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Rapidus R&D hub in northern Japan

Yasunori Ogawa (L), president of printer manufacturer Seiko Epson Corp., and Atsuyoshi Koike, his counterpart of chipmaker Rapidus Corp., pose for a photo during a press conference in Chitose, Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Oct. 3, 2024. The two companies have agreed to the building of a Rapidus research and development center in Seiko Epson's plant in Chitose, with the facility expected to begin operating in April 2026.

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Hand grenade explosion at GSDF training site

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Yasunori Morishita attends a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on May 30, 2024, as a GSDF member in his 20s died after a hand grenade exploded during a training session earlier in the day at Kitafuji Exercise Area in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo.

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Sumitomo Mitsui FG, CCC Press Conference on New Point Service

Conference on new point service between Sumitomo Mitsui FG and CCC. Pictured from left to right: Yukihiko Onishi, President of Sumitomo Mitsui Card; Muneaki Masuda, Chairman and CEO of Culture Convenience Club; Jun Ota, President and Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group; and Yasunori Takahashi, President and COO of Culture Convenience Club.=Date:June 13, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Sumitomo Mitsui FG, CCC Press Conference on New Point Service

Conference on new point service between Sumitomo Mitsui FG and CCC. Pictured from left to right: Yukihiko Onishi, President of Sumitomo Mitsui Card; Muneaki Masuda, Chairman and CEO of Culture Convenience Club; Jun Ota, President and Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group; and Yasunori Takahashi, President and COO of Culture Convenience Club.=Date:June 13, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Sumitomo Mitsui FG, CCC Press Conference on New Point Service

Pictured from left to right: Yukihiko Onishi, President of Sumitomo Mitsui Card; Muneaki Masuda, Chairman and CEO of Culture Convenience Club; Jun Ota, President and Group CEO of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group; and Yasunori Takahashi, President and COO of Culture Convenience Club.=Date:June 13, 2023,Place:Tokyo

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Shooting incident at GSDF firing range in central Japan

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Yasunori Morishita attends a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 14, 2023, as two GSDF members were killed and another injured by a trainee with a rifle at a GSDF firing range in Gifu, central Japan, earlier in the day. The 18-year-old male GSDF trainee was arrested at the site, according to police.

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Shooting incident at GSDF firing range in central Japan

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Gen. Yasunori Morishita bows in apology at a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 14, 2023, after two GSDF members were killed and another injured by a trainee with a rifle at a GSDF firing range in Gifu, central Japan, earlier in the day. The 18-year-old male GSDF trainee was arrested at the site, according to police.

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SDF chopper with 10 members aboard goes missing near Okinawa

Gen. Yasunori Morishita, chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, meets the press at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 6, 2023, after a GSDF UH-60JA multipurpose helicopter with 10 personnel aboard went missing in waters off the southern prefecture of Okinawa earlier in the day.

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SDF chopper with 10 members aboard goes missing near Okinawa

Gen. Yasunori Morishita, chief of staff of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, meets the press at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 6, 2023, after a GSDF UH-60JA multipurpose helicopter with 10 personnel aboard went missing in waters off the southern prefecture of Okinawa earlier in the day.

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SDF chopper with 10 members aboard goes missing near Okinawa

Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Chief of Staff Yasunori Morishita meets the press at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on April 6, 2023, after a GSDF UH-60JA multipurpose helicopter with 10 personnel aboard went missing in waters off the southern prefecture of Okinawa earlier in the day.

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Priests of different faiths forming groups across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 7, 2014, shows (from R) Shungen Kiyokumo, head of a cross-faith group in Yamanashi Prefecture, and his deputies, Yasunori Nezu and Nobumitsu Kobayashi, reviewing their activities while reading copies of its annually published journal titled "Jibeta" (ground) in the prefectural city of Kofu.

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Japanese 'yosakoi' folk dance festival held in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Groups of dancers in colorful costumes from Japan and the United States perform Japan's traditional "yosakoi" folk dance with instruments in New York's Manhattan on April 27, 2014. Yasunori Takebuchi, who heads a yosakoi team from Tochigi Prefecture, eastern Japan, performs the dance originating in Kochi Prefecture, western Japan.

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Engineer passing on knowledge to new venture

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 18, 2013 in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward shows 70-year-old Yasunori Yoshida, a former automobile engineer who joined Terra Motors Corp., a four-year-old electric motorcycle venture, earlier in that month.

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Japan men take silver in gymnastics

LONDON, Britain - An Olympics official (upper right) tells manager Yasunori Tachibana (lower left) of the Japan team that Japan was moved up to second place after receiving an appeal about Kohei Uchimura's score in the final rotation on the pommel horse in the Olympics men's gymnastics team final at North Greenwich Arena at the 2012 London Olympics on July 30, 2012.

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DPJ lawmaker Saito to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Sept. 21, 2008, shows House of Representatives member Yasunori Saito of the Democratic Party of Japan. Saito said Dec. 27, 2011, in his blog that he will leave the ruling party to protest DPJ leader and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's intention to raise the consumption tax and join talks on a U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement.

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Japan win 2nd straight gold in men's rugby

GUANGZHOU, China - Japan's Yasunori Nagatomo (R) breaks away from a tackle to score the game-winning try in the men's rugby final against Hong Kong at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 23, 2010. Japan won 28-21 and captured their second straight Asian Games title.

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Launch of Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite postponed

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Yasunori Matogawa, associate executive director of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, said the launch of Japan's X-ray astronomy satellite ASTRO-E2 on the M-5-6 rocket would be delayed from July 6 to July 8 or later due to bad weather.

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Police arrest ex-Mitsui officials over gas data fabrication

TOKYO, Japan - Yasunori Yokote (R), senior executive managing officer at Mitsui & Co., apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on June 14 after police arrested two former Mitsui employees and a former official of a Mitsui subsidiary on suspicion of fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particulate filter.

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(3)Joso Gakuin wins nat'l baseball tourney

NISHINOMIYA, Japan - Yukio Kiuchi (L), manager of Joso Gakuin of Ibaraki Prefecture, receives a game ball from team captain Yasunori Matsubayashi after winning the national high school baseball tournament by beating Tohoku of Miyagi Prefecture 4-2 at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23. Kiuchi announced his plan in May to retire after this season.

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Fighters' manager Ohima ejected from game

FUKUOKA, Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters manager Yasunori Oshima (C) is ejected in the bottom of the first inning of a game against the Daiei Hawks at Fukuoka Dome on March 31 after he shoved an umpire in the chest over what he considered an incorrect call. The Hawks defeated the Fighters 7-3.

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Japanese police officers return from E. Timor

NARITA, Japan - Yasunori Orita (C), chief superintendent of Japan's National Police Agency, and other Japanese police officers arrive at Narita airport on Sept. 9 from E. Timor, where they took part in the U.N. Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) for the historic Aug. 30 referendum.

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Japan tells nationals in E. Timor to leave

DILI, East Timor - Yasunori Orita, a chief superintendent of the National Police Agency, dispatched to East Timor, is busy contacting Japanese residents there Sept. 5 after the Japanese Foreign Ministry urged Japanese nationals to leave. The territory is now rated ''level 5'' on the ministry's five-level danger scale. Orita is also to depart from Dili on a Japanese government-chartered flight Sept. 6.

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Nagasaki group to research Chinese forced laborers

NAGASAKI, Japan - File photo taken July 17 shows Yasunori Takazane, professor at Nagasaki University, standing at the ruins of a coal mine on Hashima Island in Nagasaki Prefecture, where Chinese laborers were forced to work during World War II. A civic group headed by Takazane will visit China in August to interview some of those Chinese workers or their family members.

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Three Japanese police officers arrive in E. Timor

DILI, East Timor, - Three Japanese police officers arrived at Dili, the East Timor capital, on July 10 to join a United Nations peacekeeping team, assisting in the implementation of a referendum, scheduled next month. The three officers at Dili airport are Chief Superintendent Yasunori Orita, 46, (C) from the National Police Agency, Senior Inspector Masayuki Mikata, 46, (L) from Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, and Superintendent Norihisa Shiiya, 47, (R) from Hyogo Prefecture.

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3 Japanese police officers leave for E. Timor training

NARITA, Japan - Three Japanese police officers leave for Australia on July 4 for a training program in Brisbane before taking part in the U.N. Mission in East Timor (UNAMET) for an August referendum there. Being seen off at Narita airport were National Police Agency members (from L to R) Yasunori Orita, 46, chief superintendent, Norihisa Shiiya, 47, inspector, and Masayuki Mikata, 46, captain.

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Japan to send 3 police officers to E. Timor

Japan's National Police Agency (NPA) has decided to send three officers to East Timor to assist with the implementation of an August ballot on the future of the former Portuguese colony. Meeting reporters at a news conference in Tokyo on June 29 are (from L to R) Norihisa Shiiya, inspector, 47, Yasunori Orita, chief superintendent, 46, and Masayuki Mikata, captain, 46.

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Launch of Japanese X-ray astronomy satellite postponed

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Yasunori Matogawa, associate executive director of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, said the launch of Japan's X-ray astronomy satellite ASTRO-E2 on the M-5-6 rocket would be delayed from July 6 to July 8 or later due to bad weather. (Kyodo)

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Fighters' manager Ohima ejected from game

FUKUOKA, Japan - Nippon Ham Fighters manager Yasunori Oshima (C) is ejected in the bottom of the first inning of a game against the Daiei Hawks at Fukuoka Dome on March 31 after he shoved an umpire in the chest over what he considered an incorrect call. The Hawks defeated the Fighters 7-3.

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Police arrest ex-Mitsui officials over gas data fabrication

TOKYO, Japan - Yasunori Yokote (R), senior executive managing officer at Mitsui & Co., apologizes at a news conference in Tokyo on June 14 after police arrested two former Mitsui employees and a former official of a Mitsui subsidiary on suspicion of fabricating test data to obtain official approval for a diesel particulate filter. (Kyodo)

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Kyodo, Asahi, Nikkei correspondents win Vaughn-Uyeda prize

TOKYO, Japan - (From L to R) Hisashi Hirai, chief of Kyodo News's Seoul Bureau, Yasunori Kawakami, chief of the Asahi Shimbun's Middle East and Africa General Bureau, and Takabumi Suzuoki, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun's Hong Kong correspondent, were chosen Feb. 24 as recipients of the 2002 Vaughn-Uyeda Prize. The prize honors contributions by Japanese journalists in the field of international affairs. (Kyodo)

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Majority of Japanese textbook publishers breach gov't review rule

(From R) Masahito Sengoku, president of Tokyo Shoseki Co., Japan's largest publisher of textbooks, Chairman Yasunori Kawabata and managing editor Norio Watanabe bow in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2016, following reports that the majority of textbook publishers breached strict censorship regulations by showing teachers and local education officials publications being prepared for government review. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Companies from central Japan's Toyama seek partners in Myanmar

Yasunori Yamazaki, vice governor of Toyama Prefecture in central Japan, makes a speech at a business seminar in Myanmar's commercial capital Yangon on Oct. 9, 2017. (NNA/Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike (3rd from L), a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 27, 2017, to be questioned over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, arrives at the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on July 27, 2017, to be questioned over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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CORRECTED: Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that the operator fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, meets with reporters in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on July 27, 2017, before being questioned by prosecutors over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-head of scandal-hit school operator to be questioned

Yasunori Kagoike, a former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, leaves his home in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, to be questioned by prosecutors on July 27, 2017, over allegations that he and his wife fraudulently received subsidies. The nationalist school operator is at the center of a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka assembly summons Kagoike over land-deal controversy linked to PM Abe

Yasunori Kagoike, former chief of the school operator Moritomo Gakuen, attends an Osaka prefectural assembly meeting in Osaka on July 10, 2017, to testify as an unsworn witness on a land-deal controversy linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Head of scandal-hit school operator gives testimony before Diet

Yasunori Kagoike, head of a nationalist Osaka school operator at the center of a growing political scandal connected to the prime minister and defense minister, attends an upper house panel in Tokyo on March 23, 2017, to give testimony as a sworn witness. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scandal-hit school operator says he received donation from PM Abe

Yasunori Kagoike (far L), the head of Moritomo Gakuen, a school operator mired in controversy over its cut-price purchase of a plot of state-owned land, meets ruling and opposition lawmakers visiting the site in Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture, on March 16, 2017. Kagoike told the lawmakers he received a donation from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the elementary school that was to open on the site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan win 2nd straight gold in men's rugby

GUANGZHOU, China - Japan's Yasunori Nagatomo (R) breaks away from a tackle to score the game-winning try in the men's rugby final against Hong Kong at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 23, 2010. Japan won 28-21 and captured their second straight Asian Games title. (Kyodo)

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Priests of different faiths forming groups across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken May 7, 2014, shows (from R) Shungen Kiyokumo, head of a cross-faith group in Yamanashi Prefecture, and his deputies, Yasunori Nezu and Nobumitsu Kobayashi, reviewing their activities while reading copies of its annually published journal titled "Jibeta" (ground) in the prefectural city of Kofu. (Kyodo)

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DPJ lawmaker Saito to leave DPJ

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken Sept. 21, 2008, shows House of Representatives member Yasunori Saito of the Democratic Party of Japan. Saito said Dec. 27, 2011, in his blog that he will leave the ruling party to protest DPJ leader and Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's intention to raise the consumption tax and join talks on a U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. (Kyodo)

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Couple at center of Japan PM Abe cronyism scandal

Yasunori Kagoike (C), former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, who is at the center of a cronyism scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, heads to the Osaka District Court on Feb. 19, 2020. Kagoike and his wife Junko were found guilty of illegally receiving 56.4 million yen ($512,000) in central government subsidies for construction of an elementary school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Couple at center of Japan PM Abe cronyism scandal

Yasunori Kagoike (R), former chief of school operator Moritomo Gakuen, and his wife Junko, who are at the center of a cronyism scandal linked to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, head to the Osaka District Court on Feb. 19, 2020. They were found guilty of illegally receiving 56.4 million yen ($512,000) in central government subsidies for construction of an elementary school. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo