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JIP chief Yoshimura

Hirofumi Yoshimura, Osaka gov. and chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's new coalition partner Japan Innovation Party, holds a press conference at the prefectural headquarters in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2025, a day after Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament with the backing of the JIP.

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JIP chief Yoshimura

Hirofumi Yoshimura, Osaka gov. and chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's new coalition partner Japan Innovation Party, holds a press conference at the prefectural headquarters in Osaka on Oct. 22, 2025, a day after Sanae Takaichi was elected Japan's first female prime minister in parliament with the backing of the JIP.

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Nissan delivers 1st Leaf EV in Japan to Kanagawa Pref.

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kanagawa Gov. Shigefumi Matsuzawa (R) receives a key for a Nissan Motor Co. Leaf electric vehicle (in back) from Nissan Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga in a delivery ceremony at the Kanagawa Prefecture offices in Yokohama on Dec. 22, 2010. Nissan delivered 10 Leafs to the prefectural government as the first delivery of the vehicle in the domestic market.

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Nagoya meet gets under way under specter of gambling ring

NAGOYA, Japan - Yokozuna (grand champion) Hakuho of Mongolia (L) returns the Emperor's Cup, which he won in the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in May, to Hiroshi Murayama, acting chief for suspended Japan Sumo Association Chairman Musashigawa, on the first day of the 15-day Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya on July 11, 2010.

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Woman heads assembly

FUKUOKA, Japan - Hideko Tanaka takes the seat as the Fukuoka prefectural assembly chief at the assembly hall in Fukuoka City on May 19, 2010. The assembly elected the Liberal Democratic Party assembly member as chairwoman, marking the first woman chair of a Japanese prefectural assembly.

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Former Osaka Gov. Kuroda dies at 92

OSAKA, Japan - Former Osaka Gov. Ryoichi Kuroda died of pneumonia at his home in Osaka on July 24, his family said July 28. He was 92. Kuroda in 1975 became the first prefectural chief reelected with backing only from the Japanese Communist Party (JCP). He was viewed as a reform-minded governor.

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Obuchi wins LDP election

Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi was elected president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday July 24 to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. The photo shows Obuchi taking a bow after LDP parliamentarians and representatives of 47 LDP prefectural chapters elected him on the first ballot over his two rivals, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiroku Kajiyama and Health and Welfare Minister Junichiro Koizumi. At left is Koizumi.

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Nagoya meet gets under way under specter of gambling ring

NAGOYA, Japan - Yokozuna (grand champion) Hakuho of Mongolia (L) returns the Emperor's Cup, which he won in the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in May, to Hiroshi Murayama, acting chief for suspended Japan Sumo Association Chairman Musashigawa, on the first day of the 15-day Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium in Nagoya on July 11, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Woman heads assembly

FUKUOKA, Japan - Hideko Tanaka takes the seat as the Fukuoka prefectural assembly chief at the assembly hall in Fukuoka City on May 19, 2010. The assembly elected the Liberal Democratic Party assembly member as chairwoman, marking the first woman chair of a Japanese prefectural assembly. (Kyodo)

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Nissan delivers 1st Leaf EV in Japan to Kanagawa Pref.

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Kanagawa Gov. Shigefumi Matsuzawa (R) receives a key for a Nissan Motor Co. Leaf electric vehicle (in back) from Nissan Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga in a delivery ceremony at the Kanagawa Prefecture offices in Yokohama on Dec. 22, 2010. Nissan delivered 10 Leafs to the prefectural government as the first delivery of the vehicle in the domestic market. (Kyodo)

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Former Osaka Gov. Kuroda dies at 92

OSAKA, Japan - Former Osaka Gov. Ryoichi Kuroda died of pneumonia at his home in Osaka on July 24, his family said July 28. He was 92. Kuroda in 1975 became the first prefectural chief reelected with backing only from the Japanese Communist Party (JCP). He was viewed as a reform-minded governor. (Kyodo)

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Obuchi wins LDP election

Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi was elected president of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Friday July 24 to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. The photo shows Obuchi taking a bow after LDP parliamentarians and representatives of 47 LDP prefectural chapters elected him on the first ballot over his two rivals, former Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiroku Kajiyama and Health and Welfare Minister Junichiro Koizumi. At left is Koizumi. ==Kyodo