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Actress Nakama publicizes early voting for general election

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Yukie Nakama publicizes an early voting system for the Dec. 14, 2014, general election in Tokyo on Dec. 8.

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Duty to work led midwife to put others' safety 1st in tsunami

SHIOGAMA, Japan - Photo taken Nov. 19, 2013 shows part of a page of the business diary at maternity hospital Ikeno Clinic in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, where midwife Yukie Aoyama works as a chief nurse. Written in the section of March 11, 2011 were encircled characters meaning a big earthquake. (Photo by Yohei Kanasashi)

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Foreign wives in tsunami-hit area find comfort in church support

OFUNATO, Japan - Yukie Nogami (3rd from R), a sister of the Rome-headquartered Institute of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, joins a post-Mass event, surrounded by Gina Konishi (3rd from L), Jocelyn Sumigama (bottom) and their friends at a Catholic church in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on Nov. 18, 2012. (Photo by Yuichiro Izawa)

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Driftwood violins keep alive memories of prequake days

TOKYO, Japan - Polish violinist Nicolas Chumachenco (L) shows the back of his violin, on which a picture of the famed "miracle pine tree" is drawn. It was the only tree that survived the devastating tsunami that swept away a pine forest on the coast of Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, on March 11, 2011, when the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. Photo taken Nov. 3, 2012 in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture. (Photo by Yukie Nishizawa)

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Nakayama wins gold in women's trap shoot

GUANGZHOU, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama wipes her tears after winning the gold medal in women's trap shoot at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 19, 2010.

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Nakayama wins gold in women's trap shoot

GUANGZHOU, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama competes in women's trap shoot at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 19, 2010. Nakayama won the gold after scoring 71.

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Women's trap shoot medalists

GUANGZHOU, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama (C), China's Gao E (L) and Liu Yingzi pose for photos after winning gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, in women's trap shoot at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 19, 2010.

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Yukie Chiri memorial hall founded

SAPPORO, Japan - Members of the Ainu indigenous group perform a ceremony at a newly built hall to commemorate the work of Yukie Chiri, a pioneer in making written records of Ainu oral tradition, in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, on Sept. 17, 2010. The hall named ''Chiri Yukie Gin no Shizuku'' is scheduled to open from Sept. 19.

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Japanese gov't to distribute anti-drug posters to schools

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Ryu Shionoya holds a poster calling on young people not to take drugs, featuring Japanese actress Yukie Nakama. Shionoya said his ministry, together with the health ministry, will distribute the poster to junior and senior high schools and universities around the nation.

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Japan's Nakayama places fourth in women's trap shooting

BEIJING, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama smiles after taking fourth place in women's trap shooting at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on Aug. 11.

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Japan's Nakayama places fourth in women's trap shooting

BEIJING, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama takes fourth place in women's trap shooting in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on Aug. 11.

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Tax offices across Japan begin accepting tax returns

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Yukie Nakama, who appears on a promotional poster for the National Tax Agency, files her own tax return form using the agency's website at the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau in Tokyo's Otemachi on Feb. 16 as Japanese began filing 2005 income tax returns the same day at 524 regional tax offices across the country.

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Tax return applications begin at tax offices across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Yukie Nakama uses a personal computer to file her own tax return application at the Kyobashi tax office in Tokyo on Feb. 16. Applications for the 2004 income tax return began the same day at 524 regional tax offices across Japan.

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(3)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Seiko Inoue, Teruko Kase, Yoko Mori, Susumu Nagaga, (from L to R, bottom) Yoshiaki Maruyama, Yukie Yoshida, Nobuo Hidaka and Hideaki Sakamoto.

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KDDI to begin service enabling users to send moving images

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Rei Kikukawa (R) and Yukie Nakama hold up new types of KDDI Corp.'s third generation mobile phone at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 26 with which subscribers will be able to send moving images by e-mail. KDDI will launch the new service on Sept. 20

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Japanese NGO prepares aid supplies for refugees from Afghanistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Yukie Osa (2nd from R), leader of a Japanese nongovernmental organization offering assistance to refugees, helps prepare food aid supplies in Peshawar on Oct. 11 for refugees from Afghanistan. The supplies will be transported to the Bajaur district near the border with Afghanistan.

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Tokyo Olympics: Shooting

Yukie Nakayama of Japan competes in the women's trap at Asaka Shooting Range at the Tokyo Olympics on July 29, 2021, with the name of her only daughter on her fingernail.

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Tax return applications begin at tax offices across Japan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Yukie Nakama uses a personal computer to file her own tax return application at the Kyobashi tax office in Tokyo on Feb. 16. Applications for the 2004 income tax return began the same day at 524 regional tax offices across Japan. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama gains berth for Beijing Olympics

BEIJING, China - Japanese clay shooter Yukie Nakayama won a berth to this summer's Beijing Olympics on April 14 at a World Cup event in Beijing that doubled as a final Olympic qualifier for her country. (Kyodo)

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KDDI to begin service enabling users to send moving images

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Rei Kikukawa (R) and Yukie Nakama hold up new types of KDDI Corp.'s third generation mobile phone at a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 26 with which subscribers will be able to send moving images by e-mail. KDDI will launch the new service on Sept. 20 (Kyodo)

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Japanese NGO prepares aid supplies for refugees from Afghanistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Yukie Osa (2nd from R), leader of a Japanese nongovernmental organization offering assistance to refugees, helps prepare food aid supplies in Peshawar on Oct. 11 for refugees from Afghanistan. The supplies will be transported to the Bajaur district near the border with Afghanistan.

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Schoolchildren visit former Japanese Imperial Army monument

Elementary school children visit on March 2, 2015, a monument of the former Japanese Imperial Army's First Meteorological Regiment in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, western Japan. Miyuki Yashiro, an 89-year-old former Kobe College professor who long suffered from gender identity disorder before undergoing sex reassignment surgery to become a woman 11 years ago, worked as a telecommunications soldier handling meteorological information at the regiment during World War II. (Photo by Yukie Nishizawa) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Female hammering artist chosen as "human national treasure"

Yukie Osumi, the first female hammering artist chosen as a "human national treasure" by the Japanese government, works on an object in Kokubunji, western Tokyo, on July 13, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Female hammering artist speaks of work as "human national treasure"

Yukie Osumi, the first female hammering artist chosen as a "human national treasure" by the Japanese government, talks about her work in Kokubunji, western Tokyo, on July 13, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Device unveiled to simulate visual anomalies of people with autism

Yukie Nagai, a specially appointed associate professor at the Emergent Robotics Lab at Osaka University's Graduate School of Engineering, explains how a head-mounted display device developed by her team enables the wearer to experience the world as seen by people with autism spectrum disorder during a press event on March 16, 2015, in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan marks 4th anniv. of deadly disaster

Yukie Suzuki (R), who lost her parents and a younger brother during the deadly earthquake and tsunami, addresses a government-sponsored memorial service to commemorate the disaster victims on March 11, 2015, its fourth anniversary. Suzuki said she cannot foresee her future as she is unable to return to her hometown Namie due to the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attended the service. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese woman wins bandoneon championship

Photo taken April 5, 2016 in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, shows Yukie Kawanami, winner of the first Che Bandoneon International Competition held in August 2015 as part of the Stowe Tango Music Festival in the Vermont city. The event in the United States was aimed at promoting tango musicians. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Woman in news: Curator sending out info on revolution hero Ryoma

Yukie Maeda, a curator at the Sakamoto Ryoma Memorial Museum in Kochi, western Japan, talks on Nov. 10, 2015, about the prominent figure in the movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate in the late Edo period (1603-1867). The 180th anniversary of Ryoma's birth was celebrated on Nov. 15. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Man in news: Founder of running institute with dental clinic

Professional running instructor Tetsuhiko Kin talks about an institute he has established to support runners in combination with his wife Yukie Hayashi's dental clinic in Tokyo on July 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Hiroshima A-bomb survivor joins choral group before U.S. visit

Hiroshima A-bombing survivor Goro Matsuyama (2nd from R), 86, sings as Yukie Ikebe (foreground, L), known as a "pianist for peace," plays for a choral group in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on July 28, 2015, before his visit to Washington, D.C. to speak about the terror of nuclear weapons at a vigil for the victims on Aug. 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Schoolchildren visit former Imperial Japanese Army monument

Elementary school children visit on March 2, 2015, a monument of the former Imperial Japanese Army's First Meteorological Regiment in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, western Japan. Miyuki Yashiro, an 89-year-old former Kobe College professor who long suffered from gender identity disorder before undergoing sex reassignment surgery to become a woman 11 years earlier, worked as a telecommunications soldier handling meteorological information at the regiment during World War II. (Photo by Yukie Nishizawa) (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's Nakayama places fourth in women's trap shooting

BEIJING, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama smiles after taking fourth place in women's trap shooting at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on Aug. 11. (Kyodo)

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Japan's Nakayama places fourth in women's trap shooting

BEIJING, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama takes fourth place in women's trap shooting in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing on Aug. 11. (Kyodo)

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Japanese gov't to distribute anti-drug posters to schools

TOKYO, Japan - Education minister Ryu Shionoya holds a poster calling on young people not to take drugs, featuring Japanese actress Yukie Nakama. Shionoya said his ministry, together with the health ministry, will distribute the poster to junior and senior high schools and universities around the nation. (Kyodo)

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Tax offices across Japan begin accepting tax returns

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese actress Yukie Nakama, who appears on a promotional poster for the National Tax Agency, files her own tax return form using the agency's website at the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau in Tokyo's Otemachi on Feb. 16 as Japanese began filing 2005 income tax returns the same day at 524 regional tax offices across the country. (Kyodo)

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Yukie Chiri memorial hall founded

SAPPORO, Japan - Members of the Ainu indigenous group perform a ceremony at a newly built hall to commemorate the work of Yukie Chiri, a pioneer in making written records of Ainu oral tradition, in Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, on Sept. 17, 2010. The hall named ''Chiri Yukie Gin no Shizuku'' is scheduled to open from Sept. 19. (Kyodo)

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Quake victim's parents in Onagawa

ONAGAWA, Japan - Shinya Sawada (L) and his wife Yukie see a photo of their missing son on a mobile phone screen, which is the only picture of him left after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, in the town of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 31, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Actress Nakama publicizes early voting for general election

TOKYO, Japan - Actress Yukie Nakama publicizes an early voting system for the Dec. 14, 2014, general election in Tokyo on Dec. 8. (Kyodo)

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Actresses Yoshitaka, Nakama pose for photo

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Actress Yuriko Yoshitaka (L), who plays the lead role in popular Japanese television drama series "Hanako and Anne," and co-star Yukie Nakama, who plays her bosom friend character, pose for a photograph following the end of the shooting of the drama in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Aug. 26, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Actresses Yoshitaka, Nakama celebrate end of drama shooting

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Actress Yuriko Yoshitaka (L), who plays the main character Hanako Muraoka, and co-star Yukie Nakama celebrate the end of shooting the popular Japanese television drama series "Hanako and Anne" on Aug, 26, 2014, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Women's trap shoot medalists

GUANGZHOU, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama (C), China's Gao E (L) and Liu Yingzi pose for photos after winning gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively, in women's trap shoot at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 19, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama wins gold in women's trap shoot

GUANGZHOU, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama competes in women's trap shoot at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 19, 2010. Nakayama won the gold after scoring 71. (Kyodo)

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Nakayama wins gold in women's trap shoot

GUANGZHOU, China - Japan's Yukie Nakayama wipes her tears after winning the gold medal in women's trap shoot at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 19, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Woman in Ehime kills herself after questioning by police over murder

Photo taken May 5, 2017 shows a public housing unit in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture, where 92-year-old Yukie Okamoto was murdered and her 70-year-old son Hisayuki severely wounded in an attack two days earlier. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(3)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Seiko Inoue, Teruko Kase, Yoko Mori, Susumu Nagaga, (from L to R, bottom) Yoshiaki Maruyama, Yukie Yoshida, Nobuo Hidaka and Hideaki Sakamoto. (Kyodo)