of out-of-date ingredients in some of its cake products. Sakurai is the first president of Fujiya not related to the founding family.

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Family of Japanese quake victims leaves for Pakistan

NARITA, Japan - Family members of Satoru Narahara, who was killed in the devastating earthquake that struck South Asia on Oct. 8, prepare to leave Narita airport for Pakistan on Oct. 10 to identify his body. At right is his elder brother, Yasufumi, followed by Narahara's mother, Takako.

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New science, technology minister Tanahashi is ex-bureaucrat, lawyer

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Tanahashi, a third-term House of Representatives member, speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 27 after being appointed as state minister in charge of science and technology as well as information technology in the Cabinet reshuffle.

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JICA medical team in Syria to help Iraqi refugees

DAMASCUS, Syria - Japanese physician Yasufumi Asai and members of his medical team make preparations at the office of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Damascus, Syria on March 22 prior to their departure for Haseke, northeastern Syria, where they are to provide medical support to refugees from neighboring Iraq.

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JICA medical team leaves for Syria to help Iraqi refugees

NARITA, Japan - A five-member team of doctors and nurses from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), including Yasufumi Asai (R), professor at Sapporo Medical College, prepares to leave Narita airport, east of Tokyo, for Syria on March 21 to help refugees from neighboring Iraq.

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Arson-murder suspected in death of 2 in Tokyo fire

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers check the entrance of Toranomon Building in Tokyo's Akasaka district Aug. 19, in which the charred bodies of two men were found. The two are believed to be Yasufumi Yamamoto, 41, managing director of Ace International Inc., a financial futures dealer, and Teruo Kondo, 49, its administration manager. Police are investigating the case as one of arson-murder.

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Japanese doctors, nurses start treating Salvadorans

SANTIAGO DE MARIA, El Salvador - Yasufumi Asai, one of seven Japanese medical-relief personnel, examines a girl who was injured by the Jan. 13 earthquake, at a hospital in Santiago de Maria, El Salvador, on Jan. 16. Some 300-400 people were killed and thousands were injured in the magnitude 7.6 quake that jolted Central America.

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Fake 'golden' Buddha statues sold to Japanese

MANILA, Philippines - Photo shows four of the five fake ''golden'' Buddha statues allegedly sold to a Japanese businessman by a South Korean national, suspected to be a member of a syndicate, for 6 million pesos (157,000 dollars). The National Bureau of Investigation said July 27 Kazuyuki Kimura, of Fukuoka Prefecture, was informed the statues were part of the fabled treasures buried in the Philippines by Imperial Japanese Army Gen. Yasufumi Yamashita during World War II.

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Disaster prevention day

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (C) attends a government anti-disaster task force meeting at the premier's office in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2021, the 98th anniversary of the massive 1923 earthquake that hit Tokyo and surrounding areas and left over 100,000 people dead. Seen in the front is disaster minister Yasufumi Tanahashi.

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Disaster prevention day

Japanese disaster minister Yasufumi Tanahashi arrives at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 1, 2021, the 98th anniversary of the massive 1923 earthquake that hit Tokyo and surrounding areas and left over 100,000 people dead.

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Heavy rain in Japan

Japanese disaster minister Yasufumi Tanahashi speaks to reporters after attending a meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 13, 2021, on measures against heavy rain in western and southwestern Japan.

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Japan PM Suga at meeting on heavy rain

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (2nd from R) and disaster minister Yasufumi Tanahashi (2nd from L) attend a meeting in Tokyo on Aug. 13, 2021, on measures against heavy rain in western and southwestern Japan.

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New science, technology minister Tanahashi is ex-bureaucrat, law

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Tanahashi, a third-term House of Representatives member, speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 27 after being appointed as state minister in charge of science and technology as well as information technology in the Cabinet reshuffle. (Kyodo)

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Fujiya picks director Yasufumi Sakurai as new president

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai, who was picked as new president of Fujiya Co., speaks at the inaugural meeting of eight outside experts at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 22. The panel was set up to reform the management of Fujiya, one of Japan's longest-standing confectioners, which is reeling from a scandal involving the use of out-of-date ingredients for its cakes. (Kyodo)

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Scandal-hit Fujiya picks new chief outside of founder clan

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai, new president of Fujiya Co., speaks during a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 22. The confectionery maker faces a scandal involving the use of out-of-date ingredients in some of its cake products. Sakurai is the first president of Fujiya not related to the founding family. (Kyodo)

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Scandal-hit Fujiya picks new chief outside of founder clan

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai (R), new president of Fujiya Co., and former president Rintaro Fujii (L) hold a news conference at a Tokyo hotel on Jan. 22. Fujiya, one of Japan's oldest established confectioners known for introducing Japan to Western-style cakes, faces a scandal involving the use of out-of-date ingredients in some of its products. Sakurai is the first president of Fujiya not related to the founding family. (Kyodo)

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Fujiya to receive food-safety support from Yamazaki Baking

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 5 after signing a memorandum of understanding with Yamazaki Baking Co. to receive food-safety support from Yamazaki. Fujiya, a major Japanese confectioner, has been under fire for using old ingredients in its products. (Kyodo)

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Fujiya resumes confectionery production

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on March 1, saying that the company resumed making chocolates and other confectioneries earlier in the day. Production was suspended in mid-January due to serious flaws in quality control. (Kyodo)

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Fujiya resumes cake sales at outlets

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai (R) bows to a shopper at Fujiya's outlet in Tokyo's Ginza district on March 22 as the company resumes sales of its cakes at its direct and franchise outlets. At left stands the company's ''Peco-Chan'' smiling girl mascot. (Kyodo)

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Yamazaki Baking to acquire 35% stake in Fujiya

TOKYO, Japan - Fujiya Co. President Yasufumi Sakurai (L) and Yamazaki Baking Co.President Nobuhiro Iijima pose for a photo at a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on March 26. The two firms signed a business and capital tie-up agreement that will make Yamazaki the biggest shareholder in scandal-tainted Fujiya with a stake of 35 percent. (Kyodo)

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Fujiya incurs record group operating loss on scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Yasufumi Sakurai, president of confectionary maker Fujiya Co., listens to a question from a reporter during a press conference in Tokyo on May 24. Sakurai said the company incurred a record group operating loss of 6.66 billion yen in fiscal 2006 due to a scandal involving its use of expired ingredients in cake products. (Kyodo)

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Yamazaki Baking to turn Fujiya into subsidiary by boosting stake

TOKYO, Japan - Yamazaki Baking Co. President Nobuhiro Iijima (R) speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 7. Iijima said his company will raise its stake in Fujiya Co. from 35 percent to 51 percent to turn the struggling confectioner into a subsidiary in a fresh bid to help reconstruct Fujiya's scandal-battered business. At left is Fujiya President Yasufumi Sakurai. (Kyodo)

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JCP policy chief quits for calling defense outlay "budget to kill"

Japanese Communist Party policy commission chairman Yasufumi Fujino (front) announces at a press conference in Tokyo on June 28, 2016, that he will resign from the post for calling Japan's defense spending a "budget to kill people." His remarks have drawn criticism. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JCP policy chief quits for calling defense outlay "budget to kill"

Japanese Communist Party policy commission chairman Yasufumi Fujino announces at a press conference in Tokyo on June 28, 2016, that he will resign from the post for calling Japan's defense spending a "budget to kill people." His remarks have drawn criticism. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JCP policy chief quits for calling defense outlay "budget to kill"

Japanese Communist Party policy commission chairman Yasufumi Fujino (L) announces at a press conference in Tokyo on June 28, 2016, that he will resign from the post for calling Japan's defense spending a "budget to kill people." His remarks have drawn criticism. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Doctors prepping to keep Tokyo safe and healthy during 2020 Olympics

Undated file photo shows Yasufumi Miyake, a Teikyo University emergency medicine professor. He is a member of a panel set up within the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee to study measures that can be taken to combat the anticipated high temperatures that athletes and spectators will have to endure during the games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows (clockwise from top L) Yasufumi Oikawa, his wife Mika, and their children Momoka, Tamon and Mihiro on June 10, 2011 (top), standing in front of the family-run chrysanthemum farm in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan after it was reduced to piles of rubble by a massive tsunami three months earlier, and the Oikawa family on Feb. 15, 2017, standing in front of the rebuilt farm along with Shoko (back C) who was born three years after the disaster. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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LDP's Tanahashi, Ishiba and Yamamoto willing to run in election

TOKYO, Japan - Three Liberal Democratic Party members in this file photos -- (from L to R) Yasufumi Tanahashi, a former state minister for science and technology, former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba, and State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ichita Yamamoto -- have expressed their willingness to run in the party's presidential election on Sept. 22 in a bid to succeed Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. But the prospects of meeting the requirement for candidacy have not yet emerged. (Kyodo)

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Family of Japanese quake victims leaves for Pakistan

NARITA, Japan - Family members of Satoru Narahara, who was killed in the devastating earthquake that struck South Asia on Oct. 8, prepare to leave Narita airport for Pakistan on Oct. 10 to identify his body. At right is his elder brother, Yasufumi, followed by Narahara's mother, Takako. (Kyodo)

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Japan's new public safety chief Tanahashi

Yasufumi Tanahashi, seen in this file photo, was appointed by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission on June 25, 2021, to succeed Hachiro Okonogi.

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Japan's new public safety chief Tanahashi

Yasufumi Tanahashi (C) of the Liberal Democratic Party speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 25, 2021. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga appointed Tanahashi as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission the same day to succeed Hachiro Okonogi.

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Japan's new public safety chief Tanahashi

Yasufumi Tanahashi (C) of the Liberal Democratic Party speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 25, 2021. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga appointed Tanahashi as chairman of the National Public Safety Commission the same day to succeed Hachiro Okonogi.

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Hypothermia deaths in Japan 1.5 times heatstroke fatalities

Teikyo University Hospital professor Yasufumi Miyake speaks in Tokyo on Jan. 29, 2018. According to medical and weather experts, hypothermia kills around 1,000 people almost every winter in Japan, 1.5 times the number of deaths caused by heatstroke. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JICA medical team in Syria to help Iraqi refugees

DAMASCUS, Syria - Japanese physician Yasufumi Asai and members of his medical team make preparations at the office of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in Damascus, Syria on March 22 prior to their departure for Haseke, northeastern Syria, where they are to provide medical support to refugees from neighboring Iraq. (Kyodo)

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JICA medical team leaves for Syria to help Iraqi refugees

NARITA, Japan - A five-member team of doctors and nurses from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), including Yasufumi Asai (R), professor at Sapporo Medical College, prepares to leave Narita airport, east of Tokyo, for Syria on March 21 to help refugees from neighboring Iraq. (Kyodo)

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Arson-murder suspected in death of 2 in Tokyo fire

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers check the entrance of Toranomon Building in Tokyo's Akasaka district Aug. 19, in which the charred bodies of two men were found. The two are believed to be Yasufumi Yamamoto, 41, managing director of Ace International Inc., a financial futures dealer, and Teruo Kondo, 49, its administration manager. Police are investigating the case as one of arson-murder. (Kyodo)

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Japanese doctors, nurses start treating Salvadorans

SANTIAGO DE MARIA, El Salvador - Yasufumi Asai, one of seven Japanese medical-relief personnel, examines a girl who was injured by the Jan. 13 earthquake, at a hospital in Santiago de Maria, El Salvador, on Jan. 16. Some 300-400 people were killed and thousands were injured in the magnitude 7.6 quake that jolted Central America.

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Fake 'golden' Buddha statues sold to Japanese

MANILA, Philippines - Photo shows four of the five fake ''golden'' Buddha statues allegedly sold to a Japanese businessman by a South Korean national, suspected to be a member of a syndicate, for 6 million pesos (157,000 dollars). The National Bureau of Investigation said July 27 Kazuyuki Kimura, of Fukuoka Prefecture, was informed the statues were part of the fabled treasures buried in the Philippines by Imperial Japanese Army Gen. Yasufumi Yamashita during World War II.