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Japan's Yoneda wins conductor contest in France

Satoshi Yoneda (C) of Japan receives applause after performing in the final of the 59th Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors in Besancon, eastern France, on Sept. 27, 2025. He won the contest.

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Japan's Yoneda wins conductor contest in France

Satoshi Yoneda (C) of Japan receives applause after performing in the final of the 59th Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors in Besancon, eastern France, on Sept. 27, 2025. He won the contest.

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Japan's Yoneda wins conductor contest in France

Satoshi Yoneda (C) of Japan poses after winning the 59th Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors in Besancon, eastern France, on Sept. 27, 2025.

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Japan's Yoneda wins conductor contest in France

Satoshi Yoneda (R) of Japan poses after winning the 59th Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors in Besancon, eastern France, on Sept. 27, 2025.

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Japan's Yoneda wins conductor contest in France

Satoshi Yoneda of Japan meets the press after winning the 59th Besancon International Competition for Young Conductors in Besancon, eastern France, on Sept. 27, 2025.

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New JAXA astronauts Yoneda, Suwa

Photo taken on Oct. 24, 2024, shows newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts Ayu Yoneda (L) and Makoto Suwa at a JAXA office in Tokyo.

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New JAXA astronauts Yoneda, Suwa

Photo taken on Oct. 24, 2024, shows newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts Ayu Yoneda (L) and Makoto Suwa at a JAXA office in Tokyo.

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New JAXA astronaut Yoneda

Photo taken on Oct. 24, 2024, shows newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Ayu Yoneda at a JAXA office in Tokyo.

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New JAXA astronauts

TOKYO, Japan, Oct. 24 Kyodo - Ayu Yoneda and Makoto Suwa, newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, pose for a photo at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024. (Kyodo)

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New JAXA astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (L) and Makoto Suwa, newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, pose for a photo at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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New JAXA astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (L) and Makoto Suwa, newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, attend a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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New JAXA astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (L) and Makoto Suwa, newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, pose for a photo at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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New JAXA astronauts

Ayu Yoneda, one of the two newly approved Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronauts, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2024.

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Alumni Yoneda at Univ. of Tokyo welcome ceremony

Prospective astronaut and alumni Ayu Yoneda sends a congratulatory message to new students during a welcome ceremony of the University of Tokyo at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on April 12, 2024.

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(SP)PHILIPPINES-NEW CLARK CITY-WATER POLO-ASIAN AGE GROUP AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS-CHINA VS JAPAN

(240303) -- NEW CLARK CITY, March 3, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Yoneda Tatsumasa (C) of Japan vies against Qin Zhou (Top) and Ouyang Haiyuan (Bottom) of China during the men's water polo round robin Group A match in the 11th Asian Age Group Aquatics Championships in New Clark City, Capas of Tarlac Province, the Philippines, March 3, 2024. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)

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Joint interview with JAXA astronaut candidates

Joint interview of JAXA astronaut candidates. Photo shows, from left, Makoto Suwa and Ayu Yoneda.=Date:July 3, 2023,Place:Japan

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Joint interview with JAXA astronaut candidates

Joint interview of JAXA astronaut candidates. Photo shows, from left, Makoto Suwa and Ayu Yoneda.=Date:July 3, 2023,Place:Japan

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JAXA prospective astronauts

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) poses for a photo with Ayu Yoneda (R) and Makoto Suwa, prospective astronauts at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, at the premier's office in Tokyo on July 3, 2023.

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JAXA prospective astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (R) and Makoto Suwa, prospective astronauts at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, shake hands during a photo session in Tokyo on July 3, 2023.

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New prospective astronaut Yoneda

Ayu Yoneda, a new prospective astronaut at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 3, 2023. She joined the Japanese space agency on April 1.

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New prospective astronaut Yoneda

Ayu Yoneda, a new prospective astronaut at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks to reporters in Tokyo on April 3, 2023. She joined the Japanese space agency on April 1.

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New prospective astronaut Yoneda

Ayu Yoneda, a new prospective astronaut at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, poses for photos as she meets reporters in Tokyo on April 3, 2023. She joined the Japanese space agency on April 1.

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World Bank staffer, surgeon picked as Japan astronaut candidates

Japan's space agency said Tuesday that it has selected a World Bank employee and a surgeon as astronaut candidates in its first recruitment drive in more than 13 years, with expectations high that they may have the chance to join an international mission to the Moon. Makoto Suwa, 46, a disaster prevention specialist at the World Bank, and Ayu Yoneda, one of the youngest ever candidates at age 28 and a surgeon at the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, will join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for two years of training. "I don't think the path ahead will be easy, but I hope to go to the Moon if possible," Yoneda told a press conference in Tokyo, as she expressed her joy after being picked from over 4,000 applicants, a record high. Suwa, who is the oldest candidate ever selected, said he felt "a great sense of responsibility," as he joined the press conference online from the United States, where he works.

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Doctor, World Bank official selected to be astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (L), a 28-year-old surgeon at the Japan Red Cross Medical Center, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2023, after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency selected her to become an astronaut together with Makoto Suwa (on screen), a 46-year-old disaster prevention specialist at the World Bank. It is the first time since 2009 that new Japanese astronaut candidates have been chosen, with the two landing their dream jobs after going through a rigorous screening process involving over 4,100 applicants.

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Doctor, World Bank official selected to be astronauts

Ayu Yoneda, a 28-year-old surgeon at the Japan Red Cross Medical Center, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2023, after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency selected her to become an astronaut together with Makoto Suwa (on screen), a 46-year-old disaster prevention specialist at the World Bank. It is the first time since 2009 that new Japanese astronaut candidates have been chosen, with the two landing their dream jobs after going through a rigorous screening process involving over 4,100 applicants.

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Doctor, World Bank official selected to be astronauts

Ayu Yoneda (L), a 28-year-old surgeon at the Japan Red Cross Medical Center, virtually "shakes hands" with Makoto Suwa (on screen), a 46-year-old disaster prevention specialist at the World Bank -- now in the United States -- during a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2023, after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency selected them to become astronauts. It is the first time since 2009 that new Japanese astronaut candidates have been chosen, with the two landing their dream jobs after going through a rigorous screening process involving over 4,100 applicants.

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World Bank official, doctor selected to be astronauts

Screenshot shows Makoto Suwa, a 46-year-old disaster prevention specialist at the World Bank, attending an online press conference from the United States on Feb. 28, 2023, after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency selected him to become an astronaut together with Ayu Yoneda, a 28-year-old surgeon at the Japan Red Cross Medical Center. It is the first time since 2009 that new Japanese astronaut candidates have been chosen, with the two landing their dream jobs after going through a rigorous screening process involving over 4,100 applicants.

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Doctor, World Bank official selected to be astronauts

Ayu Yoneda, a 28-year-old surgeon at the Japan Red Cross Medical Center, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 28, 2023, after the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency selected her to become an astronaut together with Makoto Suwa, a 46-year-old disaster prevention specialist at the World Bank. It is the first time since 2009 that new Japanese astronaut candidates have been chosen, with the two landing their dream jobs after going through a rigorous screening process involving over 4,100 applicants.

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Presidents of operators of Tokyo, Osaka bourses

OSAKA, Japan - Atsushi Saito (L), president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc., and Michio Yoneda, president of Osaka Securities Exchange Co., are pictured prior to the start of a meeting to discuss the details of the two entities' planned merger, at the Osaka bourse on Dec. 29, 2011. The two companies announced in November that they will merge in January 2013.

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NPA chief at symposium on children's smartphone use

TOKYO, Japan - Tsuyoshi Yoneda, commissioner general of the National Police Agency, addresses a symposium held in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 29, 2014, to discuss problems resulting from the use of smartphones by children.

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Merger of Tokyo, Osaka stock exchanges

OSAKA, Japan - Michio Yoneda, president of Osaka Securities Exchange Co., holds a press conference in Osaka on Nov. 20, 2012. Shareholders of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. and Osaka Securities Exchange Co. approved the same day the bourses' merger on Jan. 1 and the founding of Japan Exchange Group Inc., a holding company for the two exchanges.

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Tokyo, Osaka bourses to integrate cash markets by July 2013

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Securities Exchange Co. President Michio Yoneda attends a press conference in Osaka on Oct. 29, 2012. Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. and Osaka Securities Exchange Co. said the same day they will integrate their cash equity markets into the TSE by July 2013 after their merger on Jan. 1, 2013.

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Start of OSE DJIA Futures trading

OSAKA, Japan - Michio Yoneda, president of Osaka Securities Exchange, gives a speech at a ceremony at the bourse in Osaka on May 28, 2012, to mark the start of trading the same day of OSE DJIA Futures, which are futures contracts based on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a major stock index managed by the CME Group.

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Presidents of operators of Tokyo, Osaka bourses

TOKYO, Japan - Combined photo shows Atsushi Saito (left frame), president of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc., and Michio Yoneda, president of Osaka Securities Exchange Co., at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 22, 2011. The two companies announced the same day they have agreed to merge amid consolidation moves among international rivals, becoming the world's second-largest bourse.

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Japan's 'oldest' human bone found on Ishigaki Island

ISHIGAKI, Japan - Photo taken on Nov. 10, 2011, shows a site around the Shirahosaonetabaru cave ruins on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. A team of Japanese researchers led by Minoru Yoneda, an anthropologist and associate professor at the University of Tokyo's graduate school, said the same day that a human bone fragment from about 24,000 years ago was found in the cave. It would be the oldest human fragment among those identified through analysis of such remains in Japan, according to the researchers.

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Osaka bourse inaugurates J-Gate derivatives trading system

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Securities Exchange President Michio Yoneda (L) receives a gift from Lars Ottersgard, senior vice president of Nasdaq OMX Market Technology, in Osaka on Feb. 14, 2011. A new financial derivatives trading system, named J-Gate, went into operation that day at the OSE, handling buy and sell orders about 20 times faster than previously. The new system was developed by Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.

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OSE marks 20th anniversary of Nikkei-225 Futures trading

OSAKA, Japan - Michio Yoneda (L), president of the Osaka Securities Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange Chairman Emeritus Leo Melamed (C) attend a ceremony at the Osaka bourse on Sept. 3 to mark the 20th anniversary of the start of trading in Nikkei-225 Futures, Japan's best-known derivatives product.

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OSE set for active listing of new products

OSAKA, Japan - Osaka Securities Exchange President Michio Yoneda speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Osaka on Jan. 11. He said OSE will ''actively'' list new financial products, such as an investment trust linked to gold prices, in a bid to win increasing international competition with other exchanges.

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Daiei to tie up with drug store chain CFS

TOKYO, Japan - Daiei Inc. President Yasuyuki Higuchi (L) and CFS Corp. President Yukimasa Yoneda pose for photos after announcing an alliance at a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 8. The five-year alliance with the operator of the ''HAC Drug'' chain marks Daiei's first partnership with another company after it began business rehabilitation under the auspices of the Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan.

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Murakami Fund to seek OSE chief's resignation

TOKYO, Japan - Investment fund operator Yoshiaki Murakami speaks at an investor seminar held by the Osaka Securities Exchange in Tokyo on June 8. Murakami said that OSE President Michio Yoneda was ''unqualified'' for the job and his fund, the OSE's biggest shareholder, will call for his resignation.

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U.S. biotech firm MediciNova debuts on OSE's start-up market

OSAKA, Japan - Takashi Kiyoizumi (R), president of U.S. biotechnology venture MediciNova, smiles as he received a memorial relief from Osaka Securities Exchange President Michio Yoneda on Feb. 8. MediciNova debuted on the exchange's Hercules market on the day, becoming the first foreign company listed on the bourse for start-ups. This is the first time the company, whose stock is not listed on an exchange in the United States, has listed its shares on a stock exchange.

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Tomita wins 3rd all-around title at nationals

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Tomita wins his first title in two years and third career in the men's individual all-around competition at the gymnastics national championships at Yoyogi national gymnasium in Tokyo on Nov. 13. Tomita, who was part of the gold-winning Japanese team at the Athens Olympics, collected 56.950 points for his six routines to outscore second-place Naoya Tsukahara by 0.500 point. Defending champion Isao Yoneda was third.

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(2)Japan's Yoneda takes bronze for horizontal bar

ATHENS, Greece - Isao Yoneda of Japan waves to spectators at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens on Aug. 23 during an award ceremony for the men's gymnastic horizontal bar event in the 2004 Olympic Games. Yoneda won the bronze medal.

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(1)Japan's Yoneda takes bronze for horizontal bar

ATHENS, Greece - Japan's Isao Yoneda competes in the men's gymnastic horizontal bar event in the 2004 Olympic Games at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens on Aug. 23. Yoneda won the bronze medal. Italy's Igor Cassina won the gold medal, followed by Paul Hamm of the United States.

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(9)Japanese men claim 1st gymnastics team gold in 28 yrs

ATHENS, Greece - Japan's gymnasts -- (from L to R) Isao Yoneda, Hisashi Mizutori, Daisuke Nakano, Hiroyuki Tomita, Takehiro Kashima and Naoya Tsukahara -- holds up their gold medals in the men's gymnastics team final at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens on Aug. 16.

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(8)Japanese men claim 1st gymnastics team gold in 28 yrs

ATHENS, Greece - Japan's gymnasts -- (from L to R) Isao Yoneda, Hisashi Mizutori, Takehiro Kashima, Hiroyuki Tomita, Naoya Tsukahara and Daisuke Nakano -- wave to spectators from the podium at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens on Aug. 16 after winning the gold medal in the men's gymnastics team final at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.

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(5)Japanese men claim 1st gymnastics team gold in 28 yrs

ATHENS, Greece - Isao Yoneda of Japan leaps onto the vault during the artistic gymnastics men's team final of the 2004 Olympic Games at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens on Aug. 16.

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(2)Japan tops qualifying round in men's gymnastics team event

ATHENS, Greece - Japan's Isao Yoneda performs a floor exercise during the men's artistic gymnastics qualifying session of the Athens Olympic Games at the Olympic Indoor Hall on Aug. 14. Japan topped the qualification round for the men's gymnastics team competition.

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OSE's Yoneda tapped to become new president

OSAKA, Japan - The Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) is expected to appoint Senior Managing Drector Michio Yoneda (in file photo) as president to succeed Goro Tatsumi who passed away on Dec. 23, OSE sources said Dec. 25. The OSE's board of directors is likely to endorse the appointment by the end of the year.

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Tomita wins 3rd all-around title at nationals

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Tomita wins his first title in two years and third career in the men's individual all-around competition at the gymnastics national championships at Yoyogi national gymnasium in Tokyo on Nov. 13. Tomita, who was part of the gold-winning Japanese team at the Athens Olympics, collected 56.950 points for his six routines to outscore second-place Naoya Tsukahara by 0.500 point. Defending champion Isao Yoneda was third. (Kyodo)