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Japan maglev project put off until 2027

NAGOYA, Japan - Yoshiomi Yamada, president of Central Japan Railway Co., speaks at a press conference at the Nagoya Stock Exchange on April 28, 2010. The company, more widely called JR Tokai, said it will postpone the planned launch of magnetically levitated train services by two years until 2027.

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Ex-suicide attack unit pilot Yanai talks at film preview

Yoshiomi Yanai, a 93-year-old former pilot of Japan's suicide attack unit during World War II, talks at a preview of a film on a fighter pilot training corps of the ex-Imperial Japanese Navy in the waning days of the war, on July 1, 2015, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The film titled "Tsukuba Kaigun Kokutai (meaning Tsukuba Navy Flying Corps), in which Yanai recalled his memories of friends who died in suicide attacks, was produced by a citizens' group, "Project Ibaraki." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ito, snow-utilization advisor

File photo shows Yoshiomi Ito, an advisor for the snowman foundation in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He is in a van for utilizing snow for various energy-saving purposes, including a snow air-conditioning system using stored snow. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese, African orphans to hold joint concerts in U.S.

Yoshiomi Tamai, chairman of the Tokyo-based Ashinaga Organization supporting orphans in their education, tells Kyodo News in New York on March 9, 2015, that Ashinaga will hold concerts in New York and Washington in June featuring singing and musical instrument performances by orphans from sub-Saharan African countries and Japanese children orphaned by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The concerts are designed to raise awareness of Ashinaga's project to sponsor African orphans' studies abroad which it expects will eventually help develop their home countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man in news: Founder of fund for poor kids gets prestigious U.S. medal

Yoshiomi Tamai shows in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2015, the U.S. Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal awarded for his significant contribution to education. Tamai is the founder of a Japanese nonprofit organization, called "Ashinaga Ikueikai" (literally Daddy-Long-Legs Scholarship Society), providing educational funding and psychological support to impoverished children such as those without one or both parents. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese scholarship founder Tamai honored in U.S.

Photo shows Yoshiomi Tamai, president of the Ashinaga foundation that provides financial support for orphaned children to help them access higher education. Tamai received this year's Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal on Oct. 18, 2015, in the suburbs of New York. The award, named after the former U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is given to those who have made a significant contribution in such fields as education and other humanitarian concerns. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan maglev project put off until 2027

NAGOYA, Japan - Yoshiomi Yamada, president of Central Japan Railway Co., speaks at a press conference at the Nagoya Stock Exchange on April 28, 2010. The company, more widely called JR Tokai, said it will postpone the planned launch of magnetically levitated train services by two years until 2027. (Kyodo)