Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Yasuto Wakizaka (14) of Japan's Kawasaki Frontale and teammates celebrate after defeating Saudi Arabia's Al-Nassr 3-2 in an AFC Champions League Elite semifinal in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 30, 2025.

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Yasuto Wakizaka (R) of Japan's Kawasaki Frontale scores in the first half of extra time in a Champions League Elite quarterfinal match against Qatar's Al Sadd in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 27, 2025.

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Yasuto Wakizaka (L) of Japan's Kawasaki Frontale scores in the first half of extra time in a Champions League Elite quarterfinal match against Qatar's Al Sadd in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 27, 2025.

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Yasuto Wakizaka (front) of Japan's Kawasaki Frontale celebrates with a teammate after scoring in the first half of extra time in a Champions League Elite quarterfinal match against Qatar's Al Sadd in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 27, 2025.

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Football: AFC Champions League Elite

Yasuto Wakizaka of Japan's Kawasaki Frontale reacts after the football club defeated Qatar's Al Sadd in an AFC Champions League Elite quarterfinal match in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 27, 2025.

(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-BASKETBALL(CN)

(SP)CHINA-HANGZHOU-ASIAN GAMES-BASKETBALL(CN)

(230930) -- HANGZHOU, Sept. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Gaines Corey Yasuto, coach of Japan, instructs players during the Men's Preliminary Round Group D match of Basketball between Japan and South Korea at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Sept. 30, 2023. (Xinhua/Pan Yulong)

Italy edge past Kashima in World Cup warm-up

Italy edge past Kashima in World Cup warm-up

TOKYO, Japan - Italy's Alessandoro Del Piero and Yasuto Honda of Kashima Antlers vie for the ball during the second half of a World Cup tune-up at an almost packed National Stadium in Tokyo on May 26. Italy squeezed past Kashima 2-1.

(SP)MALAYSIA-JOHOR BAHRU-AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE-ULSAN HYUNDAI FC VS KAWASAKI FRONTALE

(SP)MALAYSIA-JOHOR BAHRU-AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE-ULSAN HYUNDAI FC VS KAWASAKI FRONTALE

(220427) -- JOHOR BAHRU, April 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yasuto Wakizaka (C) of Kawasaki Frontale competes during the AFC Champions League 2022 Group I match between Ulsan Hyundai FC of South Korea and Kawasaki Frontale of Japan in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, April 27, 2022. (Photo by Chong Voon Chung/Xinhua)

(SP)MALAYSIA-JOHOR BAHRU-AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE-KAWASAKI FRONTALE VS JOHOR DARUL TA'ZIM

(SP)MALAYSIA-JOHOR BAHRU-AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE-KAWASAKI FRONTALE VS JOHOR DARUL TA'ZIM

(220425) -- JOHOR BAHRU, April 25, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Yasuto Wakizaka (L) of Kawasaki Frontale competes during the AFC Champions League 2022 Group I match between Kawasaki Frontale of Japan and Johor Darul Ta'zim of Malaysia in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, April 24, 2022. Kawasaki Frontale won the match 5-0. (Photo by Chong Voon Chung/Xinhua)

J-League awards ceremony

J-League awards ceremony

Players named to the Best Eleven team pose for a photo during the J-League awards ceremony in Tokyo on Dec. 6, 2021 -- (from L) Kawasaki Frontale's Shogo Taniguchi, Reo Hatate and Yasuto Wakizaka, Yokohama F Marinos' Daizen Maeda, Vissel Kobe's Andres Iniesta, Kawasaki's Leandro Damiao, Akihiro Ienaga and Miki Yamane and Nagoya Grampus' Sho Inagaki.

Junichi Inamoto, Gam‚‚a Osaka, fighting for the ball with Yasuto Honda of Kashima Antlers.

Junichi Inamoto, Gam‚‚a Osaka, fighting for the ball with Yasuto Honda of Kashima Antlers.

Junichi Inamoto, Gam‚‚a Osaka, fighting for the ball with Yasuto Honda of Kashima Antlers.

Milan expo visitors try flower arrangement at Japan Pavilion

Milan expo visitors try flower arrangement at Japan Pavilion

Yasuto Sasaki of the Kyoto-based Ikenobo group of floral designers completes a work themed on a summer landscape of Milan, at the Milan expo's Japan Pavilion on June 26, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Milan expo visitors try flower arrangement at Japan Pavilion

Milan expo visitors try flower arrangement at Japan Pavilion

Visitors to the Milan expo's Japan Pavilion try flower arrangement using flowers brought from Japan, with Yasuto Sasaki (far R) of the Kyoto-based Ikenobo group of floral designers, on June 26, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Milan expo visitors try flower arrangement at Japan Pavilion

Milan expo visitors try flower arrangement at Japan Pavilion

Visitors to the Milan expo's Japan Pavilion try flower arrangement using flowers brought from Japan, with Yasuto Sasaki (far L) of the Kyoto-based Ikenobo group of floral designers, on June 26, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Italy edge past Kashima in World Cup warm-up

Italy edge past Kashima in World Cup warm-up

TOKYO, Japan - Italy's Alessandoro Del Piero and Yasuto Honda of Kashima Antlers vie for the ball during the second half of a World Cup tune-up at an almost packed National Stadium in Tokyo on May 26. Italy squeezed past Kashima 2-1.

Research team studying influence of cellphone waves on children

Research team studying influence of cellphone waves on children

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuto Sato, a research associate at Tokyo Women's Medical University's Department of Hygiene and Public Health II, in this photo taken in November 2009, is a member of a research group tasked with conducting a nationwide survey of the effects of electromagnetic waves emanating from cellphones on children. (Kyodo)

Moneylender Nichiei ordered to halt operations

Moneylender Nichiei ordered to halt operations

OSAKA, Japan - Yasuto Omori, chief of the Finance Department at the Ministry of Finance's (MOF) Kinki Local Finance Bureau in Osaka, speaks at a press conference Jan. 27 on a decision ordering nonbank moneylender Nichiei Co. to suspend its operations for one week from Feb. 7. Kyoto-based Nichiei has been involved in a scandal over coercive loan collecting.