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Japan to promote CLT-based wooden buildings

TOKYO, Japan - Construction of an experimental wooden building based on cross-laminated timber (CLT) is under way in Yukawa, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Dec. 24, 2014, to test the use of CLT. The Forestry Agency expects the application of CLT to four- or five-story wooden condominiums and other buildings as strong as ferroconcrete structures to increase the use of homegrown timber.

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Japan to promote wooden buildings based on CLT

TOKYO, Japan - An experimental wooden building based on cross-laminated timber (CLT) in Yukawa, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is seen in this file photo taken on Dec. 24, 2014. The Forestry Agency is testing the application of CLT to four- to five-story wooden condominiums and other buildings as strong as ferroconcrete structures to increase the use of homegrown timber.

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Aleppo governor to support efforts for release of Japanese

ALEPPO, Syria - Mohammad Wahid Akkad, governor of Aleppo in northern Syria, says he is willing to support efforts for the release of Haruna Yukawa, a Japanese man believed to have been captured by the extremist Islamic State militant group, during an interview with Kyodo News on Aug. 21, 2014, in Aleppo.

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Site of border crossing near Syria shown

KILIS, Turkey - The Oncupinar border crossing in southern Turkey, through which Japanese businessman Haruna Yukawa allegedly captured by Islamic State militants is believed to have entered Syria, is shown in this photo taken on Aug. 19, 2014.

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Nobel laureate physicist Nambu views Yukawa's blackboard

OSAKA, Japan - Yoichiro Nambu, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, smiles before a blackboard used by the late physicist Hideki Yukawa, the first Japanese Nobel laureate, during an unveiling ceremony at the Toyonaka campus of Osaka University on May 13, 2014. Yukawa used the blackboard at Columbia University in New York.

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Nobel laureate Yukawa's blackboard unveiled

OSAKA, Japan - Harumi Yukawa (L), son of first Japanese Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa, and Yoichiro Nambu, a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics, unveil a blackboard used by the late physicist at Columbia University in New York during a ceremony at the Toyonaka campus of Osaka University on May 13, 2014.

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Japanese law firms scurrying to set up shop in Asia

OSAKA, Japan - Lawyer Yusuke Yukawa, the representative of Nishimura & Asahi LPC's office in Yangon, works at the office on June 10, 2013. The biggest law firm in Japan established the office in the largest city in Myanmar in May 2013.

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Kushiro's winter attraction: SL train trip on Kushiro wetland

KUSHIRO, Japan - JR Hokkaido is offering a steam locomotive train service across the Kushiro wetland during the winter season as a tourist attraction in eastern Hokkaido. The photo shows a SL train crossing a bridge over the frozen Kushiro River. The inaugural run Jan. 19 on the 224-seat SL train between Kushiro Station and Yukawa Onsen Station was sold out, JR officials say. The SL train service will run through mid-March.

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Nobel laureate's widow Yukawa dies at 96

KYOTO, Japan - Sumi Yukawa (in file photo taken in May 2005), antinuclear arms activist and widow of the first Japanese Nobel prize winning physicist Hideki Yukawa, died at her home in Kyoto of stomach cancer on May 14, her family said. She was 96.

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UNESCO honors late Nobel laureate Yukawa

KYOTO, Japan - The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization honored Japan's late Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa with special UNESCO medals on May 17, 2005, two years before the centenary of his birth in 2007. Sumi Yukawa, his widow, shows the medals given to her husband who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 to become the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel prize.

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Daughters of crash victim discuss JAL compensation claim

TOKYO, Japan - Cassie Yukawa (L) and her sister Diana, whose father Akihisa was killed in a Japan Airlines plane crash in 1985, speak at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Aug. 10 about their plan to sue JAL and Boeing Co. of the United States for compensation. Their mother, Susanne Bayly, was also present at the press conference.

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Girl plays violin for soul of dead father at JAL crash site

MAEBASHI, Japan - Fourteen-year-old Diana Yukawa, whose father died in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet on Mt. Osutaka in Gunma Prefecture, plays the violin for him at the crash site on Aug. 12, the 15th anniversary of the worst single-plane disaster in history. Yukawa, who was born to a British mother a month after the accident, left a CD of her violin recordings to be released in Japan in September at the site. All but four of the 524 people aboard JAL Flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka were killed.

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UNESCO honors late Nobel laureate Yukawa

KYOTO, Japan - The U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization honored Japan's late Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa with special UNESCO medals on May 17, 2005, two years before the centenary of his birth in 2007. Sumi Yukawa, his widow, shows the medals given for her husband who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949 to become the first Japanese citizen to win a Nobel prize. (Kyodo)

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Daughters of crash victim discuss JAL compensation claim

TOKYO, Japan - Cassie Yukawa (L) and her sister Diana, whose father Akihisa was killed in a Japan Airlines plane crash in 1985, speak at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Aug. 10 about their plan to sue JAL and Boeing Co. of the United States for compensation. Their mother, Susanne Bayly, was also present at the press conference.

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Japan says online image of hostage's body likely authentic

Junko Ishido, the mother of Kenji Goto, one of two Japanese taken hostage by a group believed to be Islamic State, speaks to reporters at her home in Koganei, western Tokyo, in early hours of Jan. 25, 2015, after an image of her son was posted online. The image shows Goto holding a picture purportedly showing Haruna Yukawa, the other hostage, has been executed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Syrian man says he saw 2 Japanese hostages killed by IS

Photo taken April 2, 2015, shows a Syrian man discussing video footage of Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, two Japanese hostages killed by the Islamic State militant group earlier in the year. The man has revealed that he stayed with the two and delivered food to them in a cell for foreign captives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Syrian man says he saw 2 Japanese hostages killed by IS

Photo taken April 2, 2015, shows a Syrian man discussing video footage of Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, two Japanese hostages killed by the Islamic State militant group earlier in the year. The man has revealed that he stayed with the two and delivered food to them in a cell for foreign captives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People gather to mourn hostages Yukawa, Goto

More than 200 people gather in front of JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2015, to mourn Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, who were killed by Islamic State militants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People gather to mourn hostages Yukawa, Goto

Participants pray for Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, who were killed by Islamic State militants, during a rally in front of JR Shibuya Station in Tokyo on Feb. 8, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Islamic State posts video showing beheaded Japan hostage

Shoichi Yukawa (R), the father of Haruna Yukawa, one of two Japanese hostages believed to have been executed by Islamic State militants, speaks to reporters at his home in Chiba on Feb. 1, 2015, after a new video image purportedly showing the beheaded body of the other hostage Kenji Goto, a Japanese journalist, was posted online. Shoichi Yukawa asked that his face not be shown. (Pool photo by Sankei Shimbun)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan says online image of hostage's body likely authentic

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2015, following the release of an image purporting to show that one of the two Japanese hostages being held by a group believed to be Islamic State had been killed. Suga said Tokyo had "no reasons so far to deny the killing" of Haruna Yukawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan says online image of hostage's body likely authentic

Junko Ishido, the mother of Kenji Goto, one of two Japanese taken hostage by a group believed to be Islamic State, speaks to reporters at her home in Koganei, western Tokyo, on Jan. 25, 2015, after an image of her son was posted online. The image shows Goto holding a picture purportedly showing Haruna Yukawa, the other hostage, has been executed. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan says online image of hostage's body likely authentic

Shoichi Yukawa (front), the father of Haruna Yukawa, one of two Japanese taken hostage by a group believed to be Islamic State, speaks to reporters at his home in Chiba on Jan. 25, 2015, after an image purporting to show his son has been executed was posted online. Shoichi Yukawa asked that his face not be shown. (Pool photo by Asahi Shimbun)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan says online image of hostage's body likely authentic

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves a facility of public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corp., widely known as NHK, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Jan. 25, 2015, after appearing on a political debate program. Abe said in the program it is highly likely that an image purporting to show the death of Haruna Yukawa, one of two Japanese hostages being held by a group believed to be Islamic State, is authentic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan says online image of hostage's body likely authentic

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe leaves a facility of public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corp., widely known as NHK, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Jan. 25, 2015, after appearing on a political debate program. Abe said in the program it is highly likely that an image purporting to show the death of Haruna Yukawa, one of two Japanese hostages being held by a group believed to be Islamic State, is authentic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fate of 2 Japanese captives remains unknown

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga leaves the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 24, 2015, after gathering information on the fate of Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, who were taken hostage by a group claiming to be Islamic State militants operating in Syria and Iraq. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fate of 2 Japanese captives remains unknown

Reporters continue gathering around the Japanese Embassy in Amman, Jordan, where the local headquarters in charge of the hostage crisis by Islamic State militants is set up, on Jan. 24, 2015. The fate of Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, who were taken hostage by a group claiming to be Islamic State militants operating in Syria and Iraq, remains unknown. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Aid supply trucks at Turkey-Syria checkpoint

Trucks loaded with aid supplies wait in line to pass southern Turkey's Kilis checkpoint bordering with Syria on Jan. 21, 2015. Japanese freelance journalist Kenji Goto used the crossing to get into Syria before he was captured by Islamic State militants. Another Japanese Haruna Yukawa is also being held hostage by the group. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to seek release of 2 hostages

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2015, regarding two Japanese men held by the Islamic State militant group. Suga said it is believed that the hostages are Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan to seek release of 2 hostages

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Jan. 21, 2015, regarding two Japanese men held by the Islamic State militant group. Suga said it is believed that the hostages are Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Contents of Nobel laureate Yukawa's letters to poet Yoshii disclosed

File photo taken in 1956 shows world-known physicist Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981), the first Japanese national who received a Nobel prize. Detailed contents of Yukawa's six letters sent to poet Isamu Yoshii (1886-1960) between March 1945 and January 1947, before receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949, were disclosed by Mitsuhiro Hosokawa, a professor at the University of Shizuoka, in an academic journal published in September 2015. The letters contain a total of nine "tanka" poems of Yukawa, including four unpublished poems. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate's widow Yukawa dies at 96

KYOTO, Japan - Sumi Yukawa (in file photo taken in May 2005), antinuclear arms activist and widow of the first Japanese Nobel prize winning physicist Hideki Yukawa, died at her home in Kyoto of stomach cancer on May 14, her family said. She was 96. (Kyodo)

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Kushiro's winter attraction: SL train trip on Kushiro wetland

KUSHIRO, Japan - JR Hokkaido is offering a steam locomotive train service across the Kushiro wetland during the winter season as a tourist attraction in eastern Hokkaido. The photo shows a SL train crossing a bridge over the frozen Kushiro River. The inaugural run Jan. 19 on the 224-seat SL train between Kushiro Station and Yukawa Onsen Station was sold out, JR officials say. The SL train service will run through mid-March. (Kyodo)

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Kushiro's winter attraction: SL train trip on Kushiro wetland

KUSHIRO, Japan - JR Hokkaido is offering a steam locomotive train service across the Kushiro wetland during the winter season as a tourist attraction in eastern Hokkaido. The photo shows a SL train crossing a bridge over the frozen Kushiro River. The inaugural run Jan. 19 on the 224-seat SL train between Kushiro Station and Yukawa Onsen Station was sold out, JR officials say. The SL train service will run through mid-March. (Kyodo)

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Mt. Asama seen from Katsukake

Mt. Asama (2568m) as seen from the post town of Kutsukake, one of the three post towns of Asama-Negoshi. The Nakasendo Highway passes the southern foot of the mountain. It was after the opening of the first road built as part of the Seven Route Construction Project of Nagano Prefecture in 1883 that carriage traffic appeared. The stream is Yukawa. This area was reserved for agricultural use, but there some old stands of fir trees.==Date:1904, Place:Nagano, Photo:Underwood, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number97‐62‐0]

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The Ryuzu Falls,Nikko

Yu Falls flow from Lake Yunoko into Yukawa River. The lake lies just behind the falls. The water tumbles onto the rock plate, widening near the bottom and eventually growing into Yukawa River and crossing Senjogahara. On the way, it tumbles once again, becoming Ryuzu Falls and then flowing into Lake Chuzenji.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number88‐23‐0]

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The Ryuzu Falls,Nikko

Yu Falls flow from Lake Yunoko into Yukawa River. The lake lies just behind the falls. The water tumbles onto the rock plate, widening near the bottom and eventually growing into Yukawa River and crossing Senjogahara. On the way, it tumbles once again, becoming Ryuzu Falls and then flowing into Lake Chuzenji.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐6‐0]

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The Ryuzu Falls

Yukawa River originates from Lake Yunoko and crosses Senjogahara. On its way into Lake Chuzenji, the river plunges down a 210m rock plate called Ryuzuno Falls. This photograph captures the basin of the waterfall. One of the three famous waterfalls in Oku-Nikko, it changes in beauty with the four seasons. A person is seen sitting on the lower part of a large rock in the centre.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number77‐16‐0]

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The mouth of Nikko Yukawa

The Ojiri Bridge at the mouth of Ojiri River in Lake Chuzenji of Nikko. It is the original wooden panel bridge of the earlier days, and the slanted girders at the center of the bridge is characteristic of the bridge. The north bank with a pier is photographed from the south bank of the Ojiri River.==Date:unknown, Place:Nikko, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number46‐166‐0]

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Japan to promote wooden buildings based on CLT

TOKYO, Japan - An experimental wooden building based on cross-laminated timber (CLT) in Yukawa, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is seen in this file photo taken on Dec. 24, 2014. The Forestry Agency is testing the application of CLT to four- to five-story wooden condominiums and other buildings as strong as ferroconcrete structures to increase the use of homegrown timber. (Kyodo)

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Aleppo governor to support efforts for release of Japanese

ALEPPO, Syria - Mohammad Wahid Akkad, governor of Aleppo in northern Syria, says he is willing to support efforts for the release of Haruna Yukawa, a Japanese man believed to have been captured by the extremist Islamic State militant group, during an interview with Kyodo News on Aug. 21, 2014, in Aleppo. (Kyodo)

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Site of border crossing near Syria shown

KILIS, Turkey - The Oncupinar border crossing in southern Turkey, through which Japanese businessman Haruna Yukawa allegedly captured by Islamic State militants is believed to have entered Syria, is shown in this photo taken on Aug. 19, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Photo taken on Nov. 14, 1968, shows Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate. A diary written by Yukawa around the end of World War II and disclosed to the public on Dec. 21, 2017, contains an entry confirming his attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Photo taken in 1956 shows Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate. A diary written by Yukawa around the end of World War II and disclosed to the public on Dec. 21, 2017, contains an entry confirming his attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Photo shows part of a diary written by Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, around the end of World War II. The diary, which Kyoto University disclosed to the public on Dec. 21, 2017, contains an entry confirming Yukawa's attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa's diary

Keio University Professor Emeritus Michiji Konuma holds a diary written by Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate, around the end of World War II in Kyoto on Dec. 21, 2017. The diary, Kyoto University disclosed to the public the same day, contains an entry confirming Yukawa's attendance at a conference held in June 1945 to study nuclear weapons. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Girl plays violin for soul of dead father at JAL crash site

MAEBASHI, Japan - Fourteen-year-old Diana Yukawa, whose father died in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet on Mt. Osutaka in Gunma Prefecture, plays the violin for him at the crash site on Aug. 12, the 15th anniversary of the worst single-plane disaster in history. Yukawa, who was born to a British mother a month after the accident, left a CD of her violin recordings to be released in Japan in September at the site. All but four of the 524 people aboard JAL Flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka were killed.