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Heritage railways targeted by thieves

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken May 24, 2013 shows part of cables cut and hanging down from overhead at the dead track of JR Shin-Etsu Honsen line in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture. In late April, some 6 tons of overhead and signal cables were found to have been stolen from an 11.2-kilometer railway of the line between Yokokawa Station in Annaka and Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, which went out of use in 1997.

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Heritage railways targeted by thieves

MAEBASHI, Japan - Photo taken May 24, 2013 shows part of overhead cables cut by thieves at the dead track of JR Shin-Etsu Honsen line in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture. In late April, some 6 tons of overhead and signal cables were found to have been stolen from an 11.2-kilometer railway of the line between Yokokawa Station in Annaka and Karuizawa Station in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, which went out of use in 1997.

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Skylark eyes going private via Japan's biggest management buyout

TOKYO, Japan - Kiwamu Yokokawa (L), chairman and chief executive officer of Skylark Co., speaks at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel June 8 with President Yasutaka Ito listening to him. They said Japan's largest restaurant chain operator plans to become an unlisted company in the nation's largest-ever management buyout bid.

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Yokokawa to come back as Skylark's top

TOKYO, Japan - Kiwamu Yokokawa (L), supreme adviser of Skylark Co., and Skylark President Yasutaka Ito give a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 13. Yokokawa said he will retake the helm of Japan's leading restaurant chain operator in March as part of managerial reform to achieve its goal of raising group sales to 1 trillion yen by 2009.

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Japan's 1st bus recreated in Hiroshima

YOKOKAWA, Japan - A recreation of the first Japanese-made bus, originally launched in 1905 in Yokokawa, Hiroshima Prefecture, is shown to the public March 28. The bus was recreated with the backing of local merchants and will be put on display at Yokokawa Station to help revitalize the local economy.

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Yokokawa to come back as Skylark's top

TOKYO, Japan - Kiwamu Yokokawa (L), supreme adviser of Skylark Co., and Skylark President Yasutaka Ito give a press conference in Tokyo on Jan. 13. Yokokawa said he will retake the helm of Japan's leading restaurant chain operator in March as part of managerial reform to achieve its goal of raising group sales to 1 trillion yen by 2009. (Kyodo)

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Skylark eyes going private via Japan's biggest management buyout

TOKYO, Japan - Kiwamu Yokokawa (L), chairman and chief executive officer of Skylark Co., speaks at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel June 8 with President Yasutaka Ito listening to him. They said Japan's largest restaurant chain operator plans to become an unlisted company in the nation's largest-ever management buyout bid. (Kyodo)

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Japan's athletics body head Yokokawa elected to IAAF Council

Hiroshi Yokokawa, president of the Japan Association of Athletics Federations, speaks to reporters after being elected for the first time to the International Association of Athletics Federations Council in Beijing on Aug. 19, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese athlete breaks men's 20-km walk world record

Japan's Yusuke Suzuki (L) is congratulated by Hiroshi Yokokawa, president of the Japan Association of Athletic Federations, after setting a new world record of 1:16:36 for the men's 20-kilometer walk, at the All-Japan Race Walking meet in his hometown of Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture, on March 15, 2015. Suzuki broke the previous record of 1:17:02, set a week earlier by Frenchman Yohann Diniz. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Locomotive to promote "Kimetsu" movie

A locomotive to promote the upcoming "Demon Slayer" (Kimetsu no Yaiba) movie leaves JR Yokokawa Station in the Gunma Prefecture city of Annaka, eastern Japan, on Oct. 11, 2020.