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Kyoto-style dance artist and Kyogen actor

Yasuko Inoue (R) and Chuzaburo Shigeyama pose for photos in Kyoto on June 14, 2021, ahead of their joint stage performance in July featuring "Kyomai" traditional Kyoto-style dance and Kyogen comic theater.

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Kyoto-style dance artist and Kyogen actor

Yasuko Inoue (R) and Chuzaburo Shigeyama pose for photos in Kyoto on April 4, 2019, ahead of their joint stage performance in May featuring "Kyomai" traditional Kyoto-style dance and Kyogen comic theater.

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Events mark imperial couple's 50th wedding anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and his wife Empress Michiko listen to an address by Motomu Yamada and his wife Yasuko during a tea party at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 10, the 50th anniversary of the imperial couple's wedding. Some 100 couples across Japan, who mark their 50th wedding anniversaries this year, were invited to the party. (Pool photo)

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Events mark imperial couple's 50th wedding anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and his wife Empress Michiko talk with Motomu Yamada and his wife Yasuko during a tea party at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 10, the 50th anniversary of the imperial couple's wedding. Some 100 couples across Japan, who mark their 50th wedding anniversaries this year, were invited to the party. (Pool photo)

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Kyoto int'l film festival opens

KYOTO, Japan - Japanese actor Yutaka Takenouchi (L) and actress Yasuko Matsuyuki (C) walk the red carpet at the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival in Kyoto, western Japan, on Oct. 16, 2014.

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Niece of Japanese POW visits his grave in Australia

COWRA, Australia - Yasuko Hayashi (R), a niece of Michiaki Wakaomi who died of illness in 1945 as a prisoner of war in Australia, visits his grave at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra, eastern Australia, with her husband on Aug. 5, 2014, following the confirmation of Wakaomi's grave earlier this year.

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Award-winning writer Harada dies at 81

TOKYO, Japan - Award-winning writer Yasuko Harada (in this August 2002 file photo) dies at a Sapporo hospital Oct. 20, 2009. She was 81.

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Wife of ex-vice health minister stabbed at home in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers examine the scene near the house of Kenji Yoshihara, a former vice health and welfare minister, in Tokyo's Nakano Ward after Yoshihara's wife Yasuko was stabbed in the entrance of their house by a man pretending to be from a parcel delivery service.

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Bloody footprints found near homes of ex-vice ministers

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 19 shows the home of Kenji Yoshihara, former vice welfare minister, in Tokyo's Nakano Ward, where his wife Yasuko was stabbed by a man on the previous day.

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Senior Kigenkai member seen as key player in violence on woman

KOMORO, Japan - Police agents investigate the facilities of the religious group Kigenkai in Komoro, Nagano Prefecture, on Oct. 16. Yasuko Kubota, a senior Kigenkai member, is suspected of playing a leading role in allegedly beating to death a female member last month, according to police sources.

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Natto makers battle declining consumption

MITO, Japan - Homemaker Yasuko Inoue, 39, and her 4-year-old daughter Ai participate in a course to make natto or fermented soybeans by hand in Hitachiota, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Oct. 2.

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Hashimoto holds off Hiroyama to win Nagoya race

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Hashimoto crosses the finish line in 2 hours, 28 minutes, 49 seconds to win the Nagoya International Women's Marathon on March 11. Hashimoto surged ahead of defending champion Harumi Hiroyama with 700 meters remaining.

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Hashimoto holds off Hiroyama to win Nagoya race

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Hashimoto (R) surges ahead of defending champion Harumi Hiroyama with 700 meters remaining to win the Nagoya International Women's Marathon on March 11. Hashimoto, winner of the 2003 Berlin Marathon, ran shoulder to shoulder with Hiroyama for about 3 km before running away into Mizuho stadium and holding on to cross the line in 2 hours, 28 minutes, 49 seconds.

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Baby boomers look back at '70, '05 expositions in Osaka, Aichi

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuko Tamamura (R), 59, and her friends, all who worked as a companion in the Japanese government pavilion of Osaka Expo '70, remember the first expo in Japan at the former exhibition site in Suita city, Osaka Prefecture.

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Court finds air traffic controllers not guilty over 2001 near miss

TOKYO, Japan - Hideki Hachitani (2nd from R) and Yasuko Momii (L), two air traffic controllers charged with professional negligence in causing injuries to passengers when two Japan Airlines planes almost collided in January 2001 over the Pacific off Shizuoka Prefecture, holds an ''innocence'' banner at a meeting of their supporters after they were found not guilty at the Tokyo District Court on March 20. The court ruled that they are not guilty, saying that they could not foresee the accident.

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(2)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Umeda (L) and Azusa Sakaguchi check their watches on a platform at JR Nagoya Station in central Japan on June 20 before driving a bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line linking between Tokyo and Osaka. They are among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the line.

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Diary of Japanese woman who chose euthanasia to go on sale

TOKYO, Japan - An undated photo shows Yasuko Nederkoorn (C) flanked by her Dutch husband Rob (L) and son Keisuke (R) at her home in the Netherlands. A diary written by Yasuko who died by euthanasia four years ago at the age of 52 will be available at major bookstores in Japan from July 16, Shodensha Publishing Co. said on July 13. Yasuko kept the diary up until the last moment of her struggle with cancer.

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Olympic medalist Tajima aims to become actress

TOKYO, Japan - Sydney Olympics 400-meter individual medley silver medalist Yasuko Tajima speaks to members of the media in Tokyo on July 5. Tajima, 20, said she will retire as active swimmer and aim to become an actress.

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Pictures of slain family of 4 put up at funeral site

TOKYO, Japan - Pictures of a slain family of four are put up at a funeral at a Tokyo temple Jan. 13. From left to right are Mikio Miyazawa, 44, daughter Niina, 8, son Rei, and wife Yasuko, 41. About 1,000 people assembled at the Kounji temple in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward to mourn the death of the family, killed in a robbery sometime between Dec. 30 and 31. The culprit or culprits are still at large.

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U.S. honors Japanese scholar for ozone layer work

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuko Matsumoto (file photo), an assistant professor at the Science University of Tokyo's Suwa College in Nagano Prefecture, will be honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for her role in protecting the Earth's ozone layer. Matsumoto, who was in charge of air pollution issues for Greenpeace International from 1990 to 1998, raised awareness of the issue and promoted the diffusion of advanced technology utilizing substances not harmful to the ozone layer.

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Tajima wins silver medal for Japan at Sydney Olympics

SYDNEY, Australia - Japan's Yasuko Tajima swims for home in the final leg of the women's 400-meter individual medley event at Sydney International Aquatic Center on Sept. 16. Tajima finished second to win the silver medal, Japan's first medal of the Millenium Games.

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Tajima wins Japan's 1st medal at Sydney Olympics

SYDNEY, Australia - Japan's Yasuko Tajima shows off her silver medal after claiming second place in the women's 400-meter individual medley swimming event at the Sydney Olympics on Sept. 16. The medal was Japan's first of the Millenium Games.

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Japan's Olympic team swimmers meets the press

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the Japanese Olympic swimming team meet the press in Tokyo on April 24 following the formal announcement of the 21-member team by the Japan Amateur Swimming Federation. L to R are Masami Tanaka, Mai Nakamura, Tomoko Hagiwara, Yasuko Tajima and Takashi Yamamoto.

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Mizui wins national badminton title

MORIGUCHI, Japan - Yasuko Mizui (C) defeats defending champion Miho Tanaka in the women's final on Nov. 14 to win her first national badminton championship at Moriguchi municipal gymnasium in Osaka Prefecture.

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Tajima nabs silver in women's 400m individual medley

SYDNEY, Australia - Asian champion Yasuko Tajima grabs silver in the women's 400-meter individual medley on the opening day of the eighth Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Sydney on Aug. 22. The photo shows Tajima frowning as she failed to win gold. She later said, ''I got bronze at the worlds and now a silver here -- hopefully I can go one better next year,'' looking ahead to next year's Sydney Olympics.

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Hashimoto holds off Hiroyama to win Nagoya race

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Hashimoto crosses the finish line in 2 hours, 28 minutes, 49 seconds to win the Nagoya International Women's Marathon on March 11. Hashimoto surged ahead of defending champion Harumi Hiroyama with 700 meters remaining. (Kyodo)

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Hashimoto holds off Hiroyama to win Nagoya race

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Hashimoto (R) surges ahead of defending champion Harumi Hiroyama with 700 meters remaining to win the Nagoya International Women's Marathon on March 11. Hashimoto, winner of the 2003 Berlin Marathon, ran shoulder to shoulder with Hiroyama for about 3 km before running away into Mizuho stadium and holding on to cross the line in 2 hours, 28 minutes, 49 seconds. (Kyodo)

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Tajima wins silver medal for Japan at Sydney Olympics

SYDNEY, Australia - Japan's Yasuko Tajima swims for home in the final leg of the women's 400-meter individual medley event at Sydney International Aquatic Center on Sept. 16. Tajima finished second to win the silver medal, Japan's first medal of the Millenium Games.

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(2)4 female drivers debut on Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains

NAGOYA, Japan - Yasuko Umeda (L) and Azusa Sakaguchi check their watches on a platform at JR Nagoya Station in central Japan on June 20 before driving a bullet train on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line linking between Tokyo and Osaka. They are among the first four female bullet-train drivers on the line. (Kyodo)

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Kuroi Ame; Black Rain (1989)

Yoshiko Tanaka, Kazuo Kitamura & Etsuko Ichihara Characters: Yasuko,Shigematsu Shizuma & Shigeko Shizuma Film: Kuroi Ame; Black Rain (JP 1989) Director: Shohei Imamura 13 May 1989 Date: 13 May 1989

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The Protectors (1972)

Yasuko Nagazuki Television: The Protectors (TV-Serie) Uk 1972-1973, 29 September 1972 Date: 29 September 1972

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KITCHEN (JAP/HK 1997) AKA Wo ai chu fang YASUKO TOMITA, JORD

KITCHEN AKA Wo ai chu fang YASUKO TOMITA, JORDAN CHAN Date: 1997

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KITCHEN (JAP/HK 1997) AKA Wo ai chu fang YASUKO TOMITA

KITCHEN AKA Wo ai chu fang YASUKO TOMITA Date: 1997

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KITCHEN (JAP/HK 1997) AKA Wo ai chu fang JORDAN CHAN, YASUKO

KITCHEN AKA Wo ai chu fang JORDAN CHAN, YASUKO TOMITA Date: 1997

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Group seeks to keep alive legend of 'blue-eyed dolls' as symbol of peace

Japanese artist Ayako Kishimoto (L) shows on March 31, 2015, in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, western Japan, her painting of the first and second generations of Japanese friendship dolls, which were sent from the prefecture to the United States to reciprocate the gift of "American blue-eyed dolls" from a U.S. missionary in 1927 as a symbol of goodwill and peace. The painting will be presented to the public library of Gulfport in Mississippi in the summer. On the right is Yasuko Tanaka, representative of a committee in Matsuyama promoting the exchange of dolls between Japan and the United States. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transsexual poses with partner in front of former Tokyo Music School

Miyuki Yashiro (L), an 89-year-old former Kobe College professor who long suffered from gender identity disorder before undergoing sex reassignment surgery to become a woman 11 years ago, poses with her partner Yasuko in front of a concert hall of the former Tokyo Music School. Yashiro attended the school, now part of Tokyo National University of the Arts.(Photo by Makoto Hori) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yasuko namba died while on her way down from the Mt Everest,

Yasuko Namba, second Japanese woman who climbed to the summit of Mt Everest. She died while on her way down from the mountain on 1996/05/11.

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15 years pass since family of four murdered

Photo taken Dec. 30, 2015, in Tokyo shows flowers laid in front of a picture of Mikio Miyazawa, his wife Yasuko and their children Niina and Rei, as investigators gather on the 15th anniversary of the murder of the family to reaffirm their determination to solve the case. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese visit graves in N. Korea of kin who died at end of WWII

Yasuko Irie, 73, offers rice grown in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture, where Irie's deceased father Minoru came from, at the Ryongsan cemetery in Pyongyang on Aug. 16, 2015. She visited there with five other Japanese to pray for relatives who died in what is now North Korea during the chaos at the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Relatives of Japanese in N. Korea waiting for their return

Photo taken June 30, 2015, shows Kazuko Taguchi, who is still awaiting her sister Yasuko's return to Japan from North Korea. She said the government has to find a way to have Japanese citizens in the North return home as soon as possible. Pyongyang has told Tokyo that it needs more time to complete its latest round of investigations into the fates of Japanese, including those abducted decades ago and those married with North Koreans like Yasuko Taguchi, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on July 3. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Group seeks to keep alive legend of 'blue-eyed dolls' as symbol of peace

Yasuko Tanaka, representative of a committee in Matsuyama promoting the exchange of dolls between Japan and the United States, poses in the western Japanese city on April 5, 2015, with one of the few remaining "American blue-eyed dolls," which were sent to Japanese schools by a U.S. missionary in 1927 as a symbol of goodwill and peace. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese calligraphy artist with Down Syndrome to speak in N.Y.

Calligraphy artist Shoko Kanazawa (R) uses an ink brush during an event in Tokyo's Minato Ward on March 14, 2015. At left is her mother Yasuko. Kanazawa will make a speech about her life March 20 at U.N. headquarters in New York during a meeting of Down Syndrome International. The 29-year-old artist with the syndrome will also hold an exhibit of her works in New York from March 21 to 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese calligraphy artist with Down Syndrome to speak in N.Y.

Calligraphy artist Shoko Kanazawa (R) uses an ink brush during an event in Tokyo's Minato Ward on March 14, 2015. At left is her mother Yasuko. Kanazawa will make a speech about her life March 20 at U.N. headquarters in New York during a meeting of Down Syndrome International. The 29-year-old artist with the syndrome will also hold an exhibit of her works in New York from March 21 to 26. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Niece of deceased Japanese POW seeks to recover remains in Australia

Yasuko Hayashi (R), a niece of Michiaki Wakaomi who died of illness in 1945 as a prisoner of war in Australia, and her husband lay flowers at Wakaomi's grave at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra, eastern Australia, in this file photo taken on Aug. 5, 2014. Procedures are expected to begin in early March 2015 to retrieve part of his remains from the grave upon Hayashi's request to bring them back to Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sake brewery in New Zealand

David Joll (2nd from R), head brewer of Zenkuro Sake brewery, and his wife Yasuko Joll (R), in this photo taken Feb. 23, 2018, pose for photos in Queenstown together with Richard Ryall (2nd from L), a co-owner of the brewery. (Kyodo). ==Kyodo

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Ex-Japan POW's ashes found in Australia returned

Yasuko Hayashi (C), niece of deceased Japanese prisoner of war Michiaki Wakaomi, offers prayer to his ashes at a cemetery for Japanese soldiers in Cowra, eastern Australia, on Sept. 11, 2015. The ashes, dug out at the cemetery earlier, were returned to Hayashi for the first such return to a bereaved family. A total of 231 Japanese prisoners were killed in a prison break in Cowra in 1944. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Work to retrieve Japanese remains conducted in Australia

A worker digs at the Japanese War Cemetery in Cowra, eastern Australia, on Sept. 11, 2015, to retrieve the remains of Michiaki Wakaomi who died there as a prisoner of war in 1945. Yasuko Hayashi (far L), a niece of Wakaomi, and his relative Hiromichi Wakaomi (3rd from L) were also present. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Transsexual poses with partner in front of former Tokyo Music School

Miyuki Yashiro (L), an 89-year-old former Kobe College professor who long suffered from gender identity disorder before undergoing sex reassignment surgery to become a woman 11 years earlier, poses with her partner Yasuko in front of a concert hall of the former Tokyo Music School. Yashiro attended the school, now part of Tokyo National University of the Arts. (Photo by Makoto Hori) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 air controllers given suspended sentences

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuko Momii, an air traffic controller, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on April 11 after the Tokyo High Court overturned a lower court's verdict of not guilty and sentenced her to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for negligence over a near collision in 2001 between two Japan Airlines planes over the Pacific. Hideki Hachitani, who was under Momii's supervision, received 12-month prison term, suspended for three years. (Kyodo)

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Events mark imperial couple's 50th wedding anniversary

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from R) and his wife Empress Michiko listen to an address by Motomu Yamada and his wife Yasuko during a tea party at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on April 10, the 50th anniversary of the imperial couple's wedding. Some 100 couples across Japan, who mark their 50th wedding anniversaries this year, were invited to the party. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)